a chain of events that has been happening quite often lately

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"Glorious!" the Templar intoned, brandishing his spear.

"You've said that five times in the last hour," the female Wizard muttered. "I do not think it means what you think that it means."

"Look at that monstrous creature!" The Templar charged into the thick of the fight against the elite monsters. He engaged the weakest of them, while the rest of them all charged at the Wizard.

"Oh, bugger," the Wizard said, executing the complex battlefield maneuver known as Frost Nova + Force Wave + Run Like Hell, heading back towards the nearest chokepoint on the stairs. "Templar? TEMPLAR! A bit of help here!"

Distant grunts echoed across the battlefield.

Five minutes later, after a certain amount of kiting enemies behind her and blasting them before running away again, the Wizard pulled herself out from under a pile of corpses, mainlining healing potions.

"A worthy opponent!" the Templar cried, prancing around nearby. "Come, let us seek out evil and cleanse it!"

"You don't think that just for a change you could do the fighting while I stand round and declaim?" the Wizard suggested, fairly certain that he wasn't listening.

"The light of justice shall cleanse this cesspool!"

"No, I didn't think so."

They began to advance again.

"Look at that monstrous creature!" the Templar declared, pointing at the new oncoming group of elite monsters.

The Wizard made a suggestion.

"But where would I get the butter?" the Templar asked, looking puzzled. "And how would this serve to defeat our opponents?"

"Never mind," the Wizard sighed. "I think your next phrase is 'Glorious'!"

"Glorious!" the Templar shouted, charging into battle.

-- (while the Templar is the most useful companion for me in Diablo 3, he does have his annoying moments...)

Comments

[archangelbeth]

*cackles*

The ability to kite mobs around is why the Frost Mage is considered the Leveling Spec in WoW. (And amusingly, when the Paladin (tank) and Cleric (healer) went down in one of the Outlands Naga instances... The kid managed to finish off the last two remaining (wounded) naga on her own. With a Frost Mage. If only she'd had the ability to Rez as well!)

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I think most of the characters in Diablo 3 have some sort of crowd control optional power, though it's up to the player if they want to spec it, or to choose something more DPS. Myself, I am very appreciative of my Wizard's low-damage but stun-effect or freeze-effect blast when charged by a gibbering mob of creatures . . .

[archangelbeth]

Ex-ZACTLY!

[amethyst-hunter.livejournal.com]

Why is it that while reading this, I kept picturing Akabane as the Templar and Himiko as the Wizard? (Although Akabane would be crowing about the blood instead of the evil...!) XD

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I am afraid that the Templar is far from as competent as Akabane would be. :)

[elvaron.livejournal.com]

*giggle* So true!

Every time the Templar says "Where can we find more like that?" after I've barely escaped with my skin from some furious elite pack, I have to resist the urge to smack him. But I do appreciate his ability to tank like nothing else, especially since my favourites are all the glass cannon characters...

(Having said that, I have a huge soft spot for the Templar, after I realised that he wasn't quite a douche bag as he first came across as...)

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Yes, I've had my moments of muttering at the screen, "No we do not want to find more like that!" or "Fine, you go and find some more of them if that's what you want." Not to mention his little exchanges with Tyrael.

But yes. Touching little backstory. :)