- Aug 17, 2003
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I recently started my Mosaic kicksin. Once she reached the level for her Mosaic claws (a +3 phoenix strike/+2 weapon block wrist sword and a +2 phoenix strike suwayyah), I respecced her leveling buile (wake of fire) and she kicked ass right from the baginning. It was super easy to finish nightmare at /p8, including ancients, awesome! The main challenge was to attack something before the chargeup timer ran out (no Enigma yet), like when having to turn back in a dead end etc.
Having almost no experience with kicksins, her chargeup skills confuse me and Google wasn't really a good help. With 15 unused skill points by now, I need a few answers:
Current gear (feel free to comment):
Shako (or better Griffon's?)
2x Mosaic (see above) with good rolls on the first claw and not so good rolls on the second
Vipermagi (no Enigma available)
20%IAS/+2 martial arts gloves
Verdungo's (or better Arachnid?)
Sandstorm Trek
Mara's
BK ring
Ravenfrost
Enough martial arts skillers
Gheed's
+resistance small charms (haven't made FHR calculations yet)
I'm more after magic find than additional damage. She already can kill with ease and /p3 produces enough drops and exp for me, so I currently prefer a shako over Griffon's and tend to socket it with a ptopaz rather than with a facet.
Skills (where to put further skill points?):
Max claws of thunder
Max blades of ice
Max phoenix strike
1 in the other chargeup skills
1 claw mastery
1 weapon block
1 shadow warrior (or would shadow master be better here)
1 burst of speed
1 fade
Having almost no experience with kicksins, her chargeup skills confuse me and Google wasn't really a good help. With 15 unused skill points by now, I need a few answers:
- As far as I understand phoenix strike, when having it at 3 charges and no charges are lost because of 2x Mosaic, only the cold damage is triggered, as phoenix strike will stay at 3 charges, correct?
- In that case, the fists of fire synergy would be useless for phoenix strike when having phoenix strike at more than one charge, right?
- Are the fists of fire, claws of thunder and blades of ice effects (or even phoenix strike) cumulative? If no, only the 3rd charge effect of any chargeup skill is applied when using them with Mosaic, right?
- As fists of fire also converts 3% physical damage per skill level into fire damage, it's not worth charging up once it leaves not enough physical damage if I also want to deal a good amount of physical damage, right?
Current gear (feel free to comment):
Shako (or better Griffon's?)
2x Mosaic (see above) with good rolls on the first claw and not so good rolls on the second
Vipermagi (no Enigma available)
20%IAS/+2 martial arts gloves
Verdungo's (or better Arachnid?)
Sandstorm Trek
Mara's
BK ring
Ravenfrost
Enough martial arts skillers
Gheed's
+resistance small charms (haven't made FHR calculations yet)
I'm more after magic find than additional damage. She already can kill with ease and /p3 produces enough drops and exp for me, so I currently prefer a shako over Griffon's and tend to socket it with a ptopaz rather than with a facet.
Skills (where to put further skill points?):
Max claws of thunder
Max blades of ice
Max phoenix strike
1 in the other chargeup skills
1 claw mastery
1 weapon block
1 shadow warrior (or would shadow master be better here)
1 burst of speed
1 fade