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I maxed lightning resistance first thing when I got to Merciless, helps a lot.
You have too little life, your armor is fine, could use better resists but they aren't necessary for ledge. But 1.3k is about 1.5k short of where you should be.
That seems too high. I'm level 57 and a marauder with some pretty good life nodes and am sitting shy of 2000.
I like Raise Zombie better as a meat shield, paired with Minion Life support gem. You get 3 zombies vs 1 spectre without passive improvements.
That was my initial thought too but I was worried that there were so few zombies I see laying around that the skill would almost go unused where as there are always a ton of dead bodies to raise as spectresAm I misunderstanding what can be raised as a zombie?
I think so. I only played with this at the lowest of low levels with my rogue but it seemed that anything that was killed could be raised as a zombie. It seems you may be just thinking of the bodies you push over like rocks.
Yes, that is exactly what i was thinking. So if anything can be raised as a Zombie and anything can be raised as a Specter, why the two different skills?
I have 2 level 32 rare quivers, 1 level 36, and 2 level 44s. Let me know what you're looking for, some have life, some crit, resistance, etc. For instance, one of the level 32s seems pretty good: Adds 2-4 fire damage, 2% life leech, +10 life when an enemy is killed, 61 to max life, 12% fire resist. But I don't have an archer, so I don't know what's good. I also have an extra faster attack gem.
Cool. Would you like the chain for the faster attack or would you like something else?
Think chain is worth more than faster attack, I'd take a chaos on it. Or maybe chain for faster attacks and a quiver.
Ok lets do chain for faster attacks and a quiver. Next time we are on together you can show me some of your quivers. For comparison sake, this is the one I am using now and have been using for more than 20 levels. I'll take anything that is a decent upgrade over this. None of the stats on this are critical to me at this point.Requires Level 16Adds 2-3 Cold DamageAdds 4-6 Physical DamageAdds 5-11 Fire DamageAdds 1-5 Lightning Damage+1 Mana Gained when you Kill an enemy+13% to Fire Resistance
All summons play critical roles.Skeletons are cheap and plenty. They do okay damage but are very low life.Zombies are your meat shields. With life passives and Minion life they get huge health pools. They do okay damage as well but you can only have a couple so they are worth more for meat shields than dps.Specters are your damage. You get few, only 4 max and that requires two uniques and one specific passive node. The reason Specters shine in comparison as damage dealers is because you raise anything except for a boss as a specter, so what you do is go into Solaris level 3 and find one of the champion flame ribbons with multiple projectiles or you go into Lunaris level 3 and find one of the tentacle miscreations that has multiple projectiles (these can be easily identified because instead of shoot one needle at a time 20 times, they shoot 3 at a time 20 times,) they become massive damage dealers when you consider that you can boost their damage up to 100%+ of their natural damage which is enough to wreck most players, let alone other mobs.A lot of people don't realize, most mobs do a lot more damage then players actually do.
Zombies if you are specced into the minion nodes, otherwise spell totem + summon skeletons for meat shield.
Debatable, most builds I would agree skele brotem is better just because its disposable and dual purpose.But for casters, having some Zombies with minion life/speed supports are much better than skeletons.
Get Minion Instability if you do, might as well for more fire damage as well as Pyromaniac and the +burn damage nodes that go with it, then if you use ignite support gem w/ zombies + minion life you get a nice little dps boost.You don't have to get all of the minion nodes either so you can still do good fire damage as a caster.
Reroll > using regrets in most cases
My time >>> time it takes to run another alt if I can use game items to approximate it
I think I've picked up another couple of regrets since we traded, if you want some more. I'll do it for 2 alchs, I'm low on them.
I'm not going for minions on my Shadow, I won't need them, all I need to worry about is not killing myself.Build: at 79
if all your are getting is chance orbs I would skip it. It is not realy worth the work. Chance orbs are pretty weak and they have decent drop rates.
I have pretty good clear speed so I become lazy when I make runs to the vendors.I pick up only high itemlevel blue jewelry and leather belts. All rares and uniques. Chromatic items (3L sockets one of each color), currency items.And most recently added high itemlevel gloves, imperial bows and glorious plate armors for crafting.At lower levels I would just fill my inventory with blue jewelry, chromatic items and all rares and then identify and sell it all to vendors for alterations.
WOw do you get better items?
Add Inner Force + Discipline for more mana
Thats the plan if I can't cut it without inner force, back out of a couple damage nodes, my mana pool should be fine my problem is gonna by my mana regen rate, which will go up as the size of my mana pool scales, the problem is 20% is awful, even with gear ill be hard pressed to get close to 80%.Its been so long since I played a caster I can't remember effective mana pool/regen levels.
Not really. Higher item levels, I guess, but nothing special. I was probably at too low a level to run that kind of map. I tried another one with no negatives, just larger pack size and more magic monsters and I was able to finish it.
Rare maps are dangerous, even if you are overleveled, best to be done in groups.
What levels are you running at that level? My marauder is 59 but hasn't done anything except ledge in merciless.
I am in sarn merciless. Holding my own but have to kite most levels
I'll try to catch up this week and we can farm together. Fellshine would be a good spot at that level too.
sounds good. If you need help in act 1 let me know, I can always use more XP and maybe a gem or two.
Crappier orbs become more common but the rare orbs are the same rate from beginning to end game.Questionso the currency drop rates change from normal to cruel to merciless?
No.
Grace, Wrath and Anger all of them.
