Quote (gel87 @ Oct 18 2021 05:55pm)

Yo, since many ask and like the kicksin for pvm, i just make a Quick guide for it. This build works for d2r as well, im running it, but dont have eni, and i have crap charms, and i dont have jools for wep-helm-shield yet.

This sin can do every pvm in the game effective, without changing gear:
Keyhunt + ubers (i prefer strings here for extra ll)
Diaclone
All lvl 85 areas
Chaos full clear
Chaos sealpop + dia fastrun
Baalruns
Andy
Meph
Duriel (lol gl find the worm)
Ancients and other boosting for other chars.
Cows
Nihla (death sentry pops the bodies)
Pindle
(all this possible in p8) kills most fast p8.


I always prefer starting with gear. So i start with end game gear so i can explain its feature, but under i will come with alternative gear for lvl up.

Gear:
Wep I: Stormlash '15ias/15@' + Stormshield '15ias/15@'
Helm: Guilaume '15ias/15@'
(the ias jools dont need to be this perf, and the 50ias break is almost as good atrack speed)
Wep II: cta + spirit 35fcr
Armor: enigma
Boots: upped gores
Belt: arach (strings for ubers)
Ammu: atmas scarab
Ring 1: raven
Ring 2: dual leech/10fcr/@ res/adds(life/mana/ar/stats)
Gloves: 20ias/10cb/nice adds (2martial/ml/@/stats and such)

Inventory:
Assa torch
Annie (if gotten one)
Gheeds (if u want)
6-7 trap sks(preferable with life)
Life/5@ scs (enough to survive uber meph)
Cube

Merc act 2 Nightmare offensive (might aura)
Eth infinity in a good base
Andy 15ias/30fr
Treachury or forti

Skilling:
- Enought dragon talon for kickseries of 4 kicks, you May max it out so u just dont reach 5 kickseries.
- 20 death sentry
- 20 lightning sentry
- 3 firebomb(to make death sentry cast 6 times.)
- x fade
- 1 bos
- 1 sm, sw, mindblast, cloak of shadows etc.
- 1 or x to bladeshield
- 1 dragon flight(espesially important if u dont have eni yet)
- 1 or x to venom

Statting:
Str - enough for gear(156 upped gores)
Dex - max block with stormshield
Vita - rest
Energy - 0

Breakpoints:
Fhr: 30 (Guilaume)
Fcr wep I: 30 (ring + arach)
Fcr Wep II: 65 (ring + arach + spirit35)
Ias: 95 (gloves, stormlash, 3 ias jools)

So what makes this build so good?
Lets see on our 3 boosters first:
* atma's scarab: 5% chance to cast amplify dmg upon striking.
- breaks 99% physical immune monsters
- crushing blow is boosted by amplify damage
- direct physical damage (which will make u leech more as well)
- i know 5% is not much, but with this attackspeed u trigger it consistent.
- boost the pathetic nado dmg from stormlash
- since 50% of corpse explotion is physical amp boost this explotion.

* infinity: conviction aura.
- break most light immunes(May also break a few fire immunes)
- (-)85 to enemy resists
- (-) 91?% enemy defense
- boost static effect(casted from stormlash) , and let static work vs immunes.
- since 50% of corpse explotion is fire dmg, conv boost this greatly.
- boost the high direct melee light dmg added from stormlash, as well as cold dmg from raven.
- boost light dmg of death sentry, and ls if used.

* might:
- ur direct kick dmg aint something to write home about, compared to other melee builds, but its enough to finnish off enemies after static and crushing blow has done its part, as well as it leech pretty good :) might boost theese things. As well as ur merc dmg :)

With this setup we reach 95ias break. (hence the 3 ias jools).
That means 6,57 attacks pr. second.
The 50ias breakpoint is 6,25 attacks pr sec so work as well.
Hence we trigger amplify damage, static, crushing blow, direct dmg and elemental dmg like kings.

Crushing blow:
Stormlash 33
Guilaume 35
Gloves 10
Gores 15
= 93% cb

Ow:
10% from gores, enough to keep ubers from repling.

