But you’ll have to make the hard decision of letting go something else for it. And no one would even want to make a cold necro, because they can’t utilise it like other characters that inherit such skills and attributes.īut every character can biuld to high def, so my idea is some what reachable for all character. You don’t see me asking for high cold damage for necros in some way. I could make a niche build for it but it will not be as good as for cold Sorc, holy freeze pally, Frost maiden amazon. I can’t kill a whole screen whit cold dmg whit the Necro, because it dose not inherit cold dmg skills and attributes. You have so thick defense enemies hurt them self on you, even ranged attackers. And also the fantasy is better behind it. I’m not sayeing my idea is perfect, but way better than in 2.4. If you want to utilise it for other classes and builds, you’ll need to make the hard decision of letting one attribute go for the sake of stacking def in order for thorns to work for them. Check.ĭruid in WB form has pretty high def so that also checks out for me.Īs for the RWs, equip them and build for high def. IG has high def they also have the thorns aura by default and minions also have decent def on hell. Pala has high defense they also inherit the thorns aura. Yes not all builds and characters would benefit from it, but isn’t this the whole point of the game? Some characters are better than the others, but in different things? Why do everyone want to homogenise the game? Because balance? That’s not balance. Other regen skills ie meditation/cleansing can't be stacked at all, but will stack with one another in terms of their regeneration.Well now you’ll have to build towards high defense. prayer can't be stacked the same way, but each instance of it will add its +regen (stacking regen, but not skill levels).

Only the 'holy auras', that is holy shock, holy freeze, holy fire and sanctuary can be stacked. You'll lose 83 HPĪnd no unlike what tommyvv just said, multiple instances of thorns aura itself will not stack even if you have 2+ 'on equip' items. Ie he attacks you with a 1000 damage physical attack, and you have 1000% thorns, and both of you have 50% dr, he'll lose 7 HP. Thats in addition to 1/6 pvp penalty for thorns damage hitting players, and 1/6 pvp penalty for that player hitting you, and 1/2 DR penalty if you have 50% dr and 1/2 DR penalty if he has 1/2 DRįor a total of 1/1440 pvp penalty in the worst case Yes, however they are both subject to an additional 1/10 pvp penalty in pvp, and SoB has dramatically less return than thorns.

Diablo 2 spirit of barbs with thorns