Because i accidentally fell into a Mysterious Portal on the third floor and managed to clear it--which is the first time that's happened for me. But i seem to recall every other time i ended up there I'd get maybe a room and then some monster from the 14th floor would show up and kill me. That or is gas cannister + brimstone flasks really good? (Well I know they're really good at monster zoos but single high level monsters?) (the monofiliment sword and ulmish blacksteel i got at the end of the floor, my gear was not quite so overpowered when I was clearing it)
I believe the rule for floor 0 is Don't Pull The Levers. Last I heard, regular monsters use the floor number as a multiplier for certain stat boosts... so mysterious portals somewhere along the line became easier than floor 1. (There was at least one lever type that will hammer you with nasty, that's the dangerous bit.)
That's kind of what I suspect; I mean I think I saw some pretty powerful monsters in there (megadeth, slick, diggle rogue scientist) and I'm used to kiting with this build but. Still. (I put on the Ulmish blacksteel mostly because I figured with overleveled monsters it'd be more useful than what I had, but it's not what I'm currently wearing with this character)
I was playing yesterday and some Diggle hit me for 50ish damage at range in floor 0 and then next turn did it again and I died. Sometimes that doesn't happen. Sometimes it does.
Well the fact that my build is based on kiting with DOT effects is probably good at preventing that. (I'm mostly operating on the assumption that basically anything will hit me for a half-third of my health if I let it.) But yeah having played some wizardlands for lower dungeon levels its VERY obvious monsters in wizardlands are weaker than the main dungeon, which I presume would apply to mysterious portals as well (ie wolg's comment)
That diggle did that at range. I think it was a Diggle Harbinger and it used Eye Laser Beam on me twice in a row. Oh well And yes monster get +health and +damage based on what floor they are on. Floor 0 means no bonuses for monsters.
Yeah that would probably be where I got lucky; I don't remember seeing any of those. (Embrace diggly perfection!!!)
NO bonuses for monsters, but if you have the Diggle Gods expansion, you still might get a some badass monsters that normally spawn on level 15. And I have entered a mysterious portal to find that i was surrounded by no less than 20 monsters. Hard to work in such a tight space.
