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So many builds, what's next?

I've been playing D2 since a few months after release (I think, I got for my September birthday). My primary fun is in trying different builds, but I'm starting to run out. Here's a best-as-I-can-remember list of all of my chars over the years:

Amazon:
2 or 3 strafers
Multi user
2 or 3 Guided users
Physical damage spearzon
Lightning damage spearzon
Lightning fury javazon
Freezing arrower
Freezing arrow/Exploding arrow

Assassin:
2 TS/DTers
TS/Claw
Lightning trapper
Fire trapper
Blade Fury-er

Barbarian:
2 throwbarbs
3 or 4 or maybe 5 WWers
3 frenziers
Conc barb
Beserk barb
Warcries barb
Leap attack barb

Druid:
Fury/Rabies wolf
Fury wolf
Fireclaws bear
Fire elementalist
Wind elementalist
Summoner druid

Necromancer:
3 or 4 melee skeleton summoners, some with mages
Skele mages/Fire golem summoner
Overlord necro
Bone necro
Poison necro
Poison/melee skeles
Bone/melee skeles
Daggermancer

Paladin:
2 or 3 fanat/zealers
Holy shock pally
3ish vengeance/conviction pallies
Physical damage bow pally
Holy shock/freeze bow pally
Conversion/Thorns pally (that was an ooollldd one)
Holy fire pally (one of my first chars)
Hammerdin
2 Defiance pallies
Life replenish pally
Undead killer (I think)
Charge/fanat
2 FoHers
2 Sacrifice/fanaters

Sorceress:
4 or 5 dual tree sorcs (they all run together and are forgetable to me)
Hydra/orb sorc
2 blizz sorcs
Lightning sorc
Enchant sorc

I believe I've put at least one point in every skill except:
Blade shield
Fists of fire
Claws of thunder
Blades of ice
Pheonix strike
Dim vision
Confuse
Attract
Hunger
Spirit of barbs
Solar creeper

Builds I haven't tried and have no interest in:
Poison javazon
Elemental MAer
Smiter
Meterorb
Melee sorc

I'm thinking of making a holy freeze pally next. They don't have much damage but are pretty safe so maybe I'll use a two-handed weapon. Then again my beast beserker axe would add a lot of damage to him..maybe load up on crushing blow.. a might merc would be pretty safe too..

Anyone have any builds that I have missed that are at least somewhat viable?
 
AxeSassin (Axe Weilding Assassin)
Chuck-a-Zon (Zon who throws axes)
Psycho Medic (medic charger paladin)
I-Don't-Care-Bear (BOTD Thunder maul weilding werebear)
 
Trang-Oul Paladin, who uses pieces of the Trang's Set and various items with charges (taking advantage of the skill charge synergy bug) in order to roast his enemies with a 1k damage Fireball (which is really around 2.5k with Conviction on). Fun and different, I had a great time with mine, but YMMV.

If interested, do some searches for 'Paladin Fireball', both here and at the Amazon Basin.
 
zealbarb.
furysin
i-have-no-style-in-my-tar-a-din :uhhuh:
maul bear
melee mancer
kicker
holy fire ranger

-jordy :king:
 
Minion-Sin
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She uses:
Crescent Moon runeword (weapon) or Beast runeword (weapon)
[either Summon Grizzly or Summon Wolves]
Metalgrid (amulet) or Stone runeword (armor)
[either Summon Iron Golem or Summon Clay Golem]
Nature's Peace (ring) or Wisp Projector (ring)
[Summon Oak Sage or Summon Oak Sage/ Spirit of Barbs/ Heart of the Wolverine]
Carrion Wind (ring)
[Summon Poison Creeper]

And the skills Summon Shadow Master, Mind Blast and Death Sentry.
Also go for an Act2 Nightmare Merc, Might works wonders, so does Thorns, and so does Holy Freeze.

Or you can go ahead and try my fun build, my Sorc:
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Loads of mana/skills/life/res items.
20 icebolt
20 frozen orb
20 telekinesis
20 energy shield
1 warmth
1 to all prerequisities
all rest to cold mastery
 
You could try a Hydradin (using Dragonscale) or a Pyrodin (Pala with Dragonscale and Trang set). Both require +skill items to be useful, but there are plenty of cheap +Fire items out there (my Pyrodin uses Hexfire). Both of these are modified Avenger builds (gotta have something to deal with Fire Immunes).

