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PodolskyV
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I've just reached Hell difficulty, so I can use TU, non-Xis RWs, crafts and honorifics. What's best option for me right now and what soket fiilers I should choose for weapon?
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Start with an honorific sacred crystal sword. Attack speed, life on attack, innate elemental damage. Fill sockets with at least 55 IAS for 4 FPA.
You can try and roll a craft but you have to hit a lot of affixes to actually get a better result than the honorific.

Advice pulled from MetalMusicMan's guide, which is up-to-date for this patch
PodolskyV
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Siosilvar wrote:Start with an honorific sacred crystal sword. Attack speed, life on attack, innate elemental damage. Fill sockets with at least 55 IAS for 4 FPA.
You can try and roll a craft but you have to hit a lot of affixes to actually get a better result than the honorific.

Advice pulled from MetalMusicMan's guide, which is up-to-date for this patch

I'm currently running with honorific crystal sword, but I forgot about life on attack and MOed it with innate elemental damage, attack speed and crushing blow. Is it even worth to MO crystal sword with CB or EWD?
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EWD does nothing on an ele weapon

CB doesn't work on bosses but you might kill cold absorb mobs a little faster so idk
PodolskyV
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Siosilvar wrote:EWD does nothing on an ele weapon

CB doesn't work on bosses but you might kill cold absorb mobs a little faster so idk

Damn! In erlier versions CB worked on bosses with some penalties, so now it should be the last option. Is it possible to reroll honorific item to MO it properly or I need another sacred crystal sword?
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PodolskyV wrote:
Siosilvar wrote:EWD does nothing on an ele weapon

CB doesn't work on bosses but you might kill cold absorb mobs a little faster so idk

Damn! In erlier versions CB worked on bosses with some penalties, so now it should be the last option. Is it possible to reroll honorific item to MO it properly or I need another sacred crystal sword?


Ye, just use oil of renewal, then oil of enchancement - it will make base a magic item. Then you use mark on infusion on it :> remember to use oil of disjunction to remove socketed runes/jewels first!
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Don't play wolf druid for a long time, but in old times people use
Void
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Weapons

'Sur'
Runeword Level: 75
Adds 7-13 Damage
+(58 to 72)% Enhanced Damage
Slow Target 20%
Regenerate Mana +15%
Cold Resist +40%
Physical Damage Reduced by (11 to 15)
+(3 to 5) Mana on Striking
2% Reanimate as: Random Monster


If for some reason you want to use crystal sword, don't forget that tier1-tier4 don't have innate elemental damage. Only sacred crystal sword benefits from innate elemental damage MO.
PodolskyV
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Sprow wrote:Don't play wolf druid for a long time, but in old times people use
Void
Void
Weapons

'Sur'
Runeword Level: 75
Adds 7-13 Damage
+(58 to 72)% Enhanced Damage
Slow Target 20%
Regenerate Mana +15%
Cold Resist +40%
Physical Damage Reduced by (11 to 15)
+(3 to 5) Mana on Striking
2% Reanimate as: Random Monster


If for some reason you want to use crystal sword, don't forget that tier1-tier4 don't have innate elemental damage. Only sacred crystal sword benefits from innate elemental damage MO.

Void RW would be good only with phys weapon because ED works only with phys damage. I think only ElXis
Dawn
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Weapons

'Zol'
Runeword Level: 100
10% Chance to cast level 32 Celerity on Kill
45% Hit Recovery
(301 to 500)% Bonus to Attack Rating
+(172 to 200)% Enhanced Damage
75% to Strength
75% to Dexterity
35% to Vitality
75% to Energy
+80 to Mana
60% Gold Find
+(2 to 4) to Light Radius
RW would be better than honorific because with it I can dump a lot more stat points into dex and get another 75% dex, but XIs is definitely not early game. I'm currently farming sigs in Torajian jungles and dying alot, so wil get Xis much later.
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PodolskyV wrote:
Sprow wrote:Don't play wolf druid for a long time, but in old times people use
Void
Void
Weapons

'Sur'
Runeword Level: 75
Adds 7-13 Damage
+(58 to 72)% Enhanced Damage
Slow Target 20%
Regenerate Mana +15%
Cold Resist +40%
Physical Damage Reduced by (11 to 15)
+(3 to 5) Mana on Striking
2% Reanimate as: Random Monster


If for some reason you want to use crystal sword, don't forget that tier1-tier4 don't have innate elemental damage. Only sacred crystal sword benefits from innate elemental damage MO.

Void RW would be good only with phys weapon because ED works only with phys damage. I think only ElXis
Dawn
Dawn
Weapons

'Zol'
Runeword Level: 100
10% Chance to cast level 32 Celerity on Kill
45% Hit Recovery
(301 to 500)% Bonus to Attack Rating
+(172 to 200)% Enhanced Damage
75% to Strength
75% to Dexterity
35% to Vitality
75% to Energy
+80 to Mana
60% Gold Find
+(2 to 4) to Light Radius
RW would be better than honorific because with it I can dump a lot more stat points into dex and get another 75% dex, but XIs is definitely not early game. I'm currently farming sigs in Torajian jungles and dying alot, so wil get Xis much later.

What is problem in physical dmg sword?
PodolskyV
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Sprow wrote:
PodolskyV wrote:
Sprow wrote:Don't play wolf druid for a long time, but in old times people use
Void
Void
Weapons

'Sur'
Runeword Level: 75
Adds 7-13 Damage
+(58 to 72)% Enhanced Damage
Slow Target 20%
Regenerate Mana +15%
Cold Resist +40%
Physical Damage Reduced by (11 to 15)
+(3 to 5) Mana on Striking
2% Reanimate as: Random Monster


If for some reason you want to use crystal sword, don't forget that tier1-tier4 don't have innate elemental damage. Only sacred crystal sword benefits from innate elemental damage MO.

Void RW would be good only with phys weapon because ED works only with phys damage. I think only ElXis
Dawn
Dawn
Weapons

'Zol'
Runeword Level: 100
10% Chance to cast level 32 Celerity on Kill
45% Hit Recovery
(301 to 500)% Bonus to Attack Rating
+(172 to 200)% Enhanced Damage
75% to Strength
75% to Dexterity
35% to Vitality
75% to Energy
+80 to Mana
60% Gold Find
+(2 to 4) to Light Radius
RW would be better than honorific because with it I can dump a lot more stat points into dex and get another 75% dex, but XIs is definitely not early game. I'm currently farming sigs in Torajian jungles and dying alot, so wil get Xis much later.

What is problem in physical dmg sword?

There is only one sword with dexterity scaling, and it's sacred crystal sword with no phys damage at all, but with cold damage, based on dexterity instead.