light/poison zon question

[stephan]

Re: light/poison zon question

The only real problem with Poison/Light and wanting to do Baal is that Burning Souls are LI/PoI, so you can't always use Poison as LI solution there.

Other options than poison could be:

- 20 FA/20 CA (synergy for FA), also know as Fishyzon
- Lower resist wand/Infinity with -Lres on gear (e.g. Thunderstrokes, facets)
- Jab, possibly with some extra elemental damage from Tiamats/Demon Arch
- Strafe (slvl 8-20)

EDIT: OK, why does my answer appear above the question? Did something mess up the time again?

 

[crawlingdeadman]

Re: light/poison zon question

that is weird.

*wonders if my post will be at top*

dude! that's freaky. i posted, it gave me a nul error and didnt show the post until i went out and came back in. i'm going to get a mod in here to look at it.

back on topic:
i think a better combination would be frozen arrow with poison. i've started making that kind of character a couple times, but have gotten side tracked with other projects.

 

[NASE]

Re: light/poison zon question

I have made one - lightning poison - assuming that it would be the perfect character. You can really stack up on mf if you use rhyme as you shield - offer cannot be frozen, extra block, some res and mf. The problem is that poison is slow as hell, and that you don't have good tanks. To max out two poison skill, two lightning skill and valk simply is to much.
Now I must say that I used an act 1 harmony merc. And I find it impossible to play in hell - have degraded her to gamble amulets to craft.

Anyway, there is a guide claiming it to be good. Check it out and lets us know how it turns out for you.

[edit]
some-one really messed up this topic.

 

[Astilin]

light/poison zon question

This is the first throw zon I have played and I love her! Currently lvl 60 with max Lf and CS. I have always wanted a poison character so I have started to max the poison things. Heres my question: will the poisons skills give enough killing power to kill L in hellI? Things I want to do are cow/baal/chaos/key. Several guides have said that doing some kind of bow switch is more affective. Would it be better to max strafe or frozen arrow and dump other points into CS synergy?

Gear will be (when I lvl some more):
shako or valk wing
skullders or viper
titans
mosers with 2x pdiamonds
Highlords
Ravenfrost
Manald (maybe dwarfstar if I get ahold of one)
razortail
silkweave (for plus mana after kill)
caster crafted gloves (ideally with 2 java skills) or trangs

 

[Dacar92]

Re: light/poison zon question

looking into the time stamp issue.......




EDIT: Post 4 is the OP in this thread. The clock got messed up right after the post. It's fixed now.

 

[Astilin]

Re: light/poison zon question

Yeah, I have noticed that poison takes a while to kill. I guess I will use her to cow until I can get the rest of my gear (torch/anni) then rebuild with a fishyzon.

 

[BlushNine]

Re: light/poison zon question

Poison is slow. You need some really high poison numbers with really low time denominators to make it even do appreciable damage, let alone be an effective killer in Hell. The biggest problem with poison is the way the item mods with poisons stack. You can't just add them up and hope for the best. There's some complicated formula for how the damage ticks out from mixed sources that I once had to use. Never again. Basically, any mod with a poison time denominator that is larger than the rest of your collection of poison will dramatically hurt your damage speed. Everyone focuses on the big poison numbers, you have to focus on the "over X seconds" numbers.

Not that it can't be done. I've seen someone do very decent damage, mind you decent, not stellar.