

Another nice benefit of the shadowpriest is Punisher as a boss killer (which will really help you in a lot of places).įor both builds, add defensive skills to flavour (Tainted Blood, Holy Armor, Hymn, Rapture) depending on your needs. Unholy caster (shadowpriest) usually uses a combination of Mind Flay for spammable damage and Slayer to deal background damage - which should not be underestimated, it can and will kill things on its own.

Black Sleep will be early game crowd control, but once your damage starts to creep into five figure territory you may no longer need it unless you're building a charm paladin variant.

Put one point into the caster skills on your way to Dark King, then crank some points into that one. Unholy melee (blackguard) is pretty straightforward: get your elemental damage skills (Lemures and Blood Thorns) and Terror Strike. They are for the most part mutually exclusive due to Terror Strike locking out ranged skills, but being a requirement to use your combat skills. There are two different main unholy builds. If you're looking to improve your boss killer potential, look into items with +% poison skill duration (or +% poison skill damage).Ĭlick to expand.They seem to be fairly powerful, yes. The fact that the commonly farmed Kurast 3000 BA uberlevel has totems that need to be taken out first because they emit an aura that makes everything else invulnerable helps too. For this reason, most characters have at least one boss killer spell (ama: Prowl asn: Broadside nec: Angel of Death, Buckshot pal: Punisher sor: Venomous Spirit) and a lot of people do get this skill for their class. But many uberquests (and some regular game situations) have one important boss target to take out. This would make ordinary single target attacks worthless. Median has many more zerg floods - more regular monsters swarm in big groups, every uberquest is crammed with monsters and many bosses summon more monsters all the time. In classic LoD, single target attacks have dubious use in the endgame unless they pretty much kill instantly.
