Pouncezon

Ah okay, thanks a lot for explaining this. I don't know how to calculate the breakpoints yet but I'll try to figure it out

There's a speed calculator somewhere on the forum here that will tell you what the breakpoints are. They should be listed in the guide somewhere also.

Try searching for speed calc.

So I managed to upgrade some of my gear to what was suggested - Crafted runewords and jewels - but I feel kinda stuck again. I can somewhat safely do Terror Cows now, and to some extent Terror Fauzt (still haven't cleared it though). My current setup looks like so:
http://i.imgur.com/FCO9S76.png (didn't embed picture because it's large & ugly)

I would like to exchange my gloves and helm into something else. Someone suggested the

Siegfried

Siegfried
Amazon Helms
'VexNef'
Runeword Level: 68
3% Chance to cast level 5 Vanquish on Kill
50% Attack Speed
15% Cast Speed
Adds 42-125 Fire Damage
Adds 42-125 Lightning Damage
Adds 42-125 Cold Damage
(3 to 5)% Chance of Crushing Blow
+(72 to 100)% Enhanced Defense
+50 to Dexterity
Elemental Resists +(21 to 25)%

(Jah) runeword in an amazon helmet. I don't know what gloves to go for, or if I should continue to use these MO'd ones and upgrade them? Maybe my jewelry also needs an upgrade.

I have not completed the black road challenge yet as I don't really feel that strong. I have quite a bit of charms, but thats thanks to my friend farming those for me. In Terror Cows it's easy enough to survive, due to the massive amount of enemies + life leech, but when there's fewer enemies around it gets hard to survive (especially on Destruction).

So do I just farm the first couple of acts in Destruction difficulty and hope for some set items to drop? Or do I need to farm TCows for a specific item/runeword? Any help would be appreciated :)

If the weapon in your picture is un-upgraded as it looks - you should upgrade it. To do that:
1. step cube weapon with orbs (+15% Enhanced Damage), until it says +350% enhanced damage
2. step put Jah runes in it
3. step count your "increase atack speed" items and see if you hit breakpoint, if not cube with orbs (3% Increased Attack Speed)

Heh, I completely missed that I could upgrade my weapon further. Whoops :3
It's currently socketed with 6x Perfect Rainbow gems, is it still a good idea to exchange them with 6x Jah runes?
I'll try to fix my IAS too.

Thanks a lot :)

Crushing blow is not that important when you use curare. Focus on higher damage + spreading poison from curare. Generally, you pounce on non poison immunes and walk away like a boss - everything should die from poison in few secs. On poison immunes - pounce on the sides of big crowds and walk away, then pounce on side again and repeat. Pounce in the middle only when you tanky enough, like over 500k-600k defense and DR. Also, don't forget to use takedown skill as prebuff for your pouncing.

I haven't used Takedown at all :c
So I should cast that every ~3 seconds to keep the buff up at all times?
Also, kinda unrelated question, but what about mercenaries? Or are they not really a thing in median?

Not sure what your skill plant is. Try something like this - http://skillplan.median-xl.com/planner?id=I0Bqpiux

Many people put some points in "wild and free" - i don't, its a personal preference. But max Balance, Curare, Pounce and Lioness. Than with distribute left over points like this - 2 into takedown : 1 into Lioness, until all points are gone.

Anonymous: wrote:Not sure what your skill plant is. Try something like this - http://skillplan.median-xl.com/planner?id=I0Bqpiux

Many people put some points in "wild and free" - i don't, its a personal preference. But max Balance, Curare, Pounce and Lioness. Than with distribute left over points like this - 2 into takedown : 1 into Lioness, until all points are gone.

What about your stat distribution? Enough for gear, dex rest? or do you split rest between dex and vita?

Theres absolutely no point investing in Takedown. People invest in WaF to reach FHR cap and get more mobile = aka avoiding death in many situations. FHR cap for a character that jumps into pack of mobs is very crucial.

@Lh
Everything should go into dex = more damage from pounce. Vita is not worth investing in, 1st. because the ratio life per vita is very small and 2nd Pounce is an offensive build.