Thematic characters/builds (unicolor)

And so it came to pass... I bought another instance of game and decided to make a little "fashion show", there will probably be more combos and diversity in the future but I mainly wanted to make are single colored characters that will be played very specifically depending on which color they are assigned to. I won't make it too long, will probably let the idea present itself BUT I would like to hear your suggestions and HELP (with some of the colors/options) on how I can improve them and to, well, share to others who got bored with meta builds to maybe try this as a challenge if they have time, space and well will to do! I did cut some corners but if you want some real challenge you can 'house rule' modify anything for yourself (for example first thing that comes to my mind is doing a complete SSF with each such character which was just too much for me).

So what was the original idea -- well this post forums/the-green-goblin-t1574188.html gave me an idea to separate characters in groups like Red team, Blue team, Yellow and Green; but then it felt like a bit incomplete so I added White, Black and Brown teams. So I thought of all skills that are connected to a specific color and then listed all the possible builds inside each one. I wanted (and still kinda do) to make all of the possible builds for each color just to see how they look but that will be an extension of this Secret Experimental Project #023 that I'm already horrified in advance because I'm gonna need sooo much stuff and going through games will be sooo slow (in some cases)... Anyway let me go back on track...

After I made a full list/table of all the possible builds it was time to choose the most representative ones for each color. Ofc I did put some things in like "poison Assassin" into the Green part just because green complements the default black of Assassin perfectly (so more options with the gear would instantly open up) buuuut except for

Venom: Skill Assassin doesn't really have any poison skill so that was kinda on the edge of rules. Then I realized that there are only 2 viable builds to do and those are Poison Javazon and Poison Necro. So I also cut another corner and added Poison Sorceress just for the fact she is naturally green suited (however when it comes to skills it would be very questionable on what to allow her to use). Okay, now's there 4 options to choose from (even tho there are actually only 2 proper ones).

Then I did the same thing with Red - fire, Blue - cold/magic, Yellow/Gold - lightning, White (later I added Grey to this as well) - bone/white skills, but then there was another problem that emerged and that was choosing viable skills and builds for Black and Brown. *Quick note: I also added some alternatives for each of the main 4 color builds (where applicable). When you think about it for some time, there aren't that many "neutral" skills that could go into those 2 categories neither many of which can produce brown or black effects when casting/using. After some time of mixing and matching and making stuff up I finalized it with (what I thought could suit those colors the best or were just leftover skills from some characters):

Black builds

Amazon --

Strafe; alt. Multishot

Assassin -- Bladesin v0.9 (

Blade Sentinel/

Blade Fury/

Blade Shield)

Necromancer --

Revive/Melee but then I was like maybe use a few Trang-Oul parts and turn him into Fire Ball/

Meteor manace (however this didn't seem right) so I would probably go with full melee with just

Revive as a skill and nothing else (contestant for one of the weakest/worst builds)

Barbarian --

Concentrate? I was so unsure about this one so I left it as just a "maybe"

Paladin --

Conversion? Again, same as Barb, just as a crazy option but this time it would suit the dark theme much better

Druid --

Raven/Vines/Melee (another exception I made for myself -- even tho vines are brown-ish just because this would match with the theme and I was wondering for some time even before this project about how far could you get with Ravens and Vines only)


Brown builds

Amazon --

Impale/

Fend?

Assassin --

Shadow Warrior/Melee with

Claw Mastery/

Weapon Block/

Fade?

Necromancer --

Clay Golem/Melee/

Weaken or

Amplify Damage (very if-y because

Weaken produces yellow effect and Amp dmg orange one)

Barbarian --

Leap/

Leap Attack/

Battle Command/Battle Order

Paladin --

Blessed Hammer (I was 99% sure that I'm gonna finally choose this weakened Hammerdin since I never played him before anyway)

Druid -- Bear SS/

Shock Wave/

Hunger/

Summon Grizzly


Now it was time to decide which build suits the best what color. BUT I realized there are exactly 7 colors and there are well exactly 7 different characters so I was like PERFECT!! I will choose one and only one for each color so I can constrict myself even further and make myself play some weird quarter build that probably isn't going to work, but I also said that the end goal is not to make them viable to "beat the game" but to see how far can they go + the more important part to make them look good in appropriate color.

