08-28-2003, 07:07 PM
Quote:Did you ever consider having a paladin wear those trang's pieces, a Dragonscale shield, and then use conviction and meditation synergized with prayer with the firewall/hydra/meteor? I think that would make for a very unique, powerful fighter mage. Albeit a little item dependent. But hey, the trang's things on Gunter mean we aren't talking about being constrained by items when thinking about this build; it's obviously a twinky build.
I tried to twink him as minimally as possible -- just the three Trang's pieces which are the minimum that would allow him to cast Firewalls and therefore allow him to be classied as a "mage." I chose to use a barbarian, because barbarians are the least magical of the character classes, so the ridiculousness and humor of it all is maximized. Besides, it gave me a chance to experiment around with the left side of the War Cry tree which as everyone knows is very underutilized. On diabloii.net and the Amazon Basin, I've gotten a few messages from people saying that they never knew that Taunt could do all the stuff I've been talking about.
Back to your paladin idea, that sounds like a fun build. On a practical level, he might have a lot of crowd control problems, though, if he can't kill things fast enough. Also, you'd need to figure out a practical way to deal with fire immunes or figure out a way to keep your merc safe while he/she takes care of them.
Quote:I'm reading the end of your post and cringing, so I have to ask the question. Is Diablo in 1.1 actually EASIER than he is in 1.09?! I always liked how scary he was in 1.09 and if it's so that the game's namesake is a pushover now, i'm kinda dissapointed.
I haven't played enough 1.09 to know if there's any change (I took 18 months off of playing D2 and only returned in June). I've always thought Diablo was kind of easy in 1.09, though, because of how his lightning breath doesn't start for several yards. If you're trying to missle fire him as a bowazon or sorceress, then yeah he can be scary. But if you go toe-to-toe with him so that he can't charge you or use his lightning breath and you have maxed fire resistance as I always do, then he's not hard at all.
Quote:Is that you, Ariel? Was this yet another conversation twixt Occhi and Ariel --
"Andariel? Who runs around naked and spits poison!"
If so, how nice to see you again!
Nice to see you're still around, too, Occhi! You bet I remember you and Bolty and Jarulf and the whole gang. I thought that the Lurker Lounge had died two years ago when Bolty said he didn't want to run it anymore and was sick of all of the idiots who'd started spamming the boards with their idiocy. Was that just a ruse to get rid of the idiots? I didn't know the LL was still around until someone mentioned it in passing on a diabloii.net board. I was very excited when I confirmed that it was.