Can I ask - How would an "Exile" compare to the stormshield?

Ok there is no damage reduction but you would get hit FAR less (no block animation, no recovery frame animation, less damage taken, would take a mean pvm monster to get past ur high def rating after holy shield) and you can protect ur merc with the defiance aura too

And I totally agree with the act 3 merc (since your merc don't need to kill in this build) using azurewrath (only if a high lvl act 3 merc can equip it without using dex items though ) and perhaps a shield with an aura for style? (Dream maybe, if you are rich enough)

Heres another idea if you are very rich...

Since storm removes the four skills from HoZ (two to all skills + 2 to combat)

Why not remove the head gear? CoA (Ber/Ber) instead of shako? (Or will this remove the mana from shako, making this build unviable?) Here it works out to:

Storm + shako: (35 + 10) 45 dr% + 2 to all skills

CoA ber/ber + HoZ bered: 3 to all skills + 2 to pala combat + 39% dr

Ok you lose lots of mana... but you can use a couple of sojs I guess...

Im not rich enough to test what I've just written so maybe it will suck...

Anyone wanna try this out and let us all know?

This post was edited by megaduels on Apr 2 2007 10:30am

Yo i like the build except for merc. In my opinion act3 merc is far superior for chaos. It never does melee so he never dies and lawbringer can be made into a wep for him. also i prefer to put a griffons on him for the added lite dmg the does and for the -lite resist to them (for lite chars in the game) your merc is a vary powerful PvM tool. Going through each style is important i find act1 and 3 to be the far superiour merc for PvM because a simple point to Redemtion alligates for uneeded meditation. But i made a simular build and its godly in Pk to. In hell it has 233 stack resist. Max Dr. Max Block. Max Fhr (with Scs) and max Fcr, (Which is 125 not 75). He also uses P combats for dmg and fhr and frw scs for dueling casters. Frw for easier and better desynch along with fhr for obvious reasons. after getting my frw and fhr to the highest acheivable Break point with my setup i used 5 all resist scs to acheive stack. Casters hate me in PvM. Pretty much the only char i have trouble with in PvP is necros who bonewall me to stop my desnych. (Rarely stops me, tele is useful) and pvm i literally went afk just lastnight to watch a south park and came back full life in chaos. I assume Sancuary kept back the undeads while merc killed them. (I use an act3 cold merc with perf legit griff/lawbringer/coh/dream shield). Anyways maybe this little info will help you too.

this build is godly !
i will make me one like that

Hey!
Well i played with almost the same things.
But i would suggest using a Zakarum(much better then storm for pala)
and Hotspurs (fire resis, good for chaos when they cast lower resist on u)
and a Act3 merc with lawbringer + storm ( better then act5 merc because u have a shield + cold attack or what ever)

pretty nice guide thx, it might even help me on softcoree makes a long time i want a cs hdin

nice guide but i would prefer risin sun instead of maras

fire abs>>al in cs

Boots = hotspurs , nothing else.

1. Leveling:

Since this is not a poor man's guide, I'm not going to give poor man advice on leveling. Either GRush
yourself, pay to be GRushed, or go read another guide on how to level. This is a highly tweaked guide
If you pay for a GRush, you can get a nice discount (from me and my clanmates anyway ) by being
LvL 25 in normal. Then you can be rushed into NM, be NM cowed to 40, and get into and through hell
to be chaosed to 60. Finally, Hell Ancients and start baaling. There's really no faster or convienant way
to go. You will be ready to lay waste to the CS at level 80 (highest req item), and will have all your
synergies maxed shortly after.

>>>>>> there is a faster way to lvl, go ubering in uber trist and u re lvl 90 in 2 hours

phoenix good on merc too ^^

i got the same hdin

good guide