Where to put last skill points Q

[Mursilis]

Where to put last skill points Q

I have a question concerning where to place the remainder of my skill points. Currently I have a level 77 Javazon that uses Charged Strike and Lightning Strike as my main two attacks. This character is on Ladder Bnet, so more often than not I am partied with someone else. Currently CS and LS are both maxed along with the prereqs, nothing in the bow tree and some points in the passive skill tree so that I currently have level 1 Valk. At this time I have finished Nightmare difficulty but have not yet killed Baal. My equipment is not sufficent to survive in Hell so I am magic finding.

Now that I have provided the necessary background here is my question. To be able to complete Hell difficulty which should I maximize with my remaining skill points: Valk or Lightning. I would do Lightning for the synergy effect on CS and LS, as 800 per bolt would be added to CS and 600 added to LS. On the other hand I would have serious trouble with lightning immune monsters so Valk could help in that regard. Valk would also give me additional tanking ability and spread out the hits my Amazon takes. Which would be more effective, maxing my lighting attacks for pure killing power, or maxing Valk to deal with physical immunes?

Thanks for the advice.

 

[Leohappy]

NTo be able to complete Hell difficulty which should I maximize with my remaining skill points: Valk or Lightning. I would do Lightning for the synergy effect on CS and LS, as 800 per bolt would be added to CS and 600 added to LS. On the other hand I would have serious trouble with lightning immune monsters so Valk could help in that regard. Valk would also give me additional tanking ability and spread out the hits my Amazon takes. Which would be more effective, maxing my lighting attacks for pure killing power, or maxing Valk to deal with physical immunes?

Thanks for the advice.

Just so you know, Valkyrie doesn't do much damage because her attacks are slow. She is a good tank however. Generally, having level 17 Valk after +skills is the most cost-efficient as she gets the most important gear upgrades. So that's the level I'd recommend.

PS: Is your zon a spearzon or javazon? You aren't using Lightning Fury?

 

[Smakit]

Your choice

I think you could do good either way. The Valk does do some damage, and if you plan on using it as your main killer of lit immunes, might want to get her up there. But, if you plan on getting a merc at your level with decent/good equipment, then your valk is just an extra meat shield/bit of damage, and it isn't really necessary.

So, it just depends how you want to play it, where you plan on fighting the most, etc., etc.

 

[Mursilis]

My Amazon is a Javalin wielder. I didn't use lightning fury for two reasons. One was that most Javazons use this skill so I wanted to be a bit different. The second is that it would cost 2 extra skill points to max as opposed to maxing lighting for the synergy. I realize 2 points is really not much, but for me without godly gear, every point seems to matter alot. Three reasons I guess, I also have zero points in penetrate, so lighting fury will be a bit limited for me.

I do have an Act 2 mercenary with the defiance aura to act as a tank as well. I was hoping that the Valk would act as a meat shield for the merc who would then be able to kill off the lighting immunes. Otherwise I'm worried that the monsters will overwhelm the merc and I'll have to keep reviving him.

Would it be easier to simply keep recasting the Valk instead? I thought of this but my impression is that the Valk will get killed off after only a few hits and I'll be using all my mana to recast her.

To be honest I've never gotten very far in Hell difficulty so I don't know where I intend to run this character. I don't know which monsters are going to be lightning immune nor where they reside. So I can't really answer that question.