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OrphineM
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Honestly it could be worth getting
Wind Runner

Wind Runner
Boots

'SilElqSilGul'
Runeword Level: 100
+(0 to 1) to All Skills
50% Attack Speed
10% Movement Speed
Adds 25-68 Damage
250% Bonus to Attack Rating
(12 to 15)% Life stolen per Hit
+(171 to 200)% Enhanced Defense
in a solid sacred base. Strength ain't an issue so feel free to toss it in the best pair of boots you can find.

You lose the 30% strength bonus, but gain the following:

+1 skills
+50-110 damage
More leech
Potentially more movespeed, but all the harbinger jumps means this isn't quite as important. Still useful in some ubers.
A hell of a lot more defense, which can be the difference between life and death in some cases.

Also go farm Nihlathak and get your signets maxed out. It'll make up for the strength bonus loss.
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OrphineM wrote:Honestly it could be worth getting
Wind Runner

Wind Runner
Boots

'SilElqSilGul'
Runeword Level: 100
+(0 to 1) to All Skills
50% Attack Speed
10% Movement Speed
Adds 25-68 Damage
250% Bonus to Attack Rating
(12 to 15)% Life stolen per Hit
+(171 to 200)% Enhanced Defense
in a solid sacred base. Strength ain't an issue so feel free to toss it in the best pair of boots you can find.

You lose the 30% strength bonus, but gain the following:

+1 skills
+50-110 damage
More leech
Potentially more movespeed, but all the harbinger jumps means this isn't quite as important. Still useful in some ubers.
A hell of a lot more defense, which can be the difference between life and death in some cases.

Also go farm Nihlathak and get your signets maxed out. It'll make up for the strength bonus loss.


So Wind Runners over Epicenter? Only thing with Runners is hitting the 280% FHR breakpoint. Not too worried about damage as I have an eth Long Sword ready as soon as I get the jewel rolls I need, so will give it a try thanks :)
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That would be the main problem: You can't just MO in more FHR to counter it, you'd have to come up with 45 FHR. If you max it on the boots, you still need like 15 more.

You might find more MO space on armor or reroll jewels for it. Your call.
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Yeah getting some breakpoints down sometimes require to shuffle some jewels around, or replace good items like
Wind Runner

Wind Runner
Boots

'SilElqSilGul'
Runeword Level: 100
+(0 to 1) to All Skills
50% Attack Speed
10% Movement Speed
Adds 25-68 Damage
250% Bonus to Attack Rating
(12 to 15)% Life stolen per Hit
+(171 to 200)% Enhanced Defense
or
Nature's Grace

Nature's Grace
Druid Helms

'KoVenVenIth'
Runeword Level: 100
+(1 to 2) to Druid Skill Levels
1% Base Block Chance
+30% to Poison Spell Damage
-15% to Enemy Poison Resistance
+(171 to 200)% Enhanced Defense
+100 to Strength
40% to Strength
Requirements -50%
with non-RW counterparts like
Steppe Sleeper
Steppe Sleeper
Boots (Sacred)

Defense: (1302 - 1627) to (1342 - 1677)
Required Level: 80
Item Level: 1
+1 to Barbarian Skill Levels
(10 to 40)% Movement Speed
+(100 to 150)% Enhanced Defense
30% to Strength
Requirements -100%
Socketed (4)

Tundra Walker
(Barbarian Windcarver Set)
or
Greenwalker's Charge
Greenwalker's Charge
Antlers (Sacred)

Defense: (2372 - 2657) to (2577 - 2886)
(Druid Only)
Required Level: 100
Required Strength:
3000
Item Level: 120
Idol of Scosglen has no Cooldown
+(1 to 2) to Druid Skill Levels
Adds 30-50 Damage
+(11 to 20) to Rend (Druid Only)
10% Chance of Crushing Blow
+(150 to 180)% Enhanced Defense
+(100 to 200) Life on Melee Attack
Requirements +500%
Socketed (4)
. I used to run with
Linga Sharira
to prevent this issue with FHR breakpoint, but since the EWD nerfs last season I had to change some items, including the chest plate. I've been using
Rebel (Xis)
a lot lately, with 15% FHR jewels in it.

