I totally forgot the storm shield, we'd lose some res and FHR but that can be fixed by wearing shadow dancers (still kinda open with the boots, so the 30%FHR/FRW/dex are helpfull!), socket the storm shield for DR% (I'm actually gona do this, FHR isn't usefull if you get 1 hitted, we need some DR%, with this build we don't have any right now..)

USE BER'D STORM FOR DR% AND SHADOW DANCER'S TO BREAK 86% FHR!


I got 27 in lf (skillers + tg, 0 hard points) and it does under 1k dmg, usually get's sorbed and the 1 min dmg isn't helping , it'd require to invest some points in it (or lightning bolt) but I prefer to invest them in d/e/a/c for better survivality.

Also if we got cta+spirit/lidless on switch, it wouldn't be a plague bowazon anymore, geting those very defensive ranged dueler's (there are trapsins/hammers in every pub nowadays ) with plague/lf is hard so bow helps a bit.



Enigmas has very good mod's, except the +2 skills, it add's more time to poison and doesn't increase enough dmg.
Fury isn't maxed, I putted 1+ point as optional (27 points from tg, 0 hard points in it), also LB is most likely gona do very low dmg/sorbed unless you put in qutie a lot of hard points (again, I rather go for the d/e/a for better survivality but suit yourself)
We can get hammerdins and ect with bow, no need to get that close (most hammers charge around too) and sorcs rarely tele that close to you to get hit by plague cloud, specially after they see that you're using them a lot, with only 30 FRW in helm, you'd be losing the FHR and more importantly, the IAS for bow.

This post was edited by Spurgu on Apr 20 2008 12:54pm

Well now you need lots of Str for the SS monarch hope that isnt too taxing on Vit.

Can you address gm/mat cta v. gm faith? Im on a budget and I dont want to invest in both..something conclusive would be helpful..like is there a real necessity for a cta at all?

Besides, Im into gear swapping on my chars and i dunno who else can use a gm cta.

Rando dancers will do it right? I dont know the stats ..hope theyre cheap

Anything to be said for FHR scs?

This post was edited by hacefrio on Apr 20 2008 01:09pm

I got about 1.2k life without bo, I block/dodge often (well it's not 100%) so I'm not really afraid of any melee char's. You'd be shooting arrows a bit slower than with faith but IMO cta isn't that necessary.

I think grand matron bow's are for amazon only, not even act 1 merc's can use them.

You'd be breaking the FHR% with sanctuary/shadow dancers anyway so there's no need for any FHR sc's. Any random will do, it only affect's the +shadow skill [1-2] and the dex, they can be quite cheap but it might be hard to find them.

You can use some small sc's for stre but you'll have to invest on it anyway if you want storm on and the DR% (I got 168 stre atm, so I'm guessing I did use storm long time ago when I made this char, dunno why it's using sanctuary now. ) anyway, from shadow dancer's you get dex, so you can invest some of these for vita and still maintain the max block..

This post was edited by Spurgu on Apr 20 2008 01:27pm

Highlords v. Maras? Hlords obvious choice? just wondering.

5/5 shako for (DR) + P Diamond SS and say screw the last 5% DR a maybe? or grab a 40/xx dungo.
^^^^^^
Valk helm is really #1?

Did you address resists?

Highlord's for the IAS when bowing but I can tell you that bowing is quite slow even with this gear unless you have faith. (I used harmony for a long while, it was only good for running away and even that failed sometimes ).

You'd be missing the FHR/IAS bp's with shako, socket it with an fhr jewel/shael, you'd be missing the IAS. IAS jewel, you'd miss the FHR so yeah valk is the #1 option in this build, it's also quite cheap too.

Dungo is a good choise, storm + dungo = 50% DR. the only good in thundergod's is the stats + max res (+abs but it's bm), oh and that LF but you can use LB like it was suggested before.

I have this nifty 5/5 die..anything i can do with it? SS or valk maybe?

Any comments on a merc for pvp or resists in pvp?

Maybe in SS, you'd be geting 50% DR from dungo's and SS so it has a free socket.

You won't be immediately owning everyone, it'll take a while before you learn to play it so your merc's gona die anyway, either it get's killed or you.

Anyway, if we still go for the merc, we might want it to actually help a bit while dueling.

Let's go for a cold merc in act 3, wear it with AURA gear, hoj, dragon armor, dream helm, dream/dragon shield. that makes it help you with 3 different element's, hopefully the pulse from the aura's will kill off your opponent when at low life and hopefully it won't get killed before that. You can't abs all 3 element's (atleast that good) so even if it's able to dish out 1 dmg, it's gona be enough to finish off your opponent's. (poison drain's their HP fast, unless antidote's // high life).
You can also use sanctuary if you want res for the merc but it has quite low life and the people these day dish out quite good dmg anyway so it'll get killed anyway (unless you max res, ect stuff for it but I don't think it's gona help you in duels by just surviving. )

This post was edited by Spurgu on Apr 20 2008 02:27pm

light bolt damage doens't need to be high, but i found it helped a lot, especially since it cannot be blocked.

i had 9fpa guided with a cta gmb using mara's

check an ias calc to see if hl helps.

by the way, i don't know if u'd mentioned but 55%ias is needed vs most chars, all except hammerdin i'd say.

i personally used 89% vs all sorcs/trappers/necro's because the its damn useful in stopping the long enough with lb to get a plague in thier face.

Sounds good, but how about our res?

Now Im gonna check out the strategy areas..hehe hope you dont mind the questions

Yea, I think I did mention that CTA would be 1 frame slower than with faith I think?

http://diablo2.ingame.de/tips/calcs/weaponspeed.php?lang=english

Grand matron bow, 55% IAS from current setup + the min fana aura from faith (12) = 8fpa (50% IAS needed for 8fpa bp), need's 99%IAS for 7fpa.
With a level 15 fana = 46% IAS, needs 92% IAS for 7fpa.

So using 89% IAS is same than this build's.

LB is a good option instead of LF but you only need to wear tg's to get LF anyway, you use whatever skill you want.


I did post my res on the first page with 55%all res sanctuary, you're gona miss some res with Storm but you're gona have nice cold res, socket SS with um/nice res jewel and/or get 5%all res +life sc's but these are expensive so just all res sc's will do.

This post was edited by Spurgu on Apr 20 2008 02:41pm