Imaginedvl said:
For me it was quite the opposite, I played hardcore only this time and got the Ashava on the second attempt (first attempt, we got like 5 people one-shot in the first swipe lol (in HC.. Was actually fun to watch)). And yes :) I died once while levelling to a fucking Butcher, I was not geared well enough and this fucker destroyed me before I could make it outside of the dungeon haha For the record, played rogue/barbarian mainly; they are by far my favorite characters. After you really spend time upgrading/crafting/enchanting/imprinting stuff at level 20, you can pretty much kill anything. Even the level 30 areas were easy to farm, got probably like 20+ legendaries per hours (did that for 2 or 3 hours, with few level 20 tho, rest was too high :D)). I love the state of where the game is right now; yes it requires a lot of time to optimize your character and Ashava was a good example of that but this is how I want it to be. And I mean this is really just up to 20 too. I totally understand the frustration for some tho; I'm a hardcore Diablo player and I optimize like hell and play non-stop for the beta. But even for people who spend let's say 6 hours per day in the slam, they could end up be unlucky and don't get the Ashava kill simply because of bad luck. I kinda hope Blizzard will say something this week that anyone who got to 20 and at least tried the boss will get the reward; it would be very nice. For a Beta, I think it make sense cause it is not like you could take all the time you need to level up, etc and then you need to be lucky enough to do not be grouped with bad players. My GF was playing next to me (softcore) and I could see the fight on Ashava where more than half of her raid would die on EVERY swipe... I mean, nothing she can do and she died maybe only once. She did very well... But did not manage to get the kill before the very last attempt. |
Yeah, that was the problem I had when I fought Ashava the first 4 times, I admittedly died alot myself on the first run as I missed all of the Ashava spawns back in the 2 previous beta weekends due to how infrequent the spawns were, so there was a pretty steep learning curve for me fighting Ashava the first time and having to learn all of the mechanics of the fight, but after that first failed attempt I quickly learned the mechanics and died barely at all on the subsequent 3 runs, but on those 3 runs half my team was dropping each time Ashava did her double swipe attack, there was not much I could do except put my double hydras down from my legendary ring that allows an extra hydra spawn and put down a fire wall on Ashava and then waste time reviving people, and it just got worse and worse each run with my teammates.
Finally on my 5th attempt I purposefully instance hopped until I found an instance that had 2 poison twisting blade rogue builds with me. Poison twisting blade rogue is currently the most OP build in the game after sorceress and necro got nerfed since the previous 2 beta weekends, so I knew that having 2 of them in the instance with me might be enough to carry bad teammates to a win, and I was right, both of them dodged all of Ashava's attacks while putting down big DPS numbers as the rest of my teammates died alot and I contributed as much DPS as I could on my sorceress while trying to revive people. Beat it with 2 minutes to spare.
Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 14 May 2023