Ice,
That's a really great guide. Wild! I made a mageazon last MONTH (edit, I had typed week, my silly brain) and ended up doing a lot of the things you recommended. Then I decided to delete her because I put 20 in Lightning Fury which worked great ... too great. I ended up using that 99% of the time! :) So I deleted her, because I want to make a bow-only one. I got her to level 78 or so. Anyway .....
I don't have any Stones of Jordan, I dont have Vipermagi, and I have a pathetic (5 seconds?) Eye of Eltitch ... but otherwise I had a similar gear setup to the one that (today) I saw in your post.
I'm wondering what a mageazon is supposed to do for resists? I used a smoke armor on my gal for 50% resist all, and I went ahead and pumped my strength to 70 so that I could use the Tear Haunch boots for 10% resist all. Quests gave me 30% more. That is only 90% resist all. I had to use a 25% resist all circlet and a 24% resist all amulet and even then I only hit 140% (40%). I think I carried maybe 20% worth of resist all charms and that got me to 60% in hell, or maybe 62% ... I seem to remember that number.
End the end, that left me with in-adequate resists and no +skills. I killed things extremely slowly. I really only finished hell because I was playing through with a friend and because I ended up relying on Lightning Fury all the time. ZAP!
So, I would like to re-create my mageazon. Is there anyway to get decent +skills AND max resists? I just about can't see how. Any tips?
The only thing I could think of was this ... I have a witchwild string bow, which confers 40% resist all. I have a spare Hel rune or two, I could socket that and put Hel in it, giving me -20% requirements, dropping that nasty 80 dex requirement to a slightly-less-nasty 64. That would allow me to go with WitchWild (40%), Smoke (50%), Tear Haunch (10%), Quests (30%), and *sigh* I could dump what few resist all charms I have on her (22%), and I could use my circlet of 25% resist all, and I'd be maxed. This would leave me room for +3 to bows/crossbows on an amulet ... but then I've lost the benefit of the +skills on Kuko.
So, really, I guess I am still stumped. What do you advise?
That's a really great guide. Wild! I made a mageazon last MONTH (edit, I had typed week, my silly brain) and ended up doing a lot of the things you recommended. Then I decided to delete her because I put 20 in Lightning Fury which worked great ... too great. I ended up using that 99% of the time! :) So I deleted her, because I want to make a bow-only one. I got her to level 78 or so. Anyway .....
I don't have any Stones of Jordan, I dont have Vipermagi, and I have a pathetic (5 seconds?) Eye of Eltitch ... but otherwise I had a similar gear setup to the one that (today) I saw in your post.
I'm wondering what a mageazon is supposed to do for resists? I used a smoke armor on my gal for 50% resist all, and I went ahead and pumped my strength to 70 so that I could use the Tear Haunch boots for 10% resist all. Quests gave me 30% more. That is only 90% resist all. I had to use a 25% resist all circlet and a 24% resist all amulet and even then I only hit 140% (40%). I think I carried maybe 20% worth of resist all charms and that got me to 60% in hell, or maybe 62% ... I seem to remember that number.
End the end, that left me with in-adequate resists and no +skills. I killed things extremely slowly. I really only finished hell because I was playing through with a friend and because I ended up relying on Lightning Fury all the time. ZAP!
So, I would like to re-create my mageazon. Is there anyway to get decent +skills AND max resists? I just about can't see how. Any tips?
The only thing I could think of was this ... I have a witchwild string bow, which confers 40% resist all. I have a spare Hel rune or two, I could socket that and put Hel in it, giving me -20% requirements, dropping that nasty 80 dex requirement to a slightly-less-nasty 64. That would allow me to go with WitchWild (40%), Smoke (50%), Tear Haunch (10%), Quests (30%), and *sigh* I could dump what few resist all charms I have on her (22%), and I could use my circlet of 25% resist all, and I'd be maxed. This would leave me room for +3 to bows/crossbows on an amulet ... but then I've lost the benefit of the +skills on Kuko.
So, really, I guess I am still stumped. What do you advise?
Lewis
aka *westcats, USWest, SC
aka *sevencats, *weirdcats, USEast, SC
aka *westcats, USWest, SC
aka *sevencats, *weirdcats, USEast, SC