best option for Infinity

d2jsp wrote: 21 hours ago

BigD wrote: 21 hours ago

Sorc with self wield Infinity is more of a glass cannon vs HoTo+Spirit with Infinity wielding merc, my experience anyways. And youre gonna lose alot of FCR & res vs HoTo+Spirit too. Might be fun and obliterate mobs quicker though, especially lightning immunes.

For lightning sorc on HC I prefer

Crescent Moon (for the -enemy light res) +

Stormshield and Infinity wielding merc, but that's just me. Feels less squishy.

Of course, it all depends on your playing style. I see you're using a Nintendo Switch. For me, playing in console mode is terrible, especially on hardcore mode. Even when playing on Steam Deck, I connect an portable monitor, keyboard, and mouse.

NovaES is an aggressive build, everything depends on your reaction and skill, correct positioning of the mouse cursor etc

retepnap wrote: 19 hours ago

I am a bit unsure if we have the same baseline, so I would like to put some more context into this:

1. P8 is the only "true" baseline - if you play P1 most of the time - then I dont really see the relevance in gear "debate" at all
2. DPS and thus clear speed is the "ultimate" goal here - combined with never dying and your merc never dying
3. There are only a few monsters / groups that can kill you - I hope we can agree on that - all of those requires FHR in most cases to effectively survive
4. Solo clearing Chaos and WSK in p8 games - since they hold the only monsters / groups that imo pose the biggest (and any?) threat to the

Nova build
5. Why are some of you "debating" playstyle? Telestomping combined with clear speed does not really give you any other way of style?
6. If your merc helps you with killing boss'es then I assume you are playing P1 games and that your DPS is way too low
7. Having higher def is ofcourse helpful - but claiming that the FHR from

Sandstorm Trek is enough makes no sense (keep in mind that the context is the above mentioned situations) 20 FHR gives you 11 frames - 86 FHR gives you 7 frames - thats the difference of dying easily or not at all
8. Life does not help you against blood mana - I know this migth end up in semantics but holding back attack is what ultimately "saves" you?
9. Asking why I have cold res just tells me that .... ugh My cold res mainly comes from +ALL RES gear - thats not the same as me pursuing it or even needing it?
10. My gear is flexible - I usually play with 59 fire res / 46 cold res / 75 light res / 55 poison res - but I can instantly change that to 59 FR / 24 CR / 75 LR / 75 PR
11. Mana, FHR, resistances, defence
11a The priority is not up for debate unless you play somewhere else than where it matters
11b First priority is Mana (the initial pool but definately also the regen) - Second is FHR (again, unless you play where it doesnt matter ofc) - Third is Poison resist and Lightning resist - the first because its annoying, not because you risk dying (with the exception of dolls, but thats a matter of skills imo) - Fourth is life and the remaining resists

12. Now, tell me in which situations you or your merc dies in the game (if you are not playing P8 games, then never mind)

And to those of you who still insists that

Sandstorm Trek is BiS and that 20 FHR is "enough" - how about we test it?

I challenge you to do 50 games each of clearing Chaos and wsk solo in P8 games - I will bring the stopwatch and coffins for you

d2jsp wrote: 21 hours ago

https://maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/ae2910oe

My build that survives on TZ96-8ppl. He's not afraid of the dolls, and his

Cyclone Armor from Infinity will allow him to survive the fight against the souls.

Note the swap, I don't use Call To Arms, instead I carry Memory with

Chilling Armor and extra ES. I play with two windows and my GF/Mfinder gives me all the warcries.

uuee wrote: 11 hours ago

I don't see how FHR helps outside of knockbacking mobs since you take 95% of the dmg to your mana, therefore you dont get FHRed until you mana dries. Chaos is not a threat at all (not even in p8. with 3K+ mana you can handle even infector just fine) WSK is a diff story. Souls needs attention, but I belive it is still the case for your build.

retepnap wrote: 2 hours ago

There will always be people who changes the narrative when things dont align with their perspective. The common sign is that they often contradict themself when presented with something they dont immediately understand.

They are also extremely stubborn or maybe something else

There will always be people that claims certain gear is BiS - even though they are not. And when presented with a better solution ... well ... sigh

We dont play at the same level - if that triggers someone so much that they have to change the narrative and thus the baseline of which they claimed to have the high Ground on in the first place - then fine with me - I can only advice players to the best of my knowledge and provide context beyond "subjective" oppinions based on ...

My build has 75 poison res _without_

Sandstorm Trek. It has 75 light res. It has 86 FHR.

Regardless of whether anyone "feels" like they need that or not - in regards to their playstyle, that is a better build?!

The fact that anyone would even try to defend that ... kinda proofs my initial point of views?

These people simply refuse to acknowledge any "evidence" - they talk themself out of it - typically changing the scenario.

My build doesnt care about how "intelligent" (all of a sudden?) that anyone plays - it will still be much better in _their_ hands - the pure stats is proof ?!

How would anyone ever argue, that having less resistance, less FHR is better? Sigh ?!

Cherry picking "situations" that fits someones build is not the same as comparing it based on facts.