What char, equip etc, I should get to solo catacombs?

I prefer dex for the only reason, wep are faster, more % to crit and good average damage.

Tell me if Life leach is viable and if EE armor or dex is better, or if I should play something more def/dmg than pure dmg.

Thanks for all help! I really want to play this game and the lack of players make me want to solo!

dex no longer increases weapon's speed and critical strike is based on str/dex ratio for each type of weapon: http://ladderslasher.d2jsp.org/index.php?g=3

however dex is the most optimal solution in a long perspective (but only if u think about going as far as possible, unlocking characters and even reset), so i'd recommend you axes and fighter

otherwise (if it's just solo mf), you could go for swords, so then you can use them on next 2 classes and with swords you need str gear

Fighter/Barbarian/Rogue (in that order of preference)
EE Swords
EE Armors
STR Charms
Winning!

Then, when you pass to Samurai, you can use the exact same gear. Also, when you pass him to Paladin, you can use the exact same gear.

I just want to play to farm some nice gear.

Also daggers are 90% dex ratio and 10% str ratio, which if I go all dex is wayyyyyyy better than 75% str 25% dex ratio, if I go str.

I really dunno.



I have a stupid question but what charm works on my stat? Acc slot or active charm?

THANKS TO BOTH.

I think about a fight or barb with axes and duo ( dex str ) charms ??

This post was edited by Vaagur on Oct 14 2011 11:24pm

Daggers might only have bigger visible dmg due to strict 90/10 dex ratio, but as I mentioned earlier, it also concerns critical strike and with daggers critical strike occurs rarely.
As you can assume, 75/25 ratio for swords works the similar way, but critical strike occurs more often, so in the end your average dmg is comparable.

As for acc charm slot, it doesn't reflect stats that are on your charm, with exception to enhanced effect. That's why it's mainly used for heal charms (even if you play melee, you can always have a stat charm on your main slot and heal charm on your acc slot).

For solo fighter should be better, due to powerstrike ability (solo climb should be faster with fighter).

Good thread, I'm kinda interested in the same thing so thx

Also, is mage mainly just used to heal in cata? Kinda useless for solo? It seems melee is used mainly.

caster classes are the highest dmg classes and therefore the quickest solo classes.. i got similar gear for casters and melee chars and the casters are doing by far the most dmg and are soloing a little bit faster than the melee classes (it is for me around 6mins per lvl at 30-60 for melee and like 5mins for mage/warlock)

on topic:
if you want to go solo.. you can practically use all chars.. simply stat up to 75 vita and get ee weapons/ee armors and stat charms (if you got heal charms you can also use salvation ability.. that will be a great help as well.. but 75 vita should help you to kill the most eps pretty easily if you have decent gear)

financially speaking

jlhromeo and barteq88 are giving u the best advice

Can you tell me where it's written that swords have more crit strike? I would like to see where you found that to compare dagger with it, etc.

I'll get a 50~%ee heal and like 30 str charm.

75 vita rest all str?

Forget to add what about life leach etc?

This post was edited by Vaagur on Oct 15 2011 09:49am

It's not exactly written, but I can tell you from experience swords crit more frequently than dagger.

The base ratio for swords is geared towards more crits. 75/25 compared to 10/90, the lesser number (in ratio to the higher one) influences critical hits. It is very difficult to get the ratio for daggers spot on, where swords is a lot easier to get close to the correct ratio.

It's a lot of math, and I may have not worded it quite right, but that should be an explanation.