Poinas' Guide for All Skills

[yerkyerk]

Nice guide Poinas! You should be on the balance patch team with all that info. I bet Munder disagrees with you on your rating for the Sleep skill
Btw, I don't see Briar Ward in there.

[Popsthegreat]

Congrats Poinas. This will help in all future builds.

[Munderbunny]

Nice guide Poinas! You should be on the balance patch team with all that info.

LOL, I just posted this on the patch forums!

I bet Munder disagrees with you on your rating for the Sleep skill
Btw, I don't see Briar Ward in there.

Disagreement is essential. But, the great thing about Poinas, is he doesn't just disagree to disagree, and he won't stick with a flawed argument out of pride, nor will he concede just to avoid conflict with a solid argument.

[CaptainKapow]

Great post, very helpful.

Just FYI: storm nimbus and briar ward trees are missing.

[Poinas]

Nice guide Poinas! You should be on the balance patch team with all that info.

K, I can try to help some.

LOL, I just posted this on the patch forums!

About Blade Honing..it seems reinstalling TQ/IT has to be done in order to get TQLog working again. There's not much time to do that this week, but I'll look into it sometime in the near future. It bothers me not to be 100% sure if it can decrease your DPS in certain situations.

And Liche King staff damage was set to 160-170 as you pointed out.

Just FYI: storm nimbus and briar ward trees are missing.

They're now added Thanks for reporting.

[Creslyn]

Damn useful guide for new players, though I'd have to disagree with Poinas about Sands of Sleep. Admittedly, on Xmax it deserves only a 2 or so, but without Xmax it can completely nullify packs of some of the worst creatures in the game (firetalons, machae, dactyls). I used to use it a hell of a lot in late act 3/act 4, and it saved many a casters *** many times. Also makes toxeus a breeze (dw, followed by dr/tr, followed by sleep, wait til first two recharge and repeat, makes for easy, safe toxeus slaying).

[Munderbunny]

*cough*sleep4tehwinz*cough*

[yerkyerk]

It's a nice use of the skill, Munder Is that in 2x difficulty mod? Anyway, I use xMAX, and I think it does reduce the effectiveness of sleep - also, why would I put them asleep if I can just oneshot them to oblivion? Which means sleep will get more important if we up the monsters difficulty

[gorgus]

*cough*sleep4tehwinz*cough*

whoa, man, that is sick!!!

never played a caster, didn't think it was capable of so much asskickery.

absolutely gotta try Diviner. perhaps, maybe, if it's not too much of a trouble, when you hav the time etc could you help with a calc, and, if possible some attribute point spreading and some recommended gear? pleaaaaaaase


thanks alot

[yerkyerk]

Poinas, do you know if Fatigue, from the Plague skilltree, triggers the 5% of xx%health reduction each second?