SP Hybrid Java Guide

[josh9676]

I just wanted to share this build with some of you folks.

20 CS
20 Lightning Fury
5 Avoid
5 Dodge
5 Evade
5 Guided Arrow
5 Freezing Arrow.
Any extra into Lightning Strike
1 to at least all other Passive/Magic Skills.

Just enough Dex and Str to use your gear, I have a base of 50 Energy and the rest into Vitality.

This character will PLOW through normal and nightmare, and once you reach hell, you should have a decently strong merc. This is when the bow comes in handy. I just have that KUKO SHAKAKU or W/E it is. It is helpful because it adds to bow skills, and has penatration, which is vital to this strategy. I use freezing arrow on the mobs lightning immune monsters, which freezes them in their tracks, this allows my merc to kill them all, while my valk is my decoy. Guided arrow works well on single enemies, and is also good for attracting sections of mobs. I have not encountered any problems yet, and this character owns for doing baal/cows/meph.

I just figured I would give somepeople an interesting build to try, and maybe earn a few credits in the process.

[saracen85]

imo you don't really need 5 points into freezing arrow. 1 pt will suffice.

the trick here is, to stock up items that gives +cold damage over time. this what make eye of etlich a little special since they have the hidden 3-10 second freeze time. my favorite is the 6x psapphire bow switch. in hell, it'll provide around 4-5 second freeeze time.

[josh9676]

I see, I prefer the KUKO though because it has the Piercing attack, which hits the whole line/group of monsters instead of just the front few. But i do agree that It is prbably not needed to put five into Freezing arrow, I just tried to up the cold length a bit. It was mainly untill i got better items and stuff like that.