Quote (Master_Zappy @ Jul 12 2010 01:09pm)
lack of any cb is disturbing for pvm.
I'd suggest swapping out travs for gores or gobs.
I'd prob use a death war spike instead of the grief for the extra cb and ds. Worth the slight damage trade off in my book. Good phy damage on both + holyshock, so fodder monsters will die instantly either way, but on bosses the death spike will speed things up substantially.
That's a really good point, CB would definitely help speed up Baal in particular. I think I'd prefer to swap out the boots over swapping out Grief for Death. If I were to use Death I would have to make it in a PB because even using a War Spike (-10) over a zerker means I would need an additional 36IAS to reach 4 frames, which means no LT because I would have to swap out my gloves for something with IAS. So I compared the damage with Grief PB and Death PB:
Physical Damage:
Grief PB - 6171 - 6376 (6274 Avg)
Death PB - 2567 - 2900 (2734 Avg)
Far too signifcant of a damage reduction to make the switch IMO. Is 15% or 25% CB functional or is it too low of a percentage to make much difference?
Quote (Mors_Agni @ Jul 12 2010 01:19pm)
I'd suggest using Conviction over Fanatism. The normal Dreamer is a lot better...
And combining this with Teleport is stupid anyway.
I actually used conviction as my main aura on my 1.12 version and could go that route without making any gear changes on my 1.13. It's not a bad suggestion either because I would only have to use 17 points in conviction to hit lvl 25 beyond which point there is no additional resistance benefits saving me 3 points that can be used to boost my light damage with salvation. I will also have the advent of -150% res running my own conviction over the -85% provided by infinity. My physical damage would be reduced however from 6274 AVG to 4041 AVG which is pretty substantial. Overall though the killing speed on this build using Fana or Conviction would be comparable. Running my own conviction I could actually use Reapers on my merc for ctc Decripify which would also help with physical immunes. (This idea is sounding better and better).
Though your conviction point is well taken, the idea that having fast teleporting on an MF character is not a stupid one.
This post was edited by Fierless on Jul 12 2010 12:27pm