How'd Season 1.12 Treat You? - Topic

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Oct 26 2009 02:09pm

So the smell of reset is fresh in the air, and I know many are eagerly awaiting details on 1.13 that's coming soon (not soon enough). This had me reflecting on this seasons progression.

I had some good finds, more Isenhearts breastplates then I could throw a stick at ,and a few notables along the way. Some of these are posted in the what I found thread.

For Character building I did a few remakes of popular builds, a few favorites mixed in with some utility guys. I also tried used some skills Ive never used or developed in the past. A couple chars I made difficult for challenges sake.

Here's how it turned out: On Hardcore Ladder East season 1.12

Guardian Mother_hcl
90 200fcr light sorc
10 point firewall for soul frying and immune burning. Godly! once you've tasted the 200 the 105 feels sluggish. A premium rusher, does hell baals runs in 3 mins!

Guardian Uncle_hcl
89 Bone Nec

Level 48 bonespear and screen sized ce with a A5 Barb Merc wielding Death cs for 6-24K carrying 85%cb and 60% ds. A monster boss slugger.

Guardian Kung_Powchi
88 Wolfbarb

I usually go 2h on this, this time I went the grief/SS route. Next time I'm sticking with the 2handers. The two handers just do much better pvm.

Guardian Noggin_Floggin
89 Cranium Basher Conc barb. A uber specialist.
90% crushing blow, 60% deadly strike at the 2nd fastest 2h attack rate. He crushes it.

Guardian Niece_hcl
87 Frozen Arrow/charged strike Zon

A well rounded and excellent build for area clears and baaling. Uses Ice bow as her main with Tstrokes on switch.

Guardian Cheesey_Poofs
86 Frenzy/throw barb

He Runs really fast, and has gimmer+Lacerator on switch. This works great for sniping, playing around IM without having to use zerk and for PI's. If the Amp doesnt break it, the ow/elementals are going to leave it toasted. A Fun char who can handle every part of the game. One point bo allows max damage for both the frenzy melee side and Throw Mastery.

Conqueror Of_Frost
88 Nat Set Phnx Striker Assassin

A great on your toes active char, your always having to count and balance charge ups with a hit a run style melee fighter. Cos/Dlfight around and start stacking Tri-elemental +phy damage mayhem.

Conqueror Pookie_Hcl
73 Maul/bear with Grizzly Druid

Slow and steady, shockwave is great. Charge up Maul and use the odd hunger chomp to refill the red and blue bulb. Max grizzly, Sage, Dires for the company.

Conqueror Episkopos
64 Insight/Prayer PDR Charge Pally.

Incredible Tank, runs Salvation to cover the res along with max prayer for the double regen bonus with insight Elder Staff. Nice tight damage range with charge. Monster Pinball ftw!

Guardian Lamer-Din
93 Hammerdin.

Its a hammerdin, chosen for Mf'ing chaos, doubling for Uber duty and spinning baals. I hate this char, but he's just so good at mindlessly crushing waves of badguys with impunity. Astrons for his smiting duties for the twist. Love this thing. Thanks to Nith for this baddy. its a +84/85 too.

Conqueror Xandrax
57 2h Vengence /conviction pally.

Going for the glass cannon monster damage. Uses Rock Lobstah's Oath Highland Sword. This really packs the punch. Must beware getting swarmed and keeping those res up.

Guardian Of_TheWord
87 Dream/Frost Zealot Doom Wielder

Runs a maxed syngerised Holyfreeze. with max res light and about 10 in salvation. Another 10 in Sacrifice with the rest in holyshield. A well rounded char who was made to test varient skills sets utilizing Dream and forgo'ing the innate res.

Guardian Of_TheZeal
90 Zealot Optimized. Pally. Has 6K-26K Zeal damage, 1 handed @4fpa attack , this is carrying 100%cb (100% ds too). Has massive light damage on switch + amp and throwies.

Ridiculous premium blend of optimized zealotry. Linked in Profile. My Primary Torch runner.

Conqueror Of_All
64 Tiger Strike/Phnx Strike/Fade PDR Sin

Max Fade with a full on Pdr Rig. She Used Headstriker with a maxed tiger strike . This yielded decent damage. Since nothing could really hurt this lady it didnt matter that she killed kinda slow. Phnx strike used as it can work without using a claw. This gave me a way to deal with Pi's that my lawbringer merc couldnt break.

Guardian Pawz
90 Phy oriented Bear Sorc. With 105fcr

Linked in profile. This Char is a machine and item based. The strongest and well rounded Sorc ever!

Guardian Ursus_Ama
89 Bear Zon

Passive stated and immortal. 55-65 chance of dodging, avoiding , evading nearly all attacks in the game and doing double damage. Couple with Max overstacked res, Amazons large bonus to life via vit and max block. Linked in Profile. Absolutely untppkable. The safest pub build in the game hands down. More effective life then ANYTHING.

Guardian Rock_Crabstah
76 Titan Berzerk barb.

He's Green and made to smack around the closely related Rock_Lobstah. All points in str made leveling the char a snap. Low life and massives damage. In Silence Maul we trust. A tricky walk thru with many Nde's but smart twinkage and methodically play completed him.

