another budget pk build

[Mert1]

another budget pk build

While I am looking for items for lvl 9 pk pally, I gathered some stuff to build a disposadin. Well, rather something between disposadin and real low lvl pk.
My goal was not to use any of those very hard-to-find charms and jewels. (I guess the only strategy is either all good jewels or none). This can be made by EVERYBODY not having ANYTHING (no items and no chars besides low-lvl used to pick up items in norm cows)

Heres the setup:
1.Berserkers helm + armor (not to bother with sockets, collecting gems and such)
2. Cathans rings + amu (same, for angelics they ask good high-lvl items, while cathans I got just after 1 minute of begging (lame me))
3. Malice eth pike (happened to find 3 sock eth pike in cows and socketed it with common runes. Ended with 134 max dmg and other malice mods, 100% open wounds and such). This has only 13 dura which suxx. But I plan giving the pike when its about to broke to merc of PKK necro proposed here and getting some other pike. Guess 6 iths will do OK.
4. Cow king boots (only decent item and thats because I forgot about dex and blocking (D2C habbits) and switched Vidala boots for ck not to make another pally)
5. Bloodfists
6. Some crap sash lol, even magic and w/o life
7. 30/20 3 resists bone shield which happens to be eth as well
8. Some crappy 1h weapon for switch with shield
9. 10 grand charms disgusted by everybody, 8 of them with 10-20 life and other 2 (didnt have enough life charms ...) with 12 fhr and 4 max dmg
10. Small charm with cold dmg

Well, what we have in the end:
about 1k pvm dmg
440 life
75% block on switch

Havent tried yet, but gonna do it tomorrow and expecting fast death in 1st sewers
PS forgot to say hes lvl 15

 

[Unholy_VI]

heya man.

Sounds like a pretty good setup. If you die quick oh well? not like you lost much. If you look at the level 9 guides thread going around youll find the site of a player who made some really pimped out dueling grade level 9 sac paladins.

he got quite a few ears for sure but he also lost everything several times. to me, this is a good advertisement for making chars as cheap as possible for pking.

despite what the anti-pk people say about us being cowards and such I bet no one loses more chars or more hard to get equipment than pkers.

cuase in PK you are usually facing off vs several other chars at once and most of the time if you die there is no looter.

Good Hunting!
Let us know how it goes

 

[Mert1]

OK, experiences so far.

I switched berserkers to 3 flawless ruby socketed breast plate and 2 socketed helm. Just thought it gives 130 life more than berserkers and loosing such amount of life is nonsense copared to same 130 from charms. In accordance with its idea didnt bother getting 3 socketed mask as it doesnt drop in normal cows and main point here is being able to equip the pala with common items from cow level.

Turned out to have nice life (about 580) with sucky mana and ridiculous AR (550 with charge). In addition 1st pk attempt led to loss of 1 durablity out of 13. Omg I thought what a sucky pala I made, he wont be able to kill anybody.
Surprisingly he did not so bad, killing in 1-2 hits. Where to hunt? People in sewers are so organized lol , most leave immediately after hostile. The problem is not to kill somebody but to get to them. And those nasty PKKers, assas and same charge palas. So I learned a few things:
1. Avoid parties with high lvl sorc - may be enchanted
2. Be careful about some chars: assa 25 lvl is sure a kicker, 18 lvl pala=pk, 24 lvl pala = snapper (btw nice idea some guy used - looks like total noobie, but on switch is bonesnap. Downside is that 24 lvl is too high not to get everybody aware)

But anyway, went with sewers + random games. In 1st sewers I enter all players leave on hostile or shortly after, only 1 pally messed with opening tp and I kill him 1 hit. Next was game where 2 guys went to town thru tps calling me bad names and discussing my mom's behavior. Well, following Magnus's advice I patiently wait near the tp. And guess what? Passes 2-3 minutes and one guy decides to get back thru the tp. Bam - 2nd ear. Shortly after a necro wanted to outrun me in sewers - 3rd ear falls. Another funny moment was then I saw half of the party tring to get to Arcane thru the blue portal. OK, I wait on Arcanes wp. Here comes one of them - bam - half life left and he fluxes. Than comes another, not so fortunate. He then proceeds to bring 79 lvl ama and host me. Well, I just leave. Now on entering sewer game one or another players warns that I am pk (adding how badly I suck - I just respond I/m actually a nOOb and ask them to look my gear (most have mh)). Funny is that I finnally got one of the spammers. After talking about pking in general in my noobiness in particular he somehow fails to get out in time and gets killed. One time guys actually tried to fight me with pvmers - 1 dead sorc as a result.
So after a few hours hunting I got about 10 ears ranging from 15 to 25. Not that impressive. Numerous times I fail to get to anybody before they flux. Many times they escape with not much life left, like 1 pala decided to fight me with holy hammer (he was lvl 25 or so...) but I somehow managed to get too close to him and instead of landing a charge, poked him with normal attack. Sure after a couple of those he left. Another time I accidentally targeted some boss monster instead of lvl 22 ama and that gave her time to leave. One funny moment was when I attacked a lvl 30 necro while he was killing Duriel. Gave me some trouble figure out where he was, taking into account the path to Duri was full with alive monsters. Still I was successful in that and less successful in actual pking - he left with 1/3 life sure to come back and tell me how sucky dmg I had compared to a pala of his. I didnt argue the truth. Some times I was attacked by PKKers. Not that hard to guess who is who because only the PPKer seems to be glad on hostile and joyfully runs towards you. If hes lvl 18 pala, better leave. One time a 1h charger pala landed some very good hit on me but I managed to exit before he got his work done.