To clarify something else that I don't think I mentioned before (I know, I know, I said I won't make it too long but it's meeee after all hehe) not only that I wanted to make them be dressed in a singular color I also wanted ALL OF THEIR GEAR TO BE that exact same color when you open their inventories. Soooo you see where the main issue/problem lies. Something like a full Aldur's set wouldn't work solely because some of it parts are colored differently in inventory even tho they don't visually change anything on the character model (like gloves, belt, boots -- I think weapon could be accepted as "brown", armor and pelt as well but I'm pretty sure

Aldur's Advance are in fact red). Thanks to @ShadowHeart and this link about colors https://planetdiablo.eu/diablo2/itemdb/ ... &patch=111 also this one https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=68614511 I could easily determine which item is which color even when they were very indistinguishable (even some Uniques made me questioning my own eyes). I also found out that, for example, green gloves DO NOT exist in the game at all (so I had to be a little bit creative or let's say I bent the rules once again just because it was the closest I could do and alternative to this was to just not use anything/leave an empty slot which looked extremely odd)!

In the end...
I have chosen those combos (prone to changes not only because I highly doubt some of the classes will work out with the chosen build but because I don't think they'll look good when they finally get stuck progression/leveling wise):

Blue suit -- Sorceress (

Frozen Orb/Blizzard)

Green suit -- Amazon (

Plague Javelin)

Red/Orange suit -- Druid (

Armageddon/

Oak Sage or

Heart of Wolverine)
*However since @vued made The Green Goblin (which also kinda originated from this post forums/best-looking-armor-in-the-game-t1213065.html) I definitely want to also make The Red Flash, yeees I know it's not from the same saga/comic but I just don't care and think he could potentially look awesome -- a red Pally running around with

Charge bonking things with

Holy Fire or something, but that's definitely another story...

Yellow/Golden suit -- Paladin

Zeal/

Holy Shock

White/Grey -- Necromancer (Skeletons/

Iron Golem/

Bone Armor/

Bone Prison) however I ended up doing only Skellies/IG/Melee so far just because I think other Bone stuff are a waste of skills that can be used for synergies

Black -- Assassin (

Blade Sentinel/

Blade Fury/

Blade Shield +

Shadow Warrior because I think it suits this theme and character the best)

Brown/Tan -- Barbarian (

Leap Attack/

Leap/BC/BO)


I am seriously thinking of swapping White and Green but also Yellow and Blue, but I'll decide that after and if I manage to finish the Normal completely with everyone.
I also transferred some gear to get them started and some which would probably be their 'end gear', as well as torches, annis, jewelry (since they can't be colored and only have skins I decided that would also be too much for me to match so I just went with what I thought each build would lack or benefit from the best), charms and some

Gold to get them started (10k each + some dex/str/all res/skiller/sunder charms). I will continue farming with my main account just so I can find other stuff I still don't have and want to transfer to specific color or maybe if I find something interesting in the magic/rare department that can be used very well (for leveling or end gear doesn't matter).

Main rules for this fashion experiment that I enlisted so far:

-*Each character can use only 1 color (there are 7 colors so each class gets exactly 1, at least for the first time -- later you can do whatever combo you like)
-*All colors must match (if available) -- inventory and 3D model otherwise take the closest thing or leave that slot empty
-Combine the best/most useful stuff not only to look cool but to also be effective (like pure +Life belt is very cool and very red but like Death's belt + gloves are quite strong even tho they are orange so go for that instead)
-Skills must match the color to embrace the immersion unless they don't exist (there isn't really a "black" skill apart from maybe

Revive or

Conversion) AND also you are only allowed to use appropriate skills to level up (for example

Armageddon is not available before lvl 30 so all other fire Druid skills are allowed to be used not only before 30 but also after 30th level as well)
-Magic skills/effects/damage is considered Blue with exception of

Guided Arrow and

Magic Arrow belonging to the White category because they look white
-Curses are colored by the color that appears above enemy creature's heads (

Amplify Damage is orange [Red, Yellow or Brown],

Decrepify is blue,

Terror is green, etc.)
-Since

Lower Resist effect is purple and purple is a mix of blue and red, it can be used with both blue AND red builds (for example wands with LR charges)
-

Vengeance and

Salvation are multicolored and can be used with anything
-

Zeal and Basic/Normal attack are colorless and can be used with anything
-Auras behave like curses, whatever color they produce under your feet is their color BUT can be combined to make a certain color for example blue aura + red aura = purple aura (Purple suit revealed?) or blue + yellow = green etc.
-Mercs are allowed and doesn't need to follow rules except for auras and curses (so don't use an item that gives an aura or curse of a different color [no Infinity/

The Reaper's Toll spam ]), Act 2 Merc with

Holy Freeze is forbidden for Red, Yellow and Green builds
-From the moment you start you cannot use any other color of gear apart from one you belong to and this also goes for belts which makes things far more interesting (especially for some colors like black where you theoretically have a first real belt at level 29 with

Immortal King's Detail or alt.

