02-25-2004, 03:46 PM
My experience (clvl 83 poison nec softcore ladder):
20 poison dagger
20 poison explosion
20 poison nova
1 in each curse except attract
around 16 with adders in Corpse explosion
around 21 with adders in bone prison
I have full Trang's set--the -25% enemy poison resistance on trang's wing is very important. Once your lower resist breaks the immunity, then this kicks in and helps your damage a lot. The firewall is also quite helpful vs those immunes that LR can't break.
In my experience with this set there are enough +skills that I have left all of the curses at 1pt + adders.
The skill points I saved there have gone into bone prison which I just love--this gives you complete freedom to let your poison work. There are no monsters capable of breaking down a prison of that level. The hardest thing to deal with are ghost-types that can ignore the prisons (doesn't help that gloams and the like are also highly dangerous).
My bone armor is extremely useful (the synergy points in bone prison have made it relatively strong).
I almost never use poison explosion or poison dagger--that is probably a mistake, but I usually use the corpses for explosion.
Overall, I find him to be a pretty effective character in most areas, especially in lower player count games. Most poison immunes can be broken with ~10 lower resist, and the full Trang's set gives other options. As you mentioned, the worldstone keep has a lot of poison immunes, even quite a few that I can't break with my level of lower resist.
He's retired to MF running Baal with a party of sorcs now, where his main role is to cast lower resist and bone prison. My damage output can't touch a sorcs, even with the relatively good gear I have. But without me, they do far less damage, and they die all the time. The bone prison makes all the difference. It's not party friendly if you have melee chars about, but for sorcs with teleport I can spam it pretty much at will when things get dangerous.
I would recommend investing some in bone prison. Less than I have would probably be fine (probably a few more points in lower resist or corpse explosion instead). I find with bone prison that I rarely use confuse or dim vision anymore.
20 poison dagger
20 poison explosion
20 poison nova
1 in each curse except attract
around 16 with adders in Corpse explosion
around 21 with adders in bone prison
I have full Trang's set--the -25% enemy poison resistance on trang's wing is very important. Once your lower resist breaks the immunity, then this kicks in and helps your damage a lot. The firewall is also quite helpful vs those immunes that LR can't break.
In my experience with this set there are enough +skills that I have left all of the curses at 1pt + adders.
The skill points I saved there have gone into bone prison which I just love--this gives you complete freedom to let your poison work. There are no monsters capable of breaking down a prison of that level. The hardest thing to deal with are ghost-types that can ignore the prisons (doesn't help that gloams and the like are also highly dangerous).
My bone armor is extremely useful (the synergy points in bone prison have made it relatively strong).
I almost never use poison explosion or poison dagger--that is probably a mistake, but I usually use the corpses for explosion.
Overall, I find him to be a pretty effective character in most areas, especially in lower player count games. Most poison immunes can be broken with ~10 lower resist, and the full Trang's set gives other options. As you mentioned, the worldstone keep has a lot of poison immunes, even quite a few that I can't break with my level of lower resist.
He's retired to MF running Baal with a party of sorcs now, where his main role is to cast lower resist and bone prison. My damage output can't touch a sorcs, even with the relatively good gear I have. But without me, they do far less damage, and they die all the time. The bone prison makes all the difference. It's not party friendly if you have melee chars about, but for sorcs with teleport I can spam it pretty much at will when things get dangerous.
I would recommend investing some in bone prison. Less than I have would probably be fine (probably a few more points in lower resist or corpse explosion instead). I find with bone prison that I rarely use confuse or dim vision anymore.