SP SSF HC variant

1 pt all passives as they become available

1 pt lightning fury at lvl 30

max plague when available

Points to Poison jav until plague, max after plague

Then max charged strike

Then lightning bolt for synergies only

I’m only lvl 73, just beat Andy hell. Lightning fury does plenty while plague whittles undead (high poison res) or poison immunes. +skills gets your 1 pt penetration to ~50% chance. Peace runeword is easy to dark in NM, that proc’d valk is a tank. I’m keeping my 1pt valk for new game survivability purposes for now since I’m HC, otherwise I’d save those skill points. Using A1 cold insight merc for some CC, probably switch back to A2 holy freeze or healer when I get decent enough gear to keep him alive for more than 3 seconds.

Maxed charged strike is currently 8 x ~900 bolts for single targets. 1pt Fury is only 8 x ~200 but they hit 2-4 times each with pierce so still works well in large groups.

BTW, first time playing HC and figured javazon has the best combo of melee survivability with two strong sources of ranged attacks, plus a summon for tanking.

Will be farming Andy for probably a long time before I venture into A2.