Iratha's Cord at lvl 15 that doesn't give you essentially any bonus apart from more pot slots); starting weapon (and only weapon) is considered colorless and can be used freely
-Skill procs are fine unless they are curses ofc but try to not over-use them
-Skins of facets are considered colorless and can be used freely (like skins for rings & amulets and charms) but their effect should still match -- don't use a fire facet for the cold build
-No rushes and help with leveling up/quests (Players X on SP is still in grey zone)
*Edit/addition on rules (so it's more clear on which skill belongs where and more):
-Blades skills (Assassin) are considered black or grey -- so can be used in black or white category
-

Shadow Warrior (because she mimics your skills),

Claw Mastery and

Weapon Block are considered colorless and can be used with anything
-

Shadow Master is forbidden because it mimics all skills
-Martial Arts skills that don't have elemental bonuses are considered colorless and can be used with anything
-

Energy Shield,

Teleport and

Telekinesis are considered lightning and can only be used with appropriate build
-Singer skills are considered orange (but since we don't have an orange as a build they can be used with red or yellow [since they make orange] or alt. brown which is widely considered as dark orange),

Grim Ward and

Bash are red but all of them are not that distinguishable from brown (which also needs quite some boost so there's that); however BC/BO should be colorless and can be used freely (but only for Barbs -- so no CtA on other classes)
-

Battle Orders is most definitely blue and can only be used with blue builds (however this opens it up to be used on ALL blue builds from now on -- mainly so that magic builds can benefit from it)
-

Battle Command is still colorless (it's closest to brown) and can be freely used with any build HOWEVER if used from CtA then still needs to follow rules for colors and thus be built in an appropriate colored weapon thus reducing it's frequency even further
-Combat Masteries,

Find Item and

Find Potion are colorless and can be used with anything
-

Stun (a Barbarian skill) is now blue along side of

Berserk
-

Frenzy and

Whirlwind are still white
-Putting

Double Throw and

Double Swing to colorless due to major lack of viable Barbarian builds thus allowing some weird niche off-meta ones (and mainly Throw Barb to have more options)
-

Impale/

Fend/

Dodge/Avoid/

Evade/

Critical Strike/

Decoy skills are colorless and can be used with anything
-

Penetrate and

Pierce are now colorless BUT can be only combined with non-elemental damage skills (

Magic Arrow,

Guided Arrow,

Strafe, Multishot)
-

Valkyrie is special multicolored and can be used only with appropriate builds however you should re-summon her until she gets armor of appropriate color (the one gained thru Peace doesn't count and is considered fully multicolored/doesn't need to be re-summoned)
-

Summon Resist is fully multicolored and can be used freely
-All synergies can be taken freely BUT NOT USED (didn't state this clearly before)
-

Maul: Skill and

Feral Rage are forbidden because they would belong to Red and Green by color of the orb but don't match those colors by theme
-

Lycanthropy is colorless and can be used with anything
-

Charge is colorless and can be used with anything
-

Monarch now belongs to white AND yellow builds and can be used to build any runewords for those builds if needed as an alternative; however if it's colored in a different color (no matter how odd does it look) it's still considered that color as well and can be used with appropriate build
-Shrunken Heads are split like this (only putting down basic variants so it's the same for it's upgraded versions) since they don't change colors with mods nor gems:

Preserved Head -- yellow and brown,

Zombie Head -- red,

Unraveller Head -- white and red,

Gargoyle Head -- white and blue,

Hierophant Trophy -- brown

^Other stuff are in the grey zone for example I transferred 1

Horadric Cube for one character to have it from the start but I also went through entire Halls of the Dead section later, also I'm playing on Online so all of them can level up solo on Players X if I want them to but I didn't use that so far

Please, be free to advise, suggest things I may have forgotten about, change some, add exceptions and help with the colors. For example, is

Sash considered yellow or brown? Does

Monarch belongs to white or yellow segment? If you get +all res on said

Monarch or any other item and it just slightly changes its look, if it's barely visible purple colored is it still considered purple? What about runewords -- are they bound by the bases they are in? Stuff like that.

TheDoo wrote: 5 months ago

... I won't make it too long...

I can't imagine what it would have been if you were on full length

Anyway, good luck with you experiment. Be sure to take a lot of screenshots along the way when you find and replace some gear. And post some of them here on the catwalk.

Planned equipment, what I currently collected and transferred (from my main and my 2nd acc aka "the extra storage"/armory) and how they currently look, have to say again I just started with some characters and with some I didn't even start yet (still unsure if I want to proceed with this exact current composition)... I'm gonna post each one seperately in a single comment so it's less clustered and more/better distinguishable.

Hehehehe yeah Florian, I might have gone with the full-ish version...


