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My fight with Rot Heart the Fowler! - an account of the fight against the prime evils

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I am a Barbarían, my people are from the cold steppes of mount arreat. We are no strangers to hardship or combat, my father was a guardsman of
Harrogath
, he roamed the bloody foothill, keeping back the unearthly monsters that had recently invaded our land. He taught me the ways of war, how to use our environment to our strength, and how to amplify our our strength through the flux of our will.

We barbarians are naturally strong, our lifestyle and environment forces us to grown strong when other stagnate. Speed, strength, resistance to the elements is part of all barbarians, but each may choose to
Concentrate
their individual skills to perfect their own way of war.

As a child i always wanted to hold a weapon, before i was a man i could wield a single
Axe
, sword or hammer with skill. However, when i become of age i chose to wield 2 weapons, and as my father liked swords i followed him. I Carried 2 swords into my first foray to defend mount arreat.

My father lead that foray, i was one of many defending our land. Our enemy in those days were weak, so we cut them down with ease. When my father saw my ability he taught me the art of harnessing the
Frenzy
… i had never known then that exhaustion was a concept of the weak of body and mind… i studied hard to master the way of a frenzied attack, learning how best to swing double weapons, how to
Taunt
mine enemies, increasing my stamina to prolong my attacks and how to rage further into a berserker state: where attacks hit beyond our normal plain of existence and strike into the magical plain.

Now that i was trained, my tribe sent me abroad: the elder
Malah
had heard evil rumours coming from the west, a place called
Tristram
. She bade me there, that i might find the source of the evil besieging mount arreat…

I travelled far to the west, where a deamon was awakened. I followed it’s trail through desert and jungle, until it lead me into the heart of the burning hells ítself… along the way fighting monsters and horrors i never dreamed would exist.


My battles took me to the very heart of hell: where fire rains from the sky, and the beings who exist in that infernal realm are in constant
Terror
, feeling the hatred of all, and wanting nothing but Destruction.

Knowing i must rid my world of these devils, i yearned to wade into this evil and free my world, but first i needed to obtain the required weapons. I had heard how certain weapons would bring Grief to our enemies, but as a barbarian who feels the blood lust of the
Frenzy
I needed to feel the Breath of the Dying, thusly i carried two blades each made for a colossus, fortified my body, and steeled my face to that of my homeland: mount arreat.

Kitted thus i rode the gore into the very river of hell. I waded deep, and the corpses of hellspawn were laid bare at my feet, for a time it was cathartic.

I was a sight to behold, i wielded great physical strength, with each strike and kill increasing my blood lust… but then i encountered a hellspawn i count not have anticipated: Rot Heart the Fowler. This vile creature guarded the throne room of the dark lord, and he was devote. He seemed immune to my physical attacks, while his were extra strong, he moved with demonic speed and then…

He smote me with some spectral hit, and all the daemons surrounding him seemed to increase their fanatical attacks…

I remember the first strike very well, i was too overwhelmed to
Dodge
, so a fowl sword struck me, enough to cause me to need time to recover… which was my downfall. One hit lead to another and before i knew it i was surrounded. Knowing my weapons useless i even tried my staff of teleportation … to no avail…the … HIT … wait … HIT … nooo … HIT…

I pray my father and tribe hear my final
Prayer
: Do not mourn me, i tried my best, fight on, even though i fail, you will succeed!

Honor my Spirit so that i May rest with Bul-Kathos
Description by Nate2.0
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I am a Barbarían, my people are from the cold steppes of mount arreat. We are no strangers to hardship or combat, my father was a guardsman of
Harrogath
, he roamed the bloody foothill, keeping back the unearthly monsters that had recently invaded our land. He taught me the ways of war, how to use our environment to our strength, and how to amplify our our strength through the flux of our will.

We barbarians are naturally strong, our lifestyle and environment forces us to grown strong when other stagnate. Speed, strength, resistance to the elements is part of all barbarians, but each may choose to
Concentrate
their individual skills to perfect their own way of war.

