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[maxicek]

Another perspective from @Nightfish

As for shadows... Yea... no one needs them. They're like valks. A bit like training wheels on a bike. They seem to help at first but when you're trying to go for a triathlon they hold you back.

 

[Fruit]

Happy newyear in advance everyone! :3

May 2019 be the year of Zods and Jahs,
and may it be the year of no HC rips! (Kitteh )

And watch it with that firework,
you need all 10 for maximum efficient AT runs. B)

Another perspective from @Nightfish

I wonder if Nightfish was talking SC or HC. -- I think it's pretty rare to see single-player HC chars like Amazon or Assassin that do not use summons at all. From my experience, javazons don't plow through masses like some other classes/builds do, so the tanky distractions can be nice to have. Or maybe I'm just a bad player who needs some crutches.. hm.

 

[Kitteh1]

Another perspective from @Nightfish

loln00b

 

[PhineasB1]

Nightfist was full-time HC by the time he posted the guides, etc. that are generally referenced now. His sept-sept was in HC. In general, I've aligned with his take in regard to the summons, especially for Amazons due to my dislike of the d/a/e skills.

Untwinked tourney play is different, but for general playing and area runners, I think the valk will be a hindrance, especially for a furyzon who has already decoy to occupy mobs.

 

[maxicek]

@Nightfish was talking about HC. Most (or maybe all) of his Guardians were in 1.12 or earlier, so not only no respec but no godly RWs either. I always liked his take on lesser used items, he was a big help to me when I started playing more unusual builds.

 

[PhineasB1]

Recorded for posterity!

Aw c'mon, @zemaj - now I can't edit my lame typo

On topic, I definitely hid behind the Valk for my S/U zon, and she's now level 95 as my untwinked 99er entry. So, yeah, respecs help a boatload!

 

[ThomasJohnsen]

Happy new year! And may you all be a little blessed by the dii gods.

 

[Kitteh1]

I think that a big tough tank is more important in HC, personally.

 

[AGUZZTYN]

Happy new year everyone!

First time posting on this thread. I'm here sharing my excitement after finding my first-ever Sur rune! It happened after the celebrations, I was doing LK runs and just couldn't believe it when I saw it on the floor. So much so that I stopped playing right after and went to sleep lol. Now today I continued doing LK runs and thought "I'm not leaving here without a HR drop" and guess what, I found yet another Sur rune! New year's gift maybe?

I've read that these are worth combining into Ber runes. What do you folks think? I want to make an Infinity someday...

Here are some screenies

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[Kitteh1]

It depends on your needs. You will find that high runes are hardly a rarity anymore, so cubing is more often worth it. Want an Infinity? Wait until a Ber and another Sur (or three Sur) drop, and then cube em', but wait in case two Ber drop before a Sur does. Sur is not used much in immediately 'useful' runewords, so it's often a prime candidate for cubing.

 

[Cursed]

So ive just started an untwinked fana zealot. Just wondering what I should be gambling or looking for in the early game? are crystal swords the way to go early on?

 

[PhineasB1]

@JacobMiller - I think scepters are good very early, with solid damage numbers and allowing to shop for a 2os one to socket with chipped gems or any good charms you may happen upon.

You should be able to craft a savage polearm once you get the cube in A2, which should be enough damage for a while (I don't think IAS matters as much early on).. Without accounting for S/Us that may drop, I think then aiming for strength runeword would be a good option for bosses, etc.

 

[Cursed]

Any other runewords I should be looking at? I might not get an amn until nm. And is it worth using the imbue quest on anything this early? maybe a targe?

 

[T72on1]

No, save your imbue quest until you hit the higher levels (80+).

If you don't mind respecing, you could go for Holy Fire early on, and respec somewhere in NM, when you find or make a good physical damage based weapon. Otherwise, Steel and Malice are good options early on. Other than that, there aren't that many runewords that require runes < Amn, so rares and magic weapons are your best bet, unless you luck out on a good unique or set item.

Just don't focus on the weapon completely, and don't neglect other factors such as ias on gloves.

Good luck !!

 

[Kitteh1]

Xtimus trolling hard again - this time it's a 1700% mf build. Does this guy not understand that he is an idiot?

 

[Kitteh1]

Regarding the awards actually... Can anybody remember what we decided on?

From the last nominations thread, here, it seems like we did the awards in 2018, but for 2014-2017 to catch up. So I'm assuming that we were planning to do the awards in 2019 for 2018 threads and carry on like that. I can't find our decision for some reason...

 

[T72on1]

That is how I recall it too.

 

[maxicek]

@Kitteh, yes we were going to do awards for all of 2018 in January sometime.

 

[Kitteh1]

Cool, will get that organised this week then.

 

[Kitteh1]

So, I thought that it would be best to keep it to the 8 categories that we had last year. I think it's better trimmed down to the primary ones. Any thoughts on that? Likewise, I was planning to keep the voting method to PM, but again with a fresh thread to keep it clear what stage we are at.

I will wait at least a day before putting the nominations thread up, let people chip in.

Spoiler: Awards Categories

Best HC Character

Best SC Character

Best Tournament

Best D2 thread

Best Item Drop

Best Community Contributor

Best WTF?!/Do'h! Moment

Special Award for Outstanding Contribution to the SPF