Offbeat builds

What are your favorite non-standard builds? D2PK has made it possible for me to test out a lot of builds that were either too expensive on vanilla, or only effective in very certain scenarios, or could only be made with perfect/hard to obtain gear. Some of my favorites:
Infinity TS sorc
Infinity CB sorc
Poison arrow barbarian
Poison arrow/smite paladin
Bear zon
Maul bear druid
Firewall sorc
If anyone wants a rundown on (almost) any of these characters, ask and I just might post/message a brief guide.

Rabies druid. Youve seen mine, and it just got stronger laat night c:

CTA Bow/Poison Jav hybrid zon, super versatile, but not that strong here.

Not as offbeat as some of these builds, but telezons are actually very formidable here on d2pk.

hammerdin
its a paladin that uses the skill blessed hammer with concentration aura
its pretty terrible but not fun either

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hammerdin
its a paladin that uses the skill blessed hammer with concentration aura
its pretty terrible but not fun either

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Very accurate. Idk why anyone plays it honestly.

ga zon, not so unusual though

My point is that there are a lot of builds you don't see often on vanilla because the gear is super expensive or hard to get because they don't get used for much else other than one offbeat build. And some builds that are only viable when you can get a perfect inventory. There are also some builds that were way more competitive on vanilla because it WAS harder for opponents to get perfect gear and inventory, so it was hard to beat them there. My wolfbarb on vanilla? Eating up most basic elemental casters AND bowazons. Here? Can't do much of shit. And i fuckin' LOVE wolfbarbs. so much ZOOOOM!

my favorite build is mikes slow pally

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my favorite build is mikes slow pally

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Oh, that thing is just fucking maddening for any build that runs or needs ias.

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my favorite build is mikes slow pally

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I hate you now.

Newbify Beast Sorc v69

SORCERESS LEVEL 57

STRENGTH 256
DEXTERITY 18
VITALITY 19
ENERGY 24

20 TELEKINESIS
20 TELEPORT
4 FROZEN ARMOR
2 COLD MASTERY
6 HYDRA
7 FIRE BOLT

USE ALL BLUE ARMORS OF DEXTERITY SO YOU CAN USE A STRONG WEAPON LIKE BLUE POLEAXE OF STRENGTH

This build got me to Diablo in 3 weeks!

Wolfbarb with either doom or Gris caddy for terrorizing zons.

theres a really whacky build i came up with years ago that never really took off in popularity but ill share it with ya :P
im not 100% sure how effective it will be on d2pk since people have easy access to alot of res gear, but it was effective on regular realms.

3foh/3 conv beast scepter
dream st
dream helm (w/e has the highest def your stats allow)
20ias cb gloves with str/ dex or bloodfists (you may need the cb gloves for the ias, i cant remember its been too long)
waterwalks
enigma/ 100life 20/20 light armor/ shaftstop with 5/5 in it
maras or slipper or 3 pcomb/ 100 life ammy (cant remember which was best, might not be able to get lvl 25 conv with the magic ammy tbh
bks
arachs with a stashed dungos
pcombs and 20/5 scs

max foh, get lvl 25 conv, rest into foh synergies and holy shock synergies.

its basically a light zealer with a strong foh. somewhat makes up for the fact that foh has no way of dealing with a windy but you still are at a huge disadvantage against windys.

you make up for the low foh damage by being skilled and avoiding bad situations. gotta really be on top of catching people slippin with your charge lockdown and telezeals