Hey all, myself and 2 irl friends have been playing ladder HC together and doing chaos/baal runs. We want to be able to lead our own, and have a 4th friend joining. Since we are leading, we would like to be able to do all the killing ourselves, we need solid damage.

right now, our comp is a summon nec, WW barb, and lite sorc. Current auras our team comp has are: concentration(pride), might(merc), fanatacism (beast), defiance (merc), meditation (insight), holy freeze(merc)

our damage is very good right now, but our friend is going to be joining us and wants to pick a class/build that will synergize well with the party. He does not want to play a hammerdin.

any suggestions about what 4th build he could play that would synergize well? As a group we thinking possibly a fire claw druid, or fire ele druid, or fire sorc, since we have cold, lite, and physical damage covered. Fireclaw would get the benefits from all 3 damage increasing auras as well, and is great for bosses, but lacks the aoe clearing power. or maybe a fire trap sin? or even possibly a bowzon that would receive benefits from the auras. Idk, hoping some advice/input on the matter helps us narrow it down.

Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions

sorry also should mention im trying to avoid excessive cold damage to avoid a lack of corpses for necro, so cold sorc isnt ideal. i suppose windy druid is an option too but he doesnt have a d2jsp account so securing an enigma will be more difficult for him, not sure how viable windy is without it

How set is your lite sorc on staying that element? An idea, change her to fire. Have her go enchant//firewall. The enchant would be a huge boost (if leveled high into the 40s) to the Barb, Necro minions, all mercs, and your..

Trapsin. She would be my pick for 4th. Great lightning damage and crowd control. She can save people in a pinch and confuse monsters when overwhelmed. Ideally you would want one merc that will be towards the front to have infinity.. giving you and all your enchanted army amazing damage. If you have CE from Necro things will just evaporate.

All that being said Firewall sorc isn’t the funnest class. Enchant and Firewall synergize well together, she’ll be strong in the team, and be great alone when doing Meph. Problem with this though is you might be crippled pretty big of assassin isn’t online with you.

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Your Druid idea is nice also. Everyone loves the extra health boost he will provide. The storm will definitely keep you a bit safer. Is there a reason you guys don’t run infinity? Make your lite sorc much more efficient!

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Good post! I like your team. I’m just throwing ideas out there.. please ignore if they aren’t the best 😅

Thanks for the input m8,

Haha well now im torn- last season i had an enchant sorc i used to buff my main and it was very strong, i imagine enchanting all the minions etc would make it absolutely stomp shit, but being the person playing that sorc and having to enchant all the minions and only having firewall would be really boring i think. I definitely see the benefit though, bosses would melt from the skele army, but id see that as incredibly boring playstyle for the sorc. would you still use trap sin even if sorc was still lite?

Yeah druid I feel like is a safe bet as it can shred without having perfect gear, and the health buff couldnt hurt the group. but i like the idea of the confuse/stun on sin.

Would love to have an inifnity in the group we just havent had the opportunity to make one yet, 2 ber's aint no joke haha. Necro doesnt have enigma yet either, just using a ds fort right now for extra safety in HC

Anyone have any additional suggestions or ideas for classes/builds that we havent mentioned yet?

Would there be any viability for our 4th friend to run some sort of conviction paladin build in place of infinity till we get one? Not quite sure what kind of build i would run on pally with conviction as main aura but just curious if thats a viable 4th option, or if a pure DPS is smarter and get infinity when we can afford?

Dude! I love that combo. I have my GF run a Conviction Paladin and that alone let’s my Trapsin shred! I keep her save too so it’s legit. Even crazier if you can get an enchant on the Pally with that aura active… then run Zeal. Want to add even more power have an act 1 merc with faith and act 2 merc with might. Good times. Your lite sorc will love you if you get that Conviction Paladin.. Necro too if he uses CE. I almost mentioned this to you before but I didn’t want to flood you with too much.

Does your Necro have any form of teleport? You can buy a staff from act 3 with charges. Put that on switch. It’s nice to get all his minions together.

fireball sorc w/ extra points put into chant

javazon

fire trapper

it's pointless to make a pally just for conviction, infinity is cheap enough.

java lol

you've got a lot of physical damage auras. they could play bowa and not need faith