nice to see you wearing your Eth armor IRL keepin it nice and tanky

I went full Energy Shield on my enchant sorc. Warmth is basically a soft synergy to Energy Shield anyways since you can regen back mana lost. I went with a Prayer/Insight/Cure merc for crazy life and mana regen. Dumped all my stat points into Energy instead of Vitality for a huge mana pool and regen. The flat life regen from Prayer keeps you topped off pretty well when you only have like 400 life. Gladiator's Bane is an excellent armor for this character too since flat MDR performs better than resists on ES builds and getting a ton of poison length reduction is important too. Surprisingly tanky.

14:35 I allways learn somethin new from your videos even after 20 years.

@GGMentor

10 ай бұрын

glad to be of assistance =]

Thanks to you I’m running an enchantress tonight, just found a 5/4 die fire last night so that was my sign

Ive been running this build for a little while now with a kuko shakaku. I just havent found a raven frost yet, raventail, or demon machine. Ive been utilizing the 2 piece death sash and gloves to get that can not be frozen, some resists, life leach, major poison resit and ias. I find that 50% pierce works pretty well. Also surprising, the 3 piece of angelic, 2 rings and amulet, to solve my attack rating needs so i can double dip. Definitely doable with lower items, i even leave a hell rack in my bank so if i die, i can more easily get back to my body without dodging everything. I find life leach more important then mana, because I use an aim insight act 2 merc.

you know GGM. i think you actually made the bulk of the community more aware of the "spicy arrows" build. have you noticed that in the past month or two that other major D2R content creators are posting their builds now (using words like godly and OP and such)? well, you are being watched my friend!

@GGMentor

7 ай бұрын

Lol, I don't even really do build videos

dude! cool video! i had a lvl89 with a respec and most of the gear laying around. i've been doing P5 cow/chaos runs for the past hour with my mouth kind of open the whole time. like, this is ruining stuff! what a great video! thanx man!

@GGMentor

10 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it =}

@wbwright79

10 ай бұрын

@@GGMentor no, thank you! also the Sorc can only achieve 11 frames. Chu-ko (-60) puts it at 12. in order to reach 11, you only need 8 IAS. [edit] also if you don't care about MF, then jam as many Fire charms (Flaming) as you can comfortably get, in there. it helps.

Very nice, didnt know about this build and i love it, hope i still have a Demon Machine laying around still 💀

Looks fun thx

Thank you for this idea! Having fun with this build. P.S.: Will it work with holy fire paladin too? or not maybe because the fire damage is applied in different way for paladin?

@GGMentor

10 ай бұрын

Yes

For a mild budget alternative for the merc weapon, Hustle. She will start attacking as soon as you teleport near something, and you guarantee you are in range of the Fanta. It has made Mephisto kills noticeably faster. Very fun indeed.

@mikemurray3962

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tip. I'm thinking of trying the act 1 merc and I think I have the runes for it. Should be a good start🙂

@JustAnotherHo

8 ай бұрын

​@@mikemurray3962 I did some math and testing, if you have any other source of IAS, you completely do not need the Fanta as you will be at max attack frames. I changed my budget weapon to an upgraded Kuko Shakaku Cedar Bow for the 50% pierce. The merc was doing more damage, but so would just getting a higher damage bow or piece if you are attacking multiple enemies.

The extra points could probably go frozen armor if it makes the enemy stay frozen longer, I haven’t checked to see if it’s true. If not than just energy shield it up or hydras for single bosses like Baal and Uber Diablo

@GGMentor

7 ай бұрын

Better off with Cold Mastery Honestly, as the lower the cold resistance of the monster the longer Cold Effects Last. Pretty sure points in cold mastery have a greater effect on duration than points in frozen armor.

Frost nova is very useful IMO for this build, 1 point wonder as they say

Between Fire bow Sorc and Bowazon and fire bow paladin if we talking budget gear which is best to farm hell p1 solo ?

@Srga4pb

9 ай бұрын

Sorceress > Paladin > Amazon.

Would it not be good to set up merch with a fanaticism aura?

Not sure if you mentioned it but dont really need alot of attack rating cuz of enchats bonus and your choice of merc has inner sight debuff.

@GGMentor

10 ай бұрын

well you still need some, you can't completely neglect it. but with all of the bonuses it's easy to hit a balancing point of enough for sure.

@kernergades

10 ай бұрын

I agree. Just find some charms to fix that. But you don't need to stack ad much as you'd normally have to build for.

