I’m bored - give me crazy builds to try

So I’ve pretty much explored all the meta builds and have BiS gear all around (except the +6 2os magic items for sorc + necro).

Does anyone have any off-meta builds that actually work? I’d probably try to play it all the way through from normal.

Here’s what I’ve already tried:
Sorc: Orb, Blizzard sorc,

Fireball/

Hydra,

Nova (all electric forms),

Enchant sorc, bear, Dream, max thunderstorm, immortal
barb: everything, even that crazy summoner barb from a while back… execpt

Concentration or pure bezerk
Assassin: traps & Mosaic
Palladin: hammerdin, Fohdin, smiter, tesladin, dragondin, charger, zealot,

Vengeance
Necro: summoner, Bone, psn

Nova, bowamancer, renegade Arbalist
Druid: Fury, cold, fire
Amazon: javazon, Infinity spearazon, bowazon, frostmaiden, fendazon, impaleazon

I don’t think i’ll try builds that obviously wont work (

Inferno barb, sorry), but i am looking to explore more creative options, or even more subtle versions of meta builds, anything fun

If a build seems interesting enough I’ll take a few days to get the end-game gear together, then another few to play the character through the game (still SSF), and I’ll let you know the outcome!

Anyone else can also participate and give feedback!

Thanks!

wolf-barb ?

sewad wrote: 10 months ago

wolf-barb ?

Yea sorry, tried it

One of my first barb builds, even one i did way back in the day like 15 years ago, it’s fun enough

I did it with a wolf

Howl, Beast/Death combo, first time i did Ubers was with this set-up back in the day

I guess i could try it with wolf

Howl and maybe a big 2 handed ebotd

My Bruib is Grief+Beast. not as powerful as before, when it could do 5f attacks, and do not slow under

Decrepify. now it seems to be 6f at best.

As for other crazy build, jump attack barb? which could hit 1 in 10 times maybe?
the rest may be just minor adjustments, like

Frozen Orb + blizzard,

Whirlwind + gold find

Yea, done them, for the

Leap Attack barb i did ebotd

Thunder Maul

Leap Attack/ww. It’s ok.

Did orb/blizzard - even with an Obsession, meh

Have a gold find barb, found it better with

Berserk than ww

What about Ranger Paladin or Silent Assassin, both with bows? Maybe physical/guided bowsin with BoS?

Windforce

Fanaticism/Might Paladin ranger?

As for off-meta multiclass/hybrids I had a lot of fun with cold bowadin along side fire bear are definitely my top choices/suggestions; and I'm currently on path of building the same (bow version) but with Sorc, even tho you don't have synergies for

Holy Freeze I always wondered how good would it play with Sosa's

Cold Mastery... When I heard people going absolutely crazy about stacking those cold dmg small charms it blew my mind!

What about

Rabies Druid? Poison Zon?

Something just popped on my mind... Could wolfy might Pala SS work? With like Beast I guess.
Also maybe like a

Blade/phy zealsin with Passion, maybe? Dunno.

Some Thorn based abomination with like, well,

Thorns and bunch of "attacker takes damage" + dmg reduction gear? Welp that's at least on my list to try one day no matter how painful will it be hehe

Once ladder ends, I'm making

Rabies

Werewolf druid.

I have everything ready:
47% Bramble, +3

Rabies Metamorphosis, some fancy

Monarch (15dr, 4x 5/5 facet), 5/5'd

Plague Bearer, trang gloves. Going to borrow poisonmancer's

Death's Web maybe.
Will let you know, if it has more than meme potential in 2 weeks.
Act5 Merc with double Plague or something.

amazon using only

Plague Javelin and

Poison Javelin. all other points into passve/magic tree.

TheDoo wrote: 10 months ago

Silent Assassin

What’s that? Never heard of it

I don’t know if i want to try another poison based build, my psn

Nova necro was kinda a let-down

I heard that Bladesin was fun, but don't know the build myself.

My own sin is a Full Nat + Chaos to WW, but that's basically a home version of Trapsin (but can be colored Fire or Light, as you prefer), it's quite fun with a Manic Pixie Dreamgirl with Ice as side kick.

Ah, found what I read too : a Chaos + Fury sin ?

runewords/fury-t1183.html

I found a Venom sniper to be surprisingly entertaining. Grab a

Widowmaker, slap it onto a stacked Venom sin and have at it.

Though as with any single-target build, it may be fun but certainly won't perform at any top level. Even more so as you're stuck with 9 frame attack speed. Still works though.

Nate2.0 wrote: 10 months ago

TheDoo wrote: 10 months ago

Silent Assassin

What’s that? Never heard of it

I don’t know if i want to try another poison based build, my psn

Nova necro was kinda a let-down

I heard a lot of good things about poison javazon tho but ye, I get ya! Silent Assassin would be sin killing from afar, max IAS (go for the lowest possible frames), so I guess

Burst of Speed + some sort of ranged weapon, as I said maybe something like

Widowmaker? Also didn't want to end up having every single ranged build revolving around/needing

Demon Machine

So the discussion around

Thorns peaked my interest. I tried a summon necro holding a Last Wish, with an act 1 fire merc wearing Edge and Bramble… blah, kinda sux (on p8, it’s probably fine on p1-3). Tried with max

Iron Maiden and

Amplify Damage, still just turned into a

Corpse Explosion build

Might try out that max Venom bow/silent assassin

Enchant sorc - which one have you played, melee (

Zeal (Passion) or

Werebear (Beast), both using Dream) or ranged (i.e.

Exploding Arrow-based)?
There is yet another ranged variant, using

Warshrike. Wielding a 1H weapon allows you to equip a shield (Dream), and

Warshrike has piercing attack, so you retain some of the AoE.

I have done all but the

Throwing Knife one - that sounds fun!

Blaze sorc.

That is a crazy build… i think I’d try an

Arctic Blast sorc first though

Nate2.0 wrote: 10 months ago

That is a crazy build… i think I’d try an

Arctic Blast sorc first though

Why look for a build that's already been done when you can make up your own?

Nate2.0 wrote: 10 months ago

That is a crazy build… i think I’d try an

Arctic Blast sorc first though

As that one crazy fan of the

Arctic Blast, I must say I'm very intrigued about this!