Anti-Lightning Paladin

[dthseeker]

Hey guys I need your input on this. Recently i've been thinking how many light dmg duelers there are in every game, they are usually the bm town guarders too(trappers, fohers).

If you maxed out Resist Lightning instead of some synergy/not manditory skill (i.e. Defiance for the smiter, only put 1 into holy shield on foher) your resist would shoot up to 85 resist max, and you can put resist lightning on when your chasing the lightning char, then switch to whatever attack aura you have and kill them.

This allows you to do well against lightning chars without stacking resists (although you are doing it with your aura :/), absorbing, and would be effective in most pubby dueling games since they always have at least 1, usually 2-3 lightning chars in every pubby game.

If you replaced weak skills such as defiance for the smiter, this would help the overall matchups as Smiters already do very well against Zealots (although the barb matchup would be harder, in exchange you get a much better chance to beat lightning distant chars)

inputs/thoughts?

[RainofChaos220]

My opinion it's a waste of skill points that could be better used somewhere else. Just use 200% light res shield (40 base on pally shields+160 from 4xptopazes), tgods and 2xwisps with Lo'd helm and you won't be EVER touched by any lightning sorc, FoHer or trapper. It's really funny when they ally to kill you, only to see you're healing from conviction traps and taking 10 damage from 8k foh and 20 dmg from 40k lightning.

Smiters can be awesome at stacking, just get silence phase blade to compensate for using lightning resist, it's awesome for smiting.

[HybrOI]

Notice how he said he didn't want to stack.

[BadLikeMe]

Lo.. gl getting that rune.. skill points are cheaper, and the great part is that you don't even have to find + to resist items to hit 85-95 resist.. throw on a tgods and be immortal to trappers...

[RainofChaos220]

Lo.. gl getting that rune

....? Lo isn't worth much on NL east I got 1 for a only 1 3/20/20 (most high runes go for 1.5-2). If you can get enigma/cta Lo rune is very very cheap. Plus dueling is somewhat expensive anyway, shouldn't be dueling with crap items, but MFing instead.

Why not stack seriously? Putting maxing res lightning is a WASTE omfg why am I explaining such a perfectly clear thing in PvP forum. Your character becomes way weaker against everything else that ISN'T lightning (contrary to poster's belief there are many non lightning duelers) based.

Finally absorb/stack allows you to chase them without aura switching, because you're already immune to them and just kill them without it.

[Tor]

i have 10 points in every resist

i get 95/95/95/95 with my GA agaisnt casters ant that pretty much owns them (300+ stack if needed)

[Rauth]

Everyone screams BM when I have 95 res :(

[luuuucifer]

Omg! BM druid!!!

[Rauth]

Psh. nothing compares to your bm sorc! Next time I'll have to get a full belt of mana pots just to equal your bmness! ;)

[DragonKnight_Aka]

well the best way to beat a foh pally is to stack resist or stay out of range from conv. abosrb will help but if u have 14 lighting resist after his conv. gets on u then it's not really gonna help. I have a pally that uses a lightsabre and tgods sometimes but I still take alot of damage. But if u really wanna max out lighting resist arua u can it's a waste....


for trapsins.. I been messing around with these chicks and everytime I use a lot of abosrb I can still die and it's really hard to smite dem when being mb :grrr: and with vigor N charge I can get out of it. And listening to trapsins cry about abosrb. And I still get killed so what I decide is catch dem off guard like make dem teleport too close to me and charge and smite hehe works all the time for me lol :thumbsup:

[dthseeker]

the point is for the passive enhancement of +10% max resist, and having +270% light resist while walking around while traps/foh's/charged strike/lightning's try to hurt you.

I think it would be most useful on a smiter, considering defiance isn't of the upmost importance when it comes to skill stats.

Someone want to think of the ultimate absorber/resister?

I think i'td be like:
10 into individual resists, rest of skills depend on build

Ummed perf kira
Ummed GA
Ummed upped hoz
silence phase blade
tgods
2x raven (maybe exchange 1 raven for a wisp)
rising sun
sandstorm trek (poison resist)

load up on antidotes/thawing potions

Edit: by the way I know how to beat all of these chars, it'd just be fun to beat them without having to run to stash stack a bunch of stuff just to go out and kill them.

Smiter's shouldn't have that much of a problem with trapsins... salvation/vigor charge, or just plain charge, desynch, smite, if its pubby get life tap on, they run away, rinse and repeat

[DragonKnight_Aka]

U only need about 200 or a litte less since conv stops at -150% all resist ( not magic ) oh yeah gl with ur build

oh yeah their a dagger that gives u 95% posin resist hehe even lower resist won't be able to beat it

P.S. not 95maxium resist 95% more resist just to clear up

[Rauth]

20 max res and 95 psn res. Makes you practically immune to poison. Jade tan do kris.

[Tor]

cleaning > poison necs + rabies

[Mehatesmaphack]

Everyone screams BM when I have 95 res :(

I wasn't sure of it when you used 95% res against my sorc and thought I was probably lagging and my hundreds of fire balls did practically no damage because of desynch. I still think I would have won that one without the interference from eternalspirit though since you only had like l life left.We should try that again when I get cable.

[Rauth]

Whiner :)

Duel me dialup!

I had 90 res against your sorc. Gogo hotspurs. You're right about the desynch. I saw like 20 fbs slam into me but they didn't even break cyclone.

[dthseeker]

jade gives crap for all res and range

i think i'm going to make that absorb char... specifically for those tging aholes. help on gear/ what char I should make it on?

[Tor]

paladin

resits auras are annoying they hate it

[WuffWhacker]

Last ladder, I picked a LS trapper as my sole PvP character. She did pretty good, considering I was a poor newbie, et al. Problem was, other trappers with better gear and FoHers completely spanked her - no chance. It didn't help that most of these paladins liked guarding town and naked-killing.

So, this ladder I decided I was going to be anti-FoH. In short, the most expensive piece of gear my bone necro has is a Guardian Angel with a +12 all res jewel; the rarest piece of armor he has is a four ptopaz monarch shield; the item he found most annoying to find was a +3 spear, +1 mage plain bone wand.

Sorcs are the only elemental characters that can dent his health. TGing windies, CS/LF zons, trappers, pnova necros, rabies druids, etc. all get shut down due to a combination of some of the following:

GA +12res all jewel
Thundergod's Vigor
Hawkmail
Wizardspike (hel)
Homunculus (pdiamond)
Four-socket monarch (ptopazes)
Jade Tan Do kris (+20 max poison res/+95% poison res)
Crappy crafted caster belt (+30 cold res)
+30 res/element rings (assorted)
Inventory full of frw scs - whee!

Next ladder, I'm going for an anti-Blizzard paladin. :D

[tomatoman]

lightning resist aura isnt worth putting many points into unless that is going to be a pure lightning fighter, i think salvation would be a better choice, besides the tgods will take your lightning res up so you dont need the aura