[Level 35] Karroz killed!
Stats, Skills, & Devotions by Level 35
What I didn’t know is that recipes for Medal movement glyphs do not drop until you’ve done the initial quest in Fallen Gods content. From there, you can grab a recipe for a Level 33 Glyph and skate around using the combination of Vire’s Might + Movement glyph. It will save you much time compared to what I currently have, as I didn’t recognize this until the Level 50 augments.
Knowing this is a Chaos-oriented boss, and not wanting to repeat what happened in the Naren’Kur fight, I made sure to get to 80% Chaos resistance at all costs. The key is the shield - a Chaos Defender I got running a Chaos totem which just happened to be a Durable Defender to keep the Physical Resistance up. It grants a juicy 150% bonus to Chaos damage, so I’m going to start placing points in Destruction while continuing to level up the Oathkeeper mastery.
To prepare for this fight, I did all the Black Legion quests in the Pine Barren, which involve killing Mogara the Primal Spirit, the spider Gloomweaver, Ol’ Briarthorn, and Bloodfeast the Ruthless. I highly recommend these quests as you pick up several devotion shrines along the way, and with the whole area being Beasts, I got just enough faction reputation with Homestead to get Respected with the Karroz kill and with it, the Sanctified Bone recipe. Getting a Sanctified Bone is essential to facing the Loghorrean, as the Chaos resistance and racial damage is definitely helpful.
Devotion-wise: I went Dryad -> Turtle -> Lotus, but if I were to start over again, I’d do Dryad -> Lotus -> Bat to start leveling the Bat devotion sooner. With HC, I’m taking as few chances as possible, but getting an edge in damage always helps in longer boss battles.
I do not particularly stress out over running Bounties in Normal - I’ll take the 30 seconds to check it out, and if it’s possible to get the Bounties containing monsters on the way (Reanimators for Devil’s Crossing, Fleshwarped Vanguards for Homestead), I go ahead and take them. Anything to cut down on the grind later on.
Rovers reputation is harder to get than Homestead or Devil’s Crossing, so I would recommend running through the Undead dunegons in the Sunken Reliquary & Steps of Torment to get some loot, Undead kills, and the devotion shrine. Undead are not nearly as bountiful in the base game as Beasts / Aetherials, so there is less to worry about getting too much Undead infamy. Getting Respected with the Rovers gives you the Runestone recipe, which was recently buffed to provide Aetherial racial damage - extremely useful for the first Acts of Elite.
Since Loghorrean & Karroz are largely the same in terms of damage type, I kept most of the gearing intact, only to buffer up my Chaos resistance, killing him at Level 39. Straight onto the AoM content with no delay.