Of all the class combinations you’ve played, which has been your favourite and why? I would do a poll but, you know…limits and all that.
Deathknight, just the name alone is awesome!
Why: good support for physical raw pure viking damage
Witchhunter - because theorycrafting with it is always a challenge, and you have so many interesting possibilities with it.
can you share why it is challenging theorycrafting with it?
Hard to choose between Warder and Deathknight. Deathknight because it sounds nice and has nice lifesteal in Siphon souls, Warder because of Wendigo Totem + massive HP, the healing is absurd. My most favorite mastery is soldier, but I don’t have any secondary loved one.
Warder. For a long time I wanted phys savagery Warder to be good, and the 1.0.6.0 changes to the set made it real.
In summary: Low HP, Low DA, energy issues. Also, the only exclusive skill available to it is possession, which is mediocre given that you can’t really make full use of the chaos damage.
%damage reduction is nice, but isn’t super incredible.
Both classes offer crap physique stats, so your DA and your HP pool will suffer.
Energy management (should you play a caster) is also quite difficult to stay on top of.
You have no reliable means of holding your ground (compare blade barrier to skills like mirror, MoT, seal, overguard, blastshield, wendigo totem, etc.)
This in turn means positioning is of utmost importance.
Of course the class itself has awesome synergies too:
- Acid RR, elemental RR
- 2x sources of Flat acid damage + on-demand heals + phys res
So what we ultimately have is a glass cannon.
On paper, acid damage seems like the best way to go but then we have a whole bunch of conversion items to play with.
E.g. Silver sentinel, darkblaze amulet, blood orb of chthon, etc.
So that opens up a whole bunch of damage types to the WH.
Probably a bit of a curveball and I’m pretty sure no-one will agree but: Deceiver.
Purely for ONE reason too. I made it as a sort of a throw away character, thinking it wouldn’t be good but wanting to see what I could make of it. I ended up with a melee ranged Elemental caster with low hp but enough OA/damage/-130% Ele RR to make 150-160 Gladiator farmable (it’s defenses are not good enough for 170 though). It’s also just a lot of fun to play, farming Lokarr and deleting most Nemeses in 1 Stormbox cast.
A close second would be Warder. Mine was my first character and has gone from Lightning 2H, to tanky 1H+Shield to it’s current Physical Avenger meatgrinder.
Spellbinder is probably my favorite just because there’s so much you can do with it that will be viable end game. Hell, I have a PRM build that clears gladiator with relative ease.
Cabalist is a very close second and possibly tied for first, simply because it is so good for pet builds and I love when pet builds are viable and fun.
Conjurer is my favorite by a huge margin. Second place would probably be Deceiver, then Cabalist.