A Rebuttal to Dusk Shroud Complaints

I made my Enigma last night, and after wearing a

Dusk Shroud Smoke for quite some time, I did so very confidently in another

Dusk Shroud. I hear people complain about the look of Dusk Shrouds on their characters, and recently saw a thread using a Necro as evidence that they look like trash. I assume these players are looking for shining golden armor and spikes and crests and lions and eagles and, I don't know, griffons plated about their body. That's fine, but to those people, might I recommend a Paladin? Or an Amazon? Have you seen the way armor looks on them? It's glorious. But for those Necromancers out there worried about the idea of sinking these heard-earned runes into a lowly

Dusk Shroud, consider this: you're wandering into the plains of Hell, batting back blows from demons with the

Skull of their

Fallen kin and raising the dead, conjuring beasts, and slinging poison and magic with a Bone. You fight alongside fearsome warriors wielding devastating weapons and clad in shining armor, peering out through tiny slits in their steely helms. And there you stand, an elderly flesh wizard,

Tiara perched atop your long, grey hair, with a leather vest hanging open to reveal your ripped abs. Is there anything more hardcore than that? I think it's excellent. I went out of my way to get a

Dusk Shroud, because nothing else looks as apathetic to the hordes of Hell that are approaching, and I'm all about letting them know how many F's I give on the way in. Make your runewords in whatever you like, but don't let the haters dissuade you if you're considering the Dusk:

Paragraphs, bro.

If the Str requirement is no problem, the

Studded Leather one looks the same..

With the added bonus of rocking bright red pants (besides the potential armor boost).

And I agree, descending in the depths of hell with your shirt casually open, why not?

Struikrover wrote: 2 years ago

If the Str requirement is no problem, the

Studded Leather one looks the same..

With the added bonus of rocking bright red pants (besides the potential armor boost).

And I agree, descending in the depths of hell with your shirt casually open, why not?

Edit:

Wire Fleece for higher levels ofc.

that is nasty, is that a bottle of graveyard whisky in his hand

ggs wrote: 2 years ago

Is there anything more hardcore than that?

When i look at that non-shiny armor with no griffon, lions or eagles but just bones and skulls, yes there is (beside playing on hardcore for real)

It does have a nice oldschool rocker vibe to it.

Well, until you spot the

Tiara that is. Though it certainly still beats the otherwise normal green bag over his had.

Personally, I'll always choose Archon over Shroud. But that's simply for the better stats. Looks are a tie for me there.

I laughed reading the "ripped abs" part, haha.

Totally agree with your approach -- just play the game however you want, and feel good about it.

Not everything is about popularity, or resell value, etc etc

My offline test necro was wearin Wealth made in

Templar Coat for some time - Marrowwalks still require the same 118 str, so why not? Just sayin that exact plate armor looks awesome on necro, imo. Now he is wearin

Great Hauberk with Bramble - also cool and grim. Definitely better to look upon than rocker jacket. But to each his own.

PS: And yes - never he'll wear this green condom. I'm done with shakos.

Wait, so my green-condom-skin-of-the-vipermagi-wearing-White-

Wand-sporting-Spirit-shield-wielding Necro isn't his own unique butterfly??

Sigh. I'm going to stare off in the distance longingly.

ggs wrote: 2 years ago

I hear people complain about the look of Dusk Shrouds on their characters, and recently saw a thread using a Necro as evidence that they look like trash.

The legend of chad necro is getting more Lore and a character arc, i love it. these threads are more enjoyable than the data driven guides lol

cujokila wrote: 2 years ago

Wait, so my green-condom-skin-of-the-vipermagi-wearing-White-

Wand-sporting-Spirit-shield-wielding Necro isn't his own unique butterfly??

Sigh. I'm going to stare off in the distance longingly.

I wonder how they made that... hat... I suppose it was some early morning, when a Blizz employee taken a shower, grabbed a green Towel to dry his hair, looked into the mirror and gone - "That's hot!" (hope this ain't a copyright infringement ^^`)

The old-man ripped abs thing is really cool. Problem is that green ugly motherfucking

Cap.

You guys are real set on the idea of using a

Shako, and I think that's a bit short-sighted. There are better circlets/coronets/tiaras/diadems out there, and then you're a PRINCESS! Who is also ripped.

The D2r Necro will forever be a homeless crackhead biker to me. I can't unsee it.

Ironembraced wrote: 2 years ago

The D2r Necro will forever be a homeless crackhead biker to me. I can't unsee it.

But isn't that the raddest dude to kill the devil?

Just here a year late to propose the happy medium.

Mage Plate and its big brother, Gives you some Mad Max vibes.

My necro looks almost identical to the OP except he has the dreaded 'green condom', which I find to be a hilarious name on it's own. I mean, the necro in this game is never really going to look that great anyway, so you might as well go all the way and make him a biker. I also have a

Dusk Shroud Fortitude and find that the extremely low strength requirement more than makes up for any loss in aesthetics. Also, the sorc looks kinda cute w/

Shako imo.