Blue Suit - Cold Sorc (Blizzard,

Frozen Orb *no tele since

Teleport is basically a lightning spell)

Planned gear:

Head:

Nightwing's Veil;
Body:

Dark Adherent or

Skin of the Vipermagi;
Weapon:

Death's Fathom (is this considered blue?) if not

Warpspear or

Crystal Sword "Spirit" or Rare staff with +3

Cold Mastery/21+ Mana;
Shield: None if using two-hand staff, otherwise Rare

Small Shield with DTM or

Frost Nova/

Nova proc (pref. FN);
Gloves:

Laying of Hands or Rare with

Frost Nova/

Nova proc and res/mana/life/str;
Belt:

Credendum or

Goldwrap or Rare with

Frost Nova/

Nova proc and res/mana/FHR;
Boots:

Rite of Passage or Rare with 31%+ cRes and other res (max 30%)/FRW/FHR;
Jewelry:

Telling of Beads or Rare with +Sorc skills with FCR/res/mana (already have one +2 Sorc/10 FCR/17 all res)

Merc: Act 2

Holy Freeze (don't know about equipment yet) or Act 5 Barb with LL and probably some +cold/fire weapons


Current state, near end of Act 2 - Normal. So far it's going as expected, cold Sorc is just too OP I'm just spamming with the

Ice Bolt, waiting to reach lvl 24 so I can switch to Blizzard and then

Frozen Orb will be insta win probably... Ofc Hell will be tough until I get to 75 for Sunder but then it's a walk in the park
At the end of Act 1, she looked like this:

Next one in line is...


Green Suit - [ex Poison Zon] switched to Poison Necro (

Poison Dagger,

Poison Nova)

Planned gear:

Head: [

Harlequin Crest] or

Vampire Gaze, for leveling gemmed 2os

Bone Helm with

Emerald for color and another Perfect gem for needed res (except for circlets and class specific helms headgear also can't be green naturally);
Body:

Leviathan (should look waaaay cooler) or

Twitchthroe;
Weapon: [Rare Javelins with +pdmg and +2 ama skills] Rare

Dagger with +pdmg or +2 Necro for color and other useful stuff (20 IAS, leech, mana, etc.) and

Pus Spitter on switch when casting;
Shield: [3os Blade Barrier] 3os

Troll Nest socketed with

Perfect Emerald to make it green and +2

Perfect Diamond for res or Rare [Blade Barrier]

Bone Shield (or any other variant) with +2 Pala (so it's green) and some other useful stuff like life/mana/str/dex/res/fhr;
Gloves: Green gloves do not exist HOWEVER I did find some 2/20 bow (anlucko they are not +javelin) that have 39 mana and pRes and repair mod they should be yellow but since they are

Heavy Gloves they look olive green-ish so that's the closest otherwise I would just leave it blank;
Belt:

Lenymo is the only green belt that exists and can exist but I'm still searching for it (did like 200 normal Cow King runs without luck) but again I did find a Rare one with 24 FHR, 8 mana, 11 life, 28 fRes, 11 lRes and they look exactly like gloves mentioned above still don't know if that's admissible;
Boots: Rare 2/3-res boots with 31%+ pRes and mana/life/FRW/FHR or

Treads of Cthon;
Jewelry:

Highlord's Wrath or

Mara's Kaleidoscope or Rare amulet with +2 Necro, 11+ FCR (as only source of FCR) and/or mana/leech/res, Rare ring with +pdmg and all res or FCR, SoJ or 2x SoJs or 2x Rare rings to hit higher FCR breakpoint with decent enough amulet (in case of going more into

Poison Nova caster);

Merc: Haven't decided since

Conviction from Infinity doesn't lower Poison res (it does help with hit% tho so I might reconsider this); can't remember if Act 1 Merc can wear a

Crossbow if yes then maybe bend rules and put something like

Pus Spitter on her or alternatively use Act 5 Merc with double Plague? I don't know...


Does charms with +pdmg affect this build at all? I don't know that either, never played poison jav before.

Current state, not even started. Will go melee/throw (since I have some poison javs lvl req 0) followed by

Poison Javelin until I hit 18 and switch to

Plague Javelin. Won't start this character until I find

Lenymo at least because that can be a potential oh-oh.

Gear that I currently have:

Crafted items are colored.
ie

Safety Belt instead of

Lenymo.

Tornado_OLO wrote: 5 months ago

Crafted items are colored.
ie

Safety Belt instead of

Lenymo.

I thought so too, but then I made a crafted

Safety Gloves and they were plain grey-ish same as default

Gauntlets are. I don't know if same goes for other parts of equipment but I'm gonna test that out! Yeah, I was very sad when they turned out just normal (the gloves) even tho they are green on the icon/image on this site and on the crafting recipe.

Transmogrification in D2R would be fun.

No more threads complaining that dusk shroud enigma makes your necro look like a hobo You'd be able to get that

Sacred Armor look with the same stats as your

Dusk Shroud Enigma.

