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In a parallel universe, Anti-Oliver Wenzel said exactly the opposite of:
> Hi,
>
> as I'm playing SP only, I have (or can get) access to uber-stuff like
> high- level runewords and such.
>
> Every now and then I get the urge to try some of these - though I play
> w/o cheating normally.
>
> So, what build and which high-level runewords would you look for if
> you could afford everything? But not because you could, but it really
> improves a specific build?
Something I'd like to try someday would be a kicker with a Phoenix shield
and a Fortitude armor. That would be 300% ED from Fortitude, 350-400%
from Phoenix and probably crazy damage.
I'd do 20 Venom, Tiger Strike, Dragon Tail, Dragon Talon, 1 in all the
other Shadow skills, 1 or more in death sentry, 1 in BF and maybe Blade
Shield too.
If you really want the 'go broke' version, you can add a Dream helm and
Dream shield on switch. (1-648 with just the helm, 1-1668 with both helm
and shield so the switch should be fine for non-LI PIs.
If you have Stormlash, it's quite possibly the best kicker weapon around.
If you go runewords only, a lot of stuff seems tasty; Doom in a 1H
hammer, Beast 1H hammer for the fanat, CB and OW, etc...
For boots, any myrmidon greaves will do, but possibly none as nicely as
upgraded gore riders.
Gloves you should use Trang's for the poison damage, and rings are to
your taste. Basically you need to have a minimum of 24 to Dragon Talon
for the 5 kicks and anything above that is gravy. +all/assassin skills
are preferable as they help BoS/Venom/Shadow Master/Death Sentry. You
should try to have +3 Shadow claws on switch, they can be had with a bit
of patience stepping in and out of Pindle's garden looking at claws at NM
Anya's shop.
Don't use charge ups with Talon, they're wasted time as Talon is like a
faster zeal that only targets one enemy. Elemental damage, Crushing Blow
and CTC on striking stuff is very useful because of the speed you can
achieve with the kicks. Mine uses a Ribcracker and upped gore riders and
she kills Baal ridiculously quick. She's the only one of my characters
that dispatches Izual in secondes (I don't have a hammerdin so I don't
know if they're as fast).
You can use Tiger Strike with Dragon Tail for groups of non-PI non-FI
enemies, when maxxed it will do sickening amounts of damage, and always
keep a couple of sentries on the floor to blow up corpses as soon as they
fall and also to act as advance warnings of oncoming enemies.
If you want insane raw damage you can hire a might merc and give him a
pride stick for concentration on top of his might. I don't know if +
skills on the merc would boost one or both or none of the auras, but
since you'd be experimenting with edited stuff maybe you could try and
tell us ( or me at least... ;-P) because if +skills count that could mean
lots of damage as it would boost both his might and his concentration.
But to be honest I'd think it would only help with his might.
Wow, look at me rambling on and on and on... Can you tell I'm a bit of an
assassin fan?
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sky like a child's numbered dots puzzle. He hoped that from some vantage
point in the Universe it might be seen to spell a very, very rude word" -
D. N. Adams
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