Conqueror Bishop_Zod
88 Tri-elemental Caster Pally

Used 3 part trang set (helm, belt and gloves) for Free Fireball, firewall. I Paired this with a +2 armor, Dragonscale Shield for the Fire skill boost and ample fire damage to be used with Rift War Scept. This gave him frozen orbs and a gob more fire damage. He Maxed Foh and syngery+conviction and holybolt for huge light damage+ undead nuking. A blast to play, fairly easy to make for the casual player looking for something neat. Firewall rocks on a conviction pally.

Guardian Polaxely
88 PoleArm Gold Find/MF Berzerker

Zerk is my favorite barb skill. This one does lots of trav runs. Has a respectable 1600% gf, 400% mf set with his Dual Lem'd Alis and Wealth Armors. Runs Keys as well. Gotta love howl and massive massive damage. 5 point bo make him different from most other barbs. He also has near Max WW and this hits the last ww bp when I want it. (seldom actually, almost only use zerk.)

Guardian SunWindRain
87 Bow Zon

Maxed strafe, Valk, Magic Arrow with a few points remaining. The bulk of her used points lay in hitting diminishing return points in D/a/e, a handful in pierce, penetrate, Critical strike and decoy. Rest of the points ending up in Penetrate and multi. Windforce build with Faith merc.

D Dropped me a Windforce this season, so it had to get used for this. Max magic arrow rocks with a high powered bow. It converts 30-40% of your phy damage to magic and pierces unlike GA. The Ar boost is massive. Glass Cannon fun char!

Conqueror Blue_Bear
63 shockwave Summon Druid

relegated to white and magic items only. He does not use any rare, set, runeword or crafted items. Currently leveling at nm baal. Hell is still to hard for his level. Shockwave and max summons are effective .

Conqueror Trilena
76 Tri-elemental caster/melee sorc Sorc.

A blizz-baller fire oriented sorc with dreamshield+doom on switch and will have about a dozen points in light mastery.

Heaping amounts of fireball, meteor and Blizzard damage along with about 12K light+phy damage on switch. Play as a caster or melee on the same char with balance!

Guardian Paws_Claws
88 Ik Cold armor Bear Sorc.

Ik set+ dream hat and 60 points dedicated into the 3 cold armors. Neat char. very fast high physical /cb attack with tri damage. Max light mastery with 1 warmth and remaining points in fire mastery.
Link in Profile.

Conqueror Pups
85 Stormlash Windy Fury Wolf.

Syngerised Nado from max cyclone armor, Hurricane and twister/fury. Adds Cold damage plus aoe to a excellent physical wep like eth-stormlash. Kinda annoying reshifting every 40 seconds to recast hurricane. A fun char.

Conqueror Banana_Hcl
76 Leap Attack/ Zeal Bo barb.

Leap attack like a frog. Slow and painful with lots of CC from leap and massive single hit damage. Uses Passion Glorious Axe for Zeal, so he's really a Leap attack zeal barb.

Destroyer Grandma_Hcl
63 Chant Sorc

Quick buffs for the low levels. Will eventually be Chant + frozen orb. Has 3K chant.

Guardian Grandpa_Hcl
84 Conviction/Fanat Zealot.

based on the Vor pally build. One of the earliest chars I made. Finished in Headstriker + Voice of Reason and Treach for young ladder styling. Run the first torches for me.

Guardian Sister_Hcl
86 Rift-a-sin

Based on my guide. One of the best well rounded chars in the game. A joy to walk with.
http://forums.d2jsp.org/index.php?showtopic=33542178&f=87

Guardian Brother_Hcl
88 Fury/summon druid

Max fury + summons and how make this a force of nature. Paired up with a Botd GPA. Has something like 6K life, 14K max fury before 50% ds and 18K ar. Grizzly is level 42 @7-8K damage!

Conqueror Auntie_hcl
79 Charged Bolt/Frozen Orb Sorc

A great rusher and Mf'er. Two elements keep its quick around immunes.

Guardian Of_TheNoob
84 Ranger Pally

Holyfire+Holyshock with demon machine and widowmaker . This pally was strong from the get go. Started with holyfire first it was all downhill once 15 hit and ravenclaw was used. GOGO splash damage. A methodical tanky bowzon

Conqueror Sara_hcl
86 Javazon , cookie build.
Max Fend with a 2handed botd- Ghostspear on switch make her a little different .

Conqueror Talina_hcl
89 Fireball / Nova Tal sorc
General Mfers and rusher. I had the tal set kicking around and figured I should put it to use.
12K fireball, 2K nova , 25K meteor @105 fcr and 2200 life. A well rounded PVM'ers. Fire and light damage backed up be infinnity!
My First Drop Baaler.

Family_HCL
87 Blade Fury sin

100% cb 93% deadly strike. Pure goodness. over 10K max fury damage. OUCH!
20 blade fury, 20 Venom, 20 Death sentry. 4 kick dtalon (13 hard points) 1 in wonders. some skill stuff remaining.

Hot_Pawz
86 FireClaw/phy Mauler druid.
Build around a 350% ed 40/15 eth Zod tomb reaver. 6fpa attack packing massive physical and fire damage. Hits up to 46K! This is while having high life and the godly shockwave to work with. A pvm monster.

Plus a whole bunch of mules for the assorted chars, specifics and socketables. Never as organized as I'd liked, but better then last season. This doesnt include a couple llds and the few chars that I lost (posted in the graveyard)

Also took part in Many Ironmans, 1 Esu Season Run , 1 Cta round.

total charcters : 35
total levels 2976
Avg character level of 85