I suppose that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, personally I was quite happy with the way the guide is written out, and since nobody else has mentioned it I hadn't considered there to be a problem. In what way could I improve it to make it easier on the eye?

I chose to make it comprehensive rather than concise, that was a design decision I made in an attempt to anticipate questions that people would have.




I understand your thoughts about the amazon section that you queried, however I think you missed the "java (and hybrids)" amazon section that pre-empts your comments.




I cannot comment as to whether or not I have been duelling good or bad assassin players, all I can comment on is my own experience of duelling a large number of assassins of various types. And based on that I classify them as I have done.




I do not think you were being a dick, I appreciate the critique

bump

What FCR BP that you aim for certain characters (druid, pal, barb etc...) and I assume ur hitting 48 fhr?

Currently the fcr equipment I use is trang gloves and arachnid mesh. I usually try to have at least one of these on at all times, only both needed sometimes vs sorcs.

hi

im atm looking for a guid and some leave me link to your in my topic =)

so you got any impossible match up with this type of barb ?

also i wanna make one what do you think of

arreat sox ??
trang gloves
eni
botd ba
storm sox ber
arach
hl
2 raven
gore

inv 10 scs 5all life + gc max ar life or life ar if zerk need realy insame ar

40 fcr for vs all max dr quite good life (its an idea only atm ^^ )

also i wana know if cs ds and more work with the magical dmg from zerk, also zerk so as magical is impossible to be blocked / reduce by dr ?

thx for have make a guide i see no other good one on jps and google and sry for low english i hope you understand me ^^

Regards

This post was edited by Scum87 on Mar 22 2012 02:40pm

20% FCR for everyone except Sorc?

Here my set-up basing off your guide.

Grief PB -> Can reach max ias bp at 42%
Arreat's 40ed ias
Enigma
Dracs / Trang
Spider / T-gods
Rings -> Raven Frost, Dwarf Star and Wisp ---> Should I use HOW constantly or it will be in the way of being offensive w/ Zerk?
Highlord ammy for 53% DS or what else u recommend?
08 Rare boots resist + FHR
UmED Widow Bow
Ber SS
37 x 3/20/20 -> should I take 1 away for 451 sc?

If you use a BA then you need 125IAS to reach the fastest zerk speed (read the breakpoints section of the guide), so you would need something like the following:
60 - BotD
20 - gloves,
20 - highlord's
15 - jewel in helm
15 - jewel in shield
Overall I recommend grief PB for a zerk barb (read the equipment section of the guide).

There are no impossible matchups, but smiters and bone necros can be hard (read the duelling strategy section of the guide).

Both critical and deadly strike work with berserk, conversion to magic damage happens after all damage bonuses (though I'm not sure what happens with crushing blow). Berserk attacks can be blocked, magic damage can technically be resisted up to 10% but in reality it never happens.

For my views on the inventory read the "inventory" paragraph in the equipment section of the guide.




Basically yes, 20% FCR works nicely vs most opponents, 40% FCR is hardly ever needed, if an opponent plays hard to get I am usually lazy and shoot arrows at them.

Your proposed build looks quite reasonable, though I would make the following comments:
I never really bothered using the charges from wisp, but I suspect they won't make much difference due to dying too quickly.
For general purposes I recommend using a raven + angelic combo, highlords is nice to use when you don't need all the AR from angelics.
Res boots can be nice, but then you lose open wounds and deadly strike from gores.
I prefer eld in stormshield as the matches where you need max DR you tend not to need FCR (so you can swap arach for dungo).
I generally favour life/res charms as I feel they make the character a better all-rounder.

Also, I neglected to answer your previous question entirely:

I ALWAYS have 48FHR no matter what equipment I am wearing, 30 from arreat's, 20 from kira's plus some SCs in the inventory. Currently I can reach 86 with certain equipment, I have in the back of my mind trying out 86 as standard, but I haven't done it yet!

thx for all fast answer + detailled explination

nice persone i promote your guide if i see some looking for zerk =)

thx for help dude !

No problem, glad I could help.

Having trouble vs. smiter, v/t.

Currently my AR is 20k and it seem my only tactic to win is teleport and shot GA all the time and WW away. Can't get a single Berserk off unless he charges at me and not smite in time.