Short Questions Thread

Grasshopper wrote:
HechtHeftig wrote:There, take my cookie

So if someone gives a cookie away before the person who gets it can vote - how did it ever get started when everyone was on zero cookies? I have a feeling I'm being dumb here.

It was given to just 3-4 people at the start amd then as they voted people it spread and now its where it is now

What's the total of Maximum skill level increased? How much "By x" it's possible?

Hello, just a quick question about how damage is calculated. If i have a weapon with + to maximum damage and am using akarats trek boots how will the + to weapon damage be calculated? will it be calculated base weapon damageXenhanced weapon damageXenhanced damage + to maximum damage or will it be more like base weapon damage+maximum weapon damageXenhanced weapon damageXenhanced damage.

Just curious so I know if it's worth it to use akarats trek when using shark runeword when my base weapon damage is low. Thank you.

Be honest please. Is melee necro as bad as people say it is? I want to make a summoner necro but wanted to level is as a melee necro and maybe end up keeping it if it wasn't too bad. Everyone talks badly about melee necro. Anyone test melee necro with the set?

Rathma's Empire

Rathma's Empire
(Necromancer Melee Set)

Rathma's Chase
Rathma's Death Gaze
Rathma's Skeleton
Rathma's Tyranny

Set Bonus with 2 or more set items:
20% Life stolen per Hit
10% Chance of Crushing Blow

Set Bonus with 3 or more set items:
Adds 20-30 Damage
+800 to Life

Set Bonus with complete set:
40% Chance to cast level 19 Crucify on Melee Attack
10% Movement Speed
10% Chance of Crushing Blow
+150 to all Attributes
Maximum Elemental Resists +2%
Elemental Resists +35%
150% Bonus to Defense

This has a ton of life steal, some max res, crushing blow, procs

Rathma's Tyranny

Rathma's Tyranny
Raptor Scythe (Sacred)
Two-Hand Damage: (247 - 270) to (280 - 304)
(Necromancer Only)
Required Level: 90
Required Strength: 414
Item Level: 1
Strength Damage Bonus: (0.16 per Strength)%
Mega Impact
15% Chance to cast level 1 Guard Tower on Kill
40% Attack Speed
Adds 63-88 Damage
+(140 to 170)% Enhanced Damage
Slow Target (21 to 25)%
+(51 to 70) to Strength
Socketed (6)

Rathma's Empire
(Necromancer Melee Set)

and set bonus with high proc chance, some slow, a lot of defense and max health, rw speed, blink without needing a switch. It looks good to me but does anyone have experience as melee necro at all?

Melee necro is fine. Just hit a bit with the nerf to parasite targets but still works well enough. Rathma set is good, just tricky to get extra DR, since the only dr is 5% on the armor. You'll need TA trophy (5%), probably dtouch (off the top of my head, only gloves that give DR), Der Nebelring and/or Dyer's Eve amulet

Fire set gloves give 10% dr, so 5% more than dtouch and probably easier to find. On top of that you have the witch charm with vizjun trophy.

3 Questions:

1- What are the new Quov Tsin's resistance pierce? I thought they were removed. He still one shots me despite 90% all res. I know he has some physical dmg now but it still shouldn't delete me at 14k hp.

2- When Marco reworked the max skill level on the class charm, did he retroactively remove stuff from the existing ones? caus I'm pretty sure I did level challenge 2 (death projector lvl 80) on it and yet I don't have the bonus on my charm.

3- Why am I able to kill Lightning immunes with Stormblast? My rainbow dmg seems negligible.

do Energy Factor matter to Arc 3 merc?

anhlong1122 wrote:do Energy Factor matter to Arc 3 merc?

Yes and no. They get tons of energy and energy factor probably around 420% bonus spell damage. You can't really increase their dmg output with that.

Nitz wrote:
anhlong1122 wrote:do Energy Factor matter to Arc 3 merc?

Yes and no. They get tons of energy and energy factor probably around 420% bonus spell damage. You can't really increase their dmg output with that.

you mean they already have it in their body, and I cant increase it with gear?