@GGMentor

10 ай бұрын

@@kernergades you definitely want to be hitting though. If your not you gotta increase it. Life leech, mana leech, open wounds, maybe even CB, as well as the massive on hit damage. Not hitting is bad.

Now THIS is and has been my favourite build for SO many years. I haven't found a Demon Machine on single player yet since D2R so I'm using Kuko Shakaku but with the new pierce helmet it works almost as well

I didnt know people seriously played chant bow sorc. I'm fairly new to d2r and ppl always just chant their alts then camp the chanter in town. Pretty cool idea tho

How would u start this build in a party play ? Start nova or fire ?? Then respec ??

@GGMentor

10 ай бұрын

enchant with a Ravenclaw, then move on to a Kuko, then eventually the demon machine. Stack points in Warmth early on and just use a Chippy bow.(3 socket bow with chipped elemental gems) that carries you far enough to get enchant and and the ravenclaw. then once you have ravenclaw and enchant you play it that way for quite some time. You can also throw in Iratha's Set for the 24% pierce which helps tremendously. Until you can get access to the native pierce on Kuku or Demon machine/ razor tail.

@prelud3170

10 ай бұрын

@@GGMentor thx a lot bro

Can you use the Enlightenment runeword armor to cast fireballs also?

@GGMentor

10 ай бұрын

Yes you could do that, also synergize the fireballs too. One of the issues with this though is the high synergy cost.

@Jvstm

10 ай бұрын

I currently have mine equipped with Enlightenment and I didn't even think to synergize Fireball. This is brilliant.

@kernergades

10 ай бұрын

I'd do hellmouth gloves for extra procs.. that is if the fire explosion triggers the procs.. The flat fire damage bonuses from the gloves should work well with fire mastery.

With maxed out warmth you dont need to worry about running out of mana with energy shield.

What’s better flickering flame or a 3 fire 20 fcr 2os with 2 fire facet?

@GGMentor

6 ай бұрын

Well flickering flame covers the lost fire resistance from the fire sunder. Which helps a ton. Also you get more negative res with flickering flame. I guess it depends if you really need the FCR

Do you think Act 2 Might Merc with EBOTD (Warpike) /Obedience G Face (15IAS Jewel) and Fortitude can work with pure CE Necromancer stacking Bone Armor with 125 FCR ?

can i use the same buld but without the Sunder charm ? becouse in the server where i play we dont have em ? tnx

@GGMentor

3 ай бұрын

It will be difficult to break fire immunity without a sunder charm. You can use an infinity to try to break fire res, but it won't always work. It will be a lot harder due to the high frequency of fire immunes.

@SadBoy-tk8gt

3 ай бұрын

@@GGMentor thats why im asking u .. i was thinking about using inffinity + maybe armor 4s with 4x5 5/5 fire facet and FF helm for -15 fire res but i still dont know is it enough....

I've been using act 2 insight merc. I have pretty crappy gear. Should i switch to act 1 merc? No razortail yet

@mikemurray3962

8 ай бұрын

And if using act 1 merc, what are good properties on the bow for this build?

@GGMentor

8 ай бұрын

Piercing, The reason I use Mist is because it's 100% The goal is the same as the sorc you want her exploding arrows to pierce and do maximum damage with your enchant.

@mikemurray3962

8 ай бұрын

@@GGMentor thanks. Unfortunately I had the cho ku or whatever it's called but sold it when I found a demon machine lol

So i have a cham but i was wondering if i should use it in mist or something else

@GGMentor

4 ай бұрын

Mist bows are nice but they are mainly designed for the act 1 mercenary. What kind of Bow Amazon are you running? Physical, Ice, Fire? A mist can be a decent placeholder until you get a Windforce or a Faith. Both will do you better than a Mist. Windforce is surprisingly cheap and is a very good bow for physical bowzons only just barely beaten by Faith.

@MrLuffy9131

4 ай бұрын

@@GGMentor Actually i probably have all different builds but only one cham but don't have a bow amazon only javazon. And that's the thing yeah I'll probably would try to find a windforce before making an amazon lol

Can this build kills the Uber bosses and clear all hell ?

@GGMentor

28 күн бұрын

It's doable, you need a decent amount of negative fire res, and you also need prevent monster heal for Uber Diablo. As for Uber tristram I don't think so it's too much in there. Perhaps if you used marrow walks for the bone prison. Prevent monster heal also doesn't work on the Uber tristram bosses so you need open wounds and poison damage to arrest regeneration.