And @TheDoo would have a blast with experiments like this while still being able to play without a handicap

Teebling wrote: 5 months ago

Transmogrification in D2R would be fun.

No more threads complaining that dusk shroud enigma makes your necro look like a hobo You'd be able to get that

Sacred Armor look with the same stats as your

Dusk Shroud Enigma.

And @TheDoo would have a blast with experiments like this while still being able to play without a handicap

Something you can suggest to them directly when you get into team big boss, yes, yeees, yeeeeeessss!!

I am still at the beginning of this journey but it sounds like a fun way to play with a handicap since it's for a greater cause (eeeehhh maybe), well, I do wish some amazingly beautiful armors and helmets were able to be re-colored. Some shields too, definitely... The details change from all the bases is gorgeous -- it's another thing I really, really love about D2 (they thought of everything back in the days)!

Another build I've never played before with is...


Red (jump)Suit (apparatus) - Fire elemental Druid (

Armageddon,

Fissure,

Firestorm)

Planned gear:

Head: Magic Artisan's helm/pelt of the Whale aka 81+ life (alt. of the Elephant => +life/mana per level) or Rare Visionary

Hawk Helm with 31+ life and useful skills or some other white/grey pelt with +X appropriate fire druid spell(s) socketed with

Perfect Ruby and runes/gems or +2 Druid circlet with 31+ life and FCR there's clearly a lot of options here;
Body:

Arkaine's Valor or

Duriel's Shell or Rare armor with 31+ life and other useful things like res/str/FHR preferably one of heavier armors because of how they look;
Weapon: Rare weapon with +fdmg and/or 31+ life... Is

Athena's Wrath red (I personally wouldn't count on it)? What about

Hellplague and

Hexfire, could they be considered red even tho they don't look very red in inventory? Apart from that

Flamebellow fits perfectly but that's a two-hander;
Shield: in case of

Flamebellow - nothing, otherwise

Hsarus' Iron Fist or Spirit in

Ward shield or

Medusa's Gaze or Phoenix in

Ward shield;
Gloves:

Death's Hand or Rare with life leech/life for color and res/str/dex/mana/life (

Dracul's Grasp reserved for The Flash);
Belt:

Death's Guard or

Hsarus' Iron Stay or Rare with life and useful things like res/FHR/str;
Boots:

Hsarus' Iron Heel or Rare with 31%+ fRes and some other stuff like res/FRW/FHR/mana/life;
Jewelry: Rare amulet with +Druid skills/FCR and some useful stuff like res/mana/life or Mara's or

The Rising Sun, for rings double FCR rings with res/mana/life/str or 2x SoJs or combo

Merc:

Fanaticism and

Vigor are both kinda useless auras (since they are red or red-ish) for this build so I will probably just go fully into this red theme and add even more fire with either Act 1 or Act 3 fire Mercs, any suggestions here?


Current state, Act 2 but I adore this build. From videos I saw I knew it was strong but this strong jeeeeeez... Anyway, it was a pleasure going thru or should I say flying thru because it felt like that - gameplay is super easy so far yet quite interesting. I do have a lot of items for him like A LOT some of which I have found in his game (like that sweet 1os pelt with +3

Firestorm) but I still do lack some of the key ones. We will see how fast he'll progress because from what I've seen so far he is main contestant with the Cold Sorc to ram through the game with absolute ease!

That does look more brown than red but oh well (this game hates me apparently lol):

Sometimes you also need to sleep... Who would've known?! I also nuked my ankle joint so I need to rest a lot (and my mum broke her pelvis fml)
Anyways, lemme continue...


Yellow Suit - Lightning Pala aka Tesladin (

Zeal,

Holy Shock/in case of double Dream

Salvation or Might)

Planned gear:

Head:

Mask "Dream" or

Blackhorn's Face or

Andariel's Visage or

Crown of Thieves or Rare helm with +Pal and res/FCR (no Griffon's since they are blue-ish ( );
Body: Goldskin (scratch that,

Goldskin is not GOLD at all it turns out!!!) or

Iceblink or

Boneflesh or

Sparking Mail --> this part of equipment feels pretty weak, any suggestions? I guess some Rare one is always an option...;
Weapon: Rare weapon with +ldmg or Rare

Scepter with +

Holy Shock if not using double Dream, otherwise +other useful aura (Might, Thorn) and/or +

Zeal and other useful mods like dual leech (<3% I think)/att rating/etc. or

The Redeemer (is that yellow/gold tho?) or

The Grandfather?

