While experimenting with a shield an Dark Conniption i noticed few a things:
1: first thing that meats the eye is the incredible attack speed it can result with.
2:Althouh it says that DC has a chance of zapping your enemy, almost every hit is a succesfull zapp.
3: Those zapps do very litle elemental deamage....
4: DC drains my shallow mana pool quickly....
So i thought, why not increase my elemental deamage and mana pool with a lot of INT?
Dispose of your enemys quckly with the DC, then finish off the rest (if some remain) with magic bolts (best with shadow bolts, so i can increase both shadow deamage of DC, and bolts.
But, i still have a few questions like: should i use "way of roo?" and "mental prowess?"
I need both attack speed, and magic deamage.And:
What kind of gear to use? I Fight in close combat, so i need Health and defense (i know i can salve that with BSoL), but i need INT and elemental demage.
And atribute points would be very hard to put in good place...
I need STR, for that deamage...
I need agility, so i can hit my targets..
I need endurance,, always need health...
And i need Intel, for mana an elemental deamage...
So, should i even bother trying this?
Then I decided to ask my felow Dungeon Runners.
Do you have any tips, or maybe answeres to my questions?
Post your comments if you want here too..


Oh, any donations (like RBs that could be usefull to this build... ehm, archtype (nice idea Ratha!) are gladly accepted!

It seems it reminds a bit of the Diveneadin (found here) which I tried out for a couple of days last week and it were surprisingly good. I went almost full INT and followed the Archtype-guide quite a lot. I changed some things to suit me having a 2-handed weapon instead of a 1-hander and shield.

DRplayers.com has a great gear-finder (it's down as I type this though, but it's usually up most of the time). You should see if there is any fighter-gear who gives Shadow bonus. Same for weapons. Then re-spec and give yourself enough AGI not to miss to much and put the rest in INT.

No idea if this works or is a good build, but if it worked it would be really cool.

U should have lots of end and mana steal gear for dc it works very well also u need good attack rating