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Apr 2 2009 10:36pm
Quote (DayandNight @ Fri, Apr 3 2009, 04:28am)
Just to share a couple thoughts I think Mattd90 had mentioned, that if you can't live with 8 fpa, try shadow/diamond faith and you'll hit 7 fpa with 65 IAS, I have a shadow bow and a Great bow (which only needs 50 to hit 7fpa) works great for me. You can also tweak it and go with 5 frw/5 res scs (thats major source of resists that I got from), you can use other duped boots or legit boots with huge frw+resists+ stats and still do fine. I use 3/xx/20s and 5/5 scs and 1x 451 to have some sort of poison in the equation to make it worthwhile.

The point is...try tweaking it instead of complaining about the guide, try and discover something new instead of flaming this guide....

You can also turn yourself into a hybrid by stacking eth upd titans + Ss for a change. Or use rare high ed eth javas like I do and still do decently in game.

Smiters/BvCs are still kind of a problem though, but with practice, you'll be able to nail them down.


Good Luck!


Most bvcs are no problem, cept gg shield ones.
smiters will always be a problem for bowzons, decent ones just have to much block/life/dmg
this zon can take down almost anything except gg pallys with grief n has its problems with maxblock druids, es bmana mb sorcs
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Apr 7 2009 12:59pm
Quote (DayandNight @ Thu, Apr 2 2009, 11:28pm)
Just to share a couple thoughts I think Mattd90 had mentioned, that if you can't live with 8 fpa, try shadow/diamond faith and you'll hit 7 fpa with 65 IAS, I have a shadow bow and a Great bow (which only needs 50 to hit 7fpa) works great for me. You can also tweak it and go with 5 frw/5 res scs (thats major source of resists that I got from), you can use other duped boots or legit boots with huge frw+resists+ stats and still do fine. I use 3/xx/20s and 5/5 scs and 1x 451 to have some sort of poison in the equation to make it worthwhile.

The point is...try tweaking it instead of complaining about the guide, try and discover something new instead of flaming this guide....

You can also turn yourself into a hybrid by stacking eth upd titans + Ss for a change. Or use rare high ed eth javas like I do and still do decently in game.

Smiters/BvCs are still kind of a problem though, but with practice, you'll be able to nail them down.


Good Luck!


I took the basic idea of this build and tweaked it a bit to my liking. Just because you have cta + spirit, that dont mean u cant use titan + ss on a diff setup. What good would ss + titan do for u against a non physical caster? Things like sorc's necs hammers etc... those are what u need that extra boost in life for with cta.

The only chars that pose this zon a problem for me are gg mb windies, godly es/mb sorcs, godly smiters, and a the better ghosts and necs out there.
Ive taken down every char there is on d2, it just happens that those are the ones i lose to the most.


I am on dee too pee kay if people want to duel.
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Quote (Mattd90 @ Tue, 7 Apr 2009, 21:59)
I took the basic idea of this build and tweaked it a bit to my liking. Just because you have cta + spirit, that dont mean u cant use titan + ss on a diff setup. What good would ss + titan do for u against a non physical caster? Things like sorc's necs hammers etc... those are what u need that extra boost in life for with cta.

The only chars that pose this zon a problem for me are gg mb windies, godly es/mb sorcs, godly smiters, and a the better ghosts and necs out there.
Ive taken down every char there is on d2, it just happens that those are the ones i lose to the most.


I am on dee too pee kay if people want to duel.


I dont really agree with this, but w/e ^^

nonblock nec can lose to a good bowa, but with block its not really that easy
Also trappers with maxblock switch are really hard ^^

I wish I didnt have shit ping in the certain realm ^^

Have you tried the european version of that realm? If you have, do you lag there? I'd be glad to duel you there if you dont lag ^^

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Quote (tudey @ Tue, 7 Apr 2009, 22:02)
I dont really agree with this, but w/e ^^

nonblock nec can lose to a good bowa, but with block its not really that easy
Also trappers with maxblock switch are really hard ^^

I wish I didnt have shit ping in the certain realm ^^

Have you tried the european version of that realm? If you have, do you lag there? I'd be glad to duel you there if you dont lag ^^


tudey what are you spamming?
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Quote (matiasss @ Tue, 7 Apr 2009, 22:18)
tudey what are you spamming?


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Apr 7 2009 01:27pm
Quote (tudey @ Tue, Apr 7 2009, 02:02pm)
I dont really agree with this, but w/e ^^

nonblock nec can lose to a good bowa, but with block its not really that easy
Also trappers with maxblock switch are really hard ^^

I wish I didnt have shit ping in the certain realm ^^

Have you tried the european version of that realm? If you have, do you lag there? I'd be glad to duel you there if you dont lag ^^


I dun have the europe version, i barely play d2pk as it is, let alone playing a europe version =/
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Apr 7 2009 01:29pm
Quote (Mattd90 @ Tue, 7 Apr 2009, 22:27)
I dun have the europe version, i barely play d2pk as it is, let alone playing a europe version =/


Well it uses the same files as D2PK 2.4, the gateway is just different
But normal D2PK has updated to 3 now afaik, so you cant use the same files anymore I think

But if you can get on the european version, just try that do you lag ^^
If you dont, pm me for duels :--)
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Apr 10 2009 04:55am
Hey, nice guide -- I actually just made a zon and followed this guide mostly except for the COA since i had a nice 2skill frw res circlet laying around but my problem is that even with the anya quests finished and all recommended gear equipped im still hanging around +0 res (some a bit above, some still a bit neg). How many 5%res scs did you have to put on before you got capped? Seems like 15 charms to get cap res is a bit heavy but oh well if its what i gotta do its what ill do.
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Quote (huntn4it @ Fri, Apr 10 2009, 05:55am)
Hey, nice guide -- I actually just made a zon and followed this guide mostly except for the COA since i had a nice 2skill frw res circlet laying around but my problem is that even with the anya quests finished and all recommended gear equipped im still hanging around +0 res (some a bit above, some still a bit neg). How many 5%res scs did you have to put on before you got capped? Seems like 15 charms to get cap res is a bit heavy but oh well if its what i gotta do its what ill do.


I didnt use any and im at max. The thing is i used a very expensive boot called sshanks that had 45+ cold/fire/lite res + 21 stats and 30 frw. That helped me get my res up alot. I also got some good res on my dual stat ring.
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Quote (huntn4it @ Fri, Apr 10 2009, 03:55am)
Hey, nice guide -- I actually just made a zon and followed this guide mostly except for the COA since i had a nice 2skill frw res circlet laying around but my problem is that even with the anya quests finished and all recommended gear equipped im still hanging around +0 res (some a bit above, some still a bit neg).  How many 5%res scs did you have to put on before you got capped?  Seems like 15 charms to get cap res is a bit heavy but oh well if its what i gotta do its what ill do.


if you got all damage on charms you can use 2x 15res/15ias jewels to net 60 res on coa, IMO CoA is the best helm to go with, you can't miss the DR + skill + res and + fhr that it provides, its worth the strength imo, and try and grab a nice tri-res boots (legit or duped/perm ones) and that'll boost your res by a lot, same with 30res from Fort and some res from Faith + torch/Anni, I ended up with max res in Hell mode ofc with some 5res/5frw scs to help me net resists.

Imo there are ways to get resists as well, I just think this set up works nicely even if you have to sacrifice some damage for the res ^^

EDIT: yea dual stats + resists ring can help a bunch too ^^

it also depends on budget/wealth ofc, this build isn't really cheap :/

This post was edited by DayandNight on Apr 10 2009 06:02pm
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