After having played GoGoGadgets to Hell 2-3 last season I have no doubt GGG can do "well" all the way to the end of Act5. I rebuilt GGG this season, hoping to complete Hell before this season ends. I need to refresh my memory and include his journey as part of a larger write up.
GGG at 76 had over 200 stat points unused, so he was basically stat to equip only. As the name implied, for those who doesn't already know, GGG used no skill points and got his skills from Charged items... and Oskill items. Oskills are skills such as Fireball from two item Trang set bonus. Any character can use the skill with 2 Trang pieces just like a sorcy, without having to recharge. Unlike Charged skills, Oskills output are boosted by +skill items. There is one more restriction I placed on these nonskilled characters - They cannot use any skills (passive or otherwise) that are native to their class. It would be too easy :P
The next step in the evolution is ACoolMeleeExp, ACME for short. We all know ACME has some way cool gadgets ^_^ Another baba GGG wannabe, but he is going to be melee only. He is still young but got a good start with a lvl 10 scepter (10-17 Dmg) of Sacrifice which IMO can take any character to the end of normal diff. But he isn't going to miss out playing with all the cool toys on his journey to Baal. He has used, Sacrifice, Poison Daggers, and Power Strike already, and in a couple more lvls, he will get the first kick of synergies goodness via a set of Charged Strike Javs
But the future looks grim!
Maybe not. I haven't really sat down to make a table of all that available and how I can boost the damage output yet. All I have in my single minded vision as end game item is a "Passion" weapon for its +1 Zeal bonus. Not Berzerk, since that would be a native skill to a baba. Zerk would be nice for dealing with PIs but I guess I would have to make another class to use that later (hmm, a Zerking Whirlwinding Sorcy?) . So ACME can look forward to lvl 4-5 Zeal with resonable equipment. Sacrifice is the only synergy for Zeal at 12% more dmg per lvl. I have seen up to lvl 10 Sacrifice charged so far but it is probably the highest it comes. The problem is I have a lvl 10 Sacrifice scepter that has a base damage of 10-17, and even assuming I would get a slightly higher damage Sac charged weapon, I would end up using a one handed Passion with that. Further more, Zeal dmg would be split between the 2 weapons that I might just be better off without the synergy.
I have been shopping for high end charged weapons too but nothing fancy so far, nothing that has enough damage to be considered good for late NM by normal standards. The other problem is Melee Skills come with low charges
I am just thinking out loud and let everyone in what's going on.
There are other desirable rune words that would make things easier on ACME, such as "Beast" for its level 9 Fanaticism Aura When Equipped. ACME can dual weild that But a Ber rune doesn't drop everyday, although I have 2 of them last season. Anyway, I am soliciting ideas anyone might have. Thinking in uber rune words is okay too but I would not depend my build on anything higher than an IST (which I have, and consider reasonable to have, since I have gotten a few from Hell Hell-Forge)...
KoP
GGG at 76 had over 200 stat points unused, so he was basically stat to equip only. As the name implied, for those who doesn't already know, GGG used no skill points and got his skills from Charged items... and Oskill items. Oskills are skills such as Fireball from two item Trang set bonus. Any character can use the skill with 2 Trang pieces just like a sorcy, without having to recharge. Unlike Charged skills, Oskills output are boosted by +skill items. There is one more restriction I placed on these nonskilled characters - They cannot use any skills (passive or otherwise) that are native to their class. It would be too easy :P
The next step in the evolution is ACoolMeleeExp, ACME for short. We all know ACME has some way cool gadgets ^_^ Another baba GGG wannabe, but he is going to be melee only. He is still young but got a good start with a lvl 10 scepter (10-17 Dmg) of Sacrifice which IMO can take any character to the end of normal diff. But he isn't going to miss out playing with all the cool toys on his journey to Baal. He has used, Sacrifice, Poison Daggers, and Power Strike already, and in a couple more lvls, he will get the first kick of synergies goodness via a set of Charged Strike Javs
But the future looks grim!
Maybe not. I haven't really sat down to make a table of all that available and how I can boost the damage output yet. All I have in my single minded vision as end game item is a "Passion" weapon for its +1 Zeal bonus. Not Berzerk, since that would be a native skill to a baba. Zerk would be nice for dealing with PIs but I guess I would have to make another class to use that later (hmm, a Zerking Whirlwinding Sorcy?) . So ACME can look forward to lvl 4-5 Zeal with resonable equipment. Sacrifice is the only synergy for Zeal at 12% more dmg per lvl. I have seen up to lvl 10 Sacrifice charged so far but it is probably the highest it comes. The problem is I have a lvl 10 Sacrifice scepter that has a base damage of 10-17, and even assuming I would get a slightly higher damage Sac charged weapon, I would end up using a one handed Passion with that. Further more, Zeal dmg would be split between the 2 weapons that I might just be better off without the synergy.
I have been shopping for high end charged weapons too but nothing fancy so far, nothing that has enough damage to be considered good for late NM by normal standards. The other problem is Melee Skills come with low charges
I am just thinking out loud and let everyone in what's going on.
There are other desirable rune words that would make things easier on ACME, such as "Beast" for its level 9 Fanaticism Aura When Equipped. ACME can dual weild that
But a Ber rune doesn't drop everyday, although I have 2 of them last season. Anyway, I am soliciting ideas anyone might have. Thinking in uber rune words is okay too but I would not depend my build on anything higher than an IST (which I have, and consider reasonable to have, since I have gotten a few from Hell Hell-Forge)...KoP
KoP
