Diablo 2: A buxom Lady

I got wind that playing a Paladin in Diablo II is great for the early Act's but later on, it becomes increasingly difficult to progress - now this in itself won't deter me from rolling out my stainless steel clergyman, but coupled with the fact that I really fancied playing with a buxom lady archer - I conjured up an Amazonian ranger.

This blonde haired big boned beauty is fast. Swifter than a kitten with kattitude. Early on she couldn't take the smacks and blows - but as she progressed she found the perfect weapon to have did cold damage. The ability to freeze and slow down enemies was invaluable. At first she found a spear with slight cold damage, which was ok, but in close combat she was bitch-slapped to the ground before she could get enough of them iced up. So she saved up and bought a socketed hunters bow. Two blue gems later and the thing did a fair amount of cold damage with the arrows it hurled. Suddenly she turned from a very poor warrior, into a speedy ranged attacker, who could outrun the evil horde, slow them down even further and pick most of them off before they got a single swipe in. I decided I'd prefer her to be a master archer than a spear women. Although I did put a few skill points into spear abilities - just for those caught-in-the-melee moments. One of her bow skills that proved most effective was the multi-shot - enabling her to unleash an array of arrows at the same time. If she is surrounded, when clicking close to her, they splay out in a circle - slowing the menace and maybe even killing one or two of them, opening a path for her to escape. If they are charging from a particular direction in a vicious group, when clicking a medium distance away from her, they will scatter in an arc - hopefully stopping all in frozen torment. If they are at the end of a corridor, when clicking a long distance away from her, they will group together and travel in a linear direction passing through the column of victims. Beefing this skill up adds more and more arrows to the shot. Last count she had 9 arrows in one shot. The mana used to perform this trick shot also increases with every arrow. So a fine balance is needed between arrows, mana, and usage of this skill. She was draining mana too quickly at one point, and her regeneration rate was too slow to keep using this skill effectively. So, she scoured the land high and low for some chipped skulls and I managed to buy a socketed helmet, and a couple of mana rings. By fusing the skulls in the helmet it now bestows a +20% mana regeneration ability on her. I can now use the multi-shot and I gain mana quickly enough not to worry about it. She is a demon.