Pyrobarb - Dual wield Flamebellow with Trang set, Only use Double Swing and Berserk (for Immunes), so you are forced to use fire attacks. Crazy level of Fire skills, shame that Inferno is bugged (at lvl 49 (iirc) you'll still be doing more damage than any sorc though)

Palazon - My personal favourite. Max Dodge tree (coincidentally bringing your Valk up to near max synergies) and use Passion. Can also use Kingslayer but this is better on a Sorc. This is probably as close as you can get to an immortal character because even a lag spike while standing at the spawning grounds in the Throne Room will only kill her 2% of the time (believe me, I know this very, very well). She is also capable, albeit slowly at times, of killing every single thing in the game with the right set-up.

Venom Assassin Ranger with Hellrack and max BoS, Shadow Master.

Theres so much scope out there you will never run out of new builds, and don't forget there are 23 new runewords out there some of which we can be certain will have oskills opening up even more possibilities.
 
I don't know if a melee sorc would work anymore, maybe with the new items it would be very possible...
But I remember back in 1.09, I made a melee sorc and it was one of the builds I had the most fun making. I suggest you try it just because it's so unique, and plus you get thanked alot for Enchanting people :)
 
as I was saying before the forum wigged out on me...

although it's sort of already been mentioned: Summoner Zon, using Stone, bloodravens charge, wisp projector or carrion wind and a tomb reaver on the merc...or maybe try a Witchywoman (pure dex zon) using an up'd WWS. Barbs? Dagger barb? Staff barb? Polearm Zerker barb? I've built a hybrid FA/Strafe/CS/Lf Zon wearing full Mavs and she's kicking much butt. I just finished building my IK barb (first ever for me in HC) and he's been an absolute blast, and I'm getting ready to try my first wolf barb...hmm...maybe a bowamancer (bow weilding necro) there used to be a guide on the forums for that one.Kind of expensive but there's always the WW Sin.or maybe you just want to move to HC and try your favorite builds there. Or try PK'ing...failing all of that, I once heard rumor of a paladin that maxed his Holy Fire aura, so he could go about and kick barrels...I think he was called the "Barrel Kick" paladin.

I realize none of these ideas are earth shattering, but trying old builds in HC might be what you're looking for. Good luck.
 
Necro using a bow. The catch is that you can't use minions including mercenaries. And no Bone Spear/Spirit or PNova. Maybe no CE for that matter. Try that. :)
 
thats a whole lotta characters you've tried.... :teeth:

maybe TITANS? there fun.... :D
 
Merick said:
I've been playing D2 since a few months after release (I think, I got for my September birthday). My primary fun is in trying different builds, but I'm starting to run out. Here's a best-as-I-can-remember list of all of my chars over the years:

Amazon:
2 or 3 strafers
Multi user
2 or 3 Guided users
Physical damage spearzon
Lightning damage spearzon
Lightning fury javazon
Freezing arrower
Freezing arrow/Exploding arrow

Assassin:
2 TS/DTers
TS/Claw
Lightning trapper
Fire trapper
Blade Fury-er

Barbarian:
2 throwbarbs
3 or 4 or maybe 5 WWers
3 frenziers
Conc barb
Beserk barb
Warcries barb
Leap attack barb

Druid:
Fury/Rabies wolf
Fury wolf
Fireclaws bear
Fire elementalist
Wind elementalist
Summoner druid

Necromancer:
3 or 4 melee skeleton summoners, some with mages
Skele mages/Fire golem summoner
Overlord necro
Bone necro
Poison necro
Poison/melee skeles
Bone/melee skeles
Daggermancer

Paladin:
2 or 3 fanat/zealers
Holy shock pally
3ish vengeance/conviction pallies
Physical damage bow pally
Holy shock/freeze bow pally
Conversion/Thorns pally (that was an ooollldd one)
Holy fire pally (one of my first chars)
Hammerdin
2 Defiance pallies
Life replenish pally
Undead killer (I think)
Charge/fanat
2 FoHers
2 Sacrifice/fanaters

Sorceress:
4 or 5 dual tree sorcs (they all run together and are forgetable to me)
Hydra/orb sorc
2 blizz sorcs
Lightning sorc
Enchant sorc

I believe I've put at least one point in every skill except:
Blade shield
Fists of fire
Claws of thunder
Blades of ice
Pheonix strike
Dim vision
Confuse
Attract
Hunger
Spirit of barbs
Solar creeper

Builds I haven't tried and have no interest in:
Poison javazon
Elemental MAer
Smiter
Meterorb
Melee sorc

I'm thinking of making a holy freeze pally next. They don't have much damage but are pretty safe so maybe I'll use a two-handed weapon. Then again my beast beserker axe would add a lot of damage to him..maybe load up on crushing blow.. a might merc would be pretty safe too..

