Accidentally destroyed my rift ember...

[ieough]

...while doing an elite scouting run to see what is what for a hardcore run. Meant to destroy item and get gems but used wrong vendor. Is it gone forever or is there a way to get it back. Lousy way to give up a run if it is gone. My outlander was all passives and debuff skills to keep my pet alive until I got the gem then I could start spaming choas burst. First 25 levels was mostly auto attack with gun and crossbow.

[Greavol[NL]]

You can get more when you go to NG+ and up...

[ieough]

That sucks. Lvl 25 omw to first sphinx quest. 50str 95dex base. Long range mastery, share the wealth, blade pact, repulsion hex capped(for my lvl). 1 point in rune vault, chaos burst, cursed daggers, poison burst, rapid fire. 22k in gold because I used few potions(lots of sniping with crossbow). 2k health. A nice crossbow with a socket for the rift ember . But I can't kill boss adds if I don't have the rift ember to get mana to spam chaos burst.

I guess plan B is to use cursed daggers and try to get the merchant that sells scrolls and get a skeleton summoning scroll until I solve my mana problem. Blade pact+daggers is good for increasing the effective health of summons.

I think so far in this run I've had 3 deaths. One on a boss that KO'd me(frost ogre that does the slam his club and creates frost trails. I think I was standing next to and edge and they stacked up under me). One in a desert because I wasn't ready for all the long range. One when I got stuck on an edge trying to rune vault away.

[ieough]

Fixed my problem. Rerolled . Died a bunch in ice deep caverns and at the start of the desert and a bit I think in the rift ember place because outlander is weak against ranged. I also skipped blade pact which probably made the game unnecessarily difficult. Once past the rift ember place it's very smooth sailing . Capped chaos burst, long range mastery, master of elements, repulsion hex and got lucky rolling an elemental damage bow.

Chaos burst + repulsion hex and lvl 1 blade pact thrown down has to be the strongest set-up vanilla for killing melee with any class pre lvl 42 skills (Except for those zombies that pull you in and pin you to a ledge bugging out rune vault).

When I go for a hardcore run I'll probably do engineer because lvl 1 blast cannon can outrange ranged enemies and I can do the rest melee.

[Zelph]

Originally posted by ieough:

Fixed my problem. Rerolled . Died a bunch in ice deep caverns and at the start of the desert and a bit I think in the rift ember place because outlander is weak against ranged. I also skipped blade pact which probably made the game unnecessarily difficult. Once past the rift ember place it's very smooth sailing . Capped chaos burst, long range mastery, master of elements, repulsion hex and got lucky rolling an elemental damage bow.

Chaos burst + repulsion hex and lvl 1 blade pact thrown down has to be the strongest set-up vanilla for killing melee with any class pre lvl 42 skills (Except for those zombies that pull you in and pin you to a ledge bugging out rune vault).

When I go for a hardcore run I'll probably do engineer because lvl 1 blast cannon can outrange ranged enemies and I can do the rest melee.

If you want a hardcore engi, spider mines are the way to go. Infinity safer then any other option.

[steffire3]

Originally posted by Gammy:

If you want a hardcore engi, spider mines are the way to go. Infinity safer then any other option.

Would have to farm Skulls that empower Minions for more Damage however that is good.

Consider using Skeletons and other Scroll Summons to boost the Minion army both on the Player and the Pet.

[ieough]

I haven't used lan to re-create a world in this run and I won't in my hardcore run(or use the shared stash) so farming will only go as far as clearing the map. My fight with the artificer on my outlander was a doozy. It was more like mortal combat than a 2 button pattern snipe or potion chug fest. Besides choas burst and normal attack to refill mana I had to use heal pot, healing circle thing, brambles to path the boss, leap to escape a spike and jump over my brambles and away from the helicopter spawns, haste scoll spell because movement speed, and I think that's it. Still a lot of fight when you only have the top right corner of the map to work with and the boss and adds can KO. Not so tough when I did it on my engineer on hard. Whole different game with an outlander on elite or whatever the highest difficulty is called.

I've never gone deep into the spider mine tree. I suppose a very fast bow with a rift ember and high level spider mines might be strong. The animation for blast cannon is pretty quick though. I don't think I will get animation locked and spiked. Then again if it happens in hardcore .