trang ouls on a non-sorceress/non-paladin

[Raziel]

Doesn't matter, anyway.  I was trying to build a paladin around conviction and meteor, but it turns out there's no way to put firewall or meteor on the left mouse button, thus making it impossible to do both an aura and meteor at the same time.

Stupid interface.

Maybe not Meteor, but surely you could put Fireball or Firewall on the left mouse button?

I tend to think Firewall + high level Conviction + a nice big tank with high defense and maxed blocking has potential..

Furthermore, this Paladin could wield Hexfire, Magefist and Lidless (or some other +to all skills shield).

Is this the time for me to suggest Dragonscale ???

Defense: 523-582 (varies)(Base Defense: 169-193)
Required Level: 80
Required Strength: 142
Durability: 65
Chance To Block: 52%
Smite Damage: 46 To 46
(Paladin Only)
+170-200% Enhanced Defense (varies)
Adds 211-371 Fire Damage
+15% To Fire Skill Damage
+10 To Hydra
+5% To Maximum Fire Resist
+15-25 To Strength (varies)
Fire Absorb 10-20% (varies)
(Only Spawns In Patch 1.10 or later)

Who's the bright spark who thought this shield should require level 80 .... :angry:

With that shield, Hexfire (+3) and Magefist (+1), you're looking at level 14 Hydra, plus you'll get level 22 Fireball and level 17 Firewall from the 3 peices of Trangs that you can still wear (belt, armor, helm) - the Meteor will be useless after all!

This would probably also be a good time for me to suggest the cheese of wearing at least one ring with charges of level 6 firebolt on them.. (each???) ring would synergize Fireball with +96% fire damage and Hydra with +18% fire damage. I don't know if wearing two rings with charges of level 6 firebolt would double-synergize, but in any event, you may want to wear other rings as well :)

Last but not least, wear a Rising Sun amulet, to drop high level meteors when struck.

Merging this concept into a smiter build seems to be a good idea, as Smite allows you to contribute some physical damage. Hmm, a firewalling, Conviction-running Smiteadin (shael'd Hexfire)?

Also.. gee, I keep coming up with also's... if you don't want to use the Hydra off Dragonscale, there's always Medusa's Gaze for the chance to double your pleasure..

Defense: 405-453 (varies)(Base Defense: 145-161)
Required Level: 76
Required Strength: 219
Chance to Block: Pal: 54%, Ama/Asn/Bar: 49%, Dru/Nec/Sor: 44%
Durability: 92
Paladin Smite Damage: 18 To 28
+150-180% Enhanced Defense (varies)
5-9% Life Stolen Per Hit (varies)
Slows Target By 20%
Cold Resist +40-80% (varies)
10% Chance To Cast Level 7 Lower Resist When Struck
100% Chance To Cast Level 44 Nova When You Die
(Only Spawns In Patch 1.10 or later)

All you have to do is get hit.. ;) Strength req is just a tad high on the shield.

Level 7 Lower Resist + maxed Paladin conviction = ???

(Hey, you could always keep a wand of lower resist on the switch, too!)

Last but not least, some figures from the Arreat Summit. Assuming we go with a Dragonscale smiter w/Hydra wearing one cheese ring with charges of level 6 Firebolt, wielding Hexfire and wearing Magefist and 3 peices of Trang's set..

Fireball: Level 22 (off the chart).. probably around 300 damage with a +96% synergy, increased a further 15% by Dragonscale. Not gonna calculate it, but it's still low. You won't have any faster cast, either.

Firewall: Level 17.. 989-1012 damage per second with no synergies at all, but 15% damage bump from Dragonscale. Hmm, looking at about 1100-1150 damage/second. Would this even kill a Carver in Hell difficulty? :)

Hydra: Level 14. 86-105 damage per shot, with a 18% synergy, increased a further 15% by Dragonscale. Who cares.

Bah. Firewall looks to be the real application. Meteors, even if you could have them, don't compete with it's damage.

It might make for a cute pally build, especially if you soften things up with Smite and Crushing Blow first (go go Goblin Toe boots!). Maybe you could FOTH them as well, for laughs.

One last possiblity is to ditch Magefists, sacrifice the +1 from there, and instead wear a perfect +3 Firewall +15% Fire Damage Ormus robes with Trang's Gloves/Belt/Helm combo.

Oh crud, I forgot to factor in Rising Sun's +2 to fire skills. This would give you level 19 Firewall!! :D Also, I asked once on the Amazon Basin.. apparently, once you get an oskill, items with + to a certain skill, even though it might say (Sorceress Only), will bump that skill if you have it! So Ormus's could potentially bump Firewall by 3 more points (to level 22)!