1st Patriach - Hitoshura
Well, after spending many, many, many hours playing D1 and Hellfire, I finally got into D2/LoD earlier this year. Having always been a fan of melee-sorts and the macabre, I started out with a daggermancer. The general commonness of poison resistance made it annoyingly slow, though (playing /p8 constantly), so I was looking through the other necro builds and went with a fishymancer on the roll of a die. I actually pat'ed him a few weeks ago, but I've been putting off making an account here in favor of just lurking until now >_>.
Hitoshura
Level 86 Necromancer (killed Baal at 85 IIRC, been doing occational pit/countess/p/s/e runs since)
Stats (gear/naked):
STR: 125/100
DEX: 187/180 (I started wanting max block, but it was requiring too much of an investment for my liking, so I went with enough to keep the listed block %...a waste, yes, but it has saved me from the odd flayers/dolls that slipped by my minions in A3)
VIT: 210/210 (nothing boosting this one, heh <_<)
ENG: 52/25
5 stat points remaining now, although I actually had ~40-60 unspent from normal A5 to hell A5 until I just decided to dump the rest into vit for anti-gloamage
Hell Resists: 75/61/75/50
20 RS
20 SM
6 Revive (was just 1 until everything else got their points)
1 in rest of summons
20 CE
1 Teeth
7 Amp Dam
6 Decrep
6 Attract
1 in prereq curses
Gear:
Golemlord's Circlet of Wizardry (used a 'Lore' circlet and Sazabi's Mental Sheath for most of the game)
rare ammy with +4 str, +6% res all, +20% lit res, -25% poison length, 25 charges of teleport (used a +1 summoning ammy for most of norm/NM until I gambled this)
rare brest plate with +44 life, +28% fire rest, +29% lit rest, +3 defense/clvl, damage reduced by 1(!!11!111~eighty%%1)
rare wand with +8 energy, +7-22 cold damage, 4% life leech, +2 necro skills, +2 decrep, +1 bone prison, +3 poison nova, 8% CTC lvl3 chain lightning on attack
Chromatic Bone Shield socketed with 2 perfect diamonds (+66% res all)
Nightsmoke (used a leftover ethereal Goldwrap until it dropped to 2 durability)
Chance Guards (37% MF, yay normal Meph >_>)
Tearhaunch (found somewhere in either A2 or A3 of normal)
Scintillating Ring (+13% res all)
rare ring with +15 str, +2 energy, +2 dex, +44 mana, 10% MF
on switch:
Golemlord's Bone Wand of the Leech (also +1 summon res, +1 fire golem, +1 terror <_<) (very nice store purchase)
Mojo Demon Head of Guarding (also +1 bone spear...useless)
Charms:
+15% res all, +some poison damage grand charm
5% FRW large charm
+32 life, +some cold large charm
+1 str, +11% cold res small charm
+4% MF small charm
A2 Might Merc:
Spire of Honor (used Kelpie Snare earlier)
Godly Great Hauberk of the Tiger (1255 def, +25 life)
Tal Rasha's Horadoric Crest
Played normal and NM on /p8, did hell on /p1. First trouble was with NM A4 Gloams (accidentally hit a pack of like 10 with extra strong, IIRC, so I let my merc RIP until I slowly drew them away [with about 5 deaths along the way] for corpse popping on older killing grounds). Hell wasn't that hard except for act bosses taking a while, some A3 gloamage, Diablo (I don't know why he was so hard, but it took about 5 tries for me to do him [clearing CS that many times did net me a second Tal's mask and 2 IK mauls >_>]), and Baal's minions (Bartuc had conviction, Ventar had Fanaticism, Lister had something nasty too -_-). Baal himself was slowed to all hells with decrep + clay golem, but with no crushing blow anywhere, it took about 5 minutes to actually chip him to death.
Found a bunch of miscellaneous set/unique items (gambled an angelic set amulet and Ravenfrost >_>), and probably some good rares as well. Rune drops sucked (best was 1 Shael until I pat'ed, afterwhich pit/countess runs have gotten me 5 Dols <_<). Fun build overall. Used much of the nice stuff he found on the hammerdin I'm doing now (Hell A1), since my other characters are all under level 25 >_>.
