Maldar, the Magnificent

[MongoJerry]

MALDAR: ACT V, BARTUC THE BLOODY



Bartuc and his council member minions came out, and this was the first time in the Throne of Destruction that things got a little chaotic. I didn't want to blind the minions, because I wanted them to chase me so that I could park them. But this also meant that they were able to cast hydras and take some swipes at me, so I had to run around to dodge council members and fire balls cast by hydras. Like Colenzo's minions, the council member minions started off on a "tether" tied to Bartuc which then snapped after about twenty seconds. I'm beginning to think that this always happens with minions who start off tethered to their bosses.



I led a couple of minions down to near the bottom left corner where I had parked the normal monsters. I could've just as easily parked them near the entrance or on the right side, but I figured that as long as there was still some space on the left side, I'd put monsters there in order to give me as much room to work with as possible when dealing with Ventar's and Lister's minions.



Unfortunately, bone prisoning the council minions there started a massive jailbreak from both sides. Normal monsters saw me and came out en masse and kept coming even after they got blinded, and Achmel came down from the top.



I blinded and bone prisoned the monsters and retreated. I managed to lead some more council members down here and bone prison them in with Achmel. However, I figured they would be the last monsters I would park in the bottom right area.

In the process of reparking Achmel, I confirmed something that I had suspected before. Blind burning souls/gloams are still able to see bone prisons and walls even when they are far enough away that they shouldn't be able to see them. For example, you can see the lightning bolt shooting through Achmel's prison above. That is coming from a blind burning soul that is well away from the prison itself. Previously, I had seen gloams shooting at bone prisons from off screen, but I couldn't be sure that they had been really blinded by the Dim Visions I had cast on the edge of the screen or not. But this time, I actually saw a blind burning soul shooting at a distant bone prison. So this means that it can be dangerous to put down a lot of bone prisons in areas with many gloams/burning souls. You might get caught in the crossfire.

I forgot where I parked Bartuc himself, and I didn't take a screenshot of bone prisoning him in. I think I parked him in the upper left area with the other bosses and champions.

I returned to the main chamber and Ventar the Unholy appeared.

Up Next: Ventar the Unholy