I've had to make sacrifices to FHR in order to get the 4 fpa breakpoint for
Carsomyr
Carsomyr
Flamberge (Sacred)

One-Hand Damage: (244 - 263) to (330 - 350)
Two-Hand Damage: (320 - 350) to (400 - 431)
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 600
Item Level: 120
Strength Damage Bonus: (0.16 per Strength)%
5% Chance to cast level 13 Shower of Rocks on Kill
50% Attack Speed
Adds 125-200 Damage
100% Bonus to Attack Rating
+(160 to 200)% Enhanced Damage
+(40 to 50) to Strength
+(40 to 50) to Vitality
Physical Resist 10%
+250 Life after each Kill
1% Reanimate as: Random Monster
Socketed (6)
this season though. I thought I'd give 2 handed swords a chance. I could run
Facebreaker
Facebreaker
Chain Gloves (Sacred)

Defense: (1784 - 1939) to (2299 - 2469)
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 575
Item Level: 120
+1% Attack Speed per 20 Strength
Stun Attack
+(130 to 160)% Enhanced Defense
+(600 to 1000) Defense
-15% to Dexterity
Physical Resist 5%
+2 Life on Striking
Socketed (4)
instead of
Hammerfist
Hammerfist
Gauntlets (Sacred)

Defense: (1227 - 1450) to (1436 - 1697)
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 625
Item Level: 105
Adds (1 to 15)-(20 to 30) Damage
5% Life stolen per Hit
+(15 to 25) to Spiral Dance
5% Chance of Crushing Blow
Weapon Physical Damage +(30 to 60)%
+(120 to 160)% Enhanced Defense
Elemental Resists +15%
Socketed (4)
to get the IAS breakpoint easily, then switch some IAS jewels to FHR to gain back the breakpoint, but I wanted to see if it was possible to make it without facebreakers.

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Still. I could replace either Wind runners or Nature's Grace with other SU items and regain my FHR breakpoint back with only 4 jewels.

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Beren1313
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Thnx for sharing that info. I will try some items that you mention.

I havent found Carsomyr yet, so I cant speak for 2H build. But for 1H I went full CB and 86 FHR breakpoint and it works great! Farming like crazy Dung, Fautz and 0 deaths (almost xD).
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OrphineM wrote:Honestly it could be worth getting
Wind Runner

Wind Runner
Boots

'SilElqSilGul'
Runeword Level: 100
+(0 to 1) to All Skills
50% Attack Speed
10% Movement Speed
Adds 25-68 Damage
250% Bonus to Attack Rating
(12 to 15)% Life stolen per Hit
+(171 to 200)% Enhanced Defense
in a solid sacred base. Strength ain't an issue so feel free to toss it in the best pair of boots you can find.

You lose the 30% strength bonus, but gain the following:

+1 skills
+50-110 damage
More leech
Potentially more movespeed, but all the harbinger jumps means this isn't quite as important. Still useful in some ubers.
A hell of a lot more defense, which can be the difference between life and death in some cases.

Also go farm Nihlathak and get your signets maxed out. It'll make up for the strength bonus loss.


Windrunners definitely upped my survivability with still good killspeed. Teganze, Fauz and Duncraig are snorefests now...

One thing that is bothering me is the lack of single target damage for certain ubers. Would respeccing into tree warden be a solution to that, or maybe trap rat? Or is it not much difference? Thinking mainly of 130 ubers now.
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riddyl wrote:One thing that is bothering me is the lack of single target damage for certain ubers. Would respeccing into tree warden be a solution to that, or maybe trap rat? Or is it not much difference? Thinking mainly of 130 ubers now.


Yeah wolf isn't a big boss killer. Treewarden has an incredibly higher survivability (and free 50% dmg reduction from Idol). I often swap back to Treewarden to run some 120-125 ubers, stuff like Yshari and Toraja cemetary.

as for 130 ubers, they're kinda out of reach for wolf as far as my opinion goes. Laz we can just forget about. Void and witch used to be easily farmable back before the mana and avoid fixes. For Uldy, wolf doesn't output enough DPS to even stem the flow of edyrems, let alone land some blows on Uldy himself. Survivability is so weak for wolf in those ubers that it's just better to respec to tree and grab a good Creepy crafted axe/Nimmen and go for it. Can even invest some points into vitality, since the Tree morph gives a pretty good bonus to vitality as much as strength.

I couldn't say much about Trap rat, haven't played this build in about 5 seasons..
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Stupid noob question. What is considered a sword? I have a 2h sword and can't use Harbinger. What am I missing?
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Zaldan3 wrote:Stupid noob question. What is considered a sword? I have a 2h sword and can't use Harbinger. What am I missing?


Only Crystal swords and Samael 'blade' cannot be used with Harbinger, what are you using?
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rumblealex wrote:
Zaldan3 wrote:Stupid noob question. What is considered a sword? I have a 2h sword and can't use Harbinger. What am I missing?


Only Crystal swords and Samael 'blade' cannot be used with Harbinger, what are you using?



I'm using a Great Sword. Just started playing. I missed out on Diable 2 and figured I give this version a try. Thanks for replying.