well
any good sorc should not have 0life skiller really ^^
fissuredamage isnt that much bigger i think (I got like 5-5.5k atm) but volcano has double physical damage, a lot easier to fhr lock (fire is ~same)

If we talk about realms Im not going to assume ladder pubs or anything, on d2pk it will probably work better becouse it is easier to fhr lock, sure they got better gear but not _that_ much better than what they should have at realms

anyone can try his "shaman" or fire druid vs me at eu i will demolish everyone using it

Hey neither should a good shaman, and I'm one of the best on east when my best skiller has +31% gold find


the real difference with D2PK is that nobody is running around there with crap or mediocre gear. Everyone has impossibly good crap. When you add in people with mediocre gear, like myself, its a little more balanced towards shaman domination. I plan on making a souper shexy one with the new ladder coming. But people seem to have this impossibly high requirement for theorycraft characters. Like they look at my aurasorc and say "This will never work vs anyone good". And just an hour ago I beat the #1 ranked SvS on ladder, 5-1. Its sort of silly. People look at shaman and say "Well how will this duel vs ghostsin with 100% perfectly godly gear?". I mean I've killed oni a few times, but obviously if you pick out the hardest matchup, give them 1000x my gear, I'm going to lose more than I win, and I know that

But in more evenly matched players/gear, Shaman is more than a competent build. Does a hell of a lot better than most cookie cutters in most matchups, and doesn't have nearly as much 'counterability'
If someone joins with a BvB when I'm on a BvC, theres literally nothing I can do.

This post was edited by deathwinger on Aug 13 2009 05:10pm

very nice guide - well done

there are more asns than oni with that gear setup.

And I've beaten him too.

terribly defensive, but still a win ^^

This post was edited by sorowfulhatred on Aug 13 2009 05:30pm

yea, sins are still the toughest duel for a shaman tho.
Hybrids, that is, or ghosts.

I'm DISO a name for new ladder once it resets :'(

Wonder whos using stuff like Grizzly, Shaman, Volcano, Pedobear, Armageddon, etc. I want a name like that

No one cares about what you have to said.

Cool guide, i used to have one, one of the funniest char to play.

I like this guide, nice 1 m8,
it's great to see unsual builds going on instead of the same old genaric hammerdins/ smiters and all the other cookie crap.
i will 100% give this 1 a go some day, even if i don't 'own', i rather use this and have some fun.

Especially this paragraph was fun to read^^ :

The BOULDERPK:
You're in a baal run, you're on a level 60 sorc with not much hp, no stats spent yet. Theres some kinda fire druid shooping around in the background. BAM. HE HOSTILED YOU. BAM, YOU DIED! BOULDERPK is just about the only manual TPPK that can be done in d2; you can tppk people without needing hacks. Simply roll a boulder, go to town, hostile. Boulders are so slow you can do this with your pudgy fingers alone. Just be warned that its hardly effective against competent characters. Great for picking off lowbies.

how is that possible!?!

is it because of the increase in damage on the druids fire skills?

no, it's because you're not dueling mfers