Soulfeast Tine? --> again quite bit of confusion but probably I'll go with some Rare;
Shield: If using double hander then none, otherwise

Crown Shield "Spirit" or

Crown Shield "Dream" (double Dream dream is aliiiiveeee);
Gloves: Rare gloves with pref. 20 IAS or 10+ str for color (gf/mf also possible) and some other useful bonuses like res/life (max 30 I think)/mana;
Belt: Rare belt with pref. 24% FHR or 16+ str for color (gf/mf also possible) and some other useful bonuses like res/life/mana;
Boots: Rare boots with 31%+ lRes and additional good mods for other res/life/mana/FRW/FHR;
Jewelry: Mara's or Rare with +Pal and res/dual leech or

Angelic Wings, for rings

Raven Frost and/or Rare with res/att rat/leech and/or SoJ and/or

Angelic Halo

Merc: If using Might yourself then Act 3 Lightning to be even more thematic, if using

Holy Shock yourself then Act 2 with Might alt. Act 5 with Last Wish


Current state, Act 2 just started didn't yet get to

Holy Shock but Tesladin is one of the meta builds so I don't think there will be any problems anyway. Again, only issue I have encountered so far is belt being available from lvl 15 (but it's fine it has 19% cRes and 68 gf so it's definitely yellow) but Might +

Zeal later + this nice early Rare

Scepter carried me thru. Gloves are nice too, already have my main gloves I'm gonna use but they are req lvl 30 (unless I find even better dual res or dual leech ones but with 20 IAS)!

However I still need to find some stuff like boots for example since I don't have any at all:

Then we have this beautifully looking Sigon's Complete Steel, with the main actor...


White Suit - [ex Necromancer bone/metal Summoner] Magic Bowazon (

Guided Arrow)

Planned gear:

Head:

Sigon's Visor is definitely up there for leveling, [Rare Bone Helm with like dual res/life (max 30)/FHR/str/dex would be nice or even like 3os Bone Helm "Delirium" would be quite good actually since I basically just want my

Raise Skeleton and my

Iron Golem to carry me most of the time]

M'avina's True Sight;
Body:

Sigon's Shelter for leveling,

Toothrow or

Plate Mail "Chains of Honor" or

M'avina's Embrace;
Weapon: [Broad Sword "Spirit" or Grim Wand "White" with +

Raise Skeleton/+

Iron Golem (full summon) or

Ume's Lament (full summon leveling up), crazy alt. Colossus Sword "Grief"]

M'avina's Caster or

Grand Matron Bow "Melody" or "Call To Arms";
Shield: If 2-hander then none, [otherwise

Sigon's Guard or Bone Shield "Rhyme" or Bone Shield "Splendor" or

Boneflame (if not Sigon's gotta go with Bone Shield it's a Necro thing right?)];
Gloves:

Sigon's Gage (even if not using full Sigon's I would still prefer 3-piece of it because they are decently good) or

Steelrend or

M'avina's Icy Clutch;
Belt:

Sigon's Wrap or Mavina's Tenet or Rare with Def/lvl for color and useful things like res/life/mana/FHR;
Boots:

Sigon's Sabot or Rare with Def/lvl for color and useful things like res (30% max)/life/mana/FRW/FHR;
Jewelry:

Mara's Kaleidoscope [or Rare with +Necro or +Summoning and res/life/mana/LL] or

Highlord's Wrath, for rings

Raven Frost, SoJ or Rare with res/life/mana/LL;

Merc: [Have no idea since he doesn't need mana regen so Act 2 with Insight is off but maybe still Act 2 with

Holy Freeze or Act 5 with something like Unbending Will +

Headstriker (alt. Lawbringer and

Azurewrath)?] Act 2 with Insight


I was always a sucker for full Sigon's set, it just looks extraordinarily cool for me for some reason, and this is current state (middle of Act 3 Normal because my game broke):

TheDoo wrote: 5 months ago

Then we have this beautifully looking Sigon's Complete Steel, with the main actor...

White Suit - Necromancer bone/metal Summoner Melee


Planned gear:

Head:

Sigon's Visor is definitely up there or ofc Rare

Bone Helm with like dual res/life (max 30)/FHR/str/dex would be nice or even like 3os

Bone Helm "Delirium" would be quite good actually since I basically just want my

Raise Skeleton and my

Iron Golem to carry me;
Body:

Sigon's Shelter or

Toothrow or

Plate Mail "Chains of Honor"
Weapon:

Broad Sword "Spirit" or

Grim Wand "White" with +

Raise Skeleton/+

Iron Golem (full summon no melee) or

Ume's Lament (full summon leveling up) crazy alt.