Anyone have any builds that I have missed that are at least somewhat viable?
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Out of those barbarian builds which one was best overall. I am just curious and i am new barbarian fan. I want to really make one, so hope u give me some advice.
 
maheshwar24 said:
Out of those barbarian builds which one was best overall. I am just curious and i am new barbarian fan. I want to really make one, so hope u give me some advice.
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I can't really give you an answer. I was at different amounts of wealth when I made all of them, and they have their strenghts and weaknesses.

No wait, WW IK barbs are pretty good overall.
 
Merick said:
I can't really give you an answer. I was at different amounts of wealth when I made all of them, and they have their strenghts and weaknesses.

No wait, WW IK barbs are pretty good overall.
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What are strenghts and weakness of frenziers.....
 
TurbulentTurtle said:
I don't know if a melee sorc would work anymore, maybe with the new items it would be very possible...
But I remember back in 1.09, I made a melee sorc and it was one of the builds I had the most fun making. I suggest you try it just because it's so unique, and plus you get thanked alot for Enchanting people :)
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I've made a melee sorc in 1.10 they are still quite effective, the key is in the prebuff.
For those of you who don't know what prebuff is it's basically using + skills items to cast a better enchant.

My prebuff would be
Shako
2xsoj
Magefist
Ormus robs
Perf Escuchas
+3 amu
10x fire charms +1 anni
Viscertaunt

Then for actual eq
Beast (to turn into a bear)
6xshaeled phase blade
Raven frost
Cgrip (booo)
Gore riders
I forget the amu
Zod'd eth gbane
SS
dungos
Draculs
39x random vita AR charms + anni

I would hit upwards of 20k dmg, very fast attack speed and people love the enchant, in melee duels I would clean the games, but very often get killed and NK'd because they said my attack was mostly elemental so it wasn't legit. If people had a problem with my char I would just leave the game.

I have screenshots I will post if you need of me cleaning games (7 kills within under a minute without leaving to go to town)
 
For seasonal touch try the Christmas Tree Ornamentalist

Has to be on a barb for the duel wield. Weapons are easy to get; Rancid gas and oil potions (They look like ornaments when he is holding them. You would want to name the char something like Scotch_Pine and outfit him with some gem socketed gear to get the full Christmas effect going.

Would facets increase the damage? What if a poison necro was used... would that up the damage from a thrown poison potion?

Anyway something new to try out for the Holidays, and maybe you can score a few ears in pubby norm duels, who would take you seriously, until too late.

This char
 
You can always make a monk:

Fanatic/Zeal-adin

Cannot use any Metal objects, other than jewelry. Fights with Staves only. Upped Ribcracker on one of these guys with might aura is insane.

BOTD Eth Archon Staff would be ideal. CRAZY min damage here.

Dream Setup:
Shako (Ber)
COH Scarab Husk
Upped Rib Cracker (Lo)
Eth Sandstorm Trek
String
Dracs
Raven Frost
BK Ring
Perf Anni (Of Course)

Might Merc
 
if you want a challenge

The Dream Druid;

No one has ever thought about this build but me so i get soul credit on this one guys. The settup is druid that uses armageddon, i don't know if you realized the hidden fluxed dgm in the skill but its there its kinda like poison only it has no effect length, when combined with frost wind and a weapon with enchant and one with nova electric, the skills seem to combine, its a one hit kill combo thats worked everytime, but of course you need beyond godly items and the state and skill setup is tyranny at best, good luck no specifics on this gotta try it to believe it.
 
Science Cryption said:
The Dream Druid;

No one has ever thought about this build but me so i get soul credit on this one guys. The settup is druid that uses armageddon, i don't know if you realized the hidden fluxed dgm in the skill but its there its kinda like poison only it has no effect length, when combined with frost wind and a weapon with enchant and one with nova electric, the skills seem to combine, its a one hit kill combo thats worked everytime, but of course you need beyond godly items and the state and skill setup is tyranny at best, good luck no specifics on this gotta try it to believe it.
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I really don't have any idea what you are talking about. "the hidden fluxed dgm"? I mean really, is this a joke?
"a weapon with enchant and one with nova electric" are you talking about two weapons or some sort of crazy weapon with nova and enchant on it?
 
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