As a child i always wanted to hold a weapon, before i was a man i could wield a single
Axe
, sword or hammer with skill. However, when i become of age i chose to wield 2 weapons, and as my father liked swords i followed him. I Carried 2 swords into my first foray to defend mount arreat.

My father lead that foray, i was one of many defending our land. Our enemy in those days were weak, so we cut them down with ease. When my father saw my ability he taught me the art of harnessing the
Frenzy
… i had never known then that exhaustion was a concept of the weak of body and mind… i studied hard to master the way of a frenzied attack, learning how best to swing double weapons, how to
Taunt
mine enemies, increasing my stamina to prolong my attacks and how to rage further into a berserker state: where attacks hit beyond our normal plain of existence and strike into the magical plain.

Now that i was trained, my tribe sent me abroad: the elder
Malah
had heard evil rumours coming from the west, a place called
Tristram
. She bade me there, that i might find the source of the evil besieging mount arreat…

I travelled far to the west, where a deamon was awakened. I followed it’s trail through desert and jungle, until it lead me into the heart of the burning hells ítself… along the way fighting monsters and horrors i never dreamed would exist.


My battles took me to the very heart of hell: where fire rains from the sky, and the beings who exist in that infernal realm are in constant
Terror
, feeling the hatred of all, and wanting nothing but Destruction.

Knowing i must rid my world of these devils, i yearned to wade into this evil and free my world, but first i needed to obtain the required weapons. I had heard how certain weapons would bring Grief to our enemies, but as a barbarian who feels the blood lust of the
Frenzy
I needed to feel the Breath of the Dying, thusly i carried two blades each made for a colossus, fortified my body, and steeled my face to that of my homeland: mount arreat.

Kitted thus i rode the gore into the very river of hell. I waded deep, and the corpses of hellspawn were laid bare at my feet, for a time it was cathartic.

I was a sight to behold, i wielded great physical strength, with each strike and kill increasing my blood lust… but then i encountered a hellspawn i count not have anticipated: Rot Heart the Fowler. This vile creature guarded the throne room of the dark lord, and he was devote. He seemed immune to my physical attacks, while his were extra strong, he moved with demonic speed and then…

He smote me with some spectral hit, and all the daemons surrounding him seemed to increase their fanatical attacks…

I remember the first strike very well, i was too overwhelmed to
Dodge
, so a fowl sword struck me, enough to cause me to need time to recover… which was my downfall. One hit lead to another and before i knew it i was surrounded. Knowing my weapons useless i even tried my staff of teleportation … to no avail…the … HIT … wait … HIT … nooo … HIT…

I pray my father and tribe hear my final
Prayer
: Do not mourn me, i tried my best, fight on, even though i fail, you will succeed!

Honor my Spirit so that i May rest with Bul-Kathos
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Cool story bro.

Did your HC Barba made it to the halls of BK ?

Currently moving on to Path Of Exile 2 - Always looking for ORBS. PM if you wish to trade.

While the snow remains,
veiled in the haze of evening,
a cold leafless branch.
Flowers are only flowers because they fall,
but thankfully the Wind.
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Indeed

Sweet Lovely Death
Just waiting for your breath
Come sweet Death
One Last Caress
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Nate2.0 wrote: 1 year ago

I was a sight to behold, i wielded great physical strength, with each strike and kill increasing my blood lust… but then i encountered a hellspawn i count not have anticipated: Rot Heart the Fowler. This vile creature guarded the throne room of the dark lord, and he was devote. He seemed immune to my physical attacks, while his were extra strong, he moved with demonic speed and then…

He smote me with some spectral hit, and all the daemons surrounding him seemed to increase their fanatical attacks…
So if I'm seeing this right, it was a Stone Skin, Extra Strong, Extra Fast, Spectral Hit...Death Lord?

Brutal.

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Aelanwyr wrote: 1 week ago
Nate2.0 wrote: 1 year ago

I was a sight to behold, i wielded great physical strength, with each strike and kill increasing my blood lust… but then i encountered a hellspawn i count not have anticipated: Rot Heart the Fowler. This vile creature guarded the throne room of the dark lord, and he was devote. He seemed immune to my physical attacks, while his were extra strong, he moved with demonic speed and then…

He smote me with some spectral hit, and all the daemons surrounding him seemed to increase their fanatical attacks…
So if I'm seeing this right, it was a Stone Skin, Extra Strong, Extra Fast, Spectral Hit...Death Lord?

