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RealmOftheWolf
28-10-2005, 16:26
The PvP BearZon by RealmOfTheWolf


This is my very first guide so if theres any mistakes or problems with it blame it on that :lol: oh and the fact that my spellcheckers acting up.


Abbreviations

Str-Strength
Dex-Dexterity
Vit-Vitality
En-Energy
PvP-Player vs Player
PvM-Player vs Monster
PvU-Player vs Uburs
D/E/A-Dodge/Evade/Avoid
CB-Crushing Blow
DS-Deadly Strike
OW-Open Wounds
DR-Damage Reduction
WB-WereBear
BO-Battle Orders
BC-Battle Command
AR-Attack rateing
OS-Open Socket
FHR-Faster Hit Recovery
FR/W-Faster run walk



The Build

This build is made mostly for PvP but can be used in PvM but lacks crowd control id say . I've tryed this build in PvU and found it very effective takeing out Ubur Meph,Diablo and Baal. This build is not cheap!!!

Stat Points

Strength: Strength lets you wear equipment. How much you need depends on your gear. I would try and get as little as possible in this stat just aim for 156 after all item bonuses.

Dexterity: Here you will want enough for blocking with stormshield.

Why you ask?? Well this shield has a nice block rate and gives a heap of DR(very important) and with max block your evasion skills you'll find you wont get hit very often.


Vitality: As much as possible this stats gives us life which is then increased with WB and BO.

Energy: DONT PUT ONE POINT HERE YOUR MAIN ATTACK REQUIRES NO MANA!!!!!!!!!!



Skills


Only one skill tree is needed on a bearzon. The Passive & Magic skill tree.

Passive & Magic Skills
(Matrix Skills)

These are your main skills.


Critical Strike:Passive Effect: Grants a chance to do double physical damage with your attacks.

I recomend you get this to skill level 23 with +skills this will give you a 70% chance to do double damage. No more is needed but spare points at the end can be put here.

Dodge: Passive Effect: Grants a chance to move out of the way of a melee attack while standing still or attacking.

I recomend you get this to skill level 29 with +skills this will give you a 60% dodge no more is needed because Dodge has hit severe deminishing returns.

Avoid:Passive Effect: Grants a chance to move out of the way of a missile attack while standing still.

I recomend you get this to skill level 30 with +skills this will give you a 70% chance to dodge a missile attack.

Penetrate:Passive Effect: Additional chance to hit.

I recomend you max this skill. it gives lots of AR and this skill doesn't have deminishing returns.


Evade:Passive Effect: Grants a chance to escape any attack while moving.


I recomend you get this to skill level 28 with +skills this will give you a 60% chance to dodge any attack.


With left over points you can max out Valkyrie and give yourself a pretty mean tank.


Depending on your equipment/charms you can have loads of points left over or very little in which case you put additional points in dodges or critical although it doesnt really matter.



Gear

Headgear

There really isnt any ultimate options for this build but ill suggest some good options.

Shako:Skills,DR/Life/mana not much more you need out of a helm.It can have a OS in which you can use to fill in any gaps in your equip

Crown of ages:Skills,Resists,DR,FHR and a possibility of 2 open sockets. Use these to fill in any gaps.

Gullames face:Ultimate PvU headgear socket with um to help against mephs conviction.


Weapon

There is one great weapon for this build.

GRIEF Phase Blade
Nice damage and its fast. Not much more you need.

Alternatives.
Stormlash(sheal): CB for some more ubur ownage and a viable weapon for pvp.
Ebotdz:Nice damage,ok speed and 30 to all stats
Razors edge(shael): Decent weapon for you poorer people.


Shield

Stormshield Monarch

No other shield comes close to this thing so no other suggestions just use what you have.


Belt

Vendungoes Hearty Cord:FHR,Vit,DR
Arachnid mesh:Skills
Thundergods vigor:str/vit,Light absorb

Boots

Gore Riders: OW/CB/DS and FR/W to top it all off not much more we need.
SandStorm Trek:FR/W,vit,str and some poison res. Nice choice
War travs:The added damage is nice but id take gores over this.


Gloves

Draculs:Life leech,OW and a chance to cast lifetap to top it all off.
2 passive,Stat,CB 20 IAS it not need on this build considering it doesnt effect shapeshift attack speed.

Armour

There is alot of great armours for this build.

Chains of honour
Enigma
Fortitude
Stone


Any of them will do your build fine.


Jewelery
Angelic combo
Highlords+2 bks(pvm)


switch weapons
CTA
Beast+spirit monarch

Charms
9 passive&magic skillers with life/FHR/Stats
Zon hellfire torch
Anni

Rest of inventory with 20 life scs with either 5 FR/W or other useful mods.

Stash items
Doom berserker axe (for smiters)
160 light res monarch
160 cold res monarch
160 fire res monarch
160 Poison res monarch
(you can replace these with a 4 um monarch)
Thundergods
Snowclash
Hotspurs
and any absorb jewelery you want its not needed but its pubby anything goes.


