07-19-2004, 01:34 PM
I had a lot of fun aggressively casting Poison Creeper with my 1.09 publican HerbalRemedy, licenced to serve wines and spirits - variant named by Brista, as it happens ;).
My vine almost never died from (un)natural causes and I was still chalking up vine kills in Act 5 NM. Totally unscientific, I know, but I kept spamming in the belief that it kept the lag to a minimum. I was getting quite a decent duration on my poison mats and each time I recast I was creating some more so stacking clearly worked. The build was obviously too uber for Blizzard - I also mastered the art of stacking spirit auras - so they made sure that the patch nerfed it big time. They fixed the lag though.
My vine almost never died from (un)natural causes and I was still chalking up vine kills in Act 5 NM. Totally unscientific, I know, but I kept spamming in the belief that it kept the lag to a minimum. I was getting quite a decent duration on my poison mats and each time I recast I was creating some more so stacking clearly worked. The build was obviously too uber for Blizzard - I also mastered the art of stacking spirit auras - so they made sure that the patch nerfed it big time. They fixed the lag though.