Thanks to my new mega magnus, those fiends aren't a problem no more. Thou I still missing shadow defense gears :x a divine veil can only protect so much.

ps. bigfoot, i'm still waiting for your guild invitation :V

not with a 400 ping, the throw animation is shorter then 500ms so there is no time to dodge, most other attacks are 1 second so you can still dodge and shield. While a low ping player has 1 sec to react we high ping players have just .6 to react the game is much harder for us, but devilite are impossible to react too with a high ping.

Oh then if they are supposedly so easy to beat, how do you do it? Share your secrets with us, master.

Get piercing weapon
have some type of ias bonus helps
have decent shield, shadow helps a lot

attack right after they throw their chairs and stuff XD

go for the mad ones first , usually brighter in color and throw pitchforks
then go for the ones that dont attack you (boss or ones following the boss)
if you kill the lower rank ones first then the bosses turn to lower rank ones = more furniture to dodge

go in that order and it simplifies it a little bit :D

If six devilites spawn and throw something simultaneously, you can get half of those to miss even while shield crawling (assuming they aren't right next to you). And then after they've thrown, they're ALL vulnerable. I don't think you've played many fiend strats.

No, what makes devilites terrible is the chance of nonstop, unrelenting, unending attacks from over a dozen enemies, a situation which occurs commonly in fiend strata. When their attacks are NOT synchronized is when it's impossibly deadly. One or two throw at once, and if you try to strike them right after they've thrown, you get hit by projectiles from one or two of them somewhere else. It's just an unending rain of super fast projectiles that travel across the screen that makes them the most hated enemy in the game because, if you're solo especially, there is little to nothing you can do to avoid being hit at least a few times.

I WISH they all attacked at once. That would make things a whole lot easier for me. I have all skelly gear, dread skelly shield, and a flourish. And S6 fiend levels STILL give me trouble. I'm a pretty good player, as well. The best you can do is strike once, shield, repeat until dead. Hugging the edges of the field sometimes helps, as far away devilites in the opposite corner sometimes won't attack. Fiends in tiers 1 and 2 are nothing to worry about. In S5 they're dangerous, and in S6 they can get downright ridiculous.

I'm not saying it's totally impossible. But it's far more difficult than it should be, and it's a fake kind of difficulty. It's not a difficulty that, with sufficient skill, you can get by without a scratch (hypothetically it's possible with the right levels). If there exists a level where it is virtually impossible to go without taking a single hit regardless of skill, then it's fake difficulty. You mentioned greavers: their ability to inflict status effects through a shield is also fake difficulty, because no amount of skill on your part can stop that effect from occuring (short of running away at the risk of being hit or luckily having the right resists). Shock especially, but that's a whole different topic.

Also, yes, definitely around a dozen fiends at once can be found in standard levels. I don't know the level names offhand, but the ones where you need to walk around in a spiral of spike traps and unbreakable walls to hit a ghost block are the ones I mean. Once you release the walls, you now must fight probably a good 12-18 devilites (The range is there because of the "boss" fiends that don't attack, but may become fighters later; also those numbers are offhand, not exact). As I said before though, if you're by yourself, keeping to the edges after smacking the block usually helps a lot.

And don't forget the combos. It's not just about fighting only fiends. You throw those bad boys in with Kats and Greavers and lordy lordy, it's going to be a sucky day. Nothing is "impossible" and really, no one ever claimed fighting fiends was; but it's harder than it should be compared to other strata, especially considering the relatively low payout and heat you get from them (devilite levels pay poorly; not including materials here).

At the end of the day, though, everyone agrees: they're not easy. Devilites suck. And you can go and chastise people who may have died a couple times on those levels by themselves and just QQed about it and never went back; that's fine. But the tone of your post to me was "if you guys hate devilites you all suck and need to l2play," essentially. I know you likely didn't intend it that way, but that's how it sounded to me.

Fiends fall just as easily as most monsters. Then again, I adopted the snarble barb fairly early on.
What's nuts is those lumbers that stun you AND shock you.
I think the only monsters I struggle with are those tin-can-head constructs. I just can't get my timing right. Do they sometimes just have an extra swing in their combos? I always drop my shield too soon.

It's not that golden sun is great because the monsters there drop rare loot. It's that the loot is rare because people don't like facing those monsters.

ill take fighting retrodes over devilites in a roomful of spikes any day