Re: ow + cb frosterdin in hell?
my experience with this build :scratchchin:
i´ll give my writing skills a try:
the plan: get an untwinked melee char to solo the entire game and kill every mob on the way
pure frostadin works like a charm till u reach hell.
many CI (cold immunes), many mobs.
with an avg cold dmg of ~800 i haven't had any problem with non CI's in terms of killing speed. so while playing i found myself thinking from time to time, there are almost only CI's in hell, cuz i found myself 95% of the game time dealing with them. at first i was afraid, i wouldn't hit often enough to trigger cb and ow (never had < 65% cth, thats why i pumped zeal higher than needed) but it was enough.
my skill setup:
20 in hf, res cold, zeal
1 in smite, cleansing, meditation, salvation
rest in hs
after dealing a while with the ci's i came to the comclusion: its faster to smite down one by one, also ur target won't be able to do anything...
for mobs u´ll want clean space in ur back, so its better to kill most monsters
non-CI-mobs are usually pretty easy, some exceptions but only two types i encountered are worth mentioning
1. cursed, aura enchanted (holy frost), extra fast, light + cold enchanted - worst enemy in entire game. get a single monster away from group and kill it
2. aura enchanted (conviction), fire+light+cold enchanted - tactic above and salvation, a lot of purples and tps
CI mobs: the range of difficult ones is higher here...but not as bad as the both above. usually get one or two away from the group and start smiting
P/C-Immunes: if the boss stands alone smite till it can't move and change aura to holy fire
weird things: ow animation is a bit buggy, monsters didn't always bleed, but kept loosing life even after i stopped attackin (i watched many CI's die, when i already changed to smite next monster). met one phys/cold immune and started smiting with holy fire active. it shouldn't have triggered ow (realized that after i killed it) but it did...tried that on other P/C-I's worked every time...the ow animation never showed, but it can't have been the lvl 2 holy fire that killed the monster in hell alone...any ideas?
due to the lack of ll i found myself in need of many pots. but after i learned to shut of off auras while i don't need them (less attraction of monsters i don't want to attract) and came to the tactics above the comsumption went down to a lvl i could satisfy my needs with the drops most of the time. weapon repair becomes an issue...had to go to town to repair my weapon as often as to refill my inv with potions. how to control the monsters is a major issue on this build
the superuniqs been no problem at all. just smite till they get down to 1/5 of life then zeal till death
my cr was pretty bad. had to drink a lot of thawings pots. for this build cr is as important as fr.
fr,cr should be positive
lr should be max
if i would remake the char, i'ld change the setup to something like a "classic auradin"
skills
20 frost, shock, rc, rl
2 zeal
1 salvation, smite, hs
equip
culwen's (bloodrise in inv), goblins, steelclash (or rare skill block res), signon gloves and belt (death combo doesn't have enough space for pots), armor life res or goldskin, fhr helm with res, rings ar and res, amu (skill) res or angelic combo?
no cannot be frozen, but i guess that unevitable
stat
str for equip
dex not sure
vita rest
tactic: holy frost for all non CI's, holy shock for the rest, ow+cb + smite for C/L-I's and uniq mobs depending on the spawn
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