- Aug 8, 2003
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feasibility of melee pali?
short story, followed by question...
so last night my dialup (until they get ethernet installed in my apartment... grrr) was connecting at a terrible (28.8) rate, so instead of risking death to lag, i decided to work a bit on a zeal/fanat pali on single player. lvl 65, just finished up diablo, couple zeal, max sac, max fanat, ~10 holy shield. i tend to play my sp chars like hc chars, just for practice, so i get really pissed off when i die with them. he's got ~800 life, max resists in nm, almost max block, good defense, (i think) ~5 frame zeal, but almost all rares for gear.
at any rate, in questing from a2 to a5, clearing pretty much everything, i died three times- one was stupidity (used zeal for a second too long in the cs and got im), but i don't see how i could have avoided the other two- both occurred to the same le, fe council dude in the trav. i did a lot of hit and running from the bolts, but got touched by one twice, splat no life.
so, the question... is a melee (non-bo/oak sage) untwinked mostly solo character viable in hc in 1.10? it seems that eventually you would run into something like what i ran into in later nm or hell, and couldn't avoid dying. i guess i could have squeezed a little more life into the guy, as my resists are actually a little above 75 (getting ready for hell), by replacing my rare resists/fhr/+15 life helm with a 3 p rubied helm or something, but still...
short story, followed by question...
so last night my dialup (until they get ethernet installed in my apartment... grrr) was connecting at a terrible (28.8) rate, so instead of risking death to lag, i decided to work a bit on a zeal/fanat pali on single player. lvl 65, just finished up diablo, couple zeal, max sac, max fanat, ~10 holy shield. i tend to play my sp chars like hc chars, just for practice, so i get really pissed off when i die with them. he's got ~800 life, max resists in nm, almost max block, good defense, (i think) ~5 frame zeal, but almost all rares for gear.
at any rate, in questing from a2 to a5, clearing pretty much everything, i died three times- one was stupidity (used zeal for a second too long in the cs and got im), but i don't see how i could have avoided the other two- both occurred to the same le, fe council dude in the trav. i did a lot of hit and running from the bolts, but got touched by one twice, splat no life.
so, the question... is a melee (non-bo/oak sage) untwinked mostly solo character viable in hc in 1.10? it seems that eventually you would run into something like what i ran into in later nm or hell, and couldn't avoid dying. i guess i could have squeezed a little more life into the guy, as my resists are actually a little above 75 (getting ready for hell), by replacing my rare resists/fhr/+15 life helm with a 3 p rubied helm or something, but still...