Colossus Sword "Grief";
Shield: If 2-hander then none, otherwise

Sigon's Guard or

Bone Shield "Rhyme" or

Bone Shield "Splendor" (if not Sigon's gotta go with

Bone Shield it's just a Necro thing right?);
Gloves:

Sigon's Gage (even if not using full Sigon's I would still prefer 3-piece of it because they are decently good) or

Steelrend

Belt:

Sigon's Wrap or Mavina's Tenet or Rare with Def/lvl for color and useful things like res/life/mana/FHR

Boots:

Sigon's Sabot or Rare with Def/lvl for color and useful things like res (30% max)/life/mana/FRW/FHR
Jewelry: Mara's or Rare with +Necro or +Summoning and res/life/mana/LL, for rings

Raven Frost, SoJ or Rare with res/life/mana/LL

Merc: Have no idea since he doesn't need mana regen so Act 2 with Insight is off but maybe still Act 2 with

Holy Freeze or Act 5 with something like Unbending Will +

Headstriker?

I was always a sucker for full Sigon's set, it just looks extraordinarily cool for me, for some reason:
White Suit - Act 3 Normal.jpg
White Suit - character selection.jpg

If you have a YouTube Account, you can collect all of your images into a single slide show, time the viewing length of each image, add comment frames, and more, and then compile them all into a single video. If you really want to get creative you can also add background music or music from the game to it. Here's a safe open-source freeware app that will let you do all of that at no cost.

https://www.openshot.org/

mhlg wrote: 5 months ago

If you have a YouTube Account, you can collect all of your images into a single slide show, time the viewing length of each image, add comment frames, and more, and then compile them all into a single video. If you really want to get creative you can also add background music or music from the game to it. Here's a safe open-source freeware app that will let you do all of that at no cost.

https://www.openshot.org/

I have but I only did a few short vids on some other games... I'm too lazy for that, too much of a hassle It's easier to just spam this one topic and whoever finds it in the future might glance over it and say "you are crazy dude you spammed one whole topic for nothing" or "this looks interesting, I just got an idea" either way it's fine But thanks! I also tried streaming, definitely not for me

TheDoo wrote: 5 months ago

mhlg wrote: 5 months ago

If you have a YouTube Account, you can collect all of your images into a single slide show, time the viewing length of each image, add comment frames, and more, and then compile them all into a single video. If you really want to get creative you can also add background music or music from the game to it. Here's a safe open-source freeware app that will let you do all of that at no cost.

https://www.openshot.org/

I have but I only did a few short vids on some other games... I'm too lazy for that, too much of a hassle It's easier to just spam this one topic and whoever finds it in the future might glance over it and say "you are crazy dude you spammed one whole topic for nothing" or "this looks interesting, I just got an idea" either way it's fine But thanks! I also tried streaming, definitely not for me

It's surprisingly easy to do and won't take any more time than the time you've already spent loading images here, not to mention the storage space Teeb would save on the forum. It goes like this. Make a folder on your desktop, drag in all the images, and number them in the order you would like tou want to set the time for the images, then drag them down one at a time and use your mouse to pull them wider which increases the time. When all that's done you can save them as a video. If you want to add sound then you import the audio track or tracks down to Track 2, and from there you'll get the picture. With a little practice it can all be done in minutes. Just a suggestion.

For being a color sensitive person, have to say I love this initiative and look for this thread - and if I find surprising colors on rare stuff, will ping you.

TheDoo wrote: 5 months ago

mhlg wrote: 5 months ago

If you have a YouTube Account, you can collect all of your images into a single slide show, time the viewing length of each image, add comment frames, and more, and then compile them all into a single video. If you really want to get creative you can also add background music or music from the game to it. Here's a safe open-source freeware app that will let you do all of that at no cost.

https://www.openshot.org/

I have but I only did a few short vids on some other games... I'm too lazy for that, too much of a hassle It's easier to just spam this one topic and whoever finds it in the future might glance over it and say "you are crazy dude you spammed one whole topic for nothing" or "this looks interesting, I just got an idea" either way it's fine But thanks! I also tried streaming, definitely not for me

I'm sure whatever you do will be rewarding because it's a an interesting idea, and it's a good one, so run with it and ignore my attempts at complicating things.

Note, I dressed my Paladin in a

Tal Rasha's set and the results were interesting,

mhlg wrote: 5 months ago

I'm sure whatever you do will be rewarding because it's a an interesting idea, and it's a good one, so run with it and ignore my attempts at complicating things.

Note, I dressed my Paladin in a

Tal Rasha's set and the results were interesting,

Thanks for the kind words and support mate! It's very much appreciated Yes, purple Paladin is definitely gonna be a thing

Necrarch wrote: 5 months ago

For being a color sensitive person, have to say I love this initiative and look for this thread - and if I find surprising colors on rare stuff, will ping you.

Awww thanks Necrarch! )

Ah, was about to say "by the way, have you considered pink/purple" as color as well, or is is too hard to deal with due to too few stuff being of that color (

Tal Rasha, Sander come in mind for set, all res stuff,

Rattlecage for the others...)

