Your Unique Character(s)

[LukeJames]

Your Unique Character(s)
Post any unique characters that you have made

Alright, this is the unique character thread and I am quite sure it has been done before. The fact is, I want to know about characters you have made that were enjoyable and aroused people's attention upon seeing it. Diablo II is populated bt cookie-cutter builds, hundreds upon thousands of people make the same build with near same gear all over this game, you can see why it gets a little repetitive. Of course, there aren't that many unique builds as there are limitations and pretty much every angle and combination has been tried. However, there are still times when you can just see a character run by you, clad in unsual gear that just makes you think of how interesting it is.

I'm not asking you to post guides, I want to know what characters you have that are a step away from the cookie-cutters. I want to know what makes them unique, wether it be their gear, skills or even stats. I would also quite like to know how much fun they were to either duel or kill monsters with.

Partizan Charger
Let me start by saying, wow I was not expecting anything like this to happen at all, I was going in the direction of a cookie-cutter bonesnap build and then I trailed off into the world of rare gear, replacing my sets and uniques for delightful rare items I had picked up along my travels. Today, New Years Eve, a friend-of-a-friend gave me a little gift which he had no use for. A 175% Enhanced Damage Partizan, quite an eye-opener, yet when I saw the requirements I had no idea what to do with the darn thing. It hit me, I would swap all of my gear around, I just needed a tad more strength and attack rating and I would hit the requirements exactly.

Class : Paladin
Type : Charger
Level : 58
Gear
Weapon : 20% IAS Partizan, 93-207 Damage, 125 Attack Rating, 4% Mana Leech
Armor : Hawkmail
Helmet : Iratha
Gloves : Iratha
Belt : Iratha
Amulet : Iratha
Ring : 15 Dexterity, 23 lightning resist, 35 mana, 30% Attack Rating
Ring : 14 Strength, 20 Cold Resist, 68% Attack Rating
Boots : 30 Faster Run/Walk, 33 Lightning Resist, 35 Fire Resist, 2 Dexterity

I have barely had time to duel with him, very promising with a fast attack speed weapon topped with 40% IAS. He looks quite humorous carrying a weapon which ressembles a stave. Dueling in Nightmare with high resists and around 824 HP.

[zrk]

Yes it really does seem like a cool charger. The only charger cooler than that that i can think of would be a grim scythe charger, but the requirements ofa grim scythe arent all that cool. :cheesy:

PS: charge isnt affected by IAS or FRW from items which makes the irathas a bit useless (but hey, its resists are still good).

[shag]

i make paladin rangers. i like holy fire especially, already started a fad. (there were none in europe hardcore ladder and now i see a lot of people trying out the build and which by the way is very effective)

[LukeJames]

Yes it really does seem like a cool charger. The only charger cooler than that that i can think of would be a grim scythe charger, but the requirements ofa grim scythe arent all that cool. :cheesy:

PS: charge isnt affected by IAS or FRW from items which makes the irathas a bit useless (but hey, its resists are still good).

I know all the FRW items are useless, I didn't even want them but the boots I'm wearing are my best resistant boots and Irathas of course for the heavy resists. The IAS helps a tad when I get in too close and my character swings, with 40 ias, he can get his swing done with quickly then it's back to charge.
I just thought it was great how such a boring build turned into this with a few switches, I only have 1 stat too many in strength (114 strength all I needed was 113) but the rest is perfect.

He works extremely well vs. sorces and necromancers as well as the occasional paladin (I got one godly smiter really pissed off because I was beating him) but high level FOH'ers still manage to take him down in two hits.

[fredsta54]

cleg characters :P

other than that, errr check out my mini guide library




lance is the best 2h wep for charger






Fred

[magicalkitty]

I have played since diablo first came out. I just finally got sick of tring to make the average charcater. so I quit for about a couple of weeks and now I'm just having fun. One of the builds I'm making is a well known but I think is fun to mess with is enchantress w/ ice armor that dam. adn freezes opponets also she will use a shield with 4 p skulls adn ne thing else that makes opponet take dam. I know that this build wont get that far in hell; but I think will be fun which this game is supposed to be about instead of spending all their time searching for h.r. or stuff to trade for them to make runewords.
Another guy Im making is a b.p. necro( bone armor not maxed but sum of its synergies maxed and poison nova+synergies) .
REMEMBER DIABLO IS SUPPOSED TO BE FUN :xmas5:

[LukeJames]

Classic forums, please don't talk about LoD stuff in here.

[fredsta54]

using full sigons on a ww barb is a lot of fun'

it sucks

with an ok 1h dmg weapon it will work

I got to baron in single player using it, for fun, when i had no internet





Fred

[sculpen]

In early Season 2, I made my first Chain Lightning sorcy for PvM. People were surprised how well Lightning ripped through the monsters in the long hallways under Act 2. Then in cow games people were blown away by her superior killing speed. The best part was I was mostly using gear found with that character, including a staff. Chain Lightning is also really fun to use.