Deadly strike:
This dont work on kick ^^

What happens/tactics:
- So, 6,57 attacks pr sec, amplify dmg + 93% cb + static + conv + epic hit chance = one of the highest single target dps in pvm!!
- high single target dps = epic boss killer.
- since we kick down monsters very fast we quickly get bodies for death sentry. Death sentry at this level explode the entire screen, but since we kicked with static all monsters are also only 25% hp left and will die more or less instant.
- so, it clears the entire screen extreamly fast.
- this assa is not immortal, espesially if limited gear. So make use of cloak of shadows, and even mindblast and sm if needed.

Cant make images work on my phone atm.
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https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/diablo/images/5/5e/Atma%27s_Scarab.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110406233648

Vs ubers:
- Make sure ur res make u able to not get insta killed by meph, he will go down in like 4-5 seconds, so use juvs if needed. Make sure u kill him alone.
- diablo and baal u leech enough for this to be easy, they will die within seconds as well, just attack them both.
- since we dont use life tap, we need to have some few juvs ready incase. We do not leech vs meph and his skellies. We also dont leech against the multi immune demons before we trigger amp vs them. I did uber on a extreame low budget, so i only had 1,7k life bo'ed and low res. So i needed some juvs.

Okay, now viable gear prior to endgear:
Early:
3ral long sword (entire norm, early nm)
Death gloves + belt (10@/8ll/30ias/cnbf)
Death sword(4ll, 15@, 87cold dmg)
Sigons gloves + whatever.
Rhyme (cnbf, block, fbr, 25@, mf)
Angelic ammu + ring
Manald 8% ml
Stealth/angelic armor/artic armor
Whatever helm
Any early unicue like:
Sword of rixxot, the gnasher axe, mace with str/cb etc.
Goblins

Mid:
Death set parts and rhyme remains
'Black'
'Lawbringer' (death sentry can not pop bodies killed by this, still good wep for kicker)
Bk/raven
Guilaume (key part)
Upped goblins /// gores
Duress

Here is an example of my kicksin early d2r (i dont played much)
Stormlash 'no soc'
Rhyme (i have stormshield in stash, but want the mf and res atm)
Death gloves + belt
Upped gores
Manald 7%
Catans (i think, cant remember)
1 trap/10fcr/20@/20mana ammu
Guilaume '15@ soc'
Duress
Teleport staff

Torch assa
Inzane crap charms else... Really crap.

Merc might:
None eth reapers
Viper 34@
Helm (honestly dont remember)

My sin only got 1k life atm and is lvl 84.

Still this build kills chaos + diablo easy, and cows. It can kill all, but baal forexample take to long time, and my res are to bad to kill ubers.

He kills andy, meph, cuntess easy to ofc, but theese i do faster with sorc. And then sorc make games with questbugged diablo.

At level 95, casting traps at stormlash side this build can reach quite the ls dmg as well if 8 skillers:
Ls dmg : 7,2k
Death sentry light dmg: 2,6k

So, if 1 all shadows,
1 bladeshield + prerequisuite
X dragon talon for 4 kicks
20 death sentry
20 ls
20 shockweb
20 static sentry.

Casted at cta side it gets more, but that will just slow u down usually.

Quote (Peanut_Butter @ Dec 5 2021 02:09pm)

we have a lot of spare skill points, where should we put it? Max dtalon or max trap sinnergies?

Quote (gel87 @ Dec 5 2021 01:11pm)

You can max dtalon, or u can skill more to COS / Bladeshield.

Maxed dtalon might be better in d2r then d2lod. U sometimes got stuck kicking air in d2lod and then to high kickseries in worst case made u die or just simply slows u down.

Quote (Peanut_Butter @ Dec 5 2021 05:29pm)

built this in single player and have to say, that players 8 is kinda a struggle, specially on travincal...

Quote (gel87 @ Dec 5 2021 11:11am)

You can max dtalon, or u can skill more to COS / Bladeshield.

Maxed dtalon might be better in d2r then d2lod. U sometimes got stuck kicking air in d2lod and then to high kickseries in worst case made u die or just simply slows u down.

Quote (Tkamp @ Dec 6 2021 03:47pm)

2 quick questions:
1) what's this build doing for mana? Just chugging blues or is the ML/MAEK required?
2) regarding IAS, are you playing with BoS cast or Fade?