Matriarch HerPointyStick, Spearazon
Lister: Oh Smeg! It’s the TV weather girl from channel 27!
Rimmer: Get inside now!
Lister: You can’t see what she’s doing with her pointy stick!
Level: 86
St – 94 (163)
Dx – 114 (163)
Vt – 297 (316)
En – 15 (34)
HP 1355
Mana 340
Damage and AR (With Might & Enchant)
Jab: 1973 – 2993 @ 10,798AR
Fend: 3001 – 4543 @ 11,541AR
Resists:
Fire: 75
Cold: 75
Ltning: 75
Poison: 75
Skills:
Jab: 20/37
Fend: 20/37
Valkyrie: 20/35 on switch
Penetrate: 20/30
Impale: 1/18
D/A/E: 4/14
Critical Strike 1/11
Equipment:
Weapon 1:
“Obedience” Matriarchal Spear (+3)
Weapon 2:
Mang Song’s Lesson
Harlequin Crest with Rusty Jewel of Fervour
“CoH” Dusk Shroud
Rare Vampirebone Gloves (+2J&S & 20%IAS)
Gore Rider
Nosferatu’s Coil
Mara’s Kaleidoscope
BKWB & Manald Heal
Bone Break & ATorch
Merc (Act 2 – Might)
Vampire Gaze
“Treachery” Dusk Shroud
“Shael” The Reaper’s Toll
Random musings:
It’s an Amazon all right, but not the explosive arrow one I’ve had rattling around in my head for weeks now. Why might you ask? I’ve been hunting for +2 Bow +20%IAS gloves for some time now and what should I find but a +2S&J +20%IAS one instead; so, what’s a boy to do? I have never made a Spearazon before and with the recent fixes to D/A/E I thought I’d give one a go. Not knowing whether she was going to be my cup of tea, I didn’t want to waste too many resources on it and Obedience looked nice and cheap, so what the hell.
The build went well from the beginning making use of a Trident loaded up with a couple of Envy jewels. I then used a superior (+15%ED) +3 Matriarchal Pike with four Carnage jewels locked in until I reached the level that I could equip my Obedience Matriarchal spear. The Pike was slow but effective enough, the Spear was a huge upgrade in both speed and damage though. After maxing Jab, Fend and Penetrate, I thought about putting some points into Impale, but the weapon was already slow enough as it was and Impale would have been painful. I thought about D/A/E or Critical Strike, but the diminishing returns of those skills are incredible, so a Valkyrie it ended up being.
The general gameplay was alright, but no way near as smooth as a Zealot; perhaps a faster weapon would put the two characters closer together though. There were times that Fend crapped out and I simply stopped attacking. In order to start again, I had to click away from the action and click back. I have never noticed that behaviour in a Zealot. It didn’t happen often, but it was something that I had to keep on eye on when I was swarmed. I alternated between Jab and Fend a bit, but generally, I used Fend for general play and Jab for bosses.
I played /players8 all the way to Hell difficulty, then /players3 until I got to Act 5, and then I dropped it down to /players1. It’s not that she couldn’t cope at /players3, but I had run out of patience, and I just wanted her finished. She did die a couple of times but they were all my fault (I’ll just use the fat purple on my merc then I’ll….. Oh!). So she played well enough, better than many I have played over the years, but she never really jelled with me. I guess she wasn’t my cup of tea after all.
Lister: Oh Smeg! It’s the TV weather girl from channel 27!
Rimmer: Get inside now!
Lister: You can’t see what she’s doing with her pointy stick!
Level: 86
St – 94 (163)
Dx – 114 (163)
Vt – 297 (316)
En – 15 (34)
HP 1355
Mana 340
Damage and AR (With Might & Enchant)
Jab: 1973 – 2993 @ 10,798AR
Fend: 3001 – 4543 @ 11,541AR
Resists:
Fire: 75
Cold: 75
Ltning: 75
Poison: 75
Skills:
Jab: 20/37
Fend: 20/37
Valkyrie: 20/35 on switch
Penetrate: 20/30
Impale: 1/18
D/A/E: 4/14
Critical Strike 1/11
Equipment:
Weapon 1:
“Obedience” Matriarchal Spear (+3)
Weapon 2:
Mang Song’s Lesson
Harlequin Crest with Rusty Jewel of Fervour
“CoH” Dusk Shroud
Rare Vampirebone Gloves (+2J&S & 20%IAS)
Gore Rider
Nosferatu’s Coil
Mara’s Kaleidoscope
BKWB & Manald Heal
Bone Break & ATorch
Merc (Act 2 – Might)
Vampire Gaze
“Treachery” Dusk Shroud
“Shael” The Reaper’s Toll
Random musings:
It’s an Amazon all right, but not the explosive arrow one I’ve had rattling around in my head for weeks now. Why might you ask? I’ve been hunting for +2 Bow +20%IAS gloves for some time now and what should I find but a +2S&J +20%IAS one instead; so, what’s a boy to do? I have never made a Spearazon before and with the recent fixes to D/A/E I thought I’d give one a go. Not knowing whether she was going to be my cup of tea, I didn’t want to waste too many resources on it and Obedience looked nice and cheap, so what the hell.
The build went well from the beginning making use of a Trident loaded up with a couple of Envy jewels. I then used a superior (+15%ED) +3 Matriarchal Pike with four Carnage jewels locked in until I reached the level that I could equip my Obedience Matriarchal spear. The Pike was slow but effective enough, the Spear was a huge upgrade in both speed and damage though. After maxing Jab, Fend and Penetrate, I thought about putting some points into Impale, but the weapon was already slow enough as it was and Impale would have been painful. I thought about D/A/E or Critical Strike, but the diminishing returns of those skills are incredible, so a Valkyrie it ended up being.
The general gameplay was alright, but no way near as smooth as a Zealot; perhaps a faster weapon would put the two characters closer together though. There were times that Fend crapped out and I simply stopped attacking. In order to start again, I had to click away from the action and click back. I have never noticed that behaviour in a Zealot. It didn’t happen often, but it was something that I had to keep on eye on when I was swarmed. I alternated between Jab and Fend a bit, but generally, I used Fend for general play and Jab for bosses.
I played /players8 all the way to Hell difficulty, then /players3 until I got to Act 5, and then I dropped it down to /players1. It’s not that she couldn’t cope at /players3, but I had run out of patience, and I just wanted her finished. She did die a couple of times but they were all my fault (I’ll just use the fat purple on my merc then I’ll….. Oh!). So she played well enough, better than many I have played over the years, but she never really jelled with me. I guess she wasn’t my cup of tea after all.
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