Hello together, I´m planning to build a char to farm lvl85, cows and have no good gear like infinity or something like that. I want a char with extra meatshield. What would be a good char for me. I´m thinking about fire trapsin, immolation ama, freezing ama or fire druid. How viable are they with 2.4. any experience?
Meat shield like summons?mecromancer with maxed corpse explosion.
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I find summons redundant as meatshields. Just cast confuse (or attract) and your targets become meatshields
I can speak for immolation zon. She’s quite great. BTW freezing and immolation are the same build. I call it magezon. Both spells maximize their damage with 40 points. Ice Arrow just increases freeze length (20 points to increase from 0.5 seconds to 1 seconds), Fire arrow just increases damage over time aspect (which is lackluster after maxing).
Her gear is quite easy to start too. Get a +3 skills stag bow with 3 sockets, put a melody runeword - big damage boost. Add Peace runeword - 2 extra skills, and a nice valkyrie. Bow skillers are not very desired so easy to trade for them.
I currently do Arcane Sanctuary runs on her, smooth and easy.
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Confuse is good for CC, something to keep in mind though is that monsters killed while confused don’t give any experience.
I suppose you can use confuse until you get a corpse or two then just switch to Amp and CE, then you don’t have to worry about it.
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I had no idea, thanks for pointing it out!
Dim Vision is also great, but it needs more skill levels to have adequate area of effect and duration. And it doesn’t affect unique monsters.
Attract should be nice too but I haven’t tested it thoroughly yet.
Magezone sounds good. I tested before some years, but the mana costs were horrible… Whats about your resis?
Anyone has experience with fire trapsin? I like the extra fast walk with burst of speed. Is she viable in lv85 without fire immunes. Or is the magezone faster?
It’s a bit hard to get resists on all bowzon, because she doesn’t use a shield. Try to have some swap gear for areas specifically. For example for Arcane Sanctuary you only need good fire resist, and just non-negative lightning. I run AS at something like 70-20-20-0 (and raven frost also gives some cold absorb).
As for mana cost, insight merc, like 20 extra energy points, and a couple mana charms solve the problem.
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it all depends on which lvl 85 zones you’re going to farm, but i would suggest just making a blizz sorc for cows. absolutely NOTHING clears cows faster with cheap gear, and you just teleport away from the cold immunes. act 2 nm merc with insight polearm to keep your mana topped off, and he gets yoinked to your location every teleport so anything close to you gets chilled and slowed, even cold immunes.
you don’t even really NEED gear for it beyond the insight polearm. you can stack magic find and not worry about +skills, and run a wealth runeword armor, goldwrap, 2 nagelrings, milabrega’s shield or a rhyme, three perfect topaz in a hat, gull dagger, chance guard gloves and some rare boots with MF on them.
i woudln’t take that character anywhere BUT cows, but for cows there’s no better build without spending stupid numbers of high runes on best in slot gear
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Energy sheild nova sorc is actually very tough especially with insight merc
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Meat shields don’t really work unless you’re talking summoner necro. I’d go with a fury amazon for best cow killer.
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20 Raise Skeleton +1 Skeleton Mastery and 60 into Poison Nova and its synergies is pretty great. I’ve been running it since launch and it easily does Halls, Pit, Chaos (with Lower Resist), and Cows pretty quick. Currently at 10k Pova with -60% res before Lower Resist; and I could fit another 6 or so +skills, waer Bramble, 3 piece Trangs, or other buffs to it if I really wanted to focus in.
I normally have 16 revives running around, 13 skellies, 7 mages (mostly for meat), and have a 10-yard CE. You can replace my DWeb with a 3-nova White wand and it becomes a pretty budget build.
In P8 he runs Pits pretty quickly with LR, as well as Halls (Nihl) and then random farming areas. Can P8 Trav pretty quickly and safely as well.
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I‘ve played sorc to much in the past and dont like nekro summorer.
Magezone sounds, Fire Druid and Fire Trapsin too.
The druid spells are strange to hit. I guess Fire Trapsin would be cool because of the fast run speed. But I have no idea how many plus skills are needed to kill acceptable fast
Is this bow shopable? Or places with high chances? Cow normal?
No, that one is not shoppable. You’ll have to find it. I doubt people even pick those up unfortunately, so it will be hard to trade as well. I THINK normal cows drop it, but I am not sure you can get +3 bow\crossbow skills there. Well, +2 is good for start.
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