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Originally Posted by jedimaster86 One of my probs is that I really don't have my zon skills spread out into all of the trees (just the second and third columns in the first skill tree, and not all skills are maxed; i have about 5 free skill points); is this the type of mod that really does require you to spend a point into most of your skills? |
Yep... most skills utterly fail at some point against some enemies. You need to diversify to get past them all. One point may not be enough, though - I usually have ~5-7 skills maxed.
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Originally Posted by jedimaster86 All of the skills I have points in require equipment to be worn to use them (and all are basically purely focused on how high damage my bow is - the only thing that changes with skill points placed is the range and sometimes amount of arrows if it is a skill that utilizes multiple arrows like legion or barrage). |
Bow skills are fairly easy on skill points - you can get by with 1-4 points for most of them. This is on purpose. Means you can get several of them and still have points left over for things like Mana Sweep, Death Coil et al.
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Originally Posted by jedimaster86 Thus I die, and rescuing a body once you die (I was playing again last night; at least 100 deaths before I gave up) is rather difficult. At times I tried to arm myself with any oil pots I had with me, and at times I also tried to buy and arm myself with some armor and another bow so I could cast legion. |
Or you could get Bloodstorm, Stormtouch or anything else that doesn't rely on weapon damage. Getting your corpse back as a weapon user is and has always been difficult. Be glad it isn't like D1, where you lost your items if you couldn't get them back.
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Originally Posted by jedimaster86 I think my best bet would be to keep on trying to level in A5 (I'm 37 now) and place points in new skills, esp defensive ones like good 'ol Catharsis - which is my usual main attack for the ability to be one of my best offensive and often used after I Blindside and stun everything. |
You do have Death Coil, right?
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Originally Posted by jedimaster86 Leveling is slow, but hopefully if I can build up new skills I can utilize them and one day perhaps I'll be able to survive a higher "/players X" command (I usually have no problem with something like "/players 4", but it just takes so long to kill a guy after I stun him; |
It isn't your god-given right to play on
/players 14902180910241031 and get away with it. This mod is balanced for
/players 1 - both in terms of monster stats and also experience gained and drops. You don't
need higher player settings.
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Originally Posted by jedimaster86 did I read somewhere correctly that you had lowered bow drops? It's hard to find a good bow I can actually use and doesn't require an immense amount of dex to use it. |
There are jewels with -8% requirements, and some runewords have additional -reqs. However, the best thing to do is not try to lower requirements, but to increase your dexterity, usually through socketables and certain runewords. Eld runes into everything would be a good start. It should be not at all impossible to get +40 dexterity and +30% bonus to dexterity at your level.
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Originally Posted by jedimaster86 (this mod really doesn't want people to spend points in vitality; nice job heh). |
Neither did Blizzard, but...
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Originally Posted by Bloodangel26 close...it was sorta fun till i realized that on single player you cannot mule items, play with other people without doing the work of setting up the tcip things, and it wont do anything for my account on bnet. |
You are aware of the existence of
PlugY, an addon to Diablo 2 that gives you a
shared, infinite stash?
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Originally Posted by 1337-Orange A4 is really hard the dark knights own my and my merc so hard >< I use a Earthquake bow and do about 200-300 with Carthisis. Takes me a while to kill things and those monsters that tele when you hit them annoy me lol. |
Your damage sucks, man...
Just because Catharsis shows the biggest number on your character screen does not mean it is the highest damage thing in the game. Scatter Shot does only slightly less damage, but does this damage to everything in a large radius. Single targets are torn to pieces by Guided Chain. Wraith Arrow owns large packs. Deathcore just owns, period. And don't forget the Nova Shot/Mana Sweep combo. Etc.
Catharsis is good early on, but way overrated in the later game. If you can't get resistances from other sources, you suck. If the physical resistance comes into play, this means you're tanking, which means you're going to die. Double damage in a line is great against bosses, but it does lack area coverage.