05-18-2004, 05:10 AM
Like other people have noted, large investment into the passive tree is a must. On top of that general single player tips apply: Save all gems and cube them for perfects. After you get to Flayer Jungle/NM save grand charms and use the Pgems to cube up some +passive charms. End goal of about 5 is a good idea.
With a plan to have at least +5 into passives you can work your passive skills around that. (I understand that getting these items will be hard and time consuming but hey, we need a goal to aim for.) A decent skill set up to aim for would be something like this:
15 Crit Strike
5 Dodge
2 Avoid
5 Evade
5 Penetrate
12 Valk
(the +5 to passives will bring you up to speed with your passives, giving you 50 to d/a/e and a strong valk)
15 Jab
20 Fend
(with an untwinked build it is much more beneficial to aim for a physical damage based build. The elemental skills for spears are very synergy based and thus much more reliant to +skills than the passive tree. As stated above, a good way to take care of PI would be to get a good elemental damage javalin and use jab.)
I'm undecided as to what merc to reccomend. personally i think a Might or Blessed Aim merc may be your best choice. Freeze aura would work well too. But i'm not sure if it would really be necessary.
Things to look for on items:
ML and LL. (you won't need much with a physical build based on jab and fend)
Anything that adds to AR. (a fools prefix would be the best thing. always check the shops)
Also item choices that work in hardcore would work well in single player. Both game types can't rely heavily on twinking. 4 socket armor with Prubys adds great heath.
An eth socketed into your weapon will give you -25 enemy defense. taking some slack off your AR needs.
If i think of more i'll add later.
With a plan to have at least +5 into passives you can work your passive skills around that. (I understand that getting these items will be hard and time consuming but hey, we need a goal to aim for.) A decent skill set up to aim for would be something like this:
15 Crit Strike
5 Dodge
2 Avoid
5 Evade
5 Penetrate
12 Valk
(the +5 to passives will bring you up to speed with your passives, giving you 50 to d/a/e and a strong valk)
15 Jab
20 Fend
(with an untwinked build it is much more beneficial to aim for a physical damage based build. The elemental skills for spears are very synergy based and thus much more reliant to +skills than the passive tree. As stated above, a good way to take care of PI would be to get a good elemental damage javalin and use jab.)
I'm undecided as to what merc to reccomend. personally i think a Might or Blessed Aim merc may be your best choice. Freeze aura would work well too. But i'm not sure if it would really be necessary.
Things to look for on items:
ML and LL. (you won't need much with a physical build based on jab and fend)
Anything that adds to AR. (a fools prefix would be the best thing. always check the shops)
Also item choices that work in hardcore would work well in single player. Both game types can't rely heavily on twinking. 4 socket armor with Prubys adds great heath.
An eth socketed into your weapon will give you -25 enemy defense. taking some slack off your AR needs.
If i think of more i'll add later.