Author: Simulacrum  <nub>    205.209.243.42 Use this link if you want to link to this message and its entire thread of discussion. Post a Msg
Date: 7/10/2023 12:24:47 PM
Subject: RE: Dibabro 4

I got all the way to level 58 on my sorc and never once ran into the Butcher. I heard people talk about him and how to deal with him and so on, but I was beginning to think he was a myth like Mothman or the cow level in Diablo 1.

Then I was doing a Tree of Whispers dungeon and looking for three minibosses. The game helpfully identifies them on the map with skull icons. So I saw this skull in a cul de sac and for some reason didn't register that it had horns. I guess I was thinking about how stupid all my drops had been. But lo, there he was. He started chasing me and bellowing and stomping around and the like, and I thought about just letting him kill me to reset the dungeon, but I wanted to see what all the fuss was about.

So as he was raging and carrying on, I just killed him. Of course, I went through all nine of my health potions, but nobody messes with my girl mage.

Then, IN THE VERY NEXT DUNGEON - I KID YOU NOT, there he was again. It was like those jury duty summons that are supposedly rng, but you keep getting them because now the system knows about you and basically it's just all malice. I can't get a glacial aspect to save my life, but I get two Butchers back to back.

So I killed him again. This time I ran him around one of those lever things until he got stuck and then spitballed him until he died.

If you're thinking he dropped anything nice -- like, you know, gloves or an amulet with glacial aspect -- ha ha. No. His drops are crap.

My plan for the future is to look for the skull with horns and simply exit the dungeon. The Butcher is nothing special. He drops nothing special. He's just a cockroach in your Happy Meal. My advice is to ignore him and hope that you get dropped from the special short list jury duty pool.