yall are AWESOME ty so much for the dialogue about one of my favorite games i dont get to play enough these days! i just dinged level 87 on hcl d2r and heres my stats not that any1 gives a shit but lol

stats: (total)
str: 135
dext: 3340
vit: 200

so ill just keep pumping Dexterity as I level. without BO i sit at 1.1k life, with self BO 1.7k and with loader BO barb maybe 2.5k? but my loaders been crashing a lot so going with self BO for now and no harmony :-(

Resistances / Defense :
75 FR
26 LR
9 CR
75 PR

50% evade, dodge, avoid

I'd like to get these res up somehow with sc's. or maybe use highlords for LR since my psn res is already high without Atma's

Offensive Stats:
75% pierce
~8.5k strafe tooltip

Hoping to hit like 10k tooltip as I hit mid level 90's and pump more dext?? not sure the ceiling

Gear:

helmet - 30 ias giant skull for the knockback feels great, testing with 15 IASandy / gface variants as well since dont have kb gloves (or even know if i need the kb at all)

faith bow, fort DS, atma's (still playing around with highlords), LoH, gores for now (until i can find some war travs, i think they are higher flat dmg)?? raven, and dual leech res ring. the a2 might merc with pride triple aura (faith, might, conc) feels great!! using wf and swapping for burst of speed sounded very tedious to keep up just for 'more' damage ceiling

been playing around with self BO CTA on swap as well as harmony. part of me wants to run harmony but no BO in HCL is scary lol.

final thing i'm testing is the sunder. I don't know if its needed, or if ill notice the difference if it equips. magic arrow / amp seem to do trick but that - phys for all enemies sounds tempting..


Goals:
- solve for mobility if i cant get my loaders stable (aka have to self BO and no harmony). maybe some FRW sc's
- pump res (running out of inv space so will see)
- make conclusion on sunder :-)

anyway, gg's all!!!

p.s call me crazy, but multishot feels sooooo good on p1 clear vs using strafe lol. for cows and cs

This post was edited by lost_one1 on Dec 1 2025 08:05am

Guessing "dext: 3340 is around 340.




How do you have 75 Psn Res? are you wearing Treks? If so, you don't need to worry about psn dmg based on the area you are exploring.

Lightning and Fire Res is priority: So, what gear are you equipped with to deal with these first off?

Did you add points to D A E to get 50% in each? If so, re-evaluate this.




75% Pierce?... how come not 100%, what item did you compromise? or Items?



Looks like you are more Physical, Strafe skill maxed out increases the damage by 100%, whereas Multistrike is subjected to 75% damage (skills and all) and the two(2) center(centre) arrows proc out of your spread of X to 24. So, you need 100% Pierce and not 75%.

Go for Harmony, this make you move around more freely and avoid death, even with 1 base point decoy, you will survive by 15 to 20% more often, as for a Maxed out Valk... you have 88 to 99% better chance... and you can solo Hell Ancients.

Anyway... Test it out... and as for Gskull... it is great, but not that great.



Good, hope it works out.