LesClaypool said:
I've been playing my werewolf for about a month now, and I'm quite enjoying it. But I have yet to find a character I wish to master... What I mean is a character that is fun to play and effective in many situations... I want to make one final character for PvP and master this one character until I bid farewell :wink3: . I'm somewhat undecided between 4 or 5 different builds and was wondering if you DII enthusiatsts would help me make up my mind once and for all. Here they are:
~ BvA
~ Bone Necro
~ Bowazon
~ Poison/Summon Hybrid Necro
~ Smiter [No grief, can't afford]
If anyone can give me the pros and cons of any of the previously stated builds and they're favorite I'd be quite content :thumbsup:
~LesC
If you can't afford a grief for your smiter.. then most likely you can't afford one for your BvA reducing your weapon choices to doom/doom or ebotdz(yuck)/beast as a dual wield choice, and a fury zerker/SS. Ebotd has died off in comparison to grief.. so good luck making a barb w/o one. Not to mention they require lots of life or life/2nd mod charms, dunno if thats expensive or not NL.
Bowazon is often weak without a team mate. You might be able to destroy a few pub games but you won't hold up once someone stronger joins. Maybe the perfect bowzon (gg charms) would be a decent fight, but still not worth it.
If you're not uber rich, I would recommend casters, they are slightly less dependant on weapons and most of the times, charms. As long as you have the necessary skillers, you don't need the ones with life. I've had my fb sorc w/o life charms kill ones with, but as with any build, more life does help. Know that with casters often times skill can win the day, but the more melee oriented you are, the more dependant on equipment you get.
Bone necro is a good vs. all class if played correctly. It has some challenging classes to fight against, aka ES sorcs, windies, the like... However, it does not get DESTROYED by those classes, an important difference when considering class weakness. Say for example a bowzon fights a smiter. Smiter will win 99% of the time, whereas if a necro fought an ES sorc, it would be possible to actually win if you do well.
(not to mention ES sorcs are very expensive as well, so you won't see many)
Poison/summon hybrid sounds interesting, i've only ever fought 3.. and only 1 was any decent. Sounds viable though, watch out though because of your short range you will get hit hard and often. Unless you use revives, you can count on many chars hitting you harder, and faster than you can kill them.
If you go this route, it will take some extreme skill to kill good:
Lightsorcs (CL or nova)
FB Sorcs
Barbs (IM/walls might be helpful here?)
Any long range caster.. (poison nova is slow and is easy to dodge)
Maybe lightning zons, windies, trapper, etc.
As you can see.. IMO I think the hybrid necromancer has a lot more ground to cover in terms of weakness. But could be much more fun and original. Not to mention I hear they can destroy other necs???? someone wanna tell me the truth? throw in a bugged merc on a summoner ftw!
