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New players will be easily killed in one hit in Arkovian Undercity.
Have you been killed by one? Might be that while these numbers are high, Nemesis monsters have other buffs that make their seemingly weak attacks pack much more punch,
Even considering all buffs, Cunning and % Physical Damage, Skeletal Knight still has a higher damage than Iron Maiden. For end game builds, Skeletal Knight has too low health and can be easily killed, so we hardly know it has such a high damage. But for beginners, it is too dangerous.
In Chinese community, there have been many new players recently. Many of them have complained about this issue. They can’t understand why they died in just one hit despite having full health.
The damage on the skeletal knight special attack has already been reduced for the upcoming hotfix.
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Gonna miss one of these guys sneaking upon me while i’m focusing on other skeleton enemies, ironically other skeletal knights, and getting hit for like 4k damage on veteran while i’m level 30.
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Someone has and I also nearly died, even though I had almost double the hp I usually have. They really stand out, if you can figure out who it is that’s hitting so hard.
Welp, I guess this is why playing HC is a bad idea and accumulated game knowledge is no guarantee that some patch update might suddenly give you a nasty surprise. Had no major issues with the skeletal knights in my previous two HC characters some time back (in 2021, when the game was harder in fact). Back then I remember skeletal knights hitting hard in Elite difficulty onwards, but never really going into one-shot territory as it is right now. My first HC character died in L90+ Elite to a Nemesis in malmouth outskirts void rift at L90+, second HC character died in L80+ Elite while clearing a totem in a dangerous dungeon in Forgotten Gods and being ripped apart by multiple heroes. Now third HC character dies at L60 Elite to random yellow mob while casually strolling by. What a bummer.
EDIT: To give credit where it’s due; the amazing updates this game has received over the years has vastly improved the game. Don’t mind so much just this small bit of venting. Who doesn’t bitch when their HC character dies?