NorthDakota
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- Aug 10, 2012
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I have covid so I've been at home and pretty much unable to do anything. I've been watching movies with my wife who also has covid, we've been laid up for a week. I been pretty sick, I'm vaccinated but you know, sometimes it still happens I guess.
At any rate, I can't really do a whole lot and I have been OBSESSED with shopping a good claw. I can shop while sick, it's mindless doesn't take a lot of effort. After I shopped those first two +5 ls claws after just a small amount of trying, I figured why not try some more? I might not hit +6, but averaging a +5 every 4 hours or so isn't so bad. There's something so addicting about opening the shop and mousing over a greater talon and praying, like every screen could be the one!
I have also been obsessed with the idea of the uncapped IAS in D2R. All these streamers are coming out with videos with insane attack speed builds, but they're all USELESS. Straight up sacrificing damage and clear speed just to attack faster.. it isn't making an improvement on any build. Since I saw the crazy trap laying speed on mrllama's original video, I was curious about the assassin and the practical application for trap laying. I had done some goofing around with amazon (I'm still searching for a +3 matriachal bow to make another faith in to test that jazz out), and I goofed around with my zealer (uncapped ias is boss on him, but zealer isn't a crazy OP clearer compared to some others).
Assassin is a great candidate for straight up being better with relatively small changes, but the thing is you need the claw. Hence the shopping. Here's the results after an unhealthy amount of time:
I wasn't planning on getting a +5 as good as that second one, but there it is. I hit a couple other +5's but ended up not getting 2 sockets on them, luckily on this one I did.
This talon is SO GOOD because I can hit 6 fpa trap laying with just this item alone. Crazy right? With level 17 burst of speed (which I hit with only 1 hard point into BoS), I hit the new 6 fpa breakpoint exactly. 9 is the fastest you can reach in legacy, so it's quite a bit faster!! ISTs in the offhand claw because I don't have any good resist jewels at the moment it turns out, and because I'm mfing on this character.
This is a really fun character to goof around with, my resists are hovering around 0 in hell unfortunately, but I haven't had any close calls since my claw block is high and after lvl26 battle orders from beta cta and being able to stay away while my shadow warrior/merc do their thing. My teleport is kinda slowish but it's whatever. I'm not bothering to weapon swap to offhand to get that one extra fcr frame from the spirit, I'm just porting kinda slowly, it's still faster than my zon so whatever. I've been running pits but I've also been doing the online thing where you just do every mf target like pindle/shenk/eldritch/andy/meph/trav etc because it's fun.
At any rate, I can't really do a whole lot and I have been OBSESSED with shopping a good claw. I can shop while sick, it's mindless doesn't take a lot of effort. After I shopped those first two +5 ls claws after just a small amount of trying, I figured why not try some more? I might not hit +6, but averaging a +5 every 4 hours or so isn't so bad. There's something so addicting about opening the shop and mousing over a greater talon and praying, like every screen could be the one!
I have also been obsessed with the idea of the uncapped IAS in D2R. All these streamers are coming out with videos with insane attack speed builds, but they're all USELESS. Straight up sacrificing damage and clear speed just to attack faster.. it isn't making an improvement on any build. Since I saw the crazy trap laying speed on mrllama's original video, I was curious about the assassin and the practical application for trap laying. I had done some goofing around with amazon (I'm still searching for a +3 matriachal bow to make another faith in to test that jazz out), and I goofed around with my zealer (uncapped ias is boss on him, but zealer isn't a crazy OP clearer compared to some others).
Assassin is a great candidate for straight up being better with relatively small changes, but the thing is you need the claw. Hence the shopping. Here's the results after an unhealthy amount of time:
I wasn't planning on getting a +5 as good as that second one, but there it is. I hit a couple other +5's but ended up not getting 2 sockets on them, luckily on this one I did.
This talon is SO GOOD because I can hit 6 fpa trap laying with just this item alone. Crazy right? With level 17 burst of speed (which I hit with only 1 hard point into BoS), I hit the new 6 fpa breakpoint exactly. 9 is the fastest you can reach in legacy, so it's quite a bit faster!! ISTs in the offhand claw because I don't have any good resist jewels at the moment it turns out, and because I'm mfing on this character.
This is a really fun character to goof around with, my resists are hovering around 0 in hell unfortunately, but I haven't had any close calls since my claw block is high and after lvl26 battle orders from beta cta and being able to stay away while my shadow warrior/merc do their thing. My teleport is kinda slowish but it's whatever. I'm not bothering to weapon swap to offhand to get that one extra fcr frame from the spirit, I'm just porting kinda slowly, it's still faster than my zon so whatever. I've been running pits but I've also been doing the online thing where you just do every mf target like pindle/shenk/eldritch/andy/meph/trav etc because it's fun.
