Some Strafer Questions

[nulio]

When I was running 1.07 trav with a paladin that mod would kill amp often also. It's a shame it still happens in 1.13d.

 

[RobbyD]

Well, Obedience/Forti/(Crown of Thieves/Andy's Visage) makes the merc ridiculously powerful and durable, and Faith has been effectively killing on /P8 through middle of late Act 2 now, so I'm not complaining too much (though I do mourn that Lo and Sur). I might try the Pride on a Fishymancer merc and see how that helps the skellies (I've never made a Fisheh).

 

[nulio]

Might Pride Merc, Fanat Necro, casting Amp/Decrep!

 

[zaphodbrx]

HBT on pride is indeed a problem but not a very big one. After all you have magic arrow to kill immunes ( and magic resist is a lot less than 80%+ physical resist on broken immunes ) . And HBT doesn't apply on bosses.

Krischan is that my faith GMB you're using ? Sorry, my memory isn't too good.
I would disagree on only 10 arrows for multi shot. Imo go up to the max ( lvl 23 iirc ) . It is really amazing in high monster density areas ( such as pits ). With +skills you don't need too many points in it either.

 

[RobbyD]

Well, she's level 86 having just started Hell Act 3, and I'm really struggling to decide where to put points now. I think I started to push Valk past where she casts at level 17, but I might drop a few more into Multi Shot.

I found the HBT to be a problem when the merc and Valk are crowded by ghosts. Though I will say that Magic Arrow has been getting the job done when needed.

 

[RobbyD]

Well, I Matted Faith last night at level 89 - I'll do a proper write-up, but I'll quickly say the only thing that she couldn't readily handle were Evil-Urn spawned pre-frenzied Frenzytaor packs.

 

[krischan]

Frenzytaurs from urns are terrible for zons, but I don't think that you have to open them, for the same reason why you don't point a gun at your head and pull the trigger, just because you found it on the ground