I also made an Inferno-sorcy after checking out the damage potential with the new synergies. She got lots of lol, omg, wtf is that?. She was pretty fun if you dont mind playing party support. It looks cool to Inferno and spin in circles. I leveled her into nightmare, but she wasnt very effective past norm act 2 in big games, but fun none the less.

[Scooch]

In early Season 2, I made my first Chain Lightning sorcy for PvM.

You have given me a nice little project, I've never seen any kind of light sorc, I might as well try one.

[LukeJames]

Eh, chain lightning sorceress is basically just a javazon using lightning strike. Been there, done that, I do not think I shall return to the field of chain lightning anytime soon considering all of it's glitches (such as if you run and use it, the lightning will bounce between monsters but not damage them as you have to be stationary for it to work).

[fredsta54]

high level 120 fcr lightning//chain lightning sorcs are the fastest pvm killers

The only flaw is huge mana cost for chain light, and fragility with 120 fcr

80 fcr light sorc's are nothing special









Fred

[Akukami]

Melee Poison Commandomancer - Level 77

If you don't know what that is, it's basically a Gnasher Melee Summoner that uses Maxed Skellies with Maxed Mastery, and Max Poison Nova with 10 Lower Resist. It works very well as a solo or partied character, and I've taken him to Hell CS with little trouble.

- Akukami

[fredsta54]

Melee Poison Commandomancer - Level 77

If you don't know what that is, it's basically a Gnasher Melee Summoner that uses Maxed Skellies with Maxed Mastery, and Max Poison Nova with 10 Lower Resist. It works very well as a solo or partied character, and I've taken him to Hell CS with little trouble.

- Akukami


Nice hybridization :thumbsup:

PvP Melee jabbers are quite unique, and effective








Fred

[Zodijackyl]

Lightning sorcs are good PvM/Rushers, but they're weak in hell CS. My old rusher was a level 85 lightning sorc, and after seeing how good she was my friend made one and leveled it to 91, soon to realize his build wasn't as good as he thought (was mainly mana/es).
Lightning sorcs are good rushers, but not very good for CS, and mediocre duelers.

[fredsta54]

Lightning sorcs are good PvM/Rushers, but they're weak in hell CS. My old rusher was a level 85 lightning sorc, and after seeing how good she was my friend made one and leveled it to 91, soon to realize his build wasn't as good as he thought (was mainly mana/es).
Lightning sorcs are good rushers, but not very good for CS, and mediocre duelers.

Light sorcs own pvp and pvm, their nothing special at hell cs tho

120 fcr 8k lightning rapes in pvp. Against a competent light sorc you will need itharas + darkglow to stand a chance








Fred

[LukeJames]

I can see them having major problems with specters and 'ghost' class monsters. I usually got around them as a javazon by using the jabbing of the spear to my advantage in Nightmare but in Hell I can't see a sorceress being able to do anything unless she is dual-tree in which case her lightning damage would be nerfed.

[Zodijackyl]

[QUOTE=fredsta54]Light sorcs own pvp and pvm, their nothing special at hell cs tho

120 fcr 8k lightning rapes in pvp. Against a competent light sorc you will need itharas + darkglow to stand a chance[QUOTE]

120FCR wouldn't leave enough room to stack CR, and you would die from one strong blizz, or a well placed orb or two.

Without a shield max CR on a sorc is...
Ring: 30
Ring: 30
Belt: 30
Shard: 10
Armor: 30
Boots: 40
Helm: 30
Amu: 60

260 CR max, if you can pull it. -50 for hell, -75 for maximum res, which leaves a maximum of 135 stacked CR, which would normally be adequate, but the chances of every piece of your gear having perfect CR and also the mods you need is highly unlikely. Also, 75%CR would still hurt quite a bit from a 3k+ blizz, so hawk would be very useful. -15 for the additional res needed to hit max, and -15 more because hawk has 15CR, not the 30 max on a rare. Now if you did manage the 105 stacked CR with 120FCR (good luck finding a 10fcr 20pris 60CR amulet with sorc skills), You'll be vulnerable to cold mastery. Any imperfections in gear will make you die faster. Lacking CR on the amulet makes you weak to cold sorcs, and having less than perfect CR on anything else just hurts more. Although you could argue with 120FCR you would be able to outrun anyone else, when you stop to attack a well placed blizz would wreck you.

[fredsta54]

[QUOTE=fredsta54]Light sorcs own pvp and pvm, their nothing special at hell cs tho

120 fcr 8k lightning rapes in pvp. Against a competent light sorc you will need itharas + darkglow to stand a chance[QUOTE]

120FCR wouldn't leave enough room to stack CR, and you would die from one strong blizz, or a well placed orb or two.

