max block yes or no?

[Skully]

max block yes or no?

Im planning on making a pvp necro in normal pvp games(so no clan-honor, well at least not in the beginning) but is it worth the max block? Coz i will lose mass life that way. Also here my gear

shako
maras
homonculus
marrows/waterwalks
2x sojs
arachnid
trangs gloves
wizzie/boneshade (no hoto here)
enigma BP

just tell me what you think is best for the necro....thnx
Skully

 

[Pallidum]

I would say no block but you will need damage reduce versus melee//zons. So get a stormshield if you can.

Also you're not casting at 125%, fix that immediately.

 

[Skully]

for casting i will need wizzie, but that could be a problme coz wizzie has a dex req of 75? help plz

 

[NecroManiac]

get max block if u can get your hands on some pnb gcs with life. Right now my block necro has 2.7k life with Cta, with only 5 pn lifers.

 

[darnocpdx]

I dunno I like max block....75% max block against an attacker that, just for example, hits for 100 damage means you'll miss out on about 750 damage for every 100 you take. I play HC and try for near max block on most my characters. After all you don't need HP if you don't get hit.

 

[waflob]

I dunno I like max block....75% max block against an attacker that, just for example, hits for 100 damage means you'll miss out on about 750 damage for every 100 you take. I play HC and try for near max block on most my characters. After all you don't need HP if you don't get hit.

I don't quite follow your maths here ... to me 75% block means that only 1 in 4 attacks gets through, so for every 100 you take, you'll miss out on 300.

Not only that, but doesn't blocking only deal with physical attacks ? Because of this, I tend to ignore dex and go for life, as that is good for physical and elemental.

 

[darnocpdx]

yeah my bad on the math but still the idea is the same. And yes some attacks aren't blockable, but these tend (for the most part, not all) to be avoidable in one way or another.

Since necros are dead last along with sor's in the HP to Vit catagory, I find that it's often better to invest in block and compensate HP with items. Since we only get 2 hp per vit an increase of 20 hp is = to 10 vit points. Sad when you think that one P ruby is 19 vit points ore 3.8 levels of vit buffing.

I figured it out once and 3 socket armor and 3 socket helm with p rubies in it would equil the same hp as if you buffed nothing but vit for about 25 levels.