Crappiest build in game?

[nurman]

Crappiest build in game?

Behold, the IMPALER
A build that only gives you REALLY great damage, at a amazing rate of 10 kills per hour!

The gear
Wep lycander (spear) Eth with zod
Armor Enigma (to run away)
Helm Shako Jahed
Boots Gorerider
Belt Verdungo (you need all the DR you can get)
Gloves Bloodfist 2x upg
Ring1 Ravenfrost (don't want to be frozen don't we?
Ring2 Bul'kathos or that amazing dual leech ring you payed 65 duped runes for!
Amu Atma for maximum protection
On Switch Cta with lidless

Build layout
1pJab as prerequisite for
20p impale
20p inner sight (covered later)
20p critical strike
20p dodge
1-5 points on avoid
1p penerate
1-5p decoy
1p evade
Rest valkyrie

Now the play style. You will face 3 types of fights:

Case 1 Only melees
Vision->decoy -> engage!

Case 2 only ranges
Decoy-> vision-> engage

Case 3 Physical immune melees along with "Fanatic aura" unique monster
Decoy-> Create teleport -> use it -> bring out your cookie cutter hammerdin.

The pros
Nobody else does it
You can name your character "AmaImpala" or "BeatMyKPS"
You have time to coordinate your every move.

The Cons
"Bit" Slow
Hard to get wep, because nobody upgs the lycander.
Can't probably do Hell Andariel and up
You will be laughed at

The End


-Nurman

Ps. all done by me, for fun. :crazyeyes:

 

[KillaMike]

Re: Crappiest build in game?

i d recommend some change:

get valkie. dont spend that much pts into dodge.


gear:

coh for DR + res + ll + res
shako with ber, extra DR
keep gore riders
keep dungo
amu: cats eye for dex+running+ias+its ama only amulet ( or use metal grid or mara )
ring1: raven
ring2: dual leech ring ( dont need juicy adds, but sure they are welcome )
on switch: have a bo barb in game more seriously, cta + lidless or spirit, depends how much wealth you got )

weapon: war pike e-botd. that should have better dmg -.- with better ias. and ias from merc, iirc you ll hit last ias bp ( not sure )

merc ( d'oh)

eth GBane
eth Gaze
eth Pride

and offensive nm, or defensive nm.

 

[NASE]

Re: Crappiest build in game?

i d recommend some change:

get valkie. dont spend that much pts into dodge.

I strongly recommend against those ideas.



That will make the character much stronger hence it won't be the crappiest of all builds.

 

[nurman]

Re: Crappiest build in game?

This is sort of a gag post, if somebody didnt get it ^^

 

[Master Zap]

Re: Crappiest build in game?

Ive done an impale zon (impale/fend ) here on hardcore, I wouldn't call her the worst build either, the only character I was not able to guardian because of the slow speed and trickyness was a thorns convert pally. The zon actually did ok. The worst spot in the game as a3 jungles. A zillion little pea shooters interrupting the mighty 16-18fpa attack (I was decked out for that "godly attack speed too"

I'd highly suggest skipping D/A/E as the animation will further increase your getting inturrupted chances. The key to the impale zon was smart use of decoys and getting behind it to attack.

She could 1hit virtually all monsters. Make sure your AR is high, as missing means its going to take another second to attack.

I used ebotd ghost spear, its faster then the war pike.


My Zon was Named

Zonthe_Impaler

I used
Gface helm with ias jewel
Highlords
Coh
Nos coil belt
Loh's gloves
gore-rider boots
Ebotd Ghost spear
1ravenfrost, 1 wisp.

Fanat cold arrow merc.

while walking , the first bit of levels wasnt to bad, I used jab until impale opened. From impale to level 29 it was painful. At 29 I used a 6 shealed spear until 37. At 37 I donned a Shealed up Hone and put on a treachery. As soon as I could.

Fend is a great attack btw, competes with zeal and fury for sure. Its a little more glass cannonish. I didnt have any trouble with the so called "fend bug" .

I went

20 impale
20 fend
20 penetrate
enough in critical to have 60 ish
20 in charged strike (for pi's)
and a bunch in decoy. Without the passives they dont take as much abusive.

Impale is a poor skill, but its better then people give it credit for.

 

[taxcut1]

Re: Crappiest build in game?

I bet SuperDave could finish Hardcore Hell with an impaler... He could name it Anna_SlowAnna...

 

[droid]

Re: Crappiest build in game?

I'll match your Impale Zon up against a 1.13 Inferno/ES sorc or an Avenger for end-game inefficiency anytime

 

[MrBill]

Re: Crappiest build in game?

No, what you want is a "1337" druid with all his points into Solar Creeper, Spirit of Barbs, Spirit Wolves and Ravens. [Maybe with some points in Arctic Blast, just to slow the (non-CI) monsters down enough so that it takes only 2 versus 4 hours for your minions to kill them.]

