The Best Cow Killing Build

[hulldatzet]

I know that the best cow killing build uses lighting so you dont have to worry about king. (Well depends on deffinition of best but id like to use lightning as in ill accidentally kill king other wise)
I want to make a character solely made to kill hell cows, for fun and drops, but the main questions i have is what char is best with minimal GEAR
I have barely anything, and any gear that is decent that i do have i have on my only character which is a summon necro, so that doesnt help me with lightning damage.


Sorc i hear takes alot of +skills to be good at lightning (is this right?)

LF zon - Havent heard much about them except they are good, not sure about with not a lot of +skills tho

Trapsin - Seems safe, but slow to me, and for cows i would want a fast killer (correct me if wrong tho, never played one)

If im not mistaken those are the 3 lightning classes there are to choose from.



[EDIT] Are there lightning immunes in hell cows? forgot to ask this.

[Stompwampa]

Pretty much any lightning based build is going to be very expensive...

[squiggle]

Javazon seems to be the best.

Only immunes to lightning is the Cow king

And some uniques that spawn in there

[gorash]

javazon is the fastest imo due to lf.

there can be some nasty spawns though in there. The uniques in there can spawn light immune.

[Voorhees]

A trapsin can do ok, your gonna have to use some death sentry to speed things up though, and its very easy to kill the king by accident with that.
A lightning sorc you should probably forget about without the right gear, at least in hell.
Javazon is probably your best bet with cheap items.
This info is for solo cowing only ofcourse, your gonna need really good gear to kill effectively in full games with any of these builds.
About other light immunes, on average i'd have to say theres usually about one other lite immune in your average cow game. Sometimes more.
A holyfreeze merc is a good idea. Just make sure he doesn't do enough damage to give the king a hard time.

[korialstraz]

a bit more suggestions on merc part, with sufficiant damage he can take down the light immunes unless the spawn with light and phys immune:O

[JME]

A LF zon should be the best cheapest build for this. Light sorcs are great but a bit more costly and alot more frail. Trapsins aren't really the best for this, although they aren't bad at it.

If you decide to stray from the idea of lightning only, a FA zon can rip through the herd too but they are a bit pricier.

[FrankWest]

If you're not concerned so much with the King, or don't mind keeping a very close eye out for him - strafer/multishot Amazons are the best, period.

If you don't want to worry about the King, lightning Javazons are the way to go. Personally I use a lightning Trapper, because I really enjoy Trappers, but I admit that Javazons are probably best when properly equipped. Although Death Sentry is quite a godsend...

[JME]

If you're not concerned so much with the King, or don't mind keeping a very close eye out for him - strafer/multishot Amazons are the best, period.

If you don't want to worry about the King, lightning Javazons are the way to go. Personally I use a lightning Trapper, because I really enjoy Trappers, but I admit that Javazons are probably best when properly equipped. Although Death Sentry is quite a godsend...

Have you seen a FA zon go at them with a high level pierce? Typically this build uses strafe and/or multi as a backup and imo, almost certainly, far outperforms the strafe/multizon with cows. It works something like, hit-splash-shatter-splash-shatter-hit-splash-shatter.......big puddle.

I setup one for my wife and can't help but play it sometimes just for fun.