Diablo III - Official Discussion Thread - Who will beat Inferno first?

[lestatdark]

Machina said:

lestatdark said:

Machina said:

TruckOSaurus said:

I might as well post my question to Kantor here too:

Correct me if I'm wrong but I was under the impression that the two active ability disappointment you mentioned is only temporary because as you progress through the game you'll have more slots for active abilities and you'll then be able to create a character with 5-6 main skills that you play around with without having to wait for the cooldown.

I am right here or am I doing some wishful thinking?

Seems you are right. We didn't realise in the options you can turn off all the hand-holding which restricts you to two main skills and four support skills. So yeah, you can have 6 useful skills (which is all you ever really used in Diablo II anyway, unless you were something like a Summon Necro or Druid).

Even proper summon necros didn't have the need for more than 6 useful skills. My build basically revolves around Summon Skeleton, Clay Golem, Amplify Damage (going to be exchanged for Decrepify once I get it) and the Skeleton and Golem Masteries which are passive. Anything else is overkill, especially since Curses don't stack with one another.

I would probably use 6-8:

Skeleton
Skeleton Mage
Golem
Revive
A curse
Corpse Explosion
Bone Armour
maybe even one of the offensive bone or poison nova skills for fun

Forgot about Corpse Explosion (I'm using the heck out of it, even at level 1). I rarely use Revive or Skellie mages though, I usually consider them to be weaker than the normal skellies, plus they don't get to benefit from the bonuses of the Act II Might aura mercenary and the Beast runeword Level 9 Fanaticism aura my build usually revolves around. 

Bone armour is useless for me, mostly because I tend to stay the hell away from the thick of things (that's why I usually go for an Enigma too).

@mummelman - Zealadins are amazing to play in players 8 difficulty, Mine's at level 82 on Hell and it was all with that difficulty and it got insane gear thanks to that . Though higher difficulties don't automatically mean better drops, you only get more drops per enemy. I usually do a good Magic Find build whenever I go hunt for gear (Countess runs are the best).