Wednesday, 4th November 2015, 22:08 by tedric
The best thing, of course, is to keep the serpent out of LOS with good positioning and preemptive retreats. Next best is to start killing the serpent the moment it's in LOS, preferably while also damaging/killing any foo it might surround you with. Before or after you're surrounded, you can use: penetrating bolt spells/wands, smite-targeted spells, area-of-effect spells, god abilities, polearms, ranged, consumables, elemental evokers...and probably a few other things.
But in practice, if I can't tab through whatever's surrounding me, I most often ?Blink to a spot out of the serpent's LOS, where I can run away or lead enemies to a nice killhole-type spot where its LOS will stay blocked. Or if I can tank long enough to kill one enemy and open up an escape route that blocks LOS, I'll focus on that. Or I ?Tele and reset the fight entirely.
Wins (Does not include my GrEE^Veh 15-runer...stupid experimental branch)