Fire elemental monster one shooted me

[Cataclysm]

Hi all,

I'm looking for an explanation of what happened to me: my level 19 warrior (with a lot of life and a ring of shield) met a Fire Elemental Monster (I don't know its real name). Then, I equipped a fire amulet before his approach and my next move was a mirror image scroll. As my six copies appeared, the monster "did something" (move or attack, I didn't see it) and immediately GAME OVER. Very frustating (was a very promising run) :(

Anyone know what happened?

EDIT: I'm pretty sure I had 'instant death' protection

Thanks in advance.

[Calfax]

Well, it depends how much life, energy and fire resistance you had before he attacked. I'm assuming you didn't have any legendary effects.
The fire elemental monster (Big fire elemental) has an aura which hits for 5 damage per turn so all your copies died instantly.
This monster is hasted and can hit you for about 20 damage per hit so I assuming he attacked twice then that would be about 40+5 from the aura.
The standard fire amulet has 5 resistance, so it should be about 30 damage after resistances.

Unfortunately it's hard to know without your exact values but he could have potentially hit for even more damage if both of his attacks were critical hits.

[Wiiii]

You needed to reed logs. It is hard to say what could kill you in 1 turn on your description.
Ring/potion of regeneration? Cursed scroll? Fear or confuse effect?

[Cataclysm]

Thanks for the answers. Next time I'll try to read the logs. However, I had at least 3 or 4 fire resistance (plus the amulet) and enough life+energy to survive 40 damage one turn.

Maybe two "hasted" criticals... or that cursed scroll? I'd swear even the Monster wasn't in melee with me, but anything was possible.

Thanks again, I only asked because perhaps that monster has any attack/effect/something I didn't know ;)

[Huge Ego, Sorry]

Hey @Cataclysm - I had the exact same problem - was level 11, had a ring of shielding + 10 fire resist total. The game really need some better explanations rather than one trying to guess every single encounter, which drives people up the wall.

Let me know if you want to add to friends and figure this ♥♥♥♥ out together lmao.

[Phyre]

Sorry you lost a good run. Hopefully next time you'll make it even further, that's what this game is all about.

Is it possibly you got feared or some other effect, and so it was more than one turn that passed? I didn't know this until recently, but for the monster elementals you will need to roll a fear check to attack them if you're not fear immune. That along with what everyone else mentioned could be what happened, especially if you were vulnerable to fire due to the Trollish bloodline or a regeneration ring/potion.

[BRAD]

Sorry for the sudden death. Same thing happened to me before when i encountered a “Floater.” I had like 60 HP at the time and died instantly it seemed like.

I realized that what had happened was that it charmed me, which caused a loss of control to my character. I also have fast animations enabled, so basically when I had been controlled, the game more or less skipped my turns and made the death seem instantaneous.

In actuality it had shot me about 3 times.

In your case, i would speculate you were (as phyre pointed out) feared or maybe confused from a critical strike. Either one causes that loss of control and will skip your turns.

Its a sucky way to die, but after a few deaths you learn which immunities are most important and by what point should have them. Good luck!