[1.2] Generic 2Hand Sword Duelist - cheap, durable, HC-viable

sorry about your rip.

the fact that you went into beyond with a 2H build is great!

and yes ranged > melee.

GGG's melee/ranged balance is not balanced, and within melee 2H is the weakest variant.

that took some real skill to get to 76. if only you had been running arctic armor...

Eventually I'll go back to beyond with 2h sword.
My current ranger bores me.

haha.

i went 2H because i just wanted to, damnit.

i'm glad i did.

i've been playing a cleaver/flicker strike variant and having a lot of fun.

i think i'm going to try the double strike combo you are using though. i'm interested to see how it compares to cleave, and i made sure to keep a double-strike leveled up.

one particularly interesting thing i'm going to try is using an alpha's howl (one dropped for me!). that would give me the aura reduction necessary without having to get the aura nodes. the immunity to freeze is particularly useful.

that could work really well.

i still haven't taken IR yet, and that seems to be working out fairly well, but i'm just now starting to do 72+ level maps. putting together a good map pool is still a pain...

edit: btw, i wouldn't recommend flicker strike for beyond ;-)