Is chain locking bm ?

How to escape chain locking?

Pub duels are 90% Smiters and they do this.

Do frw help against this?

It’s not bm

As necro vs smite you should do a short south walk just prior to when the smiter teleports, then spear them then tele away and repeat. If you are swirled you should usually c/t tele away until no longer swirled.

Frw does help with it

You’ll also want dr be smiters and wind Druids along with frw. Best budget option is to use coa and frw on gcs and scs to hit 115frw. If you can afford it a 2/20/20/2os or 1/20/30/2os are options as well but they will cost a few thousand fg still

This post was edited by Void511 on Oct 22 2024 06:34am

depends on matchup

but most cases circ 2

Do you have a jewel with 30frw and 16@ to put in the 2nd os?

Without frw you auto lose vs a few matchups.
Do you really believe you’re the only one who is right while everyone else can confirm that 30frw is better?

OP even said that he’s fighting 90% smiters.
And I imagine that the other common matchup he face is wind druids.
Both absolutely require that 30frw.

You say more life is better?
Imagine dropping 10x 20life scs to use 10x 3frw scs instead…
The 56 life circ is not a bonus of 26 life, it’s literally minus 174 life.

Your argument about 2os is more flexible would only be right if op had many circs to swap around, socketed with different things.
He clearly said he can only have 1 circ.

You don’t need to give advices when you don’t know what you’re talking about.

This post was edited by SinsOfTheSun on Oct 24 2024 08:45am

Frw is needed nvd to walk spear. With nerf to mindblast you can get away not running frw circlet vs trappers.

1 - 30 frw / 16@
2- 26 life / 1 os

I would also go with option one since what you decide to socket the circlet with will most likely stay in it.
You could always just swap charms around to have a stacked resistance.
Frw sources are harder to come by, especially with charms if you compare the amount of health to frw on charms are (20 life vs 3 frw).

While the 2 socket may help vs duels that will not have you dealing with any sort of frw, the matchups that do could be a factor in the match.

Move in a triangular pattern with teleport and spam spirit towards center or namelocked. Dont flee far, keep close enought to let spirit from all 3 location hunt enemy.

Enemies panic fleeing to a location unprotected by older spirits are the easy ones to hunt, cause there is simply zero punnishment when you have ur oak up as a smiter/barb. But if smiter/barb jump you when you run this trangle tactic it bloody hurts every jump, and you can southwalk in this area as well, and vs barb its effective to jump him right before he jumps you and instantly tele short to the side and spam more as he will double tele in ur chosen location and most likely take much damage instead and can be stunned as well to fail next tele.

stick to melee duels on d2lod, plz stop posting here, ty