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Building a wpn shield kicker.

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Davie.

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Building a wpn shield kicker.

Hi im building a wpn shield kicker and I just wanted some help plannin her.
Ive amassed a bunch of gear that I could use and want some help figuring out a good setup.
5/5 Psn facet shako.
120/45 Bone visage.
Um'd Stormshield.
Chaos Suwayyah (I like it alot but dont like range 1 wpns -_-)
Beast Zerker axe.
Eth razors edge (does ds even work with kicks?)
Trangs gloves
21 dex +2 dancers
Decent dungos
Tgods
Enigma mage plate.
P maras.
Highlords.
2 good ravens 1 off in dex each (meh I dun really care about 1 or 2 dex here and there.)
3 socket Great helm +22 life (Mebbe could use for psn facets?)
160/60 ias Archon plate 600+def.
some other stuff...
As you can see its...quite a mess with choices =/.
She doesnt have to be the kicker to end all kickers I just want her to come out coherently. Somebody help?
 
Deadly Strike doesn't work with kicks.
Claws have range 2 (not range 1)
From what I hear, the best weapon choices are Azurewrath, Death's Web, and Wizardspike.
 
ilkori said:
Deadly Strike doesn't work with kicks.
Claws have range 2 (not range 1)
From what I hear, the best weapon choices are Azurewrath, Death's Web, and Wizardspike.
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You know, I used to say lacerator was the best vs. melee, but now, unless your opponent has big stacked res, death's web rocks. I have simply been laying waste in melee duels with that death's web. Good God. Though lacerator is still good if you have a high physical damage component.

In any event, your weapon choice is often a funtion of who you're dueling. I actually use a malice now vs. a few classes (such as smart barbs who don't get close enough to get kicked), never did that before. Also use a magic +2 shadow claw with 30 ias and 2 sockets with shaels (70 ias total) to get max kicking in C-C mode with fade on vs. casters (other than pure magic damage like bone necs).
 
Ive seen a few kickers using deaths web, sounds cool if you use 10x shadow gc's and trangs but what about people using deaths hand or andy's visae =/.
Have you tried chaos out? Seems like itd be great to have irresistable dmg and some decent open wounds. Are you sure about the claw thing being range2? It was range 1 in .9.
 
Apparently in 1.10 they gave all claws a rangeadd of 1. As far as I know, that makes it range 2.
 
Azurewrath sounds cool...i'd use it over suwayyah chaos I guess but what about runic? thats -30 base and 35 Ias...pretty friggin sweet =D. I also have a Kingslayer zerker lying around, 33% Cb and 50!% Ow! 20% added to ar 30 Ias and range 3! aint bad neither.
 
Davie - It sounds like we are in the same boat. I think Death's Web is neat, but I want to try something else. I want to try using Lacerator, Chaos, or Azurewrath. The magic damage is sweet on Azure, but Chaos would be nice for dual claw setups. Lacerator is just goddamn awesome, no questions!
 
How bout your skill plan? I'm more interested in skill plans most of the time, becoz you can always put on and take off gears, but not spent skill points, lol.
 
Im planning to go with 3-4 kicks dragon talonwise. Max venom, lvl 18 or so Mindblast after +skills, Decent lvl shadow master, dont really know after that. Thinking...Blade shield or a trap+synergy.
Also was looking at the famine runeword...does dragon talon deal elemental dmg from wpns? if not im just gonna try out beast and deaths web depending on who I duel. Planned gear choice is Um'd storm, 5/5 facet shako, enigma dusk or mage plate, Dancers, P maras till I can find a fcr Assasin ammy, Trangs gloves and 2x ravens till I find a nice circlet or ring. Wpn switch is gonna be the usual, cta/lidless.
 
All elemental, magical, and poison damage from any equipment (weapons included) is added to your kicks, but will not display on the damage screen.
 
Davie. said:
Azurewrath sounds cool...i'd use it over suwayyah chaos I guess but what about runic? thats -30 base and 35 Ias...pretty friggin sweet =D. I also have a Kingslayer zerker lying around, 33% Cb and 50!% Ow! 20% added to ar 30 Ias and range 3! aint bad neither.
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One problem with azurewrath:

Your opponent can easily discern you from your shadow. One of the VERY nice things about shadow master is the difficulty many of your opponents have of separating the two of you in the heat of the moment. If you're sporting a big mongo phase blade, this difficulty goes away and you are easily separated.
 
Kinda sounds like ima be going with Famine and Beast alternately. Course my assasin is going to blow chunks because my comp sucks no matter how good of a trader/character builder I am I simply cannot compete.
 
Famine on a kicker... eww. If you want to do it, good luck. However, Azurewrath provides better magic damage and mods (since weapon damage doesn't matter), and Gimmershed provides better elemental damage (but is slower and has no magic damage). Not to mention that both of those should be cheaper than Famine.
 
ilkori said:
Famine on a kicker... eww. If you want to do it, good luck. However, Azurewrath provides better magic damage and mods (since weapon damage doesn't matter), and Gimmershed provides better elemental damage (but is slower and has no magic damage). Not to mention that both of those should be cheaper than Famine.
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Lacerator or death's web still seem to me the best options for a weapon shield build. Both require BoS however and make getting max res difficult.
 
Agreed. However, I was trying to list the options that did exactly the same thing, only better, and cheaper.
 
Speederländer said:
Lacerator or death's web still seem to me the best options for a weapon shield build. Both require BoS however and make getting max res difficult.
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Totally agreed! I am having a lot of troubles figuring out how to get maxed resists with my new Death's Web. I figure that changing it out for a Jade Talon will work just fine seeing how most casters have significantly less life than the Barbs and Pallys that would require the use of Death's Web.
:xflash:
 
skygoneblue said:
Totally agreed! I am having a lot of troubles figuring out how to get maxed resists with my new Death's Web. I figure that changing it out for a Jade Talon will work just fine seeing how most casters have significantly less life than the Barbs and Pallys that would require the use of Death's Web.
:xflash:
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Only use the web/bramble vs. pure melee that you can't kill in standard c-c/enigma configuration.
 
Speederländer said:
Only use the web/bramble vs. pure melee that you can't kill in standard c-c/enigma configuration.
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Well, I am planning my newest kicker to use Death's Web as a base weapon, then be able to switch out for Jade Talon and Chaos against badass casters.

My fiancee likes the :xflash:, so I put it in for her to get a kick out of! : :xmad:
 
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