Short Questions Thread

jkfkl wrote:Why does my UHM paladin summon no servant of valor? (2 skill in SOV, 1 in Conclave)

You are using melee devotion, read the skill description

La_minore wrote:
Diaco wrote:

A couple comments on that small guide:

1) eagle stance is a waste of skill points before the end game. 20% IED translates to 5% extra conversion with t1-4 weapons and 8% for sacred. This is a negligible increase in damage unless you have over 2-3k str/dex. On the other hand elementalist is quite squishy, so you'll benefit WAY more from bear stance. The survivability is night and day with bear stance. Also if you go for full dex+crystal sword nephalem spirit is not very useful as it adds light/fire DMG.

2) Your weapon is the least relevant source of damage. I'm literally farming duncraig easily with a random rare sacred throwing axe (which I strongly recommend over Ono and mammen axe because you only need 80 IAS for the max fpa). Also throwing axe unlike the others can spawn on striking procs instead of on attack, which is great because Primordial strike multihits like crazy. It also lets you use a shield which can solve resistance issues and provide even more STR bonuses. Your gear should be entirely concentrated on STR bonuses, so you want
Steel Golem
Steel Golem
Gothic Plate (4)
Defense: (313 - 364) to (629 - 731)
Required Level: 9
Required Strength: 36 to 37
Item Level: 19
25% Hit Recovery
Stun Attack
5% Chance of Crushing Blow
+(35 to 57)% Enhanced Defense
(7 to 10)% to Strength
(7 to 10)% to Vitality
Requirements +(7 to 10)%
Socketed (2)
Defense: (1017 - 1140) to (1931 - 2166)
Required Level: 27
Required Strength: 78 to 80
Item Level: 40
45% Hit Recovery
Stun Attack
6% Chance of Crushing Blow
+(81 to 103)% Enhanced Defense
(15 to 18)% to Strength
(15 to 18)% to Vitality
Requirements +(15 to 18)%
Socketed (4)
Defense: (2542 - 2801) to (4732 - 5214)
Required Level: 45
Required Strength: 291 to 298
Item Level: 67
65% Hit Recovery
Stun Attack
7% Chance of Crushing Blow
+(126 to 149)% Enhanced Defense
(23 to 26)% to Strength
(23 to 26)% to Vitality
Requirements +(23 to 26)%
Socketed (5)
Defense: (3804 - 4140) to (7061 - 7685)
Required Level: 52
Required Strength: 600 to 614
Item Level: 85
75% Hit Recovery
Stun Attack
8% Chance of Crushing Blow
+(149 to 171)% Enhanced Defense
(27 to 30)% to Strength
(27 to 30)% to Vitality
Requirements +(27 to 30)%
Socketed (6)
Deadfall
Deadfall
Heavy Belt (4)
Defense: (135 - 159) to (178 - 210)
Required Level: 7
Required Strength: 36
Item Level: 19
2% Chance to cast level 2 Shower of Rocks on Kill
1% Chance of Crushing Blow
+(24 to 46)% Enhanced Defense
+(16 to 25) to Strength
Lightning Resist +(11 to 15)%
Socketed (1)
Defense: (485 - 551) to (616 - 700)
Required Level: 24
Required Strength: 62
Item Level: 36
2% Chance to cast level 4 Shower of Rocks on Kill
2% Chance of Crushing Blow
+(69 to 92)% Enhanced Defense
+(36 to 45) to Strength
Lightning Resist +(21 to 25)%
Socketed (2)
Defense: (1270 - 1400) to (1595 - 1758)
Required Level: 41
Required Strength: 218
Item Level: 51
2% Chance to cast level 8 Shower of Rocks on Kill
3% Chance of Crushing Blow
+(115 to 137)% Enhanced Defense
+(56 to 65) to Strength
Lightning Resist +(31 to 35)%
Socketed (2)
Defense: (1918 - 2095) to (2403 - 2626)
Required Level: 50
Required Strength: 436
Item Level: 85
2% Chance to cast level 12 Shower of Rocks on Kill
4% Chance of Crushing Blow
+(138 to 160)% Enhanced Defense
+(66 to 75) to Strength
Lightning Resist +(36 to 40)%
Socketed (2)
Death Spur
Death Spur
Heavy Boots (4)
Defense: 27 to 39
Required Level: 3
Required Strength: 27
Item Level: 1
1% Chance to cast level 6 Spike Nova on Kill
(10 to 40)% Movement Speed
+0.09375 to Maximum Damage (Based on Character Level)
+(11 to 15) to Strength
+(11 to 15) to Dexterity
Socketed (1)
Defense: 109 to 141
Required Level: 20
Required Strength: 55
Item Level: 31
1% Chance to cast level 10 Spike Nova on Kill
(10 to 40)% Movement Speed
+0.15625 to Maximum Damage (Based on Character Level)
+(21 to 25) to Strength
+(21 to 25) to Dexterity
Socketed (2)
Defense: 248 to 310
Required Level: 38
Required Strength: 193
Item Level: 51
1% Chance to cast level 14 Spike Nova on Kill
(10 to 40)% Movement Speed
+0.21875 to Maximum Damage (Based on Character Level)
+(31 to 35) to Strength
+(31 to 35) to Dexterity
Socketed (3)
Defense: 346 to 427
Required Level: 46
Required Strength: 386
Item Level: 77
1% Chance to cast level 16 Spike Nova on Kill
(10 to 40)% Movement Speed
+0.25 to Maximum Damage (Based on Character Level)
+(36 to 40) to Strength
+(36 to 40) to Dexterity
Socketed (4)
and stuff like that. For gloves your best bet is honorific with str MOs. Also MO life on attack and %AR on your weapon as soon as you can.

