Saturday, April 21, 2012

need opinions on my P-striker gear

So i decided to make a martial arts assassin focusing on phoenix strike and so far so good in hell, but i feel like i'm not doing enough damage to the monsters and my AR is pretty low to hit bosses about 70% chance.

i've been reading one of the guides but not sure what i'm doing wrong (maybe?)

oh and i'm going duel claws.

here's my gear:

-full nat's set, armor socketd with 2x um's, last slot still open

-weapons: nat's claw on main, bartucs on off-hand

-jewelry: mara's, raven, dwarf star

-belt: t-gods

-gloves: some random +2 martial arts, 20ias

-charms: low torch, low anni, and 3x plain martial arts gc's

skill set up:

20- fists of fire

20- claws of thunder

20-phoenix strike

and putting the rest into blades of ice (maybe i shouldn't?)

i can kill stuff with little to no problem, but i feel like i'm not doing enough damage or something, is there anything i should substitute in my gear?

also, should nat's claw be on my main or off-hand?

as for the AR problem, i hit monsters just fine but when it comes to bosses i have some trouble hitting them. most of the time i just hold down the mouse and hoping i get a hit off and set off charges

would maxing out claw master help with this?

and lastly, would getting an infinity merc help boost my damage?

thanks for reading, hopefully it wasn't too confusing |||Infinity will do wonders for this build. It solves your AR issues too. Nats is a nice cheap setup for this build, but there are far better choices.

Your gloves are fine, but rares with good mods would be better.

Maras is perfect.

Keep a Rfrost, and make the other a dual leech ring or at least something with mana leech, unless you got rare MA gloves that got mana leech.

Go with Shako, Coa if your rich.

Coh, or Fort, which actually works nice that'll greatly boost your physical dmg and thus make leeching better.

Gores are good enough for boots. Though CB is only handy for bosses, you might want to stick with treks for now to handle FHR problems. Massive meteor spam from phoenix strike agaisnt bosses(exept Baal since he won't stay still) will cream them at a good enough rate.

2x bartuc(ethereal or up'd ones are even better).

Belts, Tgods is nice(but only useful for just souls), string of ears is really good, it helps your life rise back up faster along with some reduction towards magic attacks.

If you can't obtain coa, you'll need something that'll peak your FHR to 86%, dual bartucs will already get you to 60%, but you'll NOT want to flinch once with her cause it can really disrupt your charge build-up/release. 2x 5% FHR small charms along with treks will solve that.

Skills, the more balanced, the better. I'd recommend maxing BoI too, then after all of that, just pump it into claw mastery, or claw block if that's low. This build doesn't need death sentry once your merc is carrying infinity as most enemies you release your charges on will be insta-gibbed. Don't bother with shadow master, it'll be too fragile, and you can just mind blast monsters yourself when needed.

Merc choice: Might if you think you can handle quite a few blows, Holy Freeze if you want to be on the safe side. I work just fine with Holy Freeze.|||Try to get a pair of 3/20 ma gloves.|||Quote:








Try to get a pair of 3/20 ma gloves.




If you like spending 5 hours a day trying, everyday.....|||Rare gloves are better than 3/20, so his gloves now are fine.|||thanks for the replies everyone, you've all been helpful

@ghoulz: thanks for your input on my gear, you've helped me a lot this past day i've been gathering all the gear you have suggested and fine tuning my p-striker and i must say, i have noticed a BIG improvement in my killing speed

i've never made a martial arts sin using p-strike before so i didn't know what gear to use and just went with nat's since the guide i read highly suggested it :o i must say i like your set-up way better

although i do have lots of trouble with decrepify though i get screwed over really bad when that is casted on me, especially in baals throne room when listers show up i get decrepify and they proceed to mop the floor with my body, any way to counter this? i thought fade prevents you from gettin cursed, is this not true?|||Fade only reduces how long it lasts. There is no way to prevent it from being able to be cast on you.|||Minions of Destruction can be a challenge sometimes for her. Your best option is to get Baal to curse your merc instead of you(by keeping him closer to baal).

As they appear, get them into a nice pile and mind blast them to buy you enough time to start charging up before they start knocking you around. Then cross your fingers and try to pull off a freezing explosion on most of them and keeping them that way while tanking Lister. It won't help much, but 1 point in shadow master(along with +skills) should give you some extra time.

The rest of them aren't bad. The balrogs are weak and you can freeze them all in no time(decrypted or not). The council members can just be obliterated with meteor/FoF. Cast cloak of shadows on the undead mob, then just fry the big ones with meteor spam.

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