@Delsy nice games yesterday! If you make a Barb for LLD we can switch roles and I can try my Necro.
Following up on the WW weapons thing: Bloodletters have similar damage to Robo+Honor Nagas on paper, but range... roughly half of Knouts/Nagas (see range section here). I'd expect performance in practice to suffer greatly because of this, but perhaps with fast tele and on-point WWs it can work well enough. When going without tele, the range looks like a deal breaker to me for sure. IMO 2x Knout Honor is the best/most well-rounded budget option, I'm currently using this.
As for target setup, I've been trying a few different approaches in our games and also feeding various setups into spreadsheets. Still WIP but slowly getting a better idea of how to properly approach him. I'm hoping to somehow grind out a +WW barb helm, which however seems to be a daunting task. In the meantime I'm going for the below, once I farmed 1-2 socket quests:
Speaking of socket quests, that will probably result in an ES/Fire Sorc as well... seems ridiculously strong even with no special items whatsoever. Massive bang for zero bucks it looks like.
I'll also make a tele-Windy... and that's going to be it. I'm already grinding more than expected for LLD.
Following up on the WW weapons thing: Bloodletters have similar damage to Robo+Honor Nagas on paper, but range... roughly half of Knouts/Nagas (see range section here). I'd expect performance in practice to suffer greatly because of this, but perhaps with fast tele and on-point WWs it can work well enough. When going without tele, the range looks like a deal breaker to me for sure. IMO 2x Knout Honor is the best/most well-rounded budget option, I'm currently using this.
As for target setup, I've been trying a few different approaches in our games and also feeding various setups into spreadsheets. Still WIP but slowly getting a better idea of how to properly approach him. I'm hoping to somehow grind out a +WW barb helm, which however seems to be a daunting task. In the meantime I'm going for the below, once I farmed 1-2 socket quests:
PCrown (20% ED jewel) *
Viper (max jewel) **
Robo Naga (mine will have 29-132 dmg)
Honor Naga (secondary)
SoE
Bloodfist, IK gloves, Magefist (TBD) ***
1-2x rare rings FCR, 100+ AR, 70-90 mana, some life rep; potentially 1x SoJ***
Rare amulet +1 Barb. 59 life, 65 mana
Tele-staff on switch + Whitstan's for block.
* I'm late realizing how good it is for Barb too. Better damage than 40 ED jewels, 80 life, FRW and life rep is great without 2x Honor.
** 3os/dmg plate is the alternative, but Viper has so many things going for it both offensively and defensively, worth the lower dmg IMO and the difference isn't that big given one max jewel and +1 skills.
*** Depending on how I feel about 37 vs 63 FCR. If I manage to shop an FCR tele staff, it's down to IK/Bloodfist
Viper (max jewel) **
Robo Naga (mine will have 29-132 dmg)
Honor Naga (secondary)
SoE
Bloodfist, IK gloves, Magefist (TBD) ***
1-2x rare rings FCR, 100+ AR, 70-90 mana, some life rep; potentially 1x SoJ***
Rare amulet +1 Barb. 59 life, 65 mana
Tele-staff on switch + Whitstan's for block.
* I'm late realizing how good it is for Barb too. Better damage than 40 ED jewels, 80 life, FRW and life rep is great without 2x Honor.
** 3os/dmg plate is the alternative, but Viper has so many things going for it both offensively and defensively, worth the lower dmg IMO and the difference isn't that big given one max jewel and +1 skills.
*** Depending on how I feel about 37 vs 63 FCR. If I manage to shop an FCR tele staff, it's down to IK/Bloodfist
Speaking of socket quests, that will probably result in an ES/Fire Sorc as well... seems ridiculously strong even with no special items whatsoever. Massive bang for zero bucks it looks like.
I'll also make a tele-Windy... and that's going to be it. I'm already grinding more than expected for LLD.