My Fireclaw Guide


1 Pt in Each of the following (At least at the start)
Werewolf
Sage
Lycan
Bear
Maul
Feral Rage
(all prerequisites that are useless besides bear lycan and sage)

Skills to Max (In this order)
Fire claw (dur)
Fissure (strongest fire move that u will get)
Volcano
Firestorm
Molten Boulder (I do this one last because it is the most useless of the group.)

This should be maxed at lvl 95 (Yes that high but at least it is possible to max unlike some builds)
After that is maxed put in Lycan unless you plan on team dueling in which you would put in sage (Lycan + Sage add same amount of life per lvl but lycan cant die and it adds other passive traits)

Base stats
Str- Enough str to use a Monarch with gear (Torch/Anni/Jalals shouldn't make it too much more than 100)
Dex- 160 Because i seem to prefer at least 65% block and at lvl 92 at least 160 base dex is req (However if u have very high anni + reven you can be ok with 150) But 65% is just my standards you can go higher.
Vit- Everything else
Nrg- Nothing (Unless you truly feel the need to have more mana than is needed. Since after all FC does not increase mana cost per lvl.)

Gear:

Helm: Upgraded Jalals with either 5/5 fire die facet (as i use and prefer) or Cham it and throw away the frost (This however requires you to have more base dex but gives room for an extra Angelic Ring)
Armor: Archon Plate COH (Dol+Um+Ber+Ist) Preferably 950+.
Gloves: Magefist (For the added Skill, Upgrade it if you truly want to have 90 something defence max)
Weapon 1: This is a must no beasts or wizspikes or any of that other bullshit. You must have a Either 6 shael Phase blade or a 4 Shael 2x 90-100 Ar/ 15 Ias Jewels. Anything else will not work as well.
Shield 1: Shael'd SS (Self Explanatory)
Weapon 2: Cta (Amn+Ral+Mal+Ist+Ohm) Preferably 5+ Bo.
Shield 2: Spirit (If your ladder) Sigons Lidless or Splendor (Non Ladd)
Belt: 40 Vit Dungos (The dr% doesnt matter since 35% on SS+ 8% on coh = 43% and Dungos has 10-15% so no matter what it is you will have the cap of 50%)
Boots: I prefer Aldurs boots for the 40% r/w and 50 life but you can use Treks and have even less points in Str but i like Aldurs better (Gore riders would work i guess but why have open wounds and other physical dmg mods when 9/10 people can only take 1 hit in hell).
Ammy Set 1: Angelic Ammy
Rings Set 1: Angelic Ring + Raven (If you did as i prefer with the facet otherwise another Angelic if you decided to cham the Jalals)
Charms: 9x Shape Gcs with 12% fhr or 30+ Life. (I would do half and half but thats just me.) Anni, Druid Torch, 9x 3/20/20 (they are possible on ladder just not too likely) or 20 Life 5 res scs if you are needing a little bit of res (Which is helpful if you use Ammy/Ring set 1 as you should) and a 20 Life sc With a cold dmg mod on it (It can freeze some players who don't think they need CBF on their char)

Full credit goes to fuggle for this guide

Fuggle, this is a little out of date now, so I'm going to have to unsticky it. Please correct the shortcomings and I will restick it straight away.

Lol, I know it is, I quit D2 like 6 months ago, and this build was from 2004 I believe, I can probably tune it a little bit... I guess.

Excellent.

I kind of tuned it a little bit to add torch.

ok ........... dueling stratagies?

I don't really know the builds of today anymore, so I can't really give any strategies on how to play the other classes.

want me to do that?

Go for it, I don't even play D2 anymore.

This build is so bad when you use this you have so little life and you only do like 4k damage and this build is so hard to finish because you have to be level 95. Only ladder nerds go that high, real players stop at like 85. And the gear listed is nearly impossible to get all of it.

Umm, the build is bad to you because you have no skill, it does matter if the build is HARD, it's a good build, no matter if it is easy or hard for you. And where the **** do you get off this being a bad build because you have to be level 95? Real players don't stop at 85, you just suck and don't have the patience to get to 99.
The gear is nearly impossible? Maybe because it's a challenge, it IS possible to get them, so it doesn't matter how hard it is to get them.


And if you haven't noticed this was made in 06, 2 years ago..