Short Questions Thread

onlonte wrote:What merc is good with shark ( xis RW ) i failed and made an eth and didnt make it undestructable... also what gear would you suggest else ?

Well that of course depends on what weapon you made it to... I suspect sword so A5 barb definitely. Although he can make use of other swords better than Shark.[/quote]

Yeha a broad sword...

Heya, have some more questions

1. While playing my assassin I noticed that my Edyrems live much longer than they should, I assume they gain my evade / flat damage mitigation passives? If yes, do reanimates gain those passives as well?

2. Is riftstone droprate affected by partysize?

3. Do "Cast X when Struck" triggers only happen when hit by attacks? Can enemy spells trigger those? Also, do hits that you "avoid"/block still trigger "When Struck" procs? (Assa's passive reads "Chance to Avoid DAMAGE", it could be that the hit still happens, just deals no damage, no?)

4. Is there any skill (or oskill) that creates units hostile to you? Ideally something like a very fat target dummy.

1) Edyrems don't inherit any player passives, ditto reanimates
2) Yes
3) Melee attacks which hit you only
4) Skills named "Call X" - call treewarden, call necrobot, call blood golem etc. Those don't have much life tho

Does the assassin's shadow dancer skill "critical strike chance" only work on claws? Or for all weapons? There is another problem: I can't detect DS bonus with "d2stats" :?:

I'm holding the claw or naginata. It can't be detected. Does this work?

Description for this skill is accurate enough to not be confusing, it's a claw mastery, why do you expect it to be something else? There is no weapon specific tabs in D2StatsReader that's why you can't see this crit chance in there.

huangyunshy wrote:Does the assassin's shadow dancer skill "critical strike chance" only work on claws? Or for all weapons? There is another problem: I can't detect DS bonus with "d2stats"

Afaik, claw crit from Shadow Dancer isn't a Deadly Strike. Which is why it does not appear on D2Stats.
It has the same effect, but isn't directly additive with DS. With 40%claw crit and 30% DS, you won't be having an equivalent of 70%DS, but something like [1-(1-0.40)*(1--0.30)]=58%
I'm unsure about that formula, but I'm pretty sure it isn't strictly additive.

I tried to Shrine bless a Sacred Eth rare, and it didn't work.
Is that intended Behaviour ?

Squiggoth wrote:I tried to Shrine bless a Sacred Eth rare, and it didn't work.
Is that intended Behaviour ?

Probably you cannot shrine ETH items and even if you could do it you would loose ETH on it.

boozek wrote:
Squiggoth wrote:I tried to Shrine bless a Sacred Eth rare, and it didn't work.
Is that intended Behaviour ?

Probably you cannot shrine ETH items and even if you could do it you would loose ETH on it.

I knew that I couldn't shrine craft (it rerolls the item, so you would lose eth anyway), but I thought shrine bless simply added stats, like a MO.
I'm a little disapointed, but thanks for the quick answer