If you want to use a Bow CTA, make one in a fast bow. Damage shouldn't be a primary concern.

Oh yeah' that's a good point, I totally forgot that. guess you'll have to invest on stre if you want SS on or then just use a good res sanctuary and live with 15% DR.

Your lack of dueling strategies for Bone Necs and Sorcs is interesting.

They are right under the 'casters' topic, most of them just tele randomly and hope hitting you + I was too lazy to write the strategies section which I did mention too. (+lack of real tips vs hammers )

Oh well, not like anyone will follow the tips 100% nor will the opponents react exactly in the same way so I see the duel tips rather pointless, there's no secret tip for beating other char's, get them poisoned, dodge and finish with lf/guided. weak char's can be beaten with only bow. (and some very low life sorcs 1 hitted with plague)

Well the real issue concerning strength is the dancers..req 168. So If you go for the dancers SS is no problem. I already added enough str for my dancers anyway so now I have to decide what to put into valk/ss. I am thinking about putting in resists/ ais. Is the ais for the bow and not the jav throwing? How important is ais over all?

On a side note..

PM me if you have a GM/MAT of any type ft. Also i need java gcs.

This post was edited by hacefrio on Apr 23 2008 03:39pm

The IAS's for the bow, there's a casting delay with plague so it doesn't matter.

This post was edited by Spurgu on Apr 24 2008 07:02am

got mat faith..dex req is rediculous..shudda seen that comin

This post was edited by hacefrio on Apr 24 2008 11:54am

wrong i actually had acces to tele psn java
dmg difference isnt worth the mobility +life bonus

This post was edited by Moonlike on Apr 24 2008 12:07pm

You gotta be kidding. Sacrificing brambles psn dmge is impossible. It doubles your damge. Plus you will have plenty of frw so mobility is alrdy addressed. A high life isnt that significant when we have d/a/e.

Let's see..

FRW = tele (we got quite high FRW anyway, even higher with FRW sk's and all that so it doesn't really provide you that much/any upper hand)

So you'd be left with:

+ A bit more life (you don't gain THAT much life from a tele setup anyway. Get life sk's, 20/5's, CTA + spirit + hoto's oak and all kind's of +skill eq for prebuffing if it makes you feel safer but honestly, even with my 1.2k life (w/o bo) I don't feel scared to duel anyone.For example: I've been able to go 1 vs 3 (smiter, hammer pala that charged + bvc) without geting hit (I couldn't kill them though, brought them all to 1 life but we know pub's these day.. a lot of kissing with akara) (ok, so it might be that they just sucked but I'm not that good dueler myself neither so.. ) so it doesn't really come down to who has more life)


- Low FHR (gl with leap barb's)

- A lot slower + weaker poison dmg (what bug's be me most is that you will be teleing with a titan's + stormshield/sanctuary.. this is a plague bowa build so you'll be wearing a bow on switch, not spirit + wiz/hoto.. so it require's you to change item's a lot, fcr amu+ring's, shield, arach's, trang oul gloves (great gloves no? fcr + dmg).
The difference is huge + the skill's add time on weak poison that already takes long. Even with %psn and rather slow time it feels slow when bringing down a barb with 7k life )


- Weaker and slower ability to bow (are there any FCR + IAS ring/amu's? I mean good one's so you'd actually ba able to hit the bp's.)



Either you forget about bowing and just go tele plague or make a very weak plague bowa that can tele.