At last sewers seem too lame, too low lvls, no fun killing lvl 12 for example, so didnt hostile in that case. Best place to pk with this pala now seems to me Travincal runs, so I got some major pain in the .... to get some public PA to 3rd act. And sure when Im ready, its too late and no travincal games show up. So I'm planning to move there tomorrow.

Yeah, and I lost 2 durability on that pike

 

[Unholy_VI]

OK, experiences so far.
So after a few hours hunting I got about 10 ears ranging from 15 to 25. Not that impressive

Hey 10 ears isnt bad for a LLPK doing sewer runners. Even with expensive set-ups I've seen people do a lot worse. So you ought to have about 100 by the time that pike breaks. :lol:

 

[Baranor]

Hey 10 ears isnt bad for a LLPK doing sewer runners. Even with expensive set-ups I've seen people do a lot worse. So you ought to have about 100 by the time that pike breaks. :lol:

Yup, that setup is actually fairly decent. With that amount of life and that damage you can do just fine and will be able to pk quite a lot. I've run out with far less life and less damage and killed lots of people. Once you catch them and can get 3-4 charges off before your mana runs out, you got a body in the bag.

Really, although perfect gear is nice, save it for a dueller. All you need to kill people is a 100+ max dam pike (shopppable), some 20% F/r boots (shoppable) and some +life gear (shoppable). Oh, and a little luck and some skill.

Next pk-er is a level 19 sorc with inferno and pretty much nothing else. I have a +6 inferno staff (with +3 fire skills for +9 inferno in total).

 

[Mert1]

nice to see disposadin inventor here ^^
and btw pure disposadin didnt lose his attractiveness to me. No items and no life gives feeling of freedom more expensive builds dont have. But I need that 40 lvl char for shopping FFS

 

[HelzCaretaker]

heh a few eth pike imbues should give you a better pike but I mean how hard is it to make a completely crap pker like that? quite easy. Now for the pkk's and such if you're pking same lvl or lower you deserve to get your ear removed by them. And the lvl 24 hiding snap on switch with crap gear that was done quite effectively in .09 and in 1.10 as well. A few friends came up with that idea and my friends eth yari 37 claimed tons of duel gear to loot duels. Goes to show you that mhers are typical newbs that can't duel worth a pile of steaming crap.

 

[Mert1]

A bit more experience

I left the pala to build an inferno sorc (another thread), briefly returned to him and it was a relief to get ears fast compared to sorc masochism. Most funny moment was at Duriel when I waited in his lair getting poked by him and drinking potions because I knew the party wouldnt give up trying to get that quest. Yes, I was right, here they come, one by one and I stupidly miss them one by one and they exit one by one .... Well, still funny

As to pking place - guys, dont go to sewers! That gets so boring with all those pvmers on alert and even if you get an ear its too low for real fun. But the problem is 90% games are either sewers or baal or mules or act1 for da noobz. When you get a good Arcane or Travincal game passes eternity. So pking is like:

Game: Sewers no pk 1
I_need_ears (noob_pk) joined our world. Diablo's minions grow stronger
MyFirstChar1: I_need_ears is pk
MyFirstChar2: I know
I_need_ears has expressed hostility towards you
MyFirstChar1 (pvm_rulezz1) left our world. Diablo's minions weaken
MyFirstChar2 (pvm_rulezz2) left our world. Diablo's minions weaken
MyFirstChar3 (pvm_rulezz3) left our world. Diablo's minions weaken
MyFirstChar4 (pvm_rulezz4) left our world. Diablo's minions weaken
MyFirstChar5: noob
MyFirstChar5 (pvm_rulezz5) left our world. Diablo's minions weaken
I_need_ears (noob_pk) left our world. Diablo's minions weaken

Game: Sewers no pk 2
I_need_ears (noob_pk) joined our world. Diablo's minions grow stronger
MyFirstChar1: I_need_ears is pk
MyFirstChar2: I know
I_need_ears has expressed hostility towards you
MyFirstChar1 (pvm_rulezz1) left our world. Diablo's minions weaken
MyFirstChar2 (pvm_rulezz2) left our world. Diablo's minions weaken
MyFirstChar3 (pvm_rulezz3) left our world. Diablo's minions weaken
MyFirstChar4 (pvm_rulezz4) left our world. Diablo's minions weaken
MyFirstChar5: noob
MyFirstChar5 (pvm_rulezz5) left our world. Diablo's minions weaken
I_need_ears (noob_pk) left our world. Diablo's minions weaken

And so on..
Basically sewers became real pk test ground, where in every game theres a pk and still nobody getting killed.

Most of pker/pkkers are:
1. charge pally lvl 18 (you know he uses max jewels)
2. Charge pally lvl 24 (you dont expect anything but a bonesnap)
3. Kicksin lvl 25 (war boots and strength runeword)
Other builds just dont show up while you occasionally see lvl 9 pala, lvl 12-14 necro, low assas etc. So if you like to pk/pkk in sewers you wont encounter anything besides those builds
So I suggest picking something besides sewers (andy help with lvls 2x will do, Arcanes, Travincal, Duri kill, etc) and maybe building something new, cheap but efficient (hmm, I might be asking too much)

 

[Smashy]

Dang I WISH I had that gear.. my chargedin only has magic and rare, and they've all got crappy mods

Hopefully I can still get some ears.. I need a decent weapon though