EPTDiablo 2: An Illustrated Adventure - Page 2
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alypse
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SSeoni
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Ravencruiser
Canada519 Posts
Also, you'll need help for certain bosses, I can't see you beating nm ancients or duriel with a melee sorc haha:D | ||
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igotmyown
United States4291 Posts
Edit: nm, a level 1 energy shield sorc. Try getting damage goes to mana items, infinite mana. | ||
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Ghin
United States2391 Posts
On July 11 2011 19:32 Ravencruiser wrote: So you're stopping at the end of nightmare right? Hell is... well you know what I'm talking about. Also, you'll need help for certain bosses, I can't see you beating nm ancients or duriel with a melee sorc haha:D nm ancients are tough for anyone. Melee sorcs have a couple things that give them a fair chance. As long as I don't hit lightning immunes, I should be able to do it. (and if I do get LE, I'll reroll them) Normal Duriel (i assume you mean) is tough for any melee character, but I have static, which is a huge advantage over a barb or pally trying to solo him. It's going to be tough to get pictures of him for sure lol. On July 11 2011 20:52 igotmyown wrote: What's the point of damage reduction items? Mana shield gets applied before all physical reduction/resistance, and once you get up to 95% damage blocked, it's really a question of whether you run out of mana first. Edit: nm, a level 1 energy shield sorc. Try getting damage goes to mana items, infinite mana. It's so I have as many barriers as I can between me and getting my face blown off. Unfortunately there aren't many good items with damage to mana. The plan is to get Warmth + Insight + bahamut ring(s), which will provide me with enough mana to partially ignore normal enemies. For the curious, this is the order damage is calculated in: Energy Shield PDR, MDR Resistances %absorb +absorb Damage Taken goes to Mana last  | ||
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igotmyown
United States4291 Posts
So I'm pretty sure I used Naj's and tal rasha's, and I might have used a helm. As long as you don't run into mana burners and you keep your energy shield from becoming too high, you get infinite energy shield reduction. Whereas otherwise your energy shield is a just some extra vitality which drains like 4x as fast as your hp. I was teleporting through gloams like nobodies business. Edit: I guess somebody wrote up a thread on it http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=512466 You only need 75% damage goes to mana to offset 50% energy shield 225% to offset 75%, to which you can get reasonably close. Of course if you have 75% resistance, you have to multiply the needed damage goes to mana by 4. I don't remember if I used ith runes, but Naj's with ith, howltusk with ith, and tal rasha's gives about 150%, which can support 67% energy shield reduction. That's level 14, which is good because who wants to waste all their skill points in energy shield? I liked this because Naj's only requires 79 strength, nightsmoke and howltusk are relatively easy to acquire. | ||
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Finskie
Sweden412 Posts
 i play diablo 2 atleast once a month haha | ||
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Pondo
Australia283 Posts
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ieatkids5
United States4628 Posts
makes me really wanna play | ||
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d(O.o)a
Canada5066 Posts
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Horiz0n
Sweden364 Posts
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Gnial
Canada907 Posts
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Deleted User 3420
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knock knock, whose there? fuck off leapers man, qtf i hate them so much | ||
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lokiM
United States3407 Posts
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Dfgj
Singapore5922 Posts
I made one with energy shield on top of everything else and had enough manadrain to pretty much maintain it so long as I could land hits on my targets, which let me be pretty survivable in hell (but never kill anything because the damage is ugh). | ||
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obesechicken13
United States10467 Posts
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Failsafe
United States1298 Posts
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Ghin
United States2391 Posts
On July 12 2011 17:36 obesechicken13 wrote: I killed some leapers today, they aren't bad with open wounds and smite... but they never leave u alone. what exactly is hard when you have smite? lol | ||
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Ghin
United States2391 Posts
On July 12 2011 18:15 Failsafe wrote: you've inspired me to begin a d2 character in anticipation for the expansion. unfortunately google search isn't getting me the results i want for a character build. i'd copy this one but i've played a bunch of sorceressi and wanna try something else. any chance you could link me to an interesting build such as the one you've got here? maybe for one of the two expo characters as i've played the hell out of the original five I think it depends on what you define as interesting. My personal favorite character to play is a Freezing Arrow amazon. It's effective in Hell, fairly durable if you pay attention, and you don't need terribly good items to make it work. It's fun because your attack is like a laser beam that erases enemies completely. The attack does splash damage and with pierce you can hit groups of enemies several times with one arrow. The build is something like this: bow skills 20 Freezing Arrow 20 Cold Arrow (+damage synergy) 1 Multishot (if you have garbage items or nothing, get 5 points here) 1 Guided Arrow (you won't use this as much but it's useful to have) 1 Strafe (an alternative to multishot in some areas) 1 to prerequisites passive skills 2 critical strike (if you have trash gear, you want this around 6 points) 5 pierce (if you have garbage items or nothing, get 10 points here) 1 dodge/evade/avoid 20 penetrate This isn't important to do right away, but by the time you're in Hell, it's very hard to hit monsters without a ton of points here. if you're playing hardcore: 5+ valkyrie The rest of the points you can do whatever you want with. Pierce is nice, Valkyrie is nice, whatever really. | ||
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Sufficiency
Canada23833 Posts
On July 11 2011 16:14 Gheed wrote: I think you're going to die as soon as you find an extra fast mana burn pack, because I doubt you'll find enough FHR charms to be able to pot + teleport away in time. But, I was always a pussy who made trapsins/summonmancers/lightning sorcs, so I dunno. GL bro Frozenstein is naturally with this combination, on any difficulty. But yea, this is what I am saying as well. This is a fairly difficult class to run. In fact, melee sorcs are largely gimmicks regardless how much godly gear you put on her (yes, including dual-dream setups). What I am mostly worried is not that the build is poor; it's that OP claims it's done in hardcore. | ||
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