08-10-2008, 08:24 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-10-2008, 08:32 AM by Archon_Wing.)
I messed up on my hc frost madien, and tried to spend points in the fire tree, which failed miserably. If I had a chance to remake her, which I probaly won't in hc, I'd probaly spend those dozen pts in penetrate.
Something like Max FA/CA, Max valk, 5 strafe, 5-10 pierce, 1 in other passives, and rest go into penetrate. I found that my attack rating was a bit lacking, though this was more due to me keeping my dex low (putting it in vitality instead) and was playing her more of a caster.
She was using a 2 shaeled upgraded witchwild string, treachery armor, razortail for the great pierce, and 20 ias blood gloves with bow skills. That got her shooting FA at 8 frames with amp occasionaly going off and valk doing decent damage as well. Venom from treachery adds some extra oomph although that sorta makes your poison charms pretty useless (they all get scaled to venom's .4 second duration) The fade going off can help with resists.
Overall I didn't really see strafe lock as an huge issue as I'd really just use it to leech some mana or slowly whittle down a cold immune. Decoy, valks, and mercs handle it fine. The best advantage to strafe is probably that you don't need to aim. It is one mana draining build though and mana leech can't cope with it. Needed an insight and a healthy amount of +mana items to compensate. Yea, play it like a mage.:P
Something like Max FA/CA, Max valk, 5 strafe, 5-10 pierce, 1 in other passives, and rest go into penetrate. I found that my attack rating was a bit lacking, though this was more due to me keeping my dex low (putting it in vitality instead) and was playing her more of a caster.
She was using a 2 shaeled upgraded witchwild string, treachery armor, razortail for the great pierce, and 20 ias blood gloves with bow skills. That got her shooting FA at 8 frames with amp occasionaly going off and valk doing decent damage as well. Venom from treachery adds some extra oomph although that sorta makes your poison charms pretty useless (they all get scaled to venom's .4 second duration) The fade going off can help with resists.
Overall I didn't really see strafe lock as an huge issue as I'd really just use it to leech some mana or slowly whittle down a cold immune. Decoy, valks, and mercs handle it fine. The best advantage to strafe is probably that you don't need to aim. It is one mana draining build though and mana leech can't cope with it. Needed an insight and a healthy amount of +mana items to compensate. Yea, play it like a mage.:P
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