07-09-2003, 08:26 PM
Poisonlords are going to be the new uberchars in 1.10!
As there have been talked about, poison does sick damage in 1.10, and ive just verified it myself.
I used the library of test chars and items from d2.net to build a legal necro with a friend. Ie no hacked items, and 'teoretically' one could get a lvl 99 char, if they have several months to spare, and items that someone eventually could manage to find and put together.
max poison nova, explosion, dagger, terror and lower resist
bramble runeword, 172%, helm with 3 perfect 5/5 poison facets. Trang gloves 25%, trang shield and death's web wand, the shield and wand is socketed with a perfect poison facet each.
from jevels 25% inc. poison skill damage/25% poison res. reduction
wand 50% poison resistance reduction
gloves 25% inc. poison skill damage
shield 25% poison resistance reduction
Bramble 172% increased poison skill damage (200% potentially)
lower resists curse 63% poison resistance reduction
totals:
222% increased poison skill damage (250% potentially)
163% poison resistance reduction (100% from items, 63% from curse)
I ended doing around 35k damage with every casting of poison nova. But, it lasted a lot longer than 2 seconds. Almost 10 seconds i think, and putting the cursor over the monster lifebars showed their life was eaten consitently. I just had to run around till they keeled over. I didnt try poison dagger as my test char wasnt built for it. But it seems like to me if you want to maximize poison dagger, you also need a good defense. But you cant max a curse, the 3 poison skills and armor with its 2 synergies :( And poison explosion promised staggering damage, but its radius is simply waaay too puny, i had monsters running through the cloud several times without taking damage. It is too small. The same counts for terror, i took it to experiment with, and it was quite a disappointment, hard to hit any monsters in the heat of battle, they run too fast. Especially in act5 hell.
I tried worldstone keep in hell, but there was too many poison imune enemies, the clawvipers having too high resistance and imunity for my lower resists at max to be able to null it. But the chaos sanctuary in act4 is another story. Basically, i managed to clean it with only dying 2 times. And none to diablo!
And it shall be noted i played in players 8
Players rejoice, the necromancer is now a top of the line character! Or at least untill blizzard recognizes how ridicolous damage a well built necro for 1.10 can do :P
As there have been talked about, poison does sick damage in 1.10, and ive just verified it myself.
I used the library of test chars and items from d2.net to build a legal necro with a friend. Ie no hacked items, and 'teoretically' one could get a lvl 99 char, if they have several months to spare, and items that someone eventually could manage to find and put together.
max poison nova, explosion, dagger, terror and lower resist
bramble runeword, 172%, helm with 3 perfect 5/5 poison facets. Trang gloves 25%, trang shield and death's web wand, the shield and wand is socketed with a perfect poison facet each.
from jevels 25% inc. poison skill damage/25% poison res. reduction
wand 50% poison resistance reduction
gloves 25% inc. poison skill damage
shield 25% poison resistance reduction
Bramble 172% increased poison skill damage (200% potentially)
lower resists curse 63% poison resistance reduction
totals:
222% increased poison skill damage (250% potentially)
163% poison resistance reduction (100% from items, 63% from curse)
I ended doing around 35k damage with every casting of poison nova. But, it lasted a lot longer than 2 seconds. Almost 10 seconds i think, and putting the cursor over the monster lifebars showed their life was eaten consitently. I just had to run around till they keeled over. I didnt try poison dagger as my test char wasnt built for it. But it seems like to me if you want to maximize poison dagger, you also need a good defense. But you cant max a curse, the 3 poison skills and armor with its 2 synergies :( And poison explosion promised staggering damage, but its radius is simply waaay too puny, i had monsters running through the cloud several times without taking damage. It is too small. The same counts for terror, i took it to experiment with, and it was quite a disappointment, hard to hit any monsters in the heat of battle, they run too fast. Especially in act5 hell.
I tried worldstone keep in hell, but there was too many poison imune enemies, the clawvipers having too high resistance and imunity for my lower resists at max to be able to null it. But the chaos sanctuary in act4 is another story. Basically, i managed to clean it with only dying 2 times. And none to diablo!
And it shall be noted i played in players 8
Players rejoice, the necromancer is now a top of the line character! Or at least untill blizzard recognizes how ridicolous damage a well built necro for 1.10 can do :P