Brutal.
Y U WAKEY WAKEY NECRO TOPICO!?
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Semirotta wrote: 1 week ago

Y U WAKEY WAKEY NECRO TOPICO!?
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All trades are Switch only :)

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Thank you 2.4 for making all of my wildest dreams come true!
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Aelanwyr wrote: 1 week ago
So if I'm seeing this right, it was a Stone Skin, Extra Strong, Extra Fast, Spectral Hit...Death Lord?

Brutal.
Judging by what he said here
Nate2.0 wrote: 1 year ago
Kitted thus i rode the gore into the very river of hell. I waded deep, and the corpses of hellspawn were laid bare at my feet, for a time it was cathartic.
and here,
Nate2.0 wrote: 1 year ago
This vile creature guarded the throne room of the dark lord, and he was devote. He seemed immune to my physical attacks, while his were extra strong, he moved with demonic speed and then…

He smote me with some spectral hit, and all the daemons surrounding him seemed to increase their fanatical attacks…
It might've been a Stone Skin Venom Lord in the
Chaos Sanctuary
(the only monsters in CS besides Storm Casters [who don't fit the description] who can become physical immune with Stone Skin), probably with Extra Fast and potentially Aura Enchanted with
Fanaticism
, though the mention of Spectral Hit is confusing because that'd be one too many unique affixes for a randomly spawned unique monster.

While Doom Knights do have naturally built in Spectral Hit they only have 33% physical resistance and thus cannot be physical immune with Stone Skin, though the original post did say "seemed immune to physical attacks" which 83% physical resistance would be fairly high. I'm not sure Doom Knights in CS can spawn as uniques in the first place though, I can't immediately recall ever seeing any and I think only Oblivion Knights can but I'm not certain.

Aaaand I realised I forgot about the Extra Strong in my first paragraph, I also reread his quote and I think I was reading a bit too much into the "fanatical attacks" part and took it too literally, so it probably wasn't
Fanaticism
Aura Enchanted. Even with that aside though that'd still be one too many affixes with Stone Skin + Extra Strong + Extra Fast + Spectral Hit, I think the first three affixes are pretty much indisputable so I think he might've been getting hit by a Doom Knight or
Oblivion Knight
spells on the side and mistakenly believing it was coming from the (theoretical) Venom Lords, who don't have any baseline elemental damage added to their attack. They've only got their fire damage
Inferno
.
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DarkMaster wrote: 1 week ago
It might've been a Stone Skin Venom Lord in the
Chaos Sanctuary
(the only monsters in CS besides Storm Casters [who don't fit the description] who can become physical immune with Stone Skin), probably with Extra Fast and potentially Aura Enchanted with
Fanaticism
, though the mention of Spectral Hit is confusing because that'd be one too many unique affixes for a randomly spawned unique monster.
I'm pretty sure it was a
Blood Lord
variant (aka "frenzytaur"), and that "dark lord" in the text "vile creature guarded the throne room of the dark lord" hints at
Throne of Destruction
. Some of the flavor text seem to refer to their use of
Frenzy
. That was my interpretation anyway :)

I'm in CET (Central European Time), so that's UTC+1 normally and UTC+2 during DST.
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I'm not convinced he's talking about the actual
Throne of Destruction
heh, it's definitely weird to call CS a "throne room" but Diablo is sometimes referred to as the "Dark Lord", so one could consider CS as his throne room even if there's no actual throne. It's also supported by "i rode the gore into the very river of hell", which I interpreted as the skeletal/gore bridge to the Hell portal at the end of Act 3 that takes him to the
River of Flame
and eventually CS.

He also mentions being cut down by a "fowl sword" (🐔? xP), which none of the Blood Lords use (only flails and axes). Megademons / Venom Lords notably have giant swords. :P

Guess we'll never truly know unless Nate replies, which seems unlikely at this point given he was last active 7 months ago. :')
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