Short Questions Thread

[mortimer_85]

Heyho,

I just found

Astral Blade

Astral Blade
Long Sword (Sacred)
One-Hand Damage: 45 to 48
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 540
Item Level: 120
Strength Damage Bonus: (0.11 per Strength)%
+1 Hunting Banshee/Ember Spirit Projectile
8% Chance to cast level 13 Mythal on Melee Attack
15% Chance to cast level 60 Ember Spirit on Melee Attack
15% Chance to cast level 60 Hunting Banshee on Melee Attack
+(100 to 125) Spell Focus
100% Attack Speed
+(20 to 25)% to Fire Spell Damage
-(15 to 20)% to Enemy Fire Resistance
+(20 to 25)% to Cold Spell Damage
-(15 to 20)% to Enemy Cold Resistance
Socketed (6)

and it looks pretty nice. Can someone give me an advice what caster/melee hybrid build can be made around this?
I have no idea how to benefit from the procs as a caster only.

Thanks in advance!

[thunderman]

Heyho,

I just found

Astral Blade

Astral Blade
Long Sword (Sacred)
One-Hand Damage: 45 to 48
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 540
Item Level: 120
Strength Damage Bonus: (0.11 per Strength)%
+1 Hunting Banshee/Ember Spirit Projectile
8% Chance to cast level 13 Mythal on Melee Attack
15% Chance to cast level 60 Ember Spirit on Melee Attack
15% Chance to cast level 60 Hunting Banshee on Melee Attack
+(100 to 125) Spell Focus
100% Attack Speed
+(20 to 25)% to Fire Spell Damage
-(15 to 20)% to Enemy Fire Resistance
+(20 to 25)% to Cold Spell Damage
-(15 to 20)% to Enemy Cold Resistance
Socketed (6)

and it looks pretty nice. Can someone give me an advice what caster/melee hybrid build can be made around this?
I have no idea how to benefit from the procs as a caster only.

Thanks in advance!

There are some items for casters to benfit from proc: (

Eternal Vigil

Eternal Vigil
War Sword (Sacred)
One-Hand Damage: 46 to 50
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 1162
Item Level: 120
Strength Damage Bonus: (0.11 per Strength)%
4% Chance to cast level 53 Glacial Nova on Death Blow
4% Chance to cast level 53 Supernova on Death Blow
+(3 to 4) to All Skills
+200 Spell Focus
+(31 to 40)% to Spell Damage
-(28 to 35)% to Enemy Elemental Resistances
+(200 to 250) to Mana
Requirements +100%
Socketed (3)

Staff of Shadows

Staff of Shadows
Long Staff (Sacred)
Two-Hand Damage: 56 to 58
Required Level: 100
Required Dexterity: 203
Item Level: 120
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
5% Chance to Cast Level 50 Slayer on Death Blow
+(9 to 10) to All Skills
+(150 to 200) Spell Focus
+(10 to 20)% Bonus to Spell Focus
50% Cast Speed
+(35 to 50)% to Spell Damage
15% to Energy
+2.5 to Energy (Based on Character Level)
+150 Life Regenerated per Second
+(15 to 25) Mana after each Kill
Socketed (4)

Another possibility is ''on kill'' proc, that one will work only with poison spells that last over 1 second.
The sword you found is probably meant for melee sorc, can't say how good is coz i never played it.

[romanN1]

Heyho,

I just found

Astral Blade

Astral Blade
Long Sword (Sacred)
One-Hand Damage: 45 to 48
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 540
Item Level: 120
Strength Damage Bonus: (0.11 per Strength)%
+1 Hunting Banshee/Ember Spirit Projectile
8% Chance to cast level 13 Mythal on Melee Attack
15% Chance to cast level 60 Ember Spirit on Melee Attack
15% Chance to cast level 60 Hunting Banshee on Melee Attack
+(100 to 125) Spell Focus
100% Attack Speed
+(20 to 25)% to Fire Spell Damage
-(15 to 20)% to Enemy Fire Resistance
+(20 to 25)% to Cold Spell Damage
-(15 to 20)% to Enemy Cold Resistance
Socketed (6)

and it looks pretty nice. Can someone give me an advice what caster/melee hybrid build can be made around this?
I have no idea how to benefit from the procs as a caster only.

