Melee vampire?

[PoiznKilz]

Anyone thought of using Trang's full set and then engage in some melee fury as a vampire? With the full set, you are left with only your weapon slot, rings and ammy, and boots free. Of course, if I don't take advantage of the poison dagger 'feature' AR is going to be a big pain.. Any ideas?

[prion]

what were you going to use for weapon? You could be a daggermancer..

[lextalionis]

what were you going to use for weapon? You could be a daggermancer..
Passion would give you Berserk and Zeal.
Kingslayer would give you Vengance(I like the idea of a necro using Vengance)

I have no idea what the attack animations speed would be. It might be quite quick which would be nice.

You could go fully synergized Poison Dagger or use the *Venom Runeword for the Charges of Poison Explosion and Poison Nova if you want to go in a different direction. You might look at fully synergized Bone Armor in order to protect you in melee range.

If you use Poison Dagger you might want to use a different weapon on Weapon switch with a second Trang's Shield. This would allow for better mods after you've initially poisoned the dude.

Keep us updated.

*Venom 3 Socket Weapons Tal + Dol + Mal Hit Causes Monster To Flee 25%
Prevent Monster Heal
Ignore Target's Defense
7% Mana Stolen Per Hit
Level 15 Poison Explosion (27 Charges)
Level 13 Poison Nova (11 Charges)
+273 Poison Damage Over 6 seconds

Best Socketed into a Fanged Knife 15 to 57 (36 Avg) 62 42 86 1 24 3 [-20]
Ama, Asn, B, D, N, S - Very Fast
P - Fast

[Mad Mantis]

Anyone thought of using Trang's full set and then engage in some melee fury as a vampire?

IIRC the attack speed is rather low. Almost as low as the cast rate. That almost makes it unsuitable for a Meleemancer.




Passion would give you Berserk and Zeal.

Passion has the annoying %chance to flee mod. So if you use Zeal with some general +skills you will be scaring your opponent away every time you use Zeal. The Berserk is only really nice against PI's and against IM.

[PoiznKilz]

I have taken Passion out of consideration by virtue of the annoying chance to make enemies flee.. I'm thinking of using PDagger for the AR which I will desperately need. A kingslayer would be nice.. but the AR just isnt enough. I think a 'beast' runeword would be best, but that is way out of my reach right now. Still I look through other options....

[EuroJamie]

I have taken Passion out of consideration by virtue of the annoying chance to make enemies flee.. I'm thinking of using PDagger for the AR which I will desperately need. A kingslayer would be nice.. but the AR just isnt enough. I think a 'beast' runeword would be best, but that is way out of my reach right now. Still I look through other options....

Crescent Moon is also a fine choice :thumbsup:

An remember you can get a tasty AR bonus with an Angelic ammy and 1 (or even 2) Angelic Rings.

[lextalionis]

IIRC the attack speed is rather low. Almost as low as the cast rate. That almost makes it unsuitable for a Meleemancer.
This is what I would see as the single biggest problem.

[Necrochild313]

If you've ever tried it it looks damn cool. I had a fleshripper on switch with one of my necs for the CB. Looks like you're doin an old fashioned pimp-slap to baal.

But for practical reasons, until they fix these bugs (if ever) it's out of reach :(