Fair points . Guess I will switch to Bear Stance asap since ele barb feels squishy as I progress further to Hell. Regarding Nephalem Spirit, I think there is still merit in it if maxing dex though, for a general ele-damage setup at least, since it add Fire + Lightning damage based on Dex too. But of course, if one go for a dedicated cold-pierce vs. fire/lightning-pierce setup, it may get complicated.

Indeed, the problem with nephalem with crystal sword is that unless you invest in tri-elemental pierce, which isn't easy to come by when you are also trying to max dex, it will add next to nothing to your DPS, while runemaster will increase your survivability by A LOT. You could probably switch out of bear stance in end game for eagle stance and go with runemaster to fill the defense gap. Will probably test those setups once I get to Fauzt

GoochMcNuts wrote:Ok so storm zon's storm call and hammer of zarae both have physical damage in addition to lightning damage so does deadly strike apply to those abilities? also askari lightning pulls its damage off of storm call's damage which has physical damage so does that mean that askari lightning has physical damage and if so does deadly strike apply to that too?

deadly strike is only for weapon physical damage

and yes, askari lighting does 100% of stormcall physical and 40-60% of stormcall maximum lightning, times the 300%+ multiplier

Does Bull Prince still have drop bias for UMO?

Is there a write up of Fire/Cold/Lightning Absorb somewhere? If not can someone quickly explain how it works? Say you have 5% Fire Absorb and 85% Fire Resistance. You take a 10k fire hit. Does the absorb heal you for 500, 5% of the original hit, or 75, 5% of the 1500 you take after resistance.

Or does it work some completely different way and I'm just spitting nonsense here.

Ernie wrote:Does Bull Prince still have drop bias for UMO?

Yes, but it's probably faster to go and get all the gear for labs and then do labs instead.

Llewllyn wrote:Is there a write up of Fire/Cold/Lightning Absorb somewhere? If not can someone quickly explain how it works? Say you have 5% Fire Absorb and 85% Fire Resistance. You take a 10k fire hit. Does the absorb heal you for 500, 5% of the original hit, or 75, 5% of the 1500 you take after resistance.

Or does it work some completely different way and I'm just spitting nonsense here.

75. But technically, it doesn't actually matter for % sorb, because they're multiplicative. You're taking 1,350 damage no matter which order they work in.

Ernie wrote:Does Bull Prince still have drop bias for UMO?

5% chance for umo. Way too slow if you consider that you also have to grab the 2 legs each run.

75. But technically, it doesn't actually matter for % sorb, because they're multiplicative. You're taking 1,350 damage no matter which order they work in.

Ahh I was hoping maybe they were additive.

What does the Book of Cain do? I have 2 atm, they both look different... no clue what I'm supposed to do with them. :oops:

Is there any viable Ama build except Bowazon in 2.0? Reworked Java feels clunky and underwhelming, Spearzon sucks too. Blood, Hammerzon? I have not test it yet. :/