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Galinho
24-06-2006, 16:10
Hi,
I've been playing my Pdaggermancer for a while now.
He's already lvl 42 or so and is very powerful and fun to play( even in low duels pvp). I do have a question though:
I'm not sure I quite understand the fighting strategy of a melee daggermancer... If I'm willing to go all the way melee, and use Pnova and Pexplosion only in order to synergize Pdagger, how do I do the fighting? I mean PvM of course... I mean... I stab a monster and then run away until it's dead?? That doesn't seem very effective and even somewhat slow for the progress of the game.... and how do i deal with angry mobs?

Also, another question regarding poison damage sources generally:
How does it work? I mean... Let's say I have a certain amount of poison dmg over 11 secs from Pdagger skill, but another source of poison (Such as a charm or from an item or the wep) adds a certain amount of dmg but over a different time, like 2 secs. How does this work? I mean, every hit activates poison dmg for 11 secs from Pdagger, and 2 secs out of these 11 secs are damaging both from the Pdagger skill and from the 2secs poison dmg source? umm hope u understood anything out of this ^^.

Thank all of u necro experts who have the time and patience to explain these things to me.

p.s
If it's important for your explanation on the first question about the tactics, know that I'm using bone armor and am going for max block rather than max vita. THX!

Mad Mantis
25-06-2006, 14:27
I mean PvM of course... I mean... I stab a monster and then run away until it's dead?? That doesn't seem very effective and even somewhat slow for the progress of the game.... and how do i deal with angry mobs?

Basically, yes. That is how you play. However you don't need to wait with stabbing another monster until the first one dies. You stab all the monsters in the pack and then wait until they die, which should not take that long. Curses and minions are your friends when it comes to making sure a pack will stay still and docile until you stabbed them all. LR would be preferred for accelerated killing, but you'll need to stay alive first. Decrep, DV and Attract are good curses to keep angry mobs down.
With a beefy BA and good blocking you can also choose to stand toe to toe with a monster and keep stabbing them. Use Fleshripper for some good melee damage. The same tactics for crowd control still apply.




How does this work?

Read this (http://forums.diabloii.net/showthread.php?t=372237) and this thread (http://forums.diabloii.net/showthread.php?t=375081) for some info.