I would say first off, COA and shadow dancers require way to much str. Even if COA was a low str req, I would still use Shako over it. Shadow dancers would be nice for the kick and + skills, but just too much str required.

About fade and weapon block, why would you max fade when you only need it for 50% DR? Unless your using other items that don't ahve DR on them, why bother. The curse duration, resists is plenty high enough at lvl 25, and if you have max dr, your just wasting 10 points.

Weapon block has huge diminishing returns to it. After around 58% block, it begins to take 2, and then 3 points per 1% block rate. I really don't see the effective difference between 59% block rate, and 62% block rate.

I would much rather have a very strong dragon flight kick, and 59% block rate, rather then a 1 point dragon flight, and 62% block rate.

Its all about what you want though, since its your build. I think my build is perfect for me, so I just shared what I think. If you disagree with some things, your free to experiement with them...

does DR has limit ??..i never knew that

any of you guys that are uswest sc ladder bought a chaos before, if so, how much did it cost/does it cost?

DR has a limit of 50%. with the setup he has suggested it is easy to get 50% dr and still be on the full offensive setup. I'd use bramble if i could, as the extras on it are awesome for ww assa, loads more psn skill damage, which is your main damage (this+trangs can add 800+ or so on each claw, which is like close to 1.6k extra damage or so), add loads of fhr, and loads of duelers are pretty low on fhr. I duel with coh for 2 reasons, 1 is that i can't get bramble atm, and i use coh for other chars; the other is that the only better part of it for ww assas really is that you can have ridiculously high resists with it. 30% from anya quests+20 from anni+30 from maras+ 65 from coh+ 70 from fade + whatever else (um in shako / jade talon/ resist charms) can easily overcome builds which rely on -resist (foh/cold builds/psn mancers).
Also, the more you duel with ww assas, the more useful you find cloak of shadows, adding defence to you, lowering theirs and completly nullifying summons, how is that bad for 1 pt?

I have a suggestion about beating WW barbs , WW assassines and Hammerdins. Put the Widowmaker Ward Bow(this bow gives 1 skill to Guided Arrow ) socketed with Shael or Nef(If you want to shoot faster put Shael and if you want to knockback put Nef) and just Run'N'Shoot them and with the mass of poison dmg you do they will be dead pretty soon... I have beated some WW barbs and they got very angry

This post was edited by h8r on May 17 2004 06:46am

Thats ladder only though

nice suggestion

nice