The first couple hits were crushes, hence why it says "savagely crushed" in the message. The focused look combined with the crushed verb tell you it was a crush attack. See?

Ok now that I am not half asleep you have two choices really. First open with a hangedman, contagion up and limit your afflictions with shackles as priority. When your entanglements stack(even if he summer/tiphrets) throw some aeons in and try to stick it. Go for a quicken wrack. Or, alternatively and probably better for you just rub soullesses when you can afford to, hangedman him every other hit on you basically and move around alot to keep your healing up. With contagion down when you get 7 rubs invest purely to slow him down and try to stick an ecto, even if you can't wait till he is scratching or epilepsy hits and crucify/soulless.

I did use crushes, and had I run out of power before he died, it would have mattered not. I can use strikes and bashing to get the kill as well, and usually do due to the fact that bashbrain takes a swing. Crushes merely soften up the target and build wounds, especially if the target has high health and resilience. The flails are runed, and I am Krokani, for those of you who did not know.

Also for all you criticizers.. my stance AND parry were both set on head from the last duel.. so yes I was blocking them as I said.. putre may only stop cutting no clue but that was up too.. demon bugs me alot of the way though.

For starters, the whole idea of posting is so we can criticize and help you improve. If you would rather not have the criticism, then you shouldn't be posting your logs here.

As a side note, I wouldn't bother parrying and stancing the same body part. Split them up, it's more effective.

Are you better off parrying or stancing the bodypart you feel is more vulnerable? That is, should Malarious have parried head or stanced head?

He should have parried head. I usually stance legs by default, so I'm less likely to get trapped by wounding afflictions to the legs when I try to run, but I tend to stance the bodypart that is most vulnerable.

Parrying and stancing are bypassed by the crush attack, anyhow. None of his attacks would have been affected by either. Only a magical shield can stop a crush. You could have delayed with timeslip, maybe?

I fought Grom early this morning - yes, he does a ton of damage. In a demesne, I can deal with it. I went for heartburst just for the heck of it as damaging him would make it end too early.

That's true in this specific case, but it's still a good idea to track them better as a general practice. In this case, you probably couldn't have done much other than hindering.



Last time I fought him, he didn't deal incredibly well with a lot of aeon (which was my specialty as a mugwump moondancer). I bet even now if he hit me with four crushes in a row like this, I would be dead. So, the lesson for those of us who aren't crazy titans? Don't let him hit you!

Putre is all physical. Guest is wrong.

I want to be an OP warrior

Then be prepared to transcend a lot of skills, be level 80+ and spend hundreds of thousands of gold on top equipment.

Even my hunting hammers, which aren't great for combat, cost me 100k or so!

Each?

And to think, I can get an athame dagger for free...

Already there, just need a few thousand credits for runes.

You blur and slip through time as Grom approaches you.

That line is where he hit timeslip... I am used to fights but yeah it didnt help in the least.. and yeah wasnt sure about his aeon so I went for it as an opening without demon to shackles for a second it didnt buy me much time.

And when I said for you criticizers I meant people who said I wasnt stancing and parrying.. believe I mentioned I was I expect criticism its how you improve.

Whoring timeslip is a great way to avoid warriors as a mugwump you can pretty much keep it up constantly against one target hitting you though.

It's not as good against two-handers, Grom could have been hitting anyway, but it would at least cut the damage in half and buy some time.

Timeslip throws you off equilibrium now (or it does when I hit it with psionics) so it should stop him from smacking you altogether.

Time slip is just as effective against two handers as it is against one handers. The first blade hits time slip and throws you off bal/equi so the second blade dosn't hit.