The Immortal Abbott build

I found a strange amulet today, with an unusually high damage reduction with the suffix 'of life everlasting'.
The amulet has +3 to paladin offensive auras and an enormous 'Damage reduced by 18'.
Since I was curious I looked it up and found something about the Immortal (or Invincible) Abbott, where a pala build focuses completely on damage reduction and tanking and with the right build reduces more damage than he receives and thus is ... immortal. Standing for hours in TZ zone with hordes of enemies attacking and not losing a single point of HP.
I first thought it was just Google gibberish or halucinations based on fan stories with too much imagination.
Anyone heard from it yet or has experience with it? I'm curious to find out more.

Interested too, cause I found an amulet with Damage reduced by 20 and 29 to Lightning Res.
Is that useful for anything? Immortal Abbott sounds like a funny idea...

NomadMoon wrote: 8 hours ago

I found a strange amulet today, with an unusally high damage reduction with the suffix 'of life everlasting'.
The amulet has +3 to paladin offensive auras and an enormous Damage reduced by 18.
Since I was curious I looked it up and found something about the Immortal (or Invincible) Abbott, where a pala build focuses completely on damage reduction and tanking and with the right build reduces more damage than he receives and thus is ... immortal. Standing for hours in TZ zone with hordes of enemies attacking and not losing a single point of HP.
I first thought it was just Google gibberish or halucinations based on fan stories with too much imagination.
Anyone heard from it yet or has experience with it? I'm curious to find out more.

Yes, the "Immortal" builds are utilized in HC especially for your lvl 99 grind.

There are "Immortal builds for almost all of the classes. Barb, Pally, Assassin bc they get extra def/res/dmg reduction naturally and (imo) the easiest to "Immortalize".

The caveat is you

Sacrifice a lot of DPS to become "Immortal". Imo not really worth it for SC, but to each their own.

Hope that helps!

Interesting...
So it's mainly a HC thing?

Anyone playing this? Anyone who can link a video? Examples of builds/gear?

NomadMoon wrote: 4 hours ago

Interesting...
So it's mainly a HC thing?

Anyone playing this? Anyone who can link a video? Examples of builds/gear?

Yes an no.

MDR and PDR (both the res and the reduction) are heavily utilized in HC but there's nothing wrong with running it in SC.

Just to toss in, PDR has a resistance value as well (capped at 50%) but hardly anybody uses it.

Set it up, see if you like it.

To be clear I'm not in any way suggestion you do not therocraft. If you want to use it, by all means.

18 PDR is actually really high, like GG for an ammy.

Did the ammy get any res, life, or FCR/FRW? JW.

18 PDR is actually really high, like GG for an ammy.

Did the ammy get any res, life, or FCR/FRW? JW.

No other stats, it was a blue one. I read somewhere the 'of life everlasting' affix rolls up to 25 PDR on a magic amulet.

NomadMoon wrote: 4 hours ago

Examples of builds/gear?

I guess you already found this one?

rixsen wrote: 1 hour ago

NomadMoon wrote: 4 hours ago

Examples of builds/gear?

I guess you already found this one?

Haha, yeah I found this one, triggering my question. But I was guessing it would take more than this amulet to be immortal

So, just curious what other gear would be used. With the exception of Uber jewels and renewed sunders most MDR/PDR stuff I found so far was just giving minor reductions.

NomadMoon wrote: 1 hour ago

rixsen wrote: 1 hour ago

NomadMoon wrote: 4 hours ago

Examples of builds/gear?

I guess you already found this one?

Haha, yeah I found this one, triggering my question. But I was guessing it would take more than this amulet to be immortal

So, just curious what other gear would be used. With the exception of Uber jewels and renewed sunders most MDR/PDR stuff I found so far was just giving minor reductions.

Sorry, had the wrong link. Fixed it!

rixsen wrote: 1 hour ago

NomadMoon wrote: 1 hour ago

rixsen wrote: 1 hour ago

I guess you already found this one?

Haha, yeah I found this one, triggering my question. But I was guessing it would take more than this amulet to be immortal

So, just curious what other gear would be used. With the exception of Uber jewels and renewed sunders most MDR/PDR stuff I found so far was just giving minor reductions.

Sorry, had the wrong link. Fixed it!

No I hadn't found that one yet. My searches where apparently not that thorough before turning to this forum. Looks super extensive and insightful. Many thanks!

You're welcome!

I think +3 pally combat +25 (I think it's the best possible value for everlasting) dr has some value. 18 seems a bit low to be valuable, and pretty much no one uses + to off auras. You probably can get a not too expensive, better one, as this is niche.