Introducing Patriarch Hades On Monday night I finished Hell for the 17th time with a Fishymancer called Hades. The Fishymancer is a great build and I really enjoyed playing him although when the Skellies cram a small doorway and can’t kill the monster in the other side or keep the merc from getting to a big target it can get a little frustrating and the Arcane Sanctuary was an absolute nightmare! – I had to drop to players 1 to finish it because of the hard-hitting ghosts killing my merc or the skellies blocking up the path… but on the whole questing with him was great fun. Unfortunately he had 2 deaths, both in Hell. The first I attribute solely to Arm of King [email protected]#%ing Leoric and that bloody chance to cast Bone Prison – it isn’t much fun being in a cage with a Fanatical Ghost boss pack in the Arcane Sanctuary needless to say he died. The second death was to an FE Frenzytaur boss who I happened to run past as my skellies killed, dealing in excess of 1100 damage to me since I was on full health at the time of death. Most of the times my life got anywhere near being at a dangerous level it was because of the stupid ctc Bone Prison on my [email protected]#$ing wand. Anyway, being my 17th game-winner there was obviously no shortage of gear lying around to wear, so I could kit him out pretty much as I pleased which turned out to be: Harlequin Crest Shako w PTopaz Skullder’s Ire Russet Armour w PTopaz Weapon1: Arm of King Leoric Tomb Wand/Homunculus Hierophant Trophy w PDiamond Weapon2: Blade of Ali Baba Tulwar/Rhyme Grim Shield War Traveller Battle Boots (37% mf) Goldwrap Battle Belt Chance Guard Chain Gloves (38% mf) Nagelring Ring (28% mf) Wisp Projector Ring (19% mf/13% LAbsorb) Mara’s Kaleidoscope Amulet (+23 Res All) My merc would have very much liked to get his hands on an eth Hone Sundan – but wasn’t so lucky, so he had to settle for a perfect normal one, so: Haseen, Act II Might Mercenary Gear: Guillaume’s Face Winged Helm The Gladiator’s Bane Wire Fleece Hone Sundan Yari (200%) Even in MF gear his resists were pretty healthy looking: Code: Resistances Fire Resistance 69 Cold Resistance 75 Lightning Resistance 75 Poison Resistance 54 As for Skills and Stats: Code: Skills Base w Items Curses + 9 Amplify Damage 5 14 Weaken 1 10 Terror 1 12 Decrepify 1 10 Dim Vision 5 14 Confuse 1 10 Attract 2 11 Poison and Bone + 9 Teeth 1 10 Corpse Explosion 20 29 Summoning Spells + 10 Raise Skeleton 20 33 Skeleton Mastery 20 33 Golem Mastery 2 12 Summon Resist 5 15 Clay Golem 1 11 Blood Golem 1 11 Iron Golem 1 11 Fire Golem 1 13 Raise Skeletal Mage 1 11 Revive 5 15 Code: Stats Base w Items Str 95 102 Dex 45 56 Vit 340 347 Ene 50 77 The most useful, and quite possibly only stop for Skelly/Fishymancer info can be found in Nightfish’s Skele-mancer V2.0 Guide. It’s pretty much the only guide I read even though I distributed points a little differently after the base build was complete – anyway, props to NF for writing it. I’m a little lost as to what to do next in D2. I have a Hammerdin in Nm Act III but he is BOOORRIIINNNGGG! Probably mfing with this guy and my Sorc… matt edit: the only not shown source of +Skills was 1 Graverobber's Grand Charm
Long live all fishymancers! Grats. Why the 5 in dim vision? Never found that curse particulary useful. Not like i have a better suggestion spending those points.
Congrats on the Pat. Just did one myself and my only death was to the AoKL as well. Very dangerous item! MAAM
:clap: Well done, fishy's rock dont they? After 17 pats, i think you should move to HC, its fun fun..until you die in act 5 hell that is.
i've thought about starting HC, unfortunately due to some RL stuff i may be forced to end my D2 career in 3 weeks time matt
Congrats with teh Fishy. How many PI Stoneskin bosses did you run into? I noticed you didn't use Marrowalks so you didn't have a good source of magical damage. Them PI Stoneskins are a pain normally.
like Nacaa said it's against Gloams and other dangerous ranged attackers. i could have done without 5 points, but there's not really any shortage of points with the build matt edit: yeah, they were a pain. fortunately i didn't get to many of them, but had to just ignore them when they did spawn. when i did the final quest Lister spawned like that and i had to lead him out iof the Throne Room to kill Baal. i did the quest over again on players 4 killing everything just to prove the point
yeah, it has been a lot of questing - over 1500 level ups... as for real life, i'm moving from South Africa to the UK - leaving my computer behind. i may well buy a laptop soon, but at the moment i have a bit of debt so there won't be any gaming/laptops until that is taken care of. well the other ones are about mfing actually, having been out of D2 for a lengthly period the Fishymancer and your recent mf guides are the only ones i've read... matt
