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suntorytime
Monkey King
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I just found
Lachdanan's Visage
Lachdanan's Visage
Banded Plate (Sacred)

Defense: (8973 - 10165) to (14769 - 16229)
(Sorceress Only)
Required Level: 100
Required Dexterity: 627
Item Level: 120
Mana Shield: 65% less Mana Drained when Hit
You may Only use Melee, Summon and Support Skills
Adds 200-300 Magic Damage
Adds 150-200 Fire Damage
Adds 150-200 Lightning Damage
Adds 150-200 Cold Damage
-30% to Enemy Elemental Resistances
+(161 to 200)% Enhanced Defense
+(1000 to 5000) Defense
Socketed (6)
. Any ideal about a build around this armor ?
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well it has to be a melee . Deathlord will add some extra defence but will lower the FPA . i'd say you should use it just for the defence boost for ubers that require massive defence (Ureh for example) . There are many better options for a sorc so i wouldn't focus any build arround it (only if you can't acces anything better at this moment )
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suntorytime
Monkey King
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Yea it's likely that this
Lachdanan's Visage
Lachdanan's Visage
Banded Plate (Sacred)

Defense: (8973 - 10165) to (14769 - 16229)
(Sorceress Only)
Required Level: 100
Required Dexterity: 627
Item Level: 120
Mana Shield: 65% less Mana Drained when Hit
You may Only use Melee, Summon and Support Skills
Adds 200-300 Magic Damage
Adds 150-200 Fire Damage
Adds 150-200 Lightning Damage
Adds 150-200 Cold Damage
-30% to Enemy Elemental Resistances
+(161 to 200)% Enhanced Defense
+(1000 to 5000) Defense
Socketed (6)
is designed for a melee sorc using Chronofield instead of Baneblade as uberskill. Haven't collected enough gears for melee sorc yet so i can't tell which is stronger :(
Another quick question: Baneblade disables the using of Mana Sweep and the mana cost of melee tree skills is ridiculously high, how can i deal with it ?
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ChaoticSun
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How do you kill Volrath as a crossbow Necromancer? He keeps one hitting me with the lightning, which is too fast to avoid, and it takes me a while to kill the traps.
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You have to avoid the lightning... Shoot the traps, move, shoot the traps, move, ect.
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Hey guys, does 'Elfin Weapons' still give CB to a trap rat? I have added the skills to give +45% CB, but in my 'D2Stats' program it doesn't show up.
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chippvant wrote:Yea it's likely that this
Lachdanan's Visage
Lachdanan's Visage
Banded Plate (Sacred)

Defense: (8973 - 10165) to (14769 - 16229)
(Sorceress Only)
Required Level: 100
Required Dexterity: 627
Item Level: 120
Mana Shield: 65% less Mana Drained when Hit
You may Only use Melee, Summon and Support Skills
Adds 200-300 Magic Damage
Adds 150-200 Fire Damage
Adds 150-200 Lightning Damage
Adds 150-200 Cold Damage
-30% to Enemy Elemental Resistances
+(161 to 200)% Enhanced Defense
+(1000 to 5000) Defense
Socketed (6)
is designed for a melee sorc using Chronofield instead of Baneblade as uberskill. Haven't collected enough gears for melee sorc yet so i can't tell which is stronger :(
Another quick question: Baneblade disables the using of Mana Sweep and the mana cost of melee tree skills is ridiculously high, how can i deal with it ?
well if you want to ditch Baneblade as a melee , your physical damage (and losim) will also suffer . that would mean focusing on elemental procs / elemental damage to weapon ,maby also investing into energy to boost that elemental damage .

If you wish to trade the extra defence(+damage) for the huge slow from chronosphere , it would be a good option in places where you can slow opponents .

it's an interesting idea dough :) i will also give it a try when i'll have some spare time .

as for the mana costs , get some mana after kill , mana on striking in melee , mana stolen per hit . They will fix all your issues . Also , if you consider investing points into energy instead of smaxing dexterity for max bloc (not required untill hard ubers when you can re-assign your stats with no problem ) , you will have more than enough mana .

edit : maby go for a fire-poison tree build (-:
Edited by ChuckNoRis 9 years.
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ChaoticSun
Dark Huntress
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Warren1001 wrote:You have to avoid the lightning... Shoot the traps, move, shoot the traps, move, ect.

I do that, but the issue is that there is a lot of traps, and the lightning moves too fast for me to focus on just one, which takes me 2-3 hits to destroy. How long should the fight typically last?
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havinus
Prowler
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ChaoticSun wrote:
Warren1001 wrote:You have to avoid the lightning... Shoot the traps, move, shoot the traps, move, ect.

I do that, but the issue is that there is a lot of traps, and the lightning moves too fast for me to focus on just one, which takes me 2-3 hits to destroy. How long should the fight typically last?


This -> http://www.medianxl.com/t6875-xvc-how-t ... sses-video
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ChaoticSun
Dark Huntress
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havinus wrote:
ChaoticSun wrote:
Warren1001 wrote:You have to avoid the lightning... Shoot the traps, move, shoot the traps, move, ect.

I do that, but the issue is that there is a lot of traps, and the lightning moves too fast for me to focus on just one, which takes me 2-3 hits to destroy. How long should the fight typically last?


This -> http://www.medianxl.com/t6875-xvc-how-t ... sses-video

Thanks ^v^ This really helped.