Thief HLA Traps.

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I am playing a couple of multi-class thief characters in different games. I have not use any of the HLA traps yet and would like some opinions on the spike, exploding, and time traps.

 

They're nasty, and hard to resist abusing.

 

True dat, Klorox.

But I do loves me some spike traps. After UAI, I tend to stick with spike trap HLAs until I've got a full 7 per day. There's damn near NOTHIN' in the game that won't be killed by 7 spike traps. I dont think I've ever used either of the other traps once!

 

They are the cheesy smelling tools of evil and abuse!

But they sure are FUN!

Spike trap is the best so far, it does massive damage to a single target. Add a lot of these and you can KO Demogorgon right at the start of battle!

Time trap is nice, but it lasts soo short:the only use is getting a nice backstab at the start of combat, or casting your own Time Stop uninterrupted. Time trap opens up a lot of new strategies if you are fast enough:bash the annoying mage/lich with SoM in the time stop, and his protections will be gone immediately:switch to your favourite weapon combo and start hacking. Fun!

I never experienced with Exploding trap though. Might be useful against swarms of lowly enemies.

 

time trap is useful for getting rid of one annoying enemy. Timetrap plus assassination is a nasty combo, especially with improved haste.

So use both spike traps and time traps, plant spike traps where you know a mage will appear, and plant a timetrap where you know a fighter will appear (since they wont have contingencies that cast improved mantle or absolute immunity).

 

I stock up on Spike traps with 1 or 2 Time traps.

 

Time traps are okay if you need a moment or two, but I typically don't use them. Explosive traps are crap. They explode the instant anything comes within range, so even with a horde chasing you it'll only take out the first rank; the only time you might ever use one is if you know that a big group is going to spontaneously pop in somewhere.

My favorite trap experience was during my second solo. Ring of the Ram on Kangaxx pushing him right into a spike trap I'd laid in the corner. He never even got off a single Imprisonment.