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Mar 14 2017 08:10am
Starting another run, this time with a Paladin ^_^

His main build will be a reflect damage build that tries to be as tanky as possible to let him survive while the enemies kill themselves

P8 (not countess)
PlugY (Stash, Ladder RWs)
Re-runs
Must use as many "reflection" items as possible
Aura trees main skill focus, minimal points in combat

Goals: Make it to hell


Our brave hero wanders into the bloodiest of moors, finding the evilest of dens....


Inside he found the fieriest of corpses, if only he had a water bucket or a lake in his pocket to deal with this


Our hero dislikes birds, he must smash bird and change name to bloodiest raven


This post was edited by Asexual on Mar 14 2017 08:11am
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Mar 14 2017 10:39am
Good luck!
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Mar 14 2017 10:53am
So you will probably be using Bramble, Razortail, Lance Gaurd/Spike Thorn, Andariels Visage/Trang helm, Grief PB, Saracens/Atmas/Highlords, HitPowerCraft/Nagelrings, Hitpower IAS gloves, Hitpowerboots/War travs

I want to try this out and see if those items would be viable in Hell... I am imagining they would be

With Iron Maiden from Saracens combined with Thorns skill plus Bramble Thorns and all that extra ATD you should be laying out a lot of thorns damage

You would have 1900% damage returned from thorns... around 300 ATD from gear... 225% damage returned from Saracen Iron Maiden... and poison nova and venom supported by bramble for poison damage

Zeal and conversion are left skills

This sounds fun

This post was edited by catwithspots on Mar 14 2017 11:09am
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Mar 14 2017 10:57am
I'd suggest using Conversion as your main attack skill!
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Mar 14 2017 11:45am
Quote (Belarathon @ Mar 14 2017 09:57am)
I'd suggest using Conversion as your main attack skill!


This word of advice from Arreat Summit:

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Combining Conversion with Thorns makes a great way to get large numbers of monsters to kill themselves, however, once the Conversion wears off, your Thorns aura will remain on the monster for a second or two. If you hit the monster during this time (easy to do with Zeal) then you'll do massive damage to yourself.
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Mar 14 2017 12:02pm
Sounds like a challenge! Goodluck, Barb the Paladin! :thumbsup:
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Mar 14 2017 12:30pm
Quote (catwithspots @ Mar 14 2017 12:53pm)
So you will probably be using Bramble, Razortail, Lance Gaurd/Spike Thorn, Andariels Visage/Trang helm, Grief PB, Saracens/Atmas/Highlords, HitPowerCraft/Nagelrings, Hitpower IAS gloves, Hitpowerboots/War travs

I want to try this out and see if those items would be viable in Hell... I am imagining they would be

With Iron Maiden from Saracens combined with Thorns skill plus Bramble Thorns and all that extra ATD you should be laying out a lot of thorns damage

You would have 1900% damage returned from thorns... around 300 ATD from gear... 225% damage returned from Saracen Iron Maiden... and poison nova and venom supported by bramble for poison damage

Zeal and conversion are left skills

This sounds fun


That looks like a good build to aim for, I'll be using a lot of skulls in my shields for a while, then Amn runes when I hit the level req

Quote (Belarathon @ Mar 14 2017 12:57pm)
I'd suggest using Conversion as your main attack skill!


That looks like a good choice for this guy, probably just put 1 point in it for a long time though

First thorns weapon


Woodfist would fist himself, he died shortly afterwards


Our hero found out that strapping skulls to his shield made enemies commit suicide, very useful fact


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Mar 14 2017 12:37pm
Totally following this as i think it's a really interesting try ^^
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Mar 14 2017 12:40pm
Quote (HumanatorNL @ Mar 14 2017 11:37am)
Totally following this as i think it's a really interesting try ^^


Me too. Be careful and spend all your time playing this pls
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Mar 14 2017 01:33pm
Ha, conversion/thorns pala was pretty funny in classic. Not viable anymore though
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