Other useful modifiers: crushing blow, any skill triggered on striking. Also, one or more source of life regeneration is welcome (life leech and/or life after kill). Having a better defense rating is important too, but don't focus too much on that, since you could use some meatshields to take damage for you (reanimated or summoned creatures). Other useful modifiers: stun attack, crushing blow.ДЄs for the melee character, improving your attack rating and your attack speed is critical. Also, he needs to keep himself alive with one or more source of life regeneration (life leech, life after kill or life on attack). Look for items that improve your attack and defense rating, in addition to your combat speeds (Attack Speed, Block Speed, Hit Recovery).

It may take a while before you get a better gear, but it's worth the effort.Дepending on which character build you use (melee, ranged, caster or summoner), there are item modifiers more important than others. Uptier all of them to at least tier 3, but the bare minimum is to enhance your weapon (to kill faster) and your body armor (it often has the highest defense of all armor pieces). The most obvious recommendation to get ready is to improve your equipment. Now you know a bit more about them, it's time to prepare yourself to defeat them and to obtain the shards needed to complete the quest. Those monsters are as dangerous as some elite foes you encountered before in the regular levels. They inflict high poison damage and they have the knack of surprising you in the worst situations, for example when you try to retreat to heal your wounds or when you are in the middle of a perilous battle. There are also Jungle Snakes that lurk around you, most of the time invisible. However, they don't have many life points and their defense rating is quite low.

Each of their arrows deal high physical damage and kill with ease unprepared heroes. They are quick, fairly strong and they exclusively attack from distance with their bow. In Tran Athulua, the Amazon Warriors are the main enemy. To complete the quest, put the three shards into the Horadric Cube and transmute them. She drops the Shard of Ice when she dies. Be careful, cold damage chills you for a few seconds, which slows you down. Skovos shoots cold arrows (physical and cold damage), and uses Phalanx and Blizzard. Go north, then make your way in the corridor on the left until you reach the room where awaits the last Amazon Priestess. She shoots fire arrows (physical and fire damage) and she uses Phalanx too. The second boss is in the south west corner. Once back to the first passage, move ahead until reaching a huge room. The reason is that narrow corridors mean less space to move, therefore higher chance to get hit by arrows, so to die. Unless your character is potent and has a decent defense rating (less than 20% chance to be hit by an Amazon Warrior), it is less risky to go back the first passage to kill Philios first, than moving by the north to murder the last priestess, than the other way around. Now, you have a choice: either you go back to the first passage where was the first Amazon Warriors you killed and move to the north to kill Philios OR you do a carnage in the narrow corridors until you reach the little room where is Skovos, to the north. You need three of them to make the Sunstone of the Twin Seas. Upon his death, she drops a Shard of Thunder. To end your life more quickly, she uses Phalanx (a row of amazons shooting arrows) quite often and Magnetic Field. As main attack, she shoots arrows that do both physical and lightning damage. Kill them all before attacking the priestesses to reduce the risk of dying (do the same for each priestess). She's in the middle of the spacious room filled with lots of Amazon Warriors. To the south is the first Amazon Priestess ( Lycander) you need to kill. Go there and continue until you reach a wider corridor. If your character dies too fast or if the progression is too slow, read the section below about strategies.ДЄfter killing some Amazon Warriors and moving a little bit to the north, you'll see a passage on the left. Kill them as quick as possible and do the same for any of them you'll encounter later. Move northward in the corridor until you encounter a group of Amazon Warriors. Your character appears to the south east of the map, in a big room. In Normal Difficulty, defeat the Infernal Contraption in the Throne of Destruction and enter the red portal to Tran Athulua. Transmute the shards to create the Sunstone of the Twin Seas charm Kill all three priestesses to get three shards Enter the red portal created upon his destruction Destroy the Infernal Contraption in Normal difficulty

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