Well after much consternation I finally sat down mid day today and pushed my way through nm Hell to the man himself.
In this post I'd like to share my final gear, and my late game strategy.
I am a pure tactical stance marksman. I use 1 point in both ricochet and homing shot, and a full 7 in reflected shot.
I maxed tactical stance, elemental vision, elemental beacon and dead eye.
Besides those the rest of my points did me nothing. I use an alternate gun with +3 multi shot, and with some fast switching I get the full effect for my Lee's.
Notice its 110% shield pierce. That was CRITICAL in hell. There is no way I could have ever burned down his shield to even hope for ignite procs without shield pierce.
Here's my final armor setup. Not pictured is a very basic green +13 AA belt. What can I say, I needed the atribute draw elsewhere
Clearing hell and the 5 lies too me about 3 hours, maybe a little more. Each one died after 4 ignite procs and occasionally a tad extra damage from me.
Sydonai himself took a little over an hour, and he caught a fifth ignite for the knockout blow.
I can't emphasise enough the importance of ignite in the late game. Some of the trash mobs took a little damage from my rifle, but even most of those were dying to ignite pretty exclusively.
The only boss that my damage played even a small roll in was Rash, whos normal resistance to fire left him with 5 or 6% life after my 4th ignite. Sadly i didn't get a fifth and had to take a half hour to eat away those final few percent.
Sydonai himself took perhaps 4% of his damage from my rifle and the other 96% from ignite. I understand how that guild that took 6 hours on him. I would have too without ignite.
In retrospect my only complain about this character is my over investment in accuracy and strength, which led to a late game crunch on will power and stamina.
This post was edited by Markasouth on Dec 22 2007 10:05pm