Recomended gear

COA-UM,UM or Shako
Grief Phase Blade
Fortitude
Stormshield
Vendungos
Dracs
Gores
Angelic Combo

Hellfire (high stat)
Anni (high stat)
2 12 fhr passive gcs
7 life passive gcs

Fill the spare spaces with life/FR/W scs



Im planning on adding the stats of my zon and Dueling strategies later and fixing anythin you find incorrect about the build/guide.

Im not sure at what FHR frame my guys at or his attack speed but ive found this work out very well. I use the recomended equip.

Ill probably re-write this guide in the future im testing more gear combinations(mostly poor mans).

Thanx for reading :clap:

Cppo-The-Wild
28-10-2005, 17:24
Sounds like cool build. However U could have put those strategies in it right away because those were the things i wanted to see. At least I have something to look forward to! :p

oh and never put 4 ums in monarch, use p diamonds

-Cppo

RealmOftheWolf
28-10-2005, 17:44
Sounds like cool build. However U could have put those strategies in it right away because those were the things i wanted to see. At least I have something to look forward to! :p

oh and never put 4 ums in monarch, use p diamonds

-Cppo


Perfect diamonds are perfectly fine and reason i didnt put the strategies in are because i ran outta time im currently writeing the strategies for each class ive dueled. Be warned w/o doom smiters kick your *** even with 60% dodge. Cold sorcs cant touch you if you wear a 160 res monarch a 4 pd will work for the rest.

Ill get the strategies posted soon as i can. ill suggest 4 pd shield in the re write as a poor man alternative.

disc
28-10-2005, 18:56
why not a good sanctuary instead of 4 um monarch? would save points on str and still provide max block and inceased block speed?
ive thaught about building one of these but i dont know how they fare in pvp, duel stratergies would be interesting to read.

RealmOftheWolf
28-10-2005, 19:10
General tips.

1.Walk into battle this keep your blocking full.
2.When dueling a elemental based attack take out whatever res shield you've picked.(4 um monarch,4 pd monarch,sanctuary)
3.If someone thinks your a druid. KICK THERE ***

Assumeing this is pubby and anything goes.

Assassin.

Trapper
Lightning or fire doesnt matter slap on Thundergods and wear your elemental resist shield and spiral around the trapper.Most of the pubbys will jus keep running around till your dead . Trappers generally arnt worth dueling. Once it took me nearly 10 mins of running around to kill her. Doom works good here

Smart trapper will use MB alot and has a high chance of putting you into dodge lock. Keep out of mind blast range till your ready to namelock attack her . Attack and she'll teleport away after you manage to hit her. Itll go on like this for a while.

Martial artist: Show her whos boss

Kicker:Wear deaths gloves and stormshield and you'll kill her easy no strategey needed.

Whirlwind assassin: One of the tougher builds to kill stand still dont move namelock shift attack her when she DF's in .Thats basically all you can do vs anything whirlwind i haven't found a way to kill these effectively.

Amazon

Guided arrow: lol these suck chase them down ive caught each one ive faced and ripped them apart.

Javazon lightning:Wear thundergods and chosen res shield(sanctuary would be better). They have to come near you once they do its over youll dodge all there attacks and you attack pretty dam fast for a bear lol.

Javazon poison: Deaths gloves and res shield. try to keep out of the clouds,Spiral in and attack them. normally easy duel.

Passive bear zon: A test of gear and who can pretend to be neo more.This duel is luck.

Necromancer

Bone:Try and chase them down,Dodgeing spirit,spear teeth best you can and hit them once there armor is down there easy. But they keep re casting it so becomes anoying.

Poison: Wear deaths and res shield. charge in there attacks mostly miss and its easy to kill them.

Summonancer:avoid these

Barbs

Whirlwind:Same as whirlwind assassin

All barbs but whirlwind are just basic walk to them and kill them.


Sorcs

These are hard when they tele.

Wear res shield along with a max res item

Charge them down dodgeing attacks best you can once you get to them. Murder them.

Sorcs dont take much skill to beat.


Druid

Windy: your owned. Hurricane puts you into dodge lock.

Fury:Never met one.

Summon:easy

Paladin

Smite owns you so nearly all pallys own you. Anyone finds a way to kill them, Let me know. ive tryed to avoid as many as i can.



Doesnt take much to be able to own with this build. The evasion skill take most of the hits off you.

Ive has some luck with like a shapeshift dsnch that happens when you walk into a obstacle then namelock click and you appear right next to them attacking.