Thanks in advance!

There are some items for casters to benfit from proc: (

Eternal Vigil

Eternal Vigil
War Sword (Sacred)
One-Hand Damage: 46 to 50
Required Level: 100
Required Strength: 1162
Item Level: 120
Strength Damage Bonus: (0.11 per Strength)%
4% Chance to cast level 53 Glacial Nova on Death Blow
4% Chance to cast level 53 Supernova on Death Blow
+(3 to 4) to All Skills
+200 Spell Focus
+(31 to 40)% to Spell Damage
-(28 to 35)% to Enemy Elemental Resistances
+(200 to 250) to Mana
Requirements +100%
Socketed (3)

Staff of Shadows

Staff of Shadows
Long Staff (Sacred)
Two-Hand Damage: 56 to 58
Required Level: 100
Required Dexterity: 203
Item Level: 120
Dexterity Damage Bonus: (0.15 per Dexterity)%
5% Chance to Cast Level 50 Slayer on Death Blow
+(9 to 10) to All Skills
+(150 to 200) Spell Focus
+(10 to 20)% Bonus to Spell Focus
50% Cast Speed
+(35 to 50)% to Spell Damage
15% to Energy
+2.5 to Energy (Based on Character Level)
+150 Life Regenerated per Second
+(15 to 25) Mana after each Kill
Socketed (4)

Another possibility is ''on kill'' proc, that one will work only with poison spells that last over 1 second.
The sword you found is probably meant for melee sorc, can't say how good is coz i never played it.

actually it's for unholy melee.

[Amazon]

when is next ladder reset?

[Helzopro]

when is next ladder reset?

probably around july

[TTraw1]

After playing median for so long, I still have problems leveling 50-70 (Act 1 - Beggining of Act 2 of terror).
But the problem doesn't lie with difficulty, but the fact that I have problems getting my gear upgraded.
It's mostly about mid level runewords. Runes seem to drop up to lvl 40. And I am not going to spend all my life just farming billions of lower level runes to cube em into high ones...

I have this problem everytime I lvl up a character. Once I reach lvl 50-70, I am stuck until I get good runes that will boost me well enough so I can continue lvling again.

I dont know... I just feel like average rune lvl in that area is just too low for what I have to fight...

Do you guys ever had problem like this during lvling in that area? How to overcome it if you can't mule high lvl runes? Do you guys recommend any places to try to farm runes on act 1 of terror?

[HohoHaha]

After playing median for so long, I still have problems leveling 50-70 (Act 1 - Beggining of Act 2 of terror).
But the problem doesn't lie with difficulty, but the fact that I have problems getting my gear upgraded.
It's mostly about mid level runewords. Runes seem to drop up to lvl 40. And I am not going to spend all my life just farming billions of lower level runes to cube em into high ones...

I have this problem everytime I lvl up a character. Once I reach lvl 50-70, I am stuck until I get good runes that will boost me well enough so I can continue lvling again.

I dont know... I just feel like average rune lvl in that area is just too low for what I have to fight...

Do you guys ever had problem like this during lvling in that area? How to overcome it if you can't mule high lvl runes? Do you guys recommend any places to try to farm runes on act 1 of terror?

You can make the unique version of tiered items with the unique creation recipe. Usually they are the best items to use while leveling, can even last until destruction. You can also uptier existing items, up to tier 6 (tier is the number in the bracket at the end of the item). No need for runes.

[krex87]

this might seem like a dumb question about poison damage but here goes.. according to the median wiki site regarding poison damage

"2. Poison damage doesn't stack. If you hit an enemy with an attack that does 100 damage per second, twice, you won't do 200 damage per second. What actually happens is that the highest damage per second is applied."

This makes sense to me if you're a monster being attacked by an individual player over and over again with the same poison spell. But what happens when two separate players attack the same monster with the same type of poison spell. Would the poison damage the monster experiences /second be the stacked damage from both player's individual highest dps-ing spell cast, or would the monster only take poison damage from the spell/player with the highest DPS?

If the poison damage is stacked when two players are attacking a single monster, is the new change to scorpion blade damage like having each missile seem like it's coming from a unique source/player?