07-21-2003, 10:13 PM
Well, i gave your test character a try and am back to report.
Firstly, it's a neat idea. Definately "proof-of-concept" there. However, Crushing Blow gear is kinda tough to come by (i've only ever seen one Orphan's hat of goodness drop and i LOVE Orphan's Call) so it's probably a better realm character or a "second" character (one MF character picks stuff up and feeds it to your gear-heavy builds). The Blade Fury thing is pretty neat, is there any way we can get it to pierce, perhaps? I'm definately going to have to look into investing a point into it on my bootysin.
You left out the Anya resist all quest quest reward (though you marked the quest as complete) so with Fade you're going to be at -20 resist all to start with, which is much safer (assuming you can at least push them into positives).
I think the CB/SF+Dragon Talon is amazing, though. Watching big monsters getting one-hitted is a nice feeling. I think that you only want one point into CoS though, the extra duration means its a pain in the butt. I wish Blizzard would fix CoS to follow you or something, but fat chance of that happening. As far as i'm concerned, the duration increase is a nerf.
Although Fade is fairly important due to the power of elemental attacks in 1.1, i miss Burst of Speed letting me run around and be really fast. It might be possible to skip out on Fade and go with BoS if you've got some heavy duty gear (heck, other characters don't even get fade! ^.~) but i'm not sure at this point. You aren't really a ninja unless you can run around really really fast ^.^
Finally, you're going to want to invest in rune upgrades on your Goblin Toe. I picked up a pair of Ethereal Scarabshell boots and my damage with Dragon Talon pretty much doubled. I know CB is the main killer for this build, but doubling your physical attack lets you deal the "killing blow" earlier in your kick sequence. Goblin Toe getting upgraded twice would put it at the second highest boot damage in the game, not a bad deal as far as i'm concerned. You'd have to invest in some strength in order to put them on, but that's ok- i think you put too many point in Energy, actually. But i always like running 0 energy builds on my non-casters.
Firstly, it's a neat idea. Definately "proof-of-concept" there. However, Crushing Blow gear is kinda tough to come by (i've only ever seen one Orphan's hat of goodness drop and i LOVE Orphan's Call) so it's probably a better realm character or a "second" character (one MF character picks stuff up and feeds it to your gear-heavy builds). The Blade Fury thing is pretty neat, is there any way we can get it to pierce, perhaps? I'm definately going to have to look into investing a point into it on my bootysin.
You left out the Anya resist all quest quest reward (though you marked the quest as complete) so with Fade you're going to be at -20 resist all to start with, which is much safer (assuming you can at least push them into positives).
I think the CB/SF+Dragon Talon is amazing, though. Watching big monsters getting one-hitted is a nice feeling. I think that you only want one point into CoS though, the extra duration means its a pain in the butt. I wish Blizzard would fix CoS to follow you or something, but fat chance of that happening. As far as i'm concerned, the duration increase is a nerf.
Although Fade is fairly important due to the power of elemental attacks in 1.1, i miss Burst of Speed letting me run around and be really fast. It might be possible to skip out on Fade and go with BoS if you've got some heavy duty gear (heck, other characters don't even get fade! ^.~) but i'm not sure at this point. You aren't really a ninja unless you can run around really really fast ^.^
Finally, you're going to want to invest in rune upgrades on your Goblin Toe. I picked up a pair of Ethereal Scarabshell boots and my damage with Dragon Talon pretty much doubled. I know CB is the main killer for this build, but doubling your physical attack lets you deal the "killing blow" earlier in your kick sequence. Goblin Toe getting upgraded twice would put it at the second highest boot damage in the game, not a bad deal as far as i'm concerned. You'd have to invest in some strength in order to put them on, but that's ok- i think you put too many point in Energy, actually. But i always like running 0 energy builds on my non-casters.