Last week, I had a tough time using the Deflect Magic curse against the first two forms of the Skeletal Horror battle. I thought maybe they didn't work on it, but this week I switched back to prayers for Protect Magic and the beast STILL was hitting ridiculously high (though I was wearing good melee armour) in the first two forms.

 

Was there a boost to the beast's prowess? Does he hit through prayer/curse now? Anyone else having a little more trouble lately with it (noticing a stronger creature?)

He meleed and you mage prayed.

He meleed and you mage prayed.

 

 

I've been fighting this battle for weeks. I know he melees, but his magic attack in his first two forms is supposed to be the devastating one. My melee defense was very high with the armour I was using and it's the same set-up I've used since the release.

Even the skeletal horror gets lucky some times. So are Bork and the Phoenix.

 

Deflect only works when the horror uses a magic attack, which it doesn't when you pray protect from mage (or its curse). Despite havinf good anti-melee armor, it still hits quite high sometimes. I didn't find it to have become stronger.

Edited December 22, 200916 yr by transcript80

Defense doesn't decrease the damage of a hit, it makes you get hit less often.

It definitely seems that he has gotten stronger to me. He went from not doing any serious damage to being something I have to be really careful about.