Hey, sorry that I counter-lashed. Yeah, I'm dissappointed to, I just appreciate the added and detailed info that the interface now provides--telling you exactly how much you chars suck.

I'm most pissed that I gambled 1.6 million trying to get unique boots last week and score some goblins but I came up empty handed, and now I'll probably have to trade an extra tarn or so for them--I thought I had a few more weeks to stock up on stuff! Bastards!
I did have fun partying my level 80 tweaked necro (cookie +9 skills setup) with a high level barb and sorc--and actually still having a challenge in the outer plains, I could be happy with that as long as they fix the drops.
I seemed to get decent experience in act 3 hell with my barb, which was nifty, and as I have about 400% gold find, I actually managed to do better than break even with repairs :shudder: I still swear critical strike isn't working though.
Fastest boots are now reported as faster %--it's funny how everyone is reporting this as a bug right now.
As far as my necro goes, I really don't know how dueling will work, you're right, I am way too slow now, especially with the now semi-useless sigons. If I drop that and throw on blinkbats though, once I deny a barb whirlwind, running while spamming 300 damage a second poison novas might be effective--more effective than BS, I don't know. The automatic hit of nova while dodging leap attacks seems like a good plan (I'm more of a counter-pk'er than a dueler so most of my victories are against barbs and through Iron Maiden--potions would completely negate the nova strategy). Zons are going to be much more dangerous now, but I have yet to substantiate if Guided arrow is going to be slower like the rumors say. Too lazy to log on with my zon. Of course, in three weeks, Assassins are going to kill everyone but WW barbs--just teleporting to them and kicking them in the head, tiger tiger tiger strike, not to mention they have an able decoy that is virtually indistinguishable... owning sorcs, necros and zons until we come up with something (casting bone prison on yourself, acting like a fort and spamming bs? teleporting back and forth between firewalls?)
I'm not sold on how great FOH will be. On paper is just doesn't seem that impressive still, thought paper doesn't express how the shock stuns. Does fanaticism speed up an WW attack in the exp? Did this last patch fix zeal (and fend) desyncing problems? I started a new Pal the other day and twinked him heavily and I'm saving points--don't know which way to go with it.