Quick questions

[Still-Xey-Lover]

Quick questions

I'm gonna make a trapsin most likely for reset, if i get a holy freeze merc will my death sentry still be able to pop the corpses? Also, which of the shadows are better to max, was it master or warior? Lastly, how does this build sound: maxed fireblast, maxed lightning sentry, maxed death sentry, maxed shadow master or warrior, some pts in fade/claw block and rest into charged bolt sentry? I know my traps will have less dmg without that last synergy, but i figure the fireblast will be a fair trade-off. Thanks in advance.

 

[Gambitsreturn]

I think even with a holy freeze merc there will still be bodies on the ground for CE to explode. I personally like the defiance merc or the might merc better. Defiance creates a great tank and might helps get that first body to explode faster, however, your traps will prob kill monsters fast enough. I dont like investing any pts in the shadows because they tend to cast their own traps which replace your much more powerful traps. With CoS and mindblast you really dont need a shadow. I like this build best:

20 FB
20 LS
20 DS
20 CBS
the rest in SW
1+ in fade/CoS/BoS

I feel this build provides much more powerful traps and with CoS and Fade is pretty safe. Good Luck!

 

[Full_Circle]

I'm gonna make a trapsin most likely for reset, if i get a holy freeze merc will my death sentry still be able to pop the corpses? Also, which of the shadows are better to max, was it master or warior? Lastly, how does this build sound: maxed fireblast, maxed lightning sentry, maxed death sentry, maxed shadow master or warrior, some pts in fade/claw block and rest into charged bolt sentry? I know my traps will have less dmg without that last synergy, but i figure the fireblast will be a fair trade-off. Thanks in advance.

I've had one trapsin with a holy freeze merc. I kept that merc for about 10 minutes before I got rid of it. It's that bad. It doesn't shatter all the bodies, but when it shatters the first one or two in a mob, you can really tell. As long as you use your crowd control spells (cloak of shadows / mindblast), you don't need holy freeze. All it does is slow down your killing.

Anyway... if you plan to solo everything in single player games, your build is viable, but your kill speed will probably be similar to that of a Summoner. If you plan to play with groups, I'd go with might, prayer, defiance, or an act 5 merc, and load up on synergies. I wouldn't bother with FB, but it's not bad. FBing things down when you could just run past them seems like a waste of time to me. Assassins are excellent at running past things they don't want to fight.