07-14-2003, 02:41 PM
You can buy +2 wands, and a +1 skills head or sigons or +1 tree head is fairly easy to come up with. You can gamble the +1 skills ammy, and maybe the +1 Circlet, or even get a circlet imbued.
That's pretty much it for count on + skill items.
I've been playing a necro from scratch and he's 68 atm, and I tell you +2 skill items are not something to count on. You can't gamble the circlets or ammy's till 90 (72 with a diadem) so your pretty much stuck with +1 gear, and a +2 wand which the vendors sell.
So all up you are REASONABLY looking at a +5 to all skills setup.
Now bring all these godly skills levels down to 25 please. Anything else is just not realistic. THEN see how things kill.
Currently with 25 in SM, RS and CE my necro kills pretty well in 8 player NM. Yet to go to hell (working thru act 5 NM atm) so I can't say how a summoner will work in Hell with CE as the damage skill.
All these hacked up character mean nothing to me at the moment. My necro has all rares except for his tearhaunch booties, hell his armour is 4 Pskull'd Ancient Armour.
So PLEASE no more of these: "I haxored up this level 99 character with all the best most impossible to create (runewords) or find (elite uniques) gear and I think the (insert character class here) character is unbalanced"
Of course these things are unbalanced, because they exist in fantasy land and not the reality of a built from scratch, use the items you actually find, character.
That's pretty much it for count on + skill items.
I've been playing a necro from scratch and he's 68 atm, and I tell you +2 skill items are not something to count on. You can't gamble the circlets or ammy's till 90 (72 with a diadem) so your pretty much stuck with +1 gear, and a +2 wand which the vendors sell.
So all up you are REASONABLY looking at a +5 to all skills setup.
Now bring all these godly skills levels down to 25 please. Anything else is just not realistic. THEN see how things kill.
Currently with 25 in SM, RS and CE my necro kills pretty well in 8 player NM. Yet to go to hell (working thru act 5 NM atm) so I can't say how a summoner will work in Hell with CE as the damage skill.
All these hacked up character mean nothing to me at the moment. My necro has all rares except for his tearhaunch booties, hell his armour is 4 Pskull'd Ancient Armour.
So PLEASE no more of these: "I haxored up this level 99 character with all the best most impossible to create (runewords) or find (elite uniques) gear and I think the (insert character class here) character is unbalanced"
Of course these things are unbalanced, because they exist in fantasy land and not the reality of a built from scratch, use the items you actually find, character.