Connie - Assassin †Character Intro and Overview †I did a major re-do of my main strafer. I decided to ditch my second Zon which was pure GF strafer with 3k to gold find - just not enough power to do hell cows and the Domain. Thus, I needed a replacement gold finder and decided to just re-work Bambi. When you have a bunch of characters as I do, you generally play what you enjoy. Having a powerful strafer is very relaxing, not too much stress. This is pretty much the ideal farming character IMHO - safe and easy. I'd say that this character has pretty much farmed everything for all my other characters (except for what they accumulated during leveling). I decided to keep my old character Bambi up in a separate hall of glory as a good template for a cheap strafer. Stats and Attributes †Summary of major changes from Bambi. #1 Damage went from (6.4k-43k) to (17k-79). Better bow, Eagle Eye, Fanat, more strafe synergies since I went back to 1 Valk. AR went from 23k to 35k. So, basically a way better killer - about double damage at the end of the day. #2 Emphasing GF over MF. Gold Find went from 815% to 1630%. Magic find decreased from 649% to 243%. Still lots of rares and uniques because of diminishing returns on MF. #3 I replicated the 3kish life and max resists and max deadly strike and crushing blow. &ref(): File not found: "Bambi2stats.jpg" at page "Hall_Bambi3"; Skills †All Dex build as are most strafers. 1 point in all the passives I use except for Valk which I maxed (level 68 in case you wondered). Pierce large charm to save a skill point. All other points went into Strafe and synergies. Eagle Eye was offset by the level 34 fanat and level 12 Annil. Equipment †I Forged all equipment and unique charms +1 to raise the Fanat 0-skill which is at level 34. I D-stoned Dex into the helm - mainly just to keep the total # of items the same (to avoid the bug). I added +gold find to the rings and amulets and +resists and life where I could on the Armor, belt, boots. I obsidian melded the gloves for +%dam and crit strike. My bow isn't duel max, but it spawned with what I consider the most important stat, the +300% (on level 100) exhanced max damage. It had 300ish ED on it innately and a few other items. Since I didn't feel the need to spend a lot of resources on the bow it was plenty fine for my uses. The picture shows the bow socketed and d-stoned with +%damage but un-mapled. I did not go with my best %ED jewels, I threw in a couple I had laying around that had the combination of some AR%, 30%+ ED, minimum damage. &ref(): File not found: "Bambi2gear1.jpg" at page "Hall_Bambi3"; Merc and Merc Equipment †Same as Bambi except I replaced the Defiance aura with Concentration. With the 50% slow on the main character's gloves the Merc was hardy enough to survive all but the last few champions in the Realm (where it was 50/50 depending on how I played). Comments †
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