Necrarch wrote: 5 months ago

Ah, was about to say "by the way, have you considered pink/purple" as color as well, or is is too hard to deal with due to too few stuff being of that color (

Tal Rasha, Sander come in mind for set, all res stuff,

Rattlecage for the others...)

Oooohhh you bet it's gonna be annoying but I'll try! Yup, Sander's, Tal's, Circlets/Coronets and stuff like that can also be purple; I think the main problem could seem to be a weapon (but in fact it's gonna be a belt), since very few of them are purple in color and on image (like

Tal Rasha's Lidless Eye or are class exclusive like that one aaaand can't remember if there's anything else -- well

Lightsabre is red-blue) but, funnily enough, they can be at least made (finding a nice

Scepter with useful skills and sockets and putting

Amethyst in should do the trick ). Since I was thinking of using

Vengeance on him (well because I like that skill and I rated it "multicolored") maybe even better would be using some big sword/

War Club or something like that socketed with

Amethyst and

Shael and some +dmg/+max or something like that, so it can be managed... Unlike black gloves and belt for example which are only

Magnus' Skin/

Wilhelm's Pride and Immortals'! All res on a shield makes a shield purple like you said (same goes for circlets) which is also kinda nice (Pala shields excluded tho, they can't be colored) Also something I think I saw that can resemble purple is combining blue and red aura (like

Defiance/

Prayer and

Fanaticism idk) and when they overlap they do look like purple IIRC which is also neat...

Two potentially the worst/toughest builds to do with this experiment, brown being heavily limited by skills/class combo and this one being quite harsh on equipment (not that great with skills either)... They still bug me a lot and I'm seriously thinking of switching things around, but we'll see...



Black Suit - Blade Assassin aka Bladesin (

Blade Fury,

Blade Shield,

Shadow Warrior, in case of claws

Claw Mastery)

Planned gear:

Head:

Natalya's Totem or

Veil of Steel or

Stealskull (only for leveling/melee until

Blade Fury also as far as I understood

Blade Fury has fixed rate of fire doesn't get affected by FCR or IAS);
Body:

Natalya's Shadow (unfortunately it comes very very late at lvl 73) or

Immortal King's Soul Cage (even later at lvl 76) or

Vidala's Ambush (decent leveling with other parts) or

Greyform;
Weapon: Here comes the real trouble --

Natalya's Mark looks grey on image and is also very high level 79 and/or

Shadow Killer (also very high level 78) it is brown-ish but ethereal saves it a bit or

Immortal King's Stone Crusher (I know it's ridiculous but it's there at lvl 76) or more likely Rare elite claws with 101%+ ED/11+ max/9+ min for color and some other useful mods like MAEK/res/PMH/dual leech (don't know how black works with other colors tho so maybe max 5% leech?) and +2 Assassin skills (this should be overwritten as it is green but idk ) or some other Rare weapon with similar characteristics or

Crushflange for bosses maybe? -- if you have any suggestion at all please I'm begging you;
Shield: In case of 2-hander/dual claws none, otherwise

Whitstan's Guard or

Stormshield or

Tiamat's Rebuke or

Moser's Blessed Circle (if desperate for res);
Gloves: As far as I know there are only 2 gloves that exist and not a single base can be colored black which limits this build very much --

Magnus' Skin or

Immortal King's Forge;
Belt: As far as I know there are only 2 belts that exist and not a single base can be colored black (same as gloves) --

Wilhelm's Pride or

Immortal King's Detail;
Boots: Boots cannot be colored as well but at least there's 2 more options --

Natalya's Soul or

Immortal King's Pillar or

Vidala's Fetlock or

Shadow Dancer (not very useful here tho);
Jewelry: Mara's or Rare with +Sin or +Traps and res/life/mana/leech, for rings

Raven Frost and/or Rare with res/life/mana/leech and/or SoJ, alt. 2x SoJs;

Merc: Either something for crowd control like Act 3 Cold or (alt. Act 2

Holy Freeze) who can slow/freeze them or Act 5 that can tank while you slowly shoot your blades from not-that-afar or maybe even no Merc because I feel like this build really lacks everything and Merc could easily 'steal the show'


Current state is that I just finished Act 1 Normal (and Normal being what it is doesn't reveal much weaknesses however) it felt very janky, I'm not very optimistic or eager to continue and maybe just needs a lot of positioning, predicting and shooting beyond enemies to really make it work -- I was somewhat doing it but blades felt pretty meh even tho they hit hard here, looks cool and unique tho! Full Natalya's Odium set is probably one of the most memorably looking ones, it's effective but is it efficient as well, I'm not really sure about it. All in all, Assassin in very raw state (that sword is definitely going to be MVP for some time ):