I feel like a holyfreeze a2 merc with infinity would have a far higher dmg output

You can get this build easy to 21k dmg with some 5enchant prebuff staff or memory, enchant ormus, 3sk add amu, Soj+raven, magefist. Soc 15ias/ar Jewel in dm. Amazing fun build. Cheers ggm:)

@GGMentor

10 ай бұрын

Yup, enchant prebuffing is a whole activity. It gets mighty expensive though to hit the max numbers.

Corpsemourn or bonehew on swap for CE. Thank me later :)

First again? Second time. Hmm.

@GGMentor

10 ай бұрын

lol

Not Highlords?? 🤔🤔

@GGMentor

10 ай бұрын

The attack speed of demon machine caps out very quickly at 2.27 attacks per second. You don't need the ias, or to put it another way it's wasted.

@your_eulogy2688

10 ай бұрын

Rising sun ftw

@mandreadfg

10 ай бұрын

@GGMentor oooo oke. And the DS only applies to the physical arrow damage?

@GGMentor

10 ай бұрын

Exactly

You don't NEED Demon Machine. You can use Ravenclaw, Kuko Shakaku, or Hellrack just fine. Just Shael them. Kuko even gives 33% pierce.

@cIeetz

10 ай бұрын

could shael ya, but you can only get added leach through perfect skull where-as you can get more IAS from 15 ias jewels. Find a nice one with maybe 60 + AR and 15 IAS and throw it in a body or helmet. Just use warren1001 IAS calculator to see Your potentials

@cIeetz

10 ай бұрын

I got a 15 IAS 59 AR jewel socketed in a twitchthroe which I upgraded to trellised armor. at 35% IAS it absolutely slaps

@cIeetz

10 ай бұрын

I think by "You need" is like saying You can use full Mavina instead of Windforce on a Bowazon. Ya You can, but its just not great. His setup here is OP and he's actually doing damage. Kuko is a nooby bow compared

@GGMentor

10 ай бұрын

You need 100% pierce to get full effectiveness of the build. the only bow capable of 100% piercing is Demon Machine. Demon Machine has 66% pierce which when tied together with the 33% piercing belt Razortail is 99% pierce. All of the damage of this setup comes from piercing, as I demonstrate in the video. Ravenclaw works decently on a low level enchantress, and kuko can be a decent placeholder until you get demon machine. But neither of them have enough pierce to properly take advantage of the multiplicative damage of the explosive arrow. Hellrack is out completely because it's too slow, and the requirements are insane.

@Jvstm

10 ай бұрын

@@GGMentor Yeah sure and you need Enigma to play the game and you need Infinity to play the game and you need to use an act 2 merc to play the game. I get it. Kuko, Razortail, Wisdom helm is 100% pierce and frankly 66% is enough if you can't get your hands on one or the other. I'm not saying Kuko is better than Demon Machine but like - I farm Hell Cows with a Kuko and Wisdom alone and clear it fast and I sort of use that as the benchmark of build viability, especially because I play single player these days.

Me likey diablo 2

I really think you can upgrade the Act 1 Merc by replacing Mist with Kuko Shikaku which will make her shoot all the time explosive arrows. Meanwhile you can become Immortal Sorc with Normal gear Gerke Sanctuary Gladiators Bane and the Merc will destroy everything. You only need to provide her with Enchant and just cast Static Field when teleporting to new area. so Merc build can be Bow:Upgraded Kuko Shakaku to Shadow Bow Armor: Fortitude Helm: Flickering Flame For single target such as Baal you can cast Fire Wall

@GGMentor

10 ай бұрын

No the explosion on kuko does not work on the act 1 bow girl even if it gives the visual effect it doesn't actually work. This means 100% Pierce is more important from mist

@brav33nough70

10 ай бұрын

@@GGMentor interesting

You completely missed the purpose of demon machine over kukoshakako. You need way less ias to reach max frame rate than you would the kuko bow.

@GGMentor

5 ай бұрын

Yes, but the Max IAS for Demon Machine is lower than the bow. So while demon machine is natively faster, kuko is faster at its cap. The real benefit of going with demon machine is the additional pierce.

its like a worse fb sorc

@GGMentor

6 ай бұрын

More like a better fireball sorc. No mana cost, the fireballs pierce, you can steal life, infinite mana for mana shield, and you can steal mana.

@jesseramirez1729

2 күн бұрын

Are you crazy?? Chantress can handle shit on her own at players 8 easily