It didn't take long before the video of Chen Mo using Lin Xue's account to clear the Greater Rift was posted online. Many veteran Diablo players were analyzing how Chen Mo did it on the official forums.
"Who watched Xue's stream? Chen Mo messed around, and the scariest thing was that Chen Mo gave Xue's Crusader a new set of equipment, allowing her to clear twenty floors of the Greater Rift! "
"Holy sh * t, is this for real? I don't believe it. How can there be such a huge difference in strength between the same account? Twenty floors of the Greater Rift, how much stronger would that be? "
"The video has been posted online, go take a look at it yourself. Someone recorded the entire process. The worst part was when Chen Mo picked up all sorts of junk from Xue's storage box, and even came up with a combination of skills that I don't understand at all! But it's amazing! "
"Alright, I'll go take a look!"
The video quickly became a hot topic on the forums, especially among the Crusader players.
So far, the Crusader and Necromancer classes were progressing much slower than the other classes in the Greater Rift, as the other classes already had a few more mature and complete builds.
The main reason was that although the expansion had been online for a while, everyone was still trying to figure out the new classes. Especially the Crusader, most players hadn't figured out a good enough strategy yet.
Chen Mo's new strategy naturally caught everyone's attention.
Moreover, the players knew that Chen Mo would always come up with unique tactics every time he played the game. For example, in Warcraft, Blast Flow, Random Ore Flow, and other classic tactics were all created by Chen Mo.
Chen Mo's strategy this time was definitely something worth researching, and it might have something to do with the deeper playstyle of Diablo!
It didn't take long for Chen Mo's strategy to be completely figured out with the help of everyone's efforts and the recordings.
This playstyle was named 'Cannons on Horseback', and it quickly spread among the Crusader players.
The core idea of this strategy was to stack the thorns damage like crazy. At the same time, he would use the set attributes of the Thousand Soul Hell and Hero's Wish to maximize the combat power of the individual ancient items on his body. The more ancient items he had, the more damage he would deal. Thus, he could rely on his individual items to surpass the set effect.
In terms of skills, Consecration, Bombardment (also known as Cannons), Iron Skin, and Warhorse's Charge could all be converted into thorns damage through skill runes, meaning that these were all damage dealing skills.
On the other hand, Akarat Warrior was a very powerful buff skill that had a significant effect in increasing damage.
The last skill could be used with Shield Flash or Justice, mainly to increase survivability.
What was most surprising was the distribution of the individual pieces.
The strength of these items was that they could activate the set effect of the ring, as well as buff skills. These special effects were very useful for the Crusaders.
Leoric's Crown: Doubles the effects of gems. Combined with the passive skill Gem's Power, the crown can be equipped with a diamond to greatly reduce cooldown, greatly reducing the cooldown of Paladins' skills.
Necklace: Hellfire Necklace, gives the Crusader an additional passive skill.
Breastplate: Iron Heart and Skyhawk Breastplate, one worn on the body, one with a special effect. Skyhawk Breastplate: When the character's energy is above 90%, damage taken is reduced by 50%. Iron Heart increases the character's stamina by 300%.
Because the Crusader's skills didn't consume any rage (energy), his energy was always full, and he could always activate Skyhawk Breastplate's effect.
Belt: Belt of Treasure, special effect: Bombard the enemy every 6 seconds. Because bombardment was the core damage skill of this style, the Treasure Belt could be said to be the most important equipment, directly doubling the Paladin's damage.
Pants: Mr Yang's Hexing Pants, special effect: Increase energy generation and damage when moving, reduced when standing still. Because the Crusader was always on horseback, they could also activate this effect.
Shoes: Illusory Boots, special effect: Makes the character lose their collision volume, allowing them to move around unhindered. This further increased the Crusader's flexibility.
Weapon: Flail of Pegasus (commonly known as a whip), special effect: Double the charge time of the warhorse. With the cooldown reduction, the Crusader could basically be on horseback the entire time, and could come and go like the wind, not needing to get off to be surrounded by monsters.
Weapon Extraction: Human Impermanence, double the amount of damage dealt.
Ring of Extraction: Versatile Ring, increases single elemental damage by 200%. For the Crusader, this ring would cycle between Fire, Holy, Lightning, and Physical damage, changing every 4 seconds. Thorns damage was considered Physical damage, so when the Versatile Ring of Extraction switched to Physical damage, the Crusader's damage would be doubled.
Although the effects of these items didn't seem to be very useful, they all played a very important role in this strategy. With all the buffs on, the Crusader's damage would increase exponentially, which was why Chen Mo was able to use this account to climb twenty floors of the Greater Dungeon.
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All the Paladin players were shocked after studying the whole 'Cannons on horseback' strategy.
You can play the game like this?!
These seemingly useless items all played an important role in the playstyle. Moreover, the combination of the equipment, skills, and gems made the damage of this class explode!
While the Crusader players copied it, the other classes also gained some inspiration.
Everyone realized that the game could be played like this, no wonder there were seventeen levels of difficulty!
The passion of the players was fully ignited, mainly because it was a crucial period for the leaderboards. All the different classes were holding their breaths as they tried to find the most suitable playstyle for their class.
As if a spark had been thrown into a barrel of gunpowder, the passion of the players was ignited. The players who loved to research were all digging deeper into Diablo's system, searching for the potential behind all sorts of strange equipment. Even the players who didn't like to research were looking at the latest styles and strategies on the forums, hoping to reach a higher level.
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