Questions about boxing

[LukeJames]

Alright, boxing has always appealed to me because it is one of the most unique - if not the most unique - character builds in all of Diablo II. Nobody does it and most of anyone who hears of it laughs. It would appear to me, the best way to go about doing it would be with one of the elemental auras or vengence. What am I talking about?

I speak of a melee character using no weapon, not even a glitched placement to make their graphic look weaponless. Bearing only a shield he must use his fist to pound the ever living crap out of all the demons of hell, a fist that only does about two damage. Only is it possible with the right knowledge, otherwise it will only be able to kill fallens in Normal Difficulty. Which probably will cease to entertain you for hours on end. I have never done it before but I am fairly sure it is possible, intended only for PVM for sure as I doubt it would ever work in a duel aside from a chummed auradin.

Questions about boxers
1. Can zeal be used without a weapon?
2. Does IAS affect your punching speed?
3. Is the range of a fist 0 or 1?

[purplelocust]

Questions about boxers
1. Can zeal be used without a weapon?
2. Does IAS affect your punching speed?
3. Is the range of a fist 0 or 1?

1) Zeal can be used without a weapon.

2) IAS affects punching speed, base weapon speed for Fist for Paladin is 0.

3) I'm not sure about range, probably 1 since there is no such thing as range 0.

A boxer can use +min damage gear or (much more sensibly) become a Holy Freeze or Holy Shock Boxer and do ok. The comedy value is good and he can actually kill things quite well.

Without Zeal, punching IAS breakpoints are 13 fpa at 0, then improvements by one frame each at 9, 20, 37, 63, 105 and 200.

With Zeal, punching IAS breakpoints are 7fps at 0, then improvments at 20, 63 and 200.

For amusement, I made a Tesladin who used a wand- faster than punching, at least if it was a -10 weapon speed Bone or Tomb wand.

[Kevin William Cox]

I did this with a friend PvP. Two Barbs with BO and shout, lvl 84 (me) and lvl 77 (him). It took about 40 minutes before I finally won. lol. Bezerk seemed to work best though Bash wasn't to bad either it stuned so you could get two hits to their one if your fast enough. Because I had higher strength than him, I hit for about 6~10, 1 punch. He hit for 5~7, 1 punch. So on a Barb, I guess strength and vitality for all stats would be good. It was funny though. My hand got cramped holding down the mouse button.

[fredsta54]

A holy freeze/fire/shock zealer with crushing blow and open wounds can be viable with only its fists








Fred