Xis rune gear theorycrafting.

I've been wondering about potential of gearing character using xis runewords, and taking it to extreme, banking on fact these runewords in some cases are very strong and endgame equipment. While you can still reliably target farm them relatively early in the season.
Question is: which class/build can use most XIS runewords as best in slot?
But really bis, no bullshit.

First "findings":
- Seems that it has to be WDM build, because crafts for caster are just so much better.
- gloves pretty much suck, except maybe shael and Io for high +~200 flat str, for str build, but can it beat craft?
- belts also suck,

Fuse (Xis)

rw is good proc and spelldmg, but doesn't fit theme of non-caster
- good items for almost all wdm builds:

Rebel (Xis)

,

Epicenter (Xis)

,

Shark (Xis)

(if 1h)
- good items that stand out class specific:

Natha (Xis)

,

Nasrudin (Xis)

,

Sangreal (Xis)

,

Zohar (Xis)

,

Chthon (Xis)

.

Judge (Xis)

- don't count

Natasha's Legacy (Xis)

chest because it takes more runes to make than entire rest of the gear, and can roll crap

What do you think would be the best optimal build that can use most item slots filled with xis runewords?

Few examples that come to mind:
tree/wolf druid: natha helm, rebel chest, shark weapon, ith boots,
holy melee pally with rebel chest, ith boots, one of xis shields (zod or lo), and shark weapon

it must be a melee imo ,that's for sure .

but it doesn't have to be weapon damage based to go well . an unholy melee or wildfire treewarden would also be valid (valid , but not the best) .

also , what's all this hype around shark xis ? it's bad compared to other options imo .

unholy melee option :

Demhe (Xis)

,

Outlaw (Xis)

,

Mercy (Xis)

,

Sangreal (Xis)

,

Rainbow (Xis)

for %MF ,

Ra (Xis)

and either

Lumen Arcana (Xis)

or

Natasha's Legacy (Xis)

Maelstorm baba. Pump dex with Nasrudin, Rebel, elXis offhand?, mountain king. Maybe not.

Thing with caster is I think it will be suboptimal to crafts/su.
WDM could be legit best. And not only melee, ranged wdm can work too, such as bow druid.

Thing is which build can justify more than 4 xis slots?
Shark weapon indeed is nothing special, but it beats 1h crafts in terms of damage still, thats why I mentioned it. It definitely dropped in value since that damage per clvl nerf.

Ill throw in a throwing barb.
Elxis body armor and nasrudin + mountain king = ez max block
Ohm xis in barb shields will give 55% to vit
Could go vit only build with gladiator - epicenter boots. Shaelxis gloves (15% vit and str boost) and belts are... pretty weak imo

Interesting, could even go elxis weapon for 100% all stats, then easy block for sure.
Can you hit max block with just nasrudin+rebel and no base dex at all? nasrudin is nerfed to 300 dex now.
Shark weapon is also still ok, better than craft.

Farming those runes tho, lot of overkilling in teganze, pack by pack, screen by screen. You'd probably be better off running this as summoner.

Running with 40% cb should be enough for farming efficiently.
Not sure if its enough to reach maxblock, but 550 dex from these 2 items + charms and mk + gladiator should do it.
There are lot of xisrws for barb with fireprocs and + fire spell dmg aswell. But those ware kind a weak without -enemy res.

Yeah, summoner is the way to go to get these runes

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aerial wrote:holy melee pally with rebel chest, ith boots, one of xis shields (zod or lo), and shark weapon

Zohar (Xis)

together with

Demhe (Xis)

effectively turns your holy melee into a ranged character, with zero build changes needed. Rest of the gear can be the same as with any holy melee build (although I like

Crusade

or

Surya

for helm over Barghest for easy regen, cause Cherubim only does magic damage). Did this last ladder and never looked back.

Yeah demhe clear winner for pally, since you can put it in paladin 1h mace. Problem is that laggy plague avatar proc, annoying/can't see shit

Pierce is good for plague though.

Whats cool about this rw is insane mana on striking, would be interesting to abuse this somehow, something thats extremely man hungry, like bfg skill or ohman?

I abused the mana on striking for spamming Cherubim, guess I wasn't clear about that. Cherubim doesn't proc Plague Avatar if you use it like a ranged attack

Also there's this: https://forum.median-xl.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=30509
Dude did a nice job at combining Cherubim and Disco Inferno.