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[FireIceTalon]

I am in Argentina for the year - 3 hours ahead of the east coast at this time of year. What time are people on? I usually play around multiplayer on my own since the few times I logged onto battlenet I didn´t see anyone. The one time I did join a game someone was casting some weird spell I´d never seen, in town no less. I´d love to play though. Regarding pvp, judging by the equipment you have I think just clicking the pvp mode with you around will kill any one of my characters.

Back to best build I decided to try and get Wirt to sell me a Godly Shield (20). I figure my chances should be pretty good given that I only need the prefix. I found a few, but with the best base shield being 15 I wasn´t interested. I was thinking about it, and I began to wonder about Wirt´s item generation. Does he first pick the base item (let´s say full plate), then decide whether to put a prefix, if yes then decide which prefix (among those possible) to use (not king´s it´s not relevant, not holy - too expensive), then decide on suffix etc. Does he first decide on prefix then object then suffix etc...

My second question is has anyone tried a warrior build with AFP, unid´d Gotterdamerung, and a strange bow of burning (or whatever). With good accuracy (from the bow) and massive damage (naturally) I would think a warrior could do o.k., maybe as well as a rogue (the massive damage would offset the slower shooting).

In that case you are actually 6 hours ahead of me since im from the West Coast. Best time to check LE though is weekdays after 7 PM EST, or during the weekends. It varies however. People are in and out rather speratically over the course of the day. This is one of the last legit channels left on Bnet, besides a few in the Europe/Asia servers.

PvP just takes practice more then anything :) I duel with all classes but using a bow Rogue is my favorite. Having nice items certainly helps matters, but knowing how to move is probably even more important. Its why cheaters usually get smashed when it comes duel time: they have all the nice items in the world but dont understand the mechanics of the game, how to utilize those items, movement, how lag/desync works, etc etc......

Not sure how the wirt thing works. The only thing I know is that all items at vendors as well as drops are determined at the creation of the game. But the order of the base item and its affixes, that I am not sure of. Im not even sure if that can be determined. My guess is that its just random and can spawn given it doesnt exceed the price cap or other limitations (like Whale items may spawn only at Wirt). Like an Obsidian Stars full plate mail for example is too expensive to buy, but one could buy rags all the way up to a Plate Mail (at Gris at least).

ive seen people try warrior variants using a bow before. I imagine its playable, but no way would he be as effective as a rogue. A rogue with max dexterity would still do more damage then a warrior using a bow, as bow damage works differently then melee damage. The warrior can get crits with a bow, the rogue cannot....but even so, the rogue's damage is still more effective as she fires the bow much faster (especially if she is using a Swiftness bow of some sort) and her base damage will be higher then the warriors. This is what is so cool about Rogues and why they are my fav class: They are the most versatile of the 3 by far. Neither warr or sorc is that great with a bow, warriors are mediocre casters at best, and mages even with top gear still have low melee damage though just enough to be effective. Rogues however, are good at everything and outstanding with the bow. Their primary disadvantage is that they have lower hp then a warrior and less mana then a mage, and thus in some ways are more fragile then those two classes. A bow warrior Id think is playable but certainly not more efficient or as deadly as a rogue is.

Anyway hope to see you in Diablo LE, take care:)