Without a shield max CR on a sorc is...
Ring: 30
Ring: 30
Belt: 30
Shard: 10
Armor: 30
Boots: 40
Helm: 30
Amu: 60

260 CR max, if you can pull it. -50 for hell, -75 for maximum res, which leaves a maximum of 135 stacked CR, which would normally be adequate, but the chances of every piece of your gear having perfect CR and also the mods you need is highly unlikely. Also, 75%CR would still hurt quite a bit from a 3k+ blizz, so hawk would be very useful. -15 for the additional res needed to hit max, and -15 more because hawk has 15CR, not the 30 max on a rare. Now if you did manage the 105 stacked CR with 120FCR (good luck finding a 10fcr 20pris 60CR amulet with sorc skills), You'll be vulnerable to cold mastery. Any imperfections in gear will make you die faster. Lacking CR on the amulet makes you weak to cold sorcs, and having less than perfect CR on anything else just hurts more. Although you could argue with 120FCR you would be able to outrun anyone else, when you stop to attack a well placed blizz would wreck you.


Yes blizz//orb sorcs hurt a lot on this build.

The trick is to kill them before they kill you, which is pretty easy most of the time








Fred

[LukeJames]

Revival of thread

Death Zealot - Level 56

Gear
Full Deaths Set
15 Strength/10 Dexterity/18 Prizmatic/24 Mana Ammy
105 Attack Rating/6 Minimum /20 Cold Resist/19 Lightning Resist Ring
106 Attack Rating/28 Cold Resist/26 Lightning Resist Ring
38 Life/13 Strength/26 Fire Resist/21 Lightning Resist Splint Mail
30/20 17 Prizmatic/26 Lightning Resist/4 Dmg Reduction/-20 Requirements Tower Shield
3 Perfect Ruby Mask
Treads of Cython

Skills
10 Sacrafice
4 Zeal
20 Lightning Resist
20 Holy Shock
6 Salvation
1 Smite
1 Charge

As you will probably note, where the hell is my increased attack speed? Well the next frame for war sword is so high it is not even worth hitting. The death set provides nice cold damage, attack rating and heavy resists.

Zeal : 108-3561
Charge : 108-3561
Aura: 1-567

Resists (Nightmare)
75 Fire
75 Cold
85 Lightning
75 Poison

Life
1076

[fredsta54]

Revival of thread

Death Zealot - Level 56

Gear
Full Deaths Set
15 Strength/10 Dexterity/18 Prizmatic/24 Mana Ammy
105 Attack Rating/6 Minimum /20 Cold Resist/19 Lightning Resist Ring
106 Attack Rating/28 Cold Resist/26 Lightning Resist Ring
38 Life/13 Strength/26 Fire Resist/21 Lightning Resist Splint Mail
30/20 17 Prizmatic/26 Lightning Resist/4 Dmg Reduction/-20 Requirements Tower Shield
3 Perfect Ruby Mask
Treads of Cython

Skills
10 Sacrafice
4 Zeal
20 Lightning Resist
20 Holy Shock
6 Salvation
1 Smite
1 Charge

As you will probably note, where the hell is my increased attack speed? Well the next frame for war sword is so high it is not even worth hitting. The death set provides nice cold damage, attack rating and heavy resists.

Zeal : 108-3561
Charge : 108-3561
Aura: 1-567

Resists (Nightmare)
75 Fire
75 Cold
85 Lightning
75 Poison

Life
1076


Full deaths set is terrible imo. Holy aura paladins rely on fast hitting to be viable, in addition to physical dmg







Fred

[battleroyale]

Revival of thread

Death Zealot - Level 56

Gear
Full Deaths Set
15 Strength/10 Dexterity/18 Prizmatic/24 Mana Ammy
105 Attack Rating/6 Minimum /20 Cold Resist/19 Lightning Resist Ring
106 Attack Rating/28 Cold Resist/26 Lightning Resist Ring
38 Life/13 Strength/26 Fire Resist/21 Lightning Resist Splint Mail
30/20 17 Prizmatic/26 Lightning Resist/4 Dmg Reduction/-20 Requirements Tower Shield
3 Perfect Ruby Mask
Treads of Cython

Skills
10 Sacrafice
4 Zeal
20 Lightning Resist
20 Holy Shock
6 Salvation
1 Smite
1 Charge

As you will probably note, where the hell is my increased attack speed? Well the next frame for war sword is so high it is not even worth hitting. The death set provides nice cold damage, attack rating and heavy resists.

Zeal : 108-3561
Charge : 108-3561
Aura: 1-567

Resists (Nightmare)
75 Fire
75 Cold
85 Lightning
75 Poison

Life
1076

Im doing a full deaths set, like that, just for fun.
I've mostly solo'd norm and nm so far, so i guess it works for me

[LukeJames]

If you solo'd nightmare with an aura-zealot you're doing better than me.

[fredsta54]

If you solo'd nightmare with an aura-zealot you're doing better than me.

Holy freeze zealots solo hell, not only are they viable, but were talking about 1 zeal per monster to kill in hell river of flame








Fred

[Beltyn]

What sort of equipment you use for that?

I understand that with maxed Holy freeze you're gonna get hit a lot less, but what sort of weapon to get decent killing speed?