07-09-2003, 02:52 PM
Apologies accepted. ;)
My "antipathy" for Mindblast has nothing to do with the bug it was plagued with. I think it was fixed in 1.09, and I waited for 1.09 before moving from CD2 to LOD.
It is rather similar to my antipathy for Whirlwind or Multiple Shots.
I tried several builds for my Blade Shield assassin. For one of them, I tried Cloak of Shadows as my crowd control skill.
But it too gets disrupted by Blade Shield. :(
In the end, I decided that crowd control would also be Blade Shield's job. Hit Freezes Monster does it nicely, but in nightmare act 4 and 5, and then in Hell from act 2 onwards, you're too far below monster levels for it to work reliably (and of course, cold immunes in Hell aren't affected).
Hit Blinds Target worked nicely for me. But it can't be combined with amplify damage, which probably disqualifies it for Hell.
Knockback was a huge disappointment: it seemed to work less than 20% of the time.
My "antipathy" for Mindblast has nothing to do with the bug it was plagued with. I think it was fixed in 1.09, and I waited for 1.09 before moving from CD2 to LOD.
It is rather similar to my antipathy for Whirlwind or Multiple Shots.
I tried several builds for my Blade Shield assassin. For one of them, I tried Cloak of Shadows as my crowd control skill.
But it too gets disrupted by Blade Shield. :(
In the end, I decided that crowd control would also be Blade Shield's job. Hit Freezes Monster does it nicely, but in nightmare act 4 and 5, and then in Hell from act 2 onwards, you're too far below monster levels for it to work reliably (and of course, cold immunes in Hell aren't affected).
Hit Blinds Target worked nicely for me. But it can't be combined with amplify damage, which probably disqualifies it for Hell.
Knockback was a huge disappointment: it seemed to work less than 20% of the time.