[b40] Shalore Temporal Warden - winner - no deaths
Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 2:50 am
Lightning Killeye
Made this character to test out the ammo changes and TW changes, as well as experiment with a different stat distribution from my last TW. This... was possibly the strangest character I've played. On one hand I lucked out and never got one-shotted by any overpowered rares or randbosses (obviously). On the other hand, I had the worst drop luck, and I didn't even get an anorithil escort for Providence. Really, go look at my equipment. It's awful. No vanilla voratun jewelry, no jewelry tome, no Chromatic Harness, no Wintertide Phial, no Withering Orbs (this was a major kick in the nuts, since Prescience doesn't give enough stealth detection for dreads), no Girdle of Preservation, no Burning Star, no Daktun's Gauntlets, no Goedeleth Rock, not even so much as a half-decent pickaxe. My entire kit was basically the same from level 20 to level 50.
And yet, this build is really solid. Everything worked brilliantly together, with Invigorate + Timeless being the core of the combo. Both talents are crazy good, and they also have amazing synergy. Timeless lengthens Invigorate from 9 turns to 14, while Invigorate in turn allows me to use Timeless every 21 turns instead of 35. Working off of those two talents, I could then achieve:
13 turns of +53% global speed from the Shalore racial, with only 19 turns of downtime (which could have been reduced further down to 3 turns of downtime, if I spent more generics on it)
10 turns of another +40% global speed from Haste, with only 4 turns of downtime
15 consecutive turns of regeneration, from just one infusion
15 consecutive turns of pinning from Pinning Shot
21 consecutive turns of stun from Scatter Shot
21 consecutive turns of 40% slow from Crippling Shot
5 Dimensional Steps during the 14 turns of Invigorate
Not to mention all the other fringe benefits like twice the Flurries and Piercing Arrows, permanent Moment of Prescience etc. I'd almost call it OP but there's not one definitive culprit. Invigorate is good but probably not gamebreaking by itself, as is Timeless, but together, especially combined with a lot of timed effects, they are monstrously good.
Made this character to test out the ammo changes and TW changes, as well as experiment with a different stat distribution from my last TW. This... was possibly the strangest character I've played. On one hand I lucked out and never got one-shotted by any overpowered rares or randbosses (obviously). On the other hand, I had the worst drop luck, and I didn't even get an anorithil escort for Providence. Really, go look at my equipment. It's awful. No vanilla voratun jewelry, no jewelry tome, no Chromatic Harness, no Wintertide Phial, no Withering Orbs (this was a major kick in the nuts, since Prescience doesn't give enough stealth detection for dreads), no Girdle of Preservation, no Burning Star, no Daktun's Gauntlets, no Goedeleth Rock, not even so much as a half-decent pickaxe. My entire kit was basically the same from level 20 to level 50.
And yet, this build is really solid. Everything worked brilliantly together, with Invigorate + Timeless being the core of the combo. Both talents are crazy good, and they also have amazing synergy. Timeless lengthens Invigorate from 9 turns to 14, while Invigorate in turn allows me to use Timeless every 21 turns instead of 35. Working off of those two talents, I could then achieve:
13 turns of +53% global speed from the Shalore racial, with only 19 turns of downtime (which could have been reduced further down to 3 turns of downtime, if I spent more generics on it)
10 turns of another +40% global speed from Haste, with only 4 turns of downtime
15 consecutive turns of regeneration, from just one infusion
15 consecutive turns of pinning from Pinning Shot
21 consecutive turns of stun from Scatter Shot
21 consecutive turns of 40% slow from Crippling Shot
5 Dimensional Steps during the 14 turns of Invigorate
Not to mention all the other fringe benefits like twice the Flurries and Piercing Arrows, permanent Moment of Prescience etc. I'd almost call it OP but there's not one definitive culprit. Invigorate is good but probably not gamebreaking by itself, as is Timeless, but together, especially combined with a lot of timed effects, they are monstrously good.
Is that the first post b37 TW winner?