Well, after spending many, many, many hours playing D1 and Hellfire, I finally got into D2/LoD earlier this year. Having always been a fan of melee-sorts and the macabre, I started out with a daggermancer. The general commonness of poison resistance made it annoyingly slow, though (playing /p8 constantly), so I was looking through the other necro builds and went with a fishymancer on the roll of a die. I actually pat'ed him a few weeks ago, but I've been putting off making an account here in favor of just lurking until now >_>.
Hitoshura
Level 86 Necromancer (killed Baal at 85 IIRC, been doing occational pit/countess/p/s/e runs since)
Stats (gear/naked):
STR: 125/100
DEX: 187/180 (I started wanting max block, but it was requiring too much of an investment for my liking, so I went with enough to keep the listed block %...a waste, yes, but it has saved me from the odd flayers/dolls that slipped by my minions in A3)
VIT: 210/210 (nothing boosting this one, heh <_<)
ENG: 52/25
5 stat points remaining now, although I actually had ~40-60 unspent from normal A5 to hell A5 until I just decided to dump the rest into vit for anti-gloamage
Hell Resists: 75/61/75/50
20 RS
20 SM
6 Revive (was just 1 until everything else got their points)
1 in rest of summons
20 CE
1 Teeth
7 Amp Dam
6 Decrep
6 Attract
1 in prereq curses
Gear:
Golemlord's Circlet of Wizardry (used a 'Lore' circlet and Sazabi's Mental Sheath for most of the game)
rare ammy with +4 str, +6% res all, +20% lit res, -25% poison length, 25 charges of teleport (used a +1 summoning ammy for most of norm/NM until I gambled this)
rare brest plate with +44 life, +28% fire rest, +29% lit rest, +3 defense/clvl, damage reduced by 1(!!11!111~eighty%%1)
rare wand with +8 energy, +7-22 cold damage, 4% life leech, +2 necro skills, +2 decrep, +1 bone prison, +3 poison nova, 8% CTC lvl3 chain lightning on attack
Chromatic Bone Shield socketed with 2 perfect diamonds (+66% res all)
Nightsmoke (used a leftover ethereal Goldwrap until it dropped to 2 durability)
Chance Guards (37% MF, yay normal Meph >_>)
Tearhaunch (found somewhere in either A2 or A3 of normal)
Scintillating Ring (+13% res all)
rare ring with +15 str, +2 energy, +2 dex, +44 mana, 10% MF
on switch:
Golemlord's Bone Wand of the Leech (also +1 summon res, +1 fire golem, +1 terror <_<) (very nice store purchase)
Mojo Demon Head of Guarding (also +1 bone spear...useless)
Charms:
+15% res all, +some poison damage grand charm
5% FRW large charm
+32 life, +some cold large charm
+1 str, +11% cold res small charm
+4% MF small charm
A2 Might Merc:
Spire of Honor (used Kelpie Snare earlier)
Godly Great Hauberk of the Tiger (1255 def, +25 life)
Tal Rasha's Horadoric Crest
Played normal and NM on /p8, did hell on /p1. First trouble was with NM A4 Gloams (accidentally hit a pack of like 10 with extra strong, IIRC, so I let my merc RIP until I slowly drew them away [with about 5 deaths along the way] for corpse popping on older killing grounds). Hell wasn't that hard except for act bosses taking a while, some A3 gloamage, Diablo (I don't know why he was so hard, but it took about 5 tries for me to do him [clearing CS that many times did net me a second Tal's mask and 2 IK mauls >_>]), and Baal's minions (Bartuc had conviction, Ventar had Fanaticism, Lister had something nasty too -_-). Baal himself was slowed to all hells with decrep + clay golem, but with no crushing blow anywhere, it took about 5 minutes to actually chip him to death.
Found a bunch of miscellaneous set/unique items (gambled an angelic set amulet and Ravenfrost >_>), and probably some good rares as well. Rune drops sucked (best was 1 Shael until I pat'ed, afterwhich pit/countess runs have gotten me 5 Dols <_<). Fun build overall. Used much of the nice stuff he found on the hammerdin I'm doing now (Hell A1), since my other characters are all under level 25 >_>.
