The Tankazon

[Neon Elephant]

Hehehe, that's my favourite character. Things to consider:

1. Ignore Target Defense. This can be found in Scepters and Daggers, but is more interesting for scepters. What is the greatest need for Dex, blocking or AR? Also can be obtained through a Jah rune, but I'd rather save sockets for Shaels or useful damage stuff. With ITD you could just ignore penetrate as well, saving skill points.

1. If you get ITD on a dagger, though, you get the not-horrible blocking speed (since daggers aren't swinging weapons).

3. Shael those shields! Block speed is atrocious with non-javelin weapons.

3. Seriously. Aside from the lack of offensive skills, this would be the biggest issue I see with the tankazon. My current char is a 1.10 mostly-melee javazon, and I found that after the early part of the game it just wasn't worth swapping back to the Skewer of Krinitz, even with a shield of deflecting. Admittedly, that's the only source of FBR I have, and my overall game-experience is fairly limited. Expect some trouble with getting mobbed in NM, though, and I can only imagine that Hell will be worse.

I have to imagine you're also not getting a lot of mileage out of Pierce :-)