Help choosing the perfect character

I played D2 classic as a kid for many years. I have tried to get back into it, but this time in LOD with d2r. I never was a fan of mercenaries and especially the idea of “oh, just let the merc kill it” for immunes. With sunder charms, I have hope.

I have tried a blizzard sorc,

Fireball/

Meteor sorc, hammerdin, Mosaic assassin, summoner necro, CE necro, javazon, frost maiden and now an

Echoing Strike warlock… the warlock has come closest to being what I want.

What I want: a character that can decimate every p8 TZ without having to worry about dying, potions, complicated strategies, so on and have good MF. I want a chill character. If a tesladin could wipeout p8, that’s what I’d be using

the Mosiac assassin had the damage, but you needed to beat the stupid cool off and that means constantly running around..

Baal runs? Good luck. My es warlock has 125fcr, max resists, but only 18-28k damage WITH fant and might. This makes p8 killing slow and boring … can I retool this character to work? Or maybe there is something easier

To add, I am using

Wizardspike (Pskull)

Shako with

Um
Spirit shield
Trangs
Bul-Kathos

Raven Frost

Arachnid Mesh
War travellr

Annihilus
Torch
Gheeds
CTA and Phoenix on swap

I refuse to put any more than that in my inventory as this is a game to find items, not to

Teleport to town every time you fill your cube. I have been tooling around with the idea of Obsession, but I’d need to get a FCR high res amulet to maintain the desired 125fcr

this guy :

Maybe FoH/

Smite Paladin with some seriously strong equipment? I have one level 93 in Hardcore, it doesn't really require deep thinking and is pretty strong against the majority of enemies, especially demons and undead. It deals magic damage against those, lightning damage against the rest and can still cause physical damage when needed.

This topic feels like ai written and bait to start a conversation, oh well i fell for it

krathkor wrote: 1 day ago

this guy :

So...warlock then.

But yeah, the OP honestly kinda reads as "I just want something stupidly OP that I don't need to even bother getting charms for or anything".
Warlock definitely fits that bill in more builds than one.
Still wants an enigma to get around at least but beyond that, just cobble together random nonsense and still plow through p8 easily.

"Stupidly OP" I would immediatly throw in a

Lightning Fury Javazon, it's an absolut cinema to clear the entire screen with just one

Spear, I absolutely love it and yes it still is my most favorite build of any char in the game.

On top of that, the Javazon is a very good single target killer because of her

Charged Strike, so she fullfills two rolls perfectly of throwing weapons of pure mass Destruction around and is still able to deal very high single target damage.

To be honest she is really gear heavy so building her up may take some time and effort.

Mosaic Assassin may be an option too, the combo is just nuts and may even outscale the LF Java by a significant margin.

StoBeast wrote: 1 day ago

What I want: a character that can decimate every p8 TZ without having to worry about dying,

Energy Shield

Nova Sorc

StoBeast wrote: 1 day ago

potions,

Prayer A2 Merc with Insight/Cure

StoBeast wrote: 1 day ago

complicated strategies,

Energy Shield

Nova Sorc

StoBeast wrote: 1 day ago

so on and have good MF.

Blizzard MF Sorc

StoBeast wrote: 1 day ago

I want a chill character

Summoner necro

As you see, what you ask for is what we in germany call an "Eierlegende Wollmilchsau, roughly translated to a wooly egg breeding milkpig, a fantastic animal providing everything. You can't have all you ask for on one char. I think the closest to what you're asking for is

Energy Shield

Nova sorc. I'm sorry to say that, but the stuff you got is not enough to build an effective one and without OP stuff like Griffons, 2x Soj and self-wield Infinity, it's imo not worth it building one.

But why not building an

Echoing Strike warlock? Afaik, he's quiet effective even with mid stuff

I have adjusted my ES warlock to Obsession / Phoenix, sighed

Shako for tals, and I think this solves most of my issues. I’m still 20 short fcr. I added a Pride merc, not that I like the idea.

I think I need to get either a dual leech fcr ring and +2/10 ammy with res or +20 fcr/res

Helm and I’d be happy. Honestly, the tals was the best thing on the new gear.. don’t need potions anymore.

I can put whatever gear on the character.. I’m sure it’s blasphemy, but I just buy the stuff because I don’t have the time to find it. Besides, how do you ever find shit if it takes good gear to find good gear? I was looking for an

Eth

Archon Staff and someone was asking for 10

Jah.. like, who finds that ever? I can’t play a video game 24/7


I may try a sorc, but I’m not sure it will be tanky enough. Can it kill Ubers? Going to test that on right now on the ES. I realize I’m looking for a “do all” character, and that’s difficult, but it shouldn’t be impossible to be able to play through every area with one character. Until sunder, sorc was simply unplayable IMO. It was a ridiculous concept to have to have different characters to farm different areas. TZs have made it so you really should be able to play the whole game, and that’s the fun part to me… I don’t want to do meph runs, or travel, or Andy.. I want to play the game, find items while doing it

I have a half ass javazon that I may gear out, but I’m not sure the Mf comes easily there

Edit: and I realize I should probably test this crap on single player with a hero editor before buying items that I end up discarding.

Well, Insight sucks on ES build. Insight

Cryptic Axe (

Eth) with conc, might 27-60k damage. Obsession

Archon Staff (non

Eth) 29-43k. And with that you get 30 more FCR, 60+ extra res, 4 skills 60fhr more life, more mana

Ubers were hard even with

Crown of Ages w/ 2 ums so over 200++ res 85/80/75/75 w/ Phoenix. Cant understand really why

Crown of Ages is recommended. Adds maybe 1-2k damage, gives little. Probably

Um the tals for now. I returned to Obsession as the damage isn’t vastly different

So, this still isn’t it. I’m about 175$ in with this stupid ES build and I don’t think it’s worth it.

Flipchart wrote: 22 hours ago

"Stupidly OP" I would immediatly throw in a

Lightning Fury Javazon, it's an absolut cinema to clear the entire screen with just one

Spear, I absolutely love it and yes it still is my most favorite build of any char in the game.

On top of that, the Javazon is a very good single target killer because of her

Charged Strike, so she fullfills two rolls perfectly of throwing weapons of pure mass Destruction around and is still able to deal very high single target damage.

To be honest she is really gear heavy so building her up may take some time and effort.

Mosaic Assassin may be an option too, the combo is just nuts and may even outscale the LF Java by a significant margin.

I would have to agree. My favorite character for the same reason. Can be stupidly expensive to min/max, but is very good at a reasonable price.

You want fun and challenge? SSF Single Player, any char is good for this. Pick the one suit you better for your game style.