I aint written much on this due to lack of time

disc
28-10-2005, 19:24
stormshield can be socketed with a - requirement jewel to save on str but if you use 4 um monarch that would be pointless as you would still need 156 str.
sanctuary would offer 18%res less but offer max block. this would help in pubby games were you are hosted by a melee character at the same time. this happens in most pubby games i play, thats why i suggested the sanctuary.

to summarise

sanctuary = more life due to less str req
sanctuary = good res/max block for when hosted by elemental and physical attackers at same time.
sanctuary= 18% less res but 20 fhr bonus (4 fhr scs= 20 % res in scs)

just my 2 cents

RealmOftheWolf
28-10-2005, 20:03
stormshield can be socketed with a - requirement jewel to save on str but if you use 4 um monarch that would be pointless as you would still need 156 str.
sanctuary would offer 18%res less but offer max block. this would help in pubby games were you are hosted by a melee character at the same time. this happens in most pubby games i play, thats why i suggested the sanctuary.

to summarise

sanctuary = more life due to less str req
sanctuary = good res/max block for when hosted by elemental and physical attackers at same time.
sanctuary= 18% less res but 20 fhr bonus (4 fhr scs= 20 % res in scs)

just my 2 cents


Ive never used a sanctuary on her but i see this as being a shield that is compareable to a stormshield. thanx for your imput im makeing sanctuary when i can. A bearzon is a one on one dueler mainly

Omikron8
28-10-2005, 22:58
Remember you are a non-teleporting build with a swing attack, the worst kind of pvp build

All necros will destroy you, bone necros will teleport around, trap you in prison and then pummel you with spears

All sorcs will destroy you due to 125-200 FCR teleport, with stacked absorb + resist the best you can hope for is a stalemate

Pretty much all pallies except zealers will destroy you as well

You won't catch trappers due to BoS + mindblast

Bowazons suck? You forget that by running your blocking drops to 75x1/3 ? If they have sufficient run/walk they will fill you with arrows

Now in melee-only duels this build would do far better but in caster/teleport filled pubs you won't do much

SlainByPain
29-10-2005, 01:31
Nice effot, but as omnikron said, it won't work against ranged.

RealmOftheWolf
29-10-2005, 11:14
You'll be surprised how well she can do against sorcs but bone necros you stand little chance.
And trappers well ive managed to actually beat most of them easy although they Just run all day.
Zeal and blessed hammer pallys are not that bad and can be defeated but smite just ownz and if your dueling in pubbys use doom.

Zons ive beaten mostly due to dodge and block although it is cut. I stacked FR/W and used enigma to at least close the distance. The aim is to keep the zon running.


There is alot of builds that can beat you but this is a underpowered build and normal attack really does suck but ive had alot of success with this build against certain classes mostly against sorcs which i thought i would have trouble with.



one thing for certain Uburs are owned by this zon maybe i should just turn this into a pvm build or pvu. Ill keep dueling with this charactor though.

Demon2k3
29-10-2005, 12:04
why not add some kind of items that give an pala or barbarian attack skill? as the main attack suck, let's say zeal on an ring wouldn't that bring up the attack a little?

RealmOftheWolf
29-10-2005, 16:55
why not add some kind of items that give an pala or barbarian attack skill? as the main attack suck, let's say zeal on an ring wouldn't that bring up the attack a little?

Doesnt work in bear form but anyone could just use my skill set up and use Passion to make a zeal zon.

Gimmershred
30-10-2005, 21:59
Ooh man. I just posted a guide also for bearamazons. Didn't see this guide before =(. Anyways, on what realm are you? My fuzzydodger is on Europe nonladder, i would love to duel vs you.

dkay
31-10-2005, 05:57
whats your full stats? dmg/life/ar. etc

Gimmershred
31-10-2005, 22:23
whats your full stats? dmg/life/ar. etc

You can find my info here -->

http://forums.diabloii.net/showthread.php?t=398808

Darksteel
14-08-2006, 03:18
Just wanna bump this.

Anyone else ever make one of these?

Raith
17-09-2008, 04:25
i was hoping this build did more dmg etc etc... but nope. :[

fingerpunch
17-10-2009, 05:44
The PvP BearZon by RealmOfTheWolf


switch weapons
CTA
Beast+spirit monarch



this confuses me

beast is an axe/sceptor/hammer runeword
and you obviously have to have beast to make it a bearzon

so why would you list CTA?

crawlingdeadman
17-10-2009, 06:03
SOP is to use cta for the bo then put beast on to shift into bear, then switch to your attacking weapon.

vknez
20-10-2009, 20:14
first of all there is already bearzon guide here and it is better:

http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=398808

you are missing some crucial things to mention like that grief pb must have 32+ ias to reach fastest attack speed. choosing passive skillers over max/ar/life or max/ar/frw is bad choice
no mention of ama/frw adds circlets
no mention of rare/blood crafted belts with fhr/str/life
deadly strike dont help much when you have 70 % critical
of weapon speed helps very little to gain faster attack
no mention of shadow dancers/rare resists boots
using armor other then fortitude means you have crap damage
using doom ba vs smiter means you swing to slow and forces smiter to holy freeze you also for extra slow attack. anyways winning vs any decent smiter is pure luck
having frw less then 100 % on nonteleporting melee char is suicide

most of duelling strategy is misleading and wrong

no mention of fhr/fpa breakpoints with different weapons

my never finished zon (more used as show off then dueling char)

http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/2812/screenshot072q.jpg