Chapter 218: Explosive Cavalry
The chat didn’t understand his moves either, it could even be said that it was completely out of their scope of knowledge.
“Is Chen Mo messing around? There’s no way that’s going to work? Where’s the damage?”
“Look at what he has equipped! Aquila Cuira.s.s, Swiftmount, Leoric’s Crown, Belt of the Trove, Hexing Pants of Mr Yan… They look good on paper but are completely useless!”
“Maybe he’s not going for set bonuses, using the set bonus of the rings to increase his damage?
“Maybe because Xue’s equipment is too garbage and this was the best he could do. But I’m still wondering, sure the attributes are high, but I feel that it just doesn’t work… Will this actually help Xue to reach floor 45?”
“Have you guys noticed that Chen Mo went for thorns on all his equipment. Is that… even useful?”
“I’ve got a Crusader too, let me see… Oh! You can turn your damage into thorns damage through runes! That means Chen Mo plans to use thorns as his main damage source!”
“Is that so. I understand it better now. No wonder he brought Iron Maiden as one of his pa.s.sive. But I still don’t really understand, the equipment looks good, but does it really work?”
The chat was filled with question marks.
Most were looking forward to the performance of the build as they knew that this wasn’t something Chen Mo pulled out of nowhere and must’ve had his own ideas in mind.
Chen Mo started a Greater Rift with the Crusader.
Lin Xue’s previous record was forty-one floors. It wasn’t even a clean victory as she slowly stumbled through sheer luck.
The higher levels of Nephalem Rift have yet to be unlocked, so it was impossible for Chen Mo to go straight to level sixty. This meant Chen Mo had to continue where Lin Xue left off.
After being teleported into the Greater Rift, hordes of monsters started charging in!
There were many more monsters in Greater Rift than the usual story mode, so this was much more graphically intense than usual.
Chen Mo wasn’t phased by this as he used Steed Charge right away. The warhorse the Crusader turned into a shadow under the Crusader and charged directly into the hordes of monsters.
This felt like a sudden, huge acceleration comparable to putting on the throttle on a motorbike.
The chat was shocked, what’s going on?
There was one yellow and three blue elites among the monsters with plenty more smaller ones. Isn’t it suicidal to charge in like that?
The Crusader charged right into where the monsters were most dense. The monsters all followed him and formed a huge bunch.
The Crusader let out an angry growl as they used Consecration, Akarat’s Champion, Iron Skin and Bombardment. Barrels started appearing from the skies dealing ma.s.sive damage to the mobs.
At the same time, numbers started appearing on the screen. The weaker mobs started dying left and right, and the elite mobs were taking huge damage as well.
Lin Xue was shocked to see this terrifying speed!
She really struggled to beat this previously, and died numerous times. She didn’t dare aggro so many mobs at the same time too as she took every step carefully.
However, Chen Mo didn’t even seem to care, charging right into where the mobs are most dense. The bonus of the ring was incredible as the mobs died under all the damage as Chen Mo pressed the 1234 keys on the keyboard, casting whichever abilities were off cooldown.
Moreover, Chen Mo’s horse never slowed down and pretty much always maintained Steed Charge. The hordes of mobs couldn’t stop him at all as he moved wherever he pleased.
It didn’t take long for Chen Mo to clear the Greater Rift. It seemed pretty easy too as it wasn’t mechanically intensive. It was like a trip to the mall as the Crusader walked around the map, leaving behind corpses in their wake.
Lin Xue was completely shocked, “Manager… Are you and I playing on the same account?”
The chat was also filled with laughter, n.o.body thought that a pile of garbage could be turned into something so powerful in Chen Mo’s hands.
Chen Mo beat another level of the Greater Rift and moved onto the next one.
Just like before, charging around and killing everything. Lin Xue had her eyes on the screen the entire time, it didn’t seem like anything as changed! From one level to the next, the mobs were dying just the same!
Chen Mo continued at this pace and went to the level sixty-five before stopping.
Lin Xue was shocked to see that was her own account.
The levels didn’t seem any harder at all!
When Lin Xue was playing, she felt that the difficulty increased by quite a bit from one level to the next. One level might be easy to beat, but the next may be very difficult.
But it seemed like it wasn’t a problem for Chen Mo at all as he breezed through levels forty to sixty.
Chen Mo even equipped a few decent pieces of equipment that were dropped.
There was some difficulty around level sixty, and it stopped working starting from level sixty-five.
It was a set of gear that Chen Mo managed to gather from junk afterall. Many of these didn’t have the perfect stats and quite a few of them weren’t ancient either, meaning that the effects of the rings weren’t fully realised.
Chen Mo stood up, “Alright, I’ll leave it there for now, you’ll have to figure out the rest yourself.”
Lin Xue prevented him from leaving, “Don’t leave yet, you have to explain how the build works!”
Chen Mo was speechless, “Hey, aren’t you the top of your cla.s.s? Finish your homework yourself!”
Lin Xue pouted, “Hmph, fine!”
Lin Xue angrily sat back in her chair.
Although she looked angry on the outside, she was quite happy as not everybody gets the opportunity to be coached by Chen Mo.
Moreover, Chen Mo’s display today was incredible. She didn’t expect how a bunch of c.r.a.ppy equipment could increase her strength so by much!
It was crazy to beat twenty levels just like that!
Without spending too much time complaining about Chen Mo, Lin Xue quickly looked at her equipped tab and looked into Chen Mo’s strategy.
The chat also started their own a.n.a.lysis. There are even some who copied Chen Mo’s exact build in their own game to try and figure it out themselves.
“Oh! I understand now!” Lin Xue finally understood how it worked after looking through the attributes and abilities of the Crusader.
This build was known as explosive cavalry[1] in Chen Mo’s previous world. It’s most well known for utilizing items from different sets and stacking thorns damage, then using Bombardment and Steed Charge to deal as much damage as possible.
The advantage of the build was how effective it was, the explosive damage, and how quickly it covers the map. Moreover, the items from the different sets worked well for a strategy like this. That was why this build had its time in the sun, and the peak of the build could even reach over level ninety.
Of course, there were many builds in Diablo 3 in Chen Mo’s previous life. After a few updates, there were many builds that were better than this one.
But because Lin Xue didn’t have any equipment that worked particularly well with this build, Chen Mo used whatever he had on hand to form a pa.s.sable build to showcase the different ways the game could be played.
TL note[1]: I think this is a Chinese build, similar builds exist in the western world but not exactly the same from what I can tell.