I already have the assassin up to hell, just at the grinding stage of finding MA gear to respec to a kicker.

I have completed 3 walks total:
Classic Hammerdin
Classic WW BARB
Expac Summon Druid

Let the elections begin !!!

cold/fire hybrid bowazon. no MS, no stafe, etc. maybe GA for bosses. its a hard balance by can be really fun.

I have a 78 blizz sorc in HC sp classic, (I used to play HC classic ladder as a CS taxi blizz sorc) so I must say, it’s a very dangerous world for classic sorcies without GG gear and bo.

Orb firewall is just fine for norm and NM and works quite well, but just for kicks I tried using orb firewall in hell and orb just sucks in hell compared to blizzard. I find that it’s better going pure blizz for hell because in classic, even in hell, static can take any enemy down to minimum life, and one point in fire wall + mastery is enough to finish off static’d cold immunes very easily. This is how I deal with de seis in CS. Just some food for thought.

I'm horrible with balancing a challenge but I thought about this fire/cold build last night. Just wasn't sure of damage it could put out.. You telling me it's hard to balance might scare me back to physical.. I prefer the machine gun style (strafe I believe)



I remember playing softcore classic c-rusher as orb/wall and it was fine with p1 or p2. Maybe I can luck out and not get this option but if I tried sorc I wanted it to be classic...

ive seen it done both ways. fire main with frost for c/c and immunes, and frost main with fire for immunes.

iirc the fire main dmg would use exploding arrow or immolation for maybe bosses, with freezing arrow to handle immunes and also c/c packs that are nasty.

whereas frost build uses FA still, but to kill immunes you go fire arrow and deal more single target dmg.

honestly tho frost maiden can clear the game fairly easily even in moderate gear, it's just slow. good merc, decently pumped Valk, and freeze everything with FA. slow crawl the game. can farm ancient tunnels if u want in hell.

while orb/wall does do okay in hell at p1 or p2, youll find it really difficult to gain exp beyond the late 70's without going up to higher players settings,
and thats when orb tends to outlive it's usefulness.

with my hc classic blizz sorc i literally leveled her from 70-78 by doing p8 runs of the Fire Eye guy in act 2,
you take the arcane wp, go up to the portal into the palace lvl 3,
and make sure you have a map where he always spawns just on the other side of the door directly to the left of the portal.
theyre too big to get through the door, and you can literally just telekinesis the door open and stand there safely blizzing them until theyre dead.
you can even hang on to an act 2 merc for a bit while you stay in act 2
if you're lucky, youll get a pack or two of the urdar guys as well, who are also too big to go through the door.

hammerdin with shako

Gonna give this 1 more day to see if it will change I already had a fire druid started that i was goofing off with before i created this poll that i have turned into a fire claws bear ATM just incase it don't.

So apparently the bow zon made a big comeback (after i started my werebear) So i guess i will start the BOWAZON tonight and see where it goes..

tracking as soon as it pops up

For me there's something about watching bowazon wts that I don't get anywhere else. I think it's in part due to the fact that the build is reliant on finding a good bow, so it's exciting seeing what rares/uniques/runewords come up

This post was edited by TimTam on Nov 11 2019 06:34pm