Taking down SCs

[rdonj]

OP is ermor.

Originally Posted by Gandalf Parker

No assassins or seducers? Maybe black heart someone?

I see lots of "SC's too strong" and "assassins/seducers suck" on this forum but to me they offer a balance. An assassin or seducer gaurantees a one-on-one conflict. Then use something majorly damaging for one-on-one instead of the area effect equipment people like to make. Maybe the crossbow that does 999 damage, or the rod that disintegrates.

Probably one of the best assassin kits you could use on a melqart would be something like vine whip+dusk dagger, boots of quickness, and a bottle of living water. I'm not sure this would even work, and that's a lot of gems to spend on a random assassin. Anyway trying to assassinate a melqart doesn't sound like the best idea with something human-sized that's liable to be killed in one hit if anything goes wrong at all.

IIRC there is no such thing as a disintegration rod. Perhaps you meant a phoenix rod, which lets you cast incinerate? Those can be nice but melqarts have inbuilt 50% fire resistance, and with a fire brand he gets to 100. So it won't work there.