The Tantrumdin

suchbalance wrote:Early game gear is enough not just for BRC, but for the vast majority of the destruction ubers too. If you followed it correctly (with a char orb with 15xith runes) and prebuff your stuff with the +8 staff you should easily have over 200k defence.

Thank you for your continued patience. I've been very forgetful and unfocused lately.

I am missing the Kali runeword gauntlets and sacred greaves. I will also make tier 6 versions of the belt and maybe the tiara if I have enough arcane crystals, but definitely the belt as it provides more defence.

Edit: I did the above minus the boots, not having any luck finding sacred greaves. It's a lot better already though. I'm up to act 3 in Destruction now. Once I find the boots I'll go back to the black road challenges.

I finally found a magic sacred greaves only to identify them and find they are ethereal. I'm not sure if I should still use them, or how to craft with them because some of the recipes reduce item level.

When you say to reroll the sacred greaves until superior and lucky, which recipe are you referring to?

Thank you.

Fenric wrote:I finally found a magic sacred greaves only to identify them and find they are ethereal. I'm not sure if I should still use them, or how to craft with them because some of the recipes reduce item level.

When you say to reroll the sacred greaves until superior and lucky, which recipe are you referring to?

Thank you.

If preparing a runeword the item level doesn't matter:
Affix Burn Recipe>Upgrade to Non-magical Itemx2>Reroll Modifiers>Lucky Bonus

01001010 wrote:
Fenric wrote:I finally found a magic sacred greaves only to identify them and find they are ethereal. I'm not sure if I should still use them, or how to craft with them because some of the recipes reduce item level.

When you say to reroll the sacred greaves until superior and lucky, which recipe are you referring to?

Thank you.

If preparing a runeword the item level doesn't matter:
Affix Burn Recipe>Upgrade to Non-magical Itemx2>Reroll Modifiers>Lucky Bonus

I see, thanks.

I think I am confusing the Luck Trial mystic orb for weapons with the Blessed Oil of Luck. For some reason I thought I was to make the greaves into an honorific runeword somehow.

Edit: I had to be careful and proceed slowly but I finished the last two Black Road challenges. :mrgreen:

In the guide it says to farm Mephisto for arcane crystals. I have done about 20 runs and have gotten the armor and belt but I'm not getting any arcane crystals. Am I doing something wrong?

JMoore wrote:In the guide it says to farm Mephisto for arcane crystals. I have done about 20 runs and have gotten the armor and belt but I'm not getting any arcane crystals. Am I doing something wrong?

You have to buy a Catalyst of Disenchantment and cube it with 1-6 pieces of Tiered Unique items to obtain an arcane shard/crystal. Read the docs, all cube recipes are written down there.

Ok. Thanks. I messed the character up anyway so I'm starting it over now.

Hi, I really fancy the guide and I'm just starting to battle the Destruction ubers. I was wondering if this helm is any good instead of the current tiered unique I'm using. No flat elemental damage and no resists on the downside, but I don't have a lot of elemental pierce other than the pala skill and the Hive and bonus damage for pets looks nice? I would be happy to hear your thoughts

Hivemind
Defense: (1759-2217)
Durability: 29
(Paladin Only)
Required Dexterity: 387
Required Level: 100
+(2 to 3) to Paladin Skill lvls
-(41 to 50)% to Enemy Poison Resistance
-(31 to 40)% to Enemy Cold Resistance
-(31 to 40)% to Enemy Fire Resistance
+(23 to 29) to Summon Darklings
+(16 to 19) to Hive
+(31 to 40)% Bonus to Summoned Minion Life
+(41 to 50)% Bonus to Summoned Minion Damage
+(151 to 200)% Enhanced Defense
Increase Maximum Mana 25%
Poison Resist +(41 to 60)%
Socketed (4)

It's ok. On the plus side you get decent defence, pierce (but not for lightning) and hive. On the negative side you lose a lot of flat ele damage and some resists.

Overall after you complete the island of the sunless sea uber, from charms + hanabigami quiver + euphoria you should easily have 100 pierce all apart from poison which should be around 90. So the pierce on the Hivemind is not that important.

At the end of the day that sacred unique is only slightly better than the TU tiara (but still a lot worse than the midgame helm). So if you found it as a lucky drop then you can pop it on sure, otherwise don't bother trading for it or something like that if you are on TSW.

Thanks for the input! It's really nice to know that you are around

I've found the item while going through Act 1 Destruction so I'll give it a try then. Overall, the build has so much power, but I'm still crafting for the hanabigami quiver and the tantrum + other priority mods bow (deffinetly quite an effort).