Chapter 218 - Explosive Cavalry
The chat didn’t understand his moves either, it could even be said that it was completely out of their scope of knowledge.
“Is Chen Mo messing around? There’s no way that’s going to work? Where’s the damage?”
“Look at what he has equipped! Aquila Cuirass, Swiftmount, Leoric’s Crown, Belt of the Trove, Hexing Pants of Mr Yan… They look good on paper but are completely useless!”
“Maybe he’s not going for set bonuses, using the set bonus of the rings to increase his damage?
“Maybe because Xue’s equipment is too garbage and this was the best he could do. But I’m still wondering, sure the attributes are high, but I feel that it just doesn’t work… Will this actually help Xue to reach floor 45?”
“Have you guys noticed that Chen Mo went for thorns on all his equipment. Is that… even useful?”
“I’ve got a Crusader too, let me see… Oh! You can turn your damage into thorns damage through runes! That means Chen Mo plans to use thorns as his main damage source!”
“Is that so. I understand it better now. No wonder he brought Iron Maiden as one of his passive. But I still don’t really understand, the equipment looks good, but does it really work?”
This build was known as explosive cavalry[1] in Chen Mo’s previous world. It’s most well known for utilizing items from different sets and stacking thorns damage, then using Bombardment and Steed Charge to deal as much damage as possible.
The advantage of the build was how effective it was, the explosive damage, and how quickly it covers the map. Moreover, the items from the different sets worked well for a strategy like this. That was why this build had its time in the sun, and the peak of the build could even reach over level ninety.
Of course, there were many builds in Diablo 3 in Chen Mo’s previous life. After a few updates, there were many builds that were better than this one.
But because Lin Xue didn’t have any equipment that worked particularly well with this build, Chen Mo used whatever he had on hand to form a passable build to showcase the different ways the game could be played.
TL note[1]: I think this is a Chinese build, similar builds exist in the western world but not exactly the same from what I can tell.