Don't forget to hunt with a bow, too, so you have no AR and no resists!

Mr. Bill

 

[razen]

Re: Crappiest build in game?

Ive done an impale zon (impale/fend ) here on hardcore, I wouldn't call her the worst build either, the only character I was not able to guardian because of the slow speed and trickyness was a thorns convert pally. The zon actually did ok. The worst spot in the game as a3 jungles. A zillion little pea shooters interrupting the mighty 16-18fpa attack (I was decked out for that "godly attack speed too"

I'd highly suggest skipping D/A/E as the animation will further increase your getting inturrupted chances. The key to the impale zon was smart use of decoys and getting behind it to attack.

She could 1hit virtually all monsters. Make sure your AR is high, as missing means its going to take another second to attack.

I used ebotd ghost spear, its faster then the war pike.


My Zon was Named

Zonthe_Impaler

I used
Gface helm with ias jewel
Highlords
Coh
Nos coil belt
Loh's gloves
gore-rider boots
Ebotd Ghost spear
1ravenfrost, 1 wisp.

Fanat cold arrow merc.

while walking , the first bit of levels wasnt to bad, I used jab until impale opened. From impale to level 29 it was painful. At 29 I used a 6 shealed spear until 37. At 37 I donned a Shealed up Hone and put on a treachery. As soon as I could.

Fend is a great attack btw, competes with zeal and fury for sure. Its a little more glass cannonish. I didnt have any trouble with the so called "fend bug" .

I went

20 impale
20 fend
20 penetrate
enough in critical to have 60 ish
20 in charged strike (for pi's)
and a bunch in decoy. Without the passives they dont take as much abusive.

Impale is a poor skill, but its better then people give it credit for.

You found all that in Hardcore? Damn...

 

[snickersnack]

Re: Crappiest build in game?

I didnt have any trouble with the so called "fend bug" .

Could that be because you didn't use D/A/E (which cause the bug)?

 

[droid]

Re: Crappiest build in game?

Could that be because you didn't use D/A/E (which cause the bug)?

And good luck in high-player Hell games with a melee char with zero defensive skills, zero life/resists/defense buffs, low defense and no block.

Other melee classes all have defense. Zealots and Smiters have HS and awesome class shields, Barbs have Shout and BO and IS/NR and sometimes Taunt, Druids have Oak Sage and/or shapechanged bonuses, Sins have Fade. Even melee sorcs get ES. Spearazons have nothing except D/E/A to keep them alive in melee. Except that it also kills them too.

 

[KillaMike]

Re: Crappiest build in game?

You found all that in Hardcore? Damn...

you can find better stuff in hc then in sc, cause if you die without loot, it is lost pure fun of loosing your best gear to a lag spike and getting kicked out from game with your looter :smug:

Could that be because you didn't use D/A/E (which cause the bug)?

possibly, most likely that would be obvious

And good luck in high-player Hell games with a melee char with zero defensive skills, zero life/resists/defense buffs, low defense and no block.

Other melee classes all have defense. Zealots and Smiters have HS and awesome class shields, Barbs have Shout and BO and IS/NR and sometimes Taunt, Druids have Oak Sage and/or shapechanged bonuses, Sins have Fade. Even melee sorcs get ES. Spearazons have nothing except D/E/A to keep them alive in melee. Except that it also kills them too.

zon has decoy, and merc. decoy takes nearly 3/4 of all mods, leaving you with enough time to do legging.

btw, not all barbs got maxed out bo, like not all freanzy barbs would go for it.

 

[snickersnack]

Re: Crappiest build in game?

And good luck in high-player Hell games with a melee char with zero defensive skills, zero life/resists/defense buffs, low defense and no block.

? I wasn't saying that that works well, I was saying that's the reason he didn't have trouble with the bug. Actually, that's exactly what my post said; I'm confused.

Other melee classes all have defense. Zealots and Smiters have HS and awesome class shields, Barbs have Shout and BO and IS/NR and sometimes Taunt, Druids have Oak Sage and/or shapechanged bonuses, Sins have Fade. Even melee sorcs get ES. Spearazons have nothing except D/E/A to keep them alive in melee. Except that it also kills them too.

2-hand zealots do okay too. Mine's only in act 5 NM (/p8 all the way), so I'll see how he does in Hell. (He'll have 100% CB and 100% DS with a Death Colossus Blade :grin

possibly, most likely that would be obvious

It seemed to me from the way he said it that he didn't know what caused the bug. At one point 'no d/a/e', and at another 'fend is fine, I didn't see a bug'.

zon has decoy, and merc. decoy takes nearly 3/4 of all mods, leaving you with enough time to do legging.

Yup. Without looking back at Master Zap's post, I think he hid behind the decoy most of the time.