need advice with my sin

[Brunhill]

Hi!
I have a lvl 50 HC dragon-talon sin. Ive play her quite rought: she's untw., ride with a act1 cold merc and have to tank for a fireball sorceress.
She need a +2 martial art "something" for her to reach lvl 24 DG and the 5 kicks, and i cant find it anywhere...

Here my question: I was working on rune upgrade to try and make her a lionheart armor. Its a great armor with the +dam and resist and all other bonus, but that will not help with the +skill points needed.
The treachery runeword seems to me like a really good choice to have the +2 skill point for sure, but before wasting precious runes, i was hoping for advice.

Would you go for treachery or lionheart armor and hope to find a +2 skill elsewhere (maybe on rare glove)?

Curently she have:

-dual strenght runeword claws
-rare circlet with + 1 sin skill, +10 str, +11 energy, +30 faster r/w
-rare glove with magic find, IAS and resist lightn. (not good)
-upgrade tearhaunch
-rare belt with FHR, +41 life, cold and poison resist
-a plain magekiller amulet
-a manald heal
-a nagelring
-upgrade twitchroe

Also, she's using venom/blade shield as support skill. Is it worth it to put point in venom if i use the treachery armor (since it gave her a fair chance to cast it anyway)

Thank you.

[SexdUp]

You should max venom.
And use treachery if you have the runes for it.

[N V]

Do you use BoS or Fade? If so what lvl is it and what lvl do you plan on getting the skill(s) to?

Also try and get Goblin toe or Gores. The CB will help a lot.

[Brunhill]

I use fade, for now, i have 5 points in it (was ok for normal diff) but im experiencing serious trouble in nightmare, so ill put more in it probably (since she's not finding any resist charm or anything good yet)

Fury's skill:
fade (5, but will put as many as i can spare)
weapon block (already reach the 50% block rate( with item), so i think im good)
Shadow master (2 yet, other to come-she keep dying on me-)
cloak of shadow (1, use it all the time, but not sure if ill put more)
Blade shield (10 so far)
Venom (1)
Dragon talon (20)


As for the crushing blow, she's doing quite a lot of them thanks to the claws, im not sure if both CB apply (still confuse about first and second weapon with kicks), but she look like doing it more than half the time. The boots she have are the best she found so far (wish i had gore indeed).

For the treachery runeword, the rune upgrade goes well so far. She keep finding the shael rune for a strange twist of fate, so ...
I hope it will be better than the peace runeword for the amazon; i hate that armor so much, ive just gave it to Chars, free of charge...

The thing about the lionheart armor is, beside the very cool name (maybe more suit a pally than a sin but) is the extremely nice bonus for life and str... And also, its an armor i use very often as end gear for my character...

Thanks for the reply-

[N V]

It almost sounds like what you're lacking the most is resist. Did you consider the smoke armor with its nice +50 res all bonus? ;)

[Brunhill]

It almost sounds like what you're lacking the most is resist. Did you consider the smoke armor with its nice +50 res all bonus? ;)

I know.
The HC thing just made me feel really insecure not having max resist. Lost so many good characters so far because of that... For now, i have a lvl 58 HC avenger who got 78 resit all, and its a smooth ride compare to her....

I will try the smoke on... During weekend ive find nice demonhide glove with +2 martial art, so i got my 5 kicks now!!!. Will see if i can get fade high enough, will probably change for treachery.

Thank you!