The Great Race; a proposal for "Khalim" awards

[Crystalion]

a hard-to-put-together set of uber-newbie twink gear (I have my current "3rd generation thinking" list scribbled out, and once I test it out I'll post it here for comment).

I have partially tested my fav twink gear concept, which largely consists of sockets everywhere with jewels of Envy (v1.10s 20 poison over 2 seconds, no clvl req). As I suspected, it works so well the real issue is application (touching monsters and getting to them). Hsarus boots and Assassin Burst of Speed for running quickly and Blade Sentinel for application were my "promising" candidate for this idea.

It works pretty well, but I'm not convinced it is superior to Walkiry's Poison Javelin or Blaze concepts (and those don't require mondo twinking). Unfortunately I'm not really skilled enough at running these races to provide an absolute comparision.

I've also, as you might have noticed in other threads, been toying with Skelemancer builds, since they ultimately work very well with uber Enchantment. I found playing such a build from scratch (untwinked) to be easy and quick. YMMV.

My next test is probably going to be an Assassin with a point (or two? depends on breakpoints, hmpf) in BoS that concentrates in Fire Blast for early mass killing, switching at level 12 to Wake of Fire (synergized already by the FB). I strongly suspect this build deserves to be in the company of the Blaze and Poison Jav builds for untwinked leveling speed.

As for the Envy twink scheme, while Blade Sentry is in many ways very effective, I'm inclined to believe that (with mana prob solution like +mana/kill) a Multishot approach is more useful past ~ clvl 10.