Kyzarius Posted February 5, 2013 Report Share Posted February 5, 2013 I have been growing a HC witch lately. She is 25. here are her passive skills currently. I am using skeleton, zombies and spectre at the moment. Have the taunting totem so i can redirect the flow of enemies when I get pressed. I assist my pets with frost nova, cold snap, fireball and wand damage. This is how I expect it to look when i finish normal mode. Or close to it. Notice i am going double totem. I plan to use skele totem, and an attack totem changing from two skele totems or two dps totems being out depending on what I am up against. Survivablility seems unfair at this point. The game becomes more of a RTS type game with the pet class and I have only once been below 50% hp in all of act I, and so far in act II. I play with the mentality that getting hit even once is bad, and have cleared entire maps without even dropping my energy shield. The act I final boss was a little difficult at 1st, though once I figured out how to spam skele summon and alternate fireballs between casts she went down easy. When she was in her necro phase I was able to re-summon at a faster pace and overwhelmed her with skellies lol. From what I have read, when I get minion instability next lvl that I will begin to ROFLSTOMP for a while. When i shift to two totems I will also begin picking up curse and buff auras. I expect to run two curses with double curse and permanent duration in Cruel difficulty, with lightning / ice aura on my pets to boost damage. SInce no direct damage spells can be used with the dual totem talent my character becomes a back line support necro, her only direct support dmg being wanding. Here is what my overall node plan looks like. The order in which I progress will be determined by how my survivability is scaling. I currently expect to get minion nodes first then fill out with hp, energy shield, and the shield buff for my minions when I feel things begin to get rough (probably late cruel) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akoz Posted February 5, 2013 Report Share Posted February 5, 2013 RIP - Melee is so tough! 1 Little lag and it's over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inscribed Posted February 6, 2013 Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 RIP - Melee is so tough! 1 Little lag and it's over. Damn really? What got you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akoz Posted February 6, 2013 Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 Damn really? What got you? A pack in Lunaris lvl 3. Nothing big, I usualy just jump around and aoe, but it wasnt jumping for like 3-4 seconds and they ate away at me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akoz Posted February 6, 2013 Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 What you think I should try now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inscribed Posted February 6, 2013 Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 I'm enjoying playing ranged, but I would probably start as a marauder if I remade him. I started as a ranger, then I started as a duelist, and now I'm saying the marauders start in the best location for bow builds. Also, I've come to agree that gains in physical damage are far outclassed by gains in elemental damage, so I would shoot for plenty of +elemental damage nodes in addition to fire/ice/lightning arrow as my main attack, fueled by blood magic. Forget the default attack. Marauder starts in a much better location for quick access to elemental damage, tons of health/regen, and blood magic. He also has the quickest access to the most resist, to top it off. If/when he dies, I'm going to try out a witch or templar and explore the north half of the board some. CI and EB look pretty attractive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akoz Posted February 6, 2013 Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 We should look into, the three of us (Inscribed, Mali & Myself), doing a static group where we play 1-2 nights a week together and level as a group. We could share auras, buffs & curses. Level those guys as a group and have our own solo guys as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akoz Posted February 6, 2013 Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 CI was just nerfed. 95% not worth it in HC not even much better in SC maybe 80%. Went from+80% buff to ES with CI to +0%. They over nerfed it. EDIT: This is officially the most popular thread on these forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mali Posted February 6, 2013 Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 RIP Frostyasswhisper... Hoonglas the Duelist is running lvl 42 HC right now @ end of act 1. Cruel Brutus nearly got me by lag/teleporting around. At the first sign of lag, healing potions should be spammed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Forsaken Posted February 6, 2013 Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 My level 26 hc duelist got waxed by kaitryns gang of explosive arrows. .... sad times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akoz Posted February 6, 2013 Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 Always best to play together I always die alone, rarely in a group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inscribed Posted February 6, 2013 Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 Ugh, my duelist bit it tonight too, at lvl 40 again. Bashlocked by a boss group of undead rhoas in Cruel Fetid Pool. Ironically, I was one point away from getting stun immunity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mali Posted February 6, 2013 Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 Damn, those cruel Rhoas are nasty business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f0xx Posted February 6, 2013 Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 The charging Rhoas and their variations are nasty as hell. Last night I saw the strongest character I've ever seen up to level 28. While we were team fighting, this marauder came, wielding Geofri's (sp?) hammer and was killing the opposite party all by himself. Every single character was falling with 1 blow. I played like 10 games with him, luckily we were always in the same team. I saw him once jump on 2 characters at the same time and they both died at once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akoz Posted February 6, 2013 Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 Maradurs are beefy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyzarius Posted February 6, 2013 Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 past 30 now, still alive.. managed to do the bandits quests without losing my energy shield. Get to start using spell totem in one level, very excited! It is so funny too, the perspective as a necromancer in this game. Your going through the forest and the bandits are asleep in their tents. You walk in the middle of their camp and summon a pair of skeletons at each tent, who then destroy the bandits as they wake up. Who is evil? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyzarius Posted February 6, 2013 Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 I am curious does anyone else try to max out their gear to every act's new gear level? I didn't do this in default league, but in HC, I find it keeps me well ahead of the damage curve. The energy shield size more than doubles each act, and swapping my gear up has allowed me to take some hefty direct hits without touching my hp pool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f0xx Posted February 6, 2013 Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 I am curious does anyone else try to max out their gear to every act's new gear level? I didn't do this in default league, but in HC, I find it keeps me well ahead of the damage curve. The energy shield size more than doubles each act, and swapping my gear up has allowed me to take some hefty direct hits without touching my hp pool. I max out my gear as often as possible.... I mean what stops you from not wearing a good item you found? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beveril Posted February 6, 2013 Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 I max out my gear as often as possible.... I mean what stops you from not wearing a good item you found? The same, I always upgrade if it has equal or greater stats and/or slots (especially linked slots). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyzarius Posted February 6, 2013 Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 I max out my gear as often as possible.... I mean what stops you from not wearing a good item you found? Socket configuration. Comes a point where you need specific pairings of linked sockets. Spells scale with these way better than solo. Like minion summoning has a +hp support gem, and a + dmg support gem. I asked because its so expensive to keep adjusting sockets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akoz Posted February 6, 2013 Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 I am always upgrading gear, but I usually go easy on myself and watch trade and trade for alot of my gear. I always upgrade jewelry and sell it to afford most of the gear I want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f0xx Posted February 6, 2013 Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 Socket configuration. Comes a point where you need specific pairings of linked sockets. Spells scale with these way better than solo. Like minion summoning has a +hp support gem, and a + dmg support gem. I asked because its so expensive to keep adjusting sockets. Oh I just bought a quite nice 5L armor the other day, costed me 4 chaos orbs and a regret orb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akoz Posted February 6, 2013 Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 I have never spent more then 1 alch on anything I am cheap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deykari Posted February 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 Always upgrading gear when I can. Just sold my 4L Maligaro's Virtuosity for a small fortune so I'm going to go wild on some new things. Dey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mali Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 Just got one shotted on my duelist @lvl 45 by a mob called sharpbones in the church/cruel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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