Looking for inspiration

It's time for some D2R first world problems! I have some spare Wealth on non-Ladder and I don't know what to do with it. Specifically 2x

Ohm, 2x

Lo, 2x

Ber, 1x

Jah, 1x

Cham. I've got all the

Key things like Enigma and Infinity, could make more of these of course but that feels like a waste when I could experiment with something new... Hence, coming to you for inspiration! Not answers, I know I am the only one who can ultimately decide, but inspiration.

Ultimately, I'm looking for something fun and a bit different but viable, nothing so niche that it's super inefficient. Don't really care about mf, I have plenty of chars for that, just something fun that can clear most areas in decent speed. I am not really interested in "perfecting" any of my current chars since I don't have enough Wealth to go mad on the hunt for perfect charms and they're mostly perfectly good enough, though I do miss some

Key items for some of them such as D Web, which could be an option. In general I'm not a min/max type though and prefer variety. I'd be happy to respec one of my current builds or start an entirely new char!

Builds I have:

Lightning Fury Java (BiS gear)
FoH Pally (BiS gear)
Physical bowa (basically BiS gear but

Windforce only, I haven't ever made a Faith...)
Fire bowa (BiS gear)
Poison necro (no D Web!)

Frenzy barb (BiS gear)

Whirlwind barb (BiS gear)
Wearbear/Zoo druid hybrid (definitely not BiS gear)
Riftsin (BiS gear)

Frozen Orb/

Hydra sorc (definitely not BiS gear)

Other builds I have tried:
Hammerdin

Holy Freeze Zealot (although I had no gear when I tried that)
Smiter
Fire sorc
Throw barb
Trapsin
Fire druid


What are some of your favourite builds? Any crazy builds that you've particularly enjoyed? Any different play styles that I have't tried?

I've thought about a few options but being indecisive: melee/bear sorc, but might still be out of budget; some sort of auradin, but worry it might be quite boring and potentially still out of budget; getting a d web and perfecting that necro; switching from

Lightning Fury to an Infinity Spearzon to wreck Ubers (currently just use the

Frenzy barb); making a Faith just because. I don't feel like I've ever found a necro or druid setup that I've fully enjoyed, could explore them further.

Anyway, sorry for wall of text, feel free to ignore me.

I really like the tornadostormer. Lots of fun and bis gear rather cheap. He can solo hell and clear cs pretty fast, but needs help on p8.
Oh and don‘t try Uberdiablo with him. Just don‘t.

I am a big fan of Bone necro with a bit of summon myself, so can always vouch for this.

If you're looking at more original stuff, have you tried the

Demon Machine +

Enchant based fire sorc ?

Have you tried a Bladesin (a.k.a. a throwing star ninja)? Never had the Wealth to build one, but it always sounded like a lot of fun.

Cold bowazon, fire trapsin, kicksin, bladesin, ww sin,

Tornado/

Hurricane druid.
You can borrow my gears to try melee/bear sorc, auradin.

(P8 builds)
Spearzon- you wont regret it. S tier along with java. You need Infinity

Spear for it.
Geddon wolf- very fun and tanky. B tier but wrecks certin areas like

Tal Rasha tombs,

Travincal, wsk, ancients way... I think you have all the gear for this already.

I haven't tried auradin but I'm building one. You seem to have part of the runes required. It sounds like fun.
Same with throw barb.

I highly recommend Dragon paladin... I managed to acquire all the gear to make that this season in ladder and it rocks.

Another build I had a lot of fun with was a fire trap assassin using Flickering Flame, Phoenix shield, and Hand of Justice (though I haven't tried the build with the extra -fire of the Hand of Justice). Also very fun and different

Energyshield

Nova sorc..
Griffon - Crescent Moon - Spirit and get 105% cast superfast farmer.

more expensive build is with Infinity instead of Crescent Moon + Spirit and lose even more resistances, also makes it harder to reach the 105% cast, and with a sunder

Crack of the Heavens.

Illusions wrote: 1 year ago

Energyshield

Nova sorc..
Griffon - Crescent Moon - Spirit and get 105% cast superfast farmer.

more expensive build is with Infinity instead of Crescent Moon + Spirit and lose even more resistances, also makes it harder to reach the 105% cast, and with a sunder

Crack of the Heavens.

+1 for this build, i'm currently playing my sorc with this build after tried blizzard, lightning and somes hybrid build. Definitively no regrets, and i'm testing the Phoenix variante who is very tanky for a sorc I'm in love with sorc again !

Very fast, very nervous gameplay as i like it <3

You do have enough $$$ for a proper Tesladin that I highly recommend. I find it to be relaxing and pleasant to play, a rainbow to be had (no homo).
Coooley did a great one, check it here:

That Brand wielding necro we were theory crafting a while back!

But also if you don’t have a self wielding Infinity

Nova sorc that’s fun too

Thanks for the suggestions everyone! I am leaning towards some sort of self wield Infinity build but prefer Amazons to Sorcs in general so may try this Spearzon. Having said that, dual Dream has multiple purposes so that also appeals!

Kicksin with Lawbringer PB + Enigma Tesladin with Enigma

Darbon wrote: 1 year ago

Kicksin with Lawbringer PB

I tried this briefly late last ladder. I had leveled up an assassin (SSF as a ladder start practice) and then swapped her to a kicksin with Lawbringer just to test the build as I pretty much had all the gear/runes needed already (except the MA charms, which I acquired - they were much cheaper last season than this, for some odd reason ). I had a lot of fun with it, however brief the time I spent with her

I love my Riftsin, what's so interesting about a kicker with Lawbringer? I actually have an

Eth

Stormlash, been meaning to make a pure kicker at some point.

Lawbringer has -50% target defense (applies to any target, including bosses) which helps with charging up

Tiger Strike, it carries

Sanctuary Aura which ignores physical resistance of Undead (many physical immunes are Undead) and has a substantial chance to cast

Decrepify which also helps with physical immune/resistances. The thing with

Dragon Tail is that, IIRC, that the game calculates how much physical damage it would do to your main target (the one being kicked), then then adds the +Fire Damage from the skill itself based on that physical damage when determining the splash damage. So

Dragon Tail, despite being Fire element, will do 0 damage to both your main target and all surrounding targets if your main target is a physical immune monster. As long as you can damage the main target with physical damage, the splash (explosion) damage is Fire and damage all surrounding targets normally (with Fire, so you need a Fire Sunder for that part to work against all monsters). I'm definitely not an expert on the subject, but this is my understanding of it

Kicksin is about using mainly (or only)

Dragon Talon.
While using DT as finishing moves with

Charge-up Skills, it is called Martial Art Sin.

mockingbirdreal wrote: 1 year ago

Kicksin is about using mainly (or only)

Dragon Talon.
While using DT as finishing moves with

Charge-up Skills, it is called Martial Art Sin.

Ah, right, my apologies Not an Assassin expert, obviously.

Nate wrote: 1 year ago

That Brand wielding necro we were theory crafting a while back!

Could someone please post a link to the build?

A few from the top of my head. Apologies if already mentioned!

- Riftsin, riftadin (dtalon,

Zeal+

Conviction, ctc

Frozen Orb)
- Bowsin (basically what it says, a bow wielding assassin - good choices are Buriza and

Widowmaker - a lot of Venom, crush, OWs, some control from shadow skills and DS for clear).
..and essentially bow anything - Hunter druids (full summon, a lot of dex, good bow), Bow barbs (upped

Buriza-Do Kyanon - not many options for any kind of AoE here - 400+ dex,

Howl,

Taunt,

Grim Ward for control).

- Partial Trang-Oul's Avatar set is interesting, too - you can pick a full summon druid and help your pets with

Fire Wall.
Giving partial TO set to a Singer barb would be cool. too - to complement physical damage from

War Cry with

Fire Wall - things are stunned and won't walk out of it.

- Immortal King Barb and M'avina's Battle Hymn Zon - shapeshifted. Just for the sake of it. You get a glowing non-druid bear, and a pretty tanky and stubborn character (barb is remarkably thicc).
- 3fpa bearsin - assuming attack speed calc for main hand hasn't been changed. You need, if I remember correctly, Artisan's

Feral Claws of Quickness (3 Shaels to reach 100% wias).