Armor - how important for witches? (in merciless)
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As per the witches skill tree starting point, it's heavily biased towards stacking a lot of energy shield, I'm thinking of making a cold damage-CI witch, and was considering taking all-energy shield gear, and hoping that I'll be able to kite/freeze/summons to mitigate any potential incoming damages from enemies.
Would I sorely regret going such a build when I start trying to do 70+ maps? Or is it viable to wear all ES gear and survive? (think of like flickerstrike champ-packs) "there is no spoone" - The Matricks
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Just play another class, dont bother playing a caster witch unless youre goin totems and/or summons, i regret wasting so many hours in mine, have like 4k es, res capped around 5k dps on FP and physical damage just destroys me, melee are a cake but archers and gap closing mobs just faceroll me even on the docks if i dont play very safe.
My cousin has a ranger with crappy gear and facerolls docks faster than me while tanking the mobs, witch is the only class that doesnt get any kind of physical resistance naturally wich is plain retarded... IGN - Slayonara
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" Try not standing still? You also don't have to bother with dual totems, just put IS on a totem whilst you use FP. If you're getting hit by gap closer mobs you're doing something wrong, the only exception to this is flicker strike ones which are a pain to deal with if you don't have a skele totem to draw aggro away from you and even then it's only in two areas and maps(which you usually wont run solo anyway). Last edited by TJDowning#0021 on Feb 13, 2013, 8:49:46 PM
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" I dont stand still? im level 75 im not a fuckin retarded, alot of gap closing mobs can jump on you from out of the screen (goats anyone?), archers can 3 shot me on docks with 4k ES so something is wrong, or im intended to have my granite up all the fuckin time an archer shows up? and this isnt about being able to do it, im able to do docks and even lvl 70 rare maps, the problem is that everyone can do it better than the traditional caster witch, and by better i mean faster and easier!!! IGN - Slayonara
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I do feel armor is impt. Alway get raped by archers when I run into a group of them right outside a door/gate. Molten shell saved me a few times if it's up but not every times. Juz started to look for armor/ES gears to bring my armor up. Btw, my resist are 80/70/80/7.
IGN: Shantoto / DuelistLaw
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Very important. My build plan is to grab the Body and Soul nodes and wear Armour + Life + ES gear.
Brutus. Do you even sync?
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" ur ci cold witch just use 2 granites ... im 84 and have no probs also ci fp cold/fire/chaos also archers dont do much dmg, only chargers do well with granite (%armor) i tank 6-7 hits with 5k es Last edited by DreamAwaken#1853 on Feb 13, 2013, 10:38:45 PM
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" If you're dying with those stats in Docks then you're doing something seriously wrong. | |
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i got 22 armor, hybrid cold witch 1911Hp, 2011ES lvl 70 atm. Soloed whole gameplay and got no problem soloing maps.
edit - also i never really cared much about how easy or fast my build is, i always play witch, this is my 6th reroll and i just play it because i like it :) if i wanted cookie cutter id prolly take bow-marauder Last edited by species258#5234 on Feb 14, 2013, 12:25:50 AM
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All you need is flat hp or es and a shield, and of course maxed res.
By the time you hit 80 evasion has like a 25% chance to dodge things at 10k, and armor doesn't do much against those chaos projectiles or map bosses using skills for 3k+ or brutus RNG crits. |
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