02-26-2005, 12:05 AM
spear of light,Feb 25 2005, 10:36 PM Wrote:My lightning javies tend to use charge strike for boss killing. This ladder's LF/CS javy uses a spirit monarch shield-the plus skills, res, and fhr are nice mods for her. All three of this ladders javys pre-buff their valk to a nice level, using shopped gloves-3 to passives, gambled ammy-3 to passives, and a 3 to passives gambled circlet. I went with a defience merc for my LS/CS/LF fender, a holy freeze merc for both my LF/CS javy and Plague Javelin hybrid. You might take a look at the Javazon Forums at www.theamazonbasin when the boards come up. There are guides and discussions on various builds.
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So far I tried using my low-level Charged Strike (just around lvl 10, including +skills; I have some spare skill points yet though) to try to kill Hell Baal. However, it seems to hit much slower than Jab, and my low CS dmg seems to do less dmg over time than just plain Jabbing (ie. I have 15% CB Gorerider). Starting around what level does CS start to get useful.
I also didn't try maxing LF (I use it at around slvl 14-15 only) and it's already quite powerful. I'm not using any mana steal items for the above "javazon" for now but I have a relatively large mana pool (~340+ mana with 15%mana regen from Rhyme shield) and I find that if I'm running out of mana (not that frequently, except if mana burn boss) I just gob up a super mana potion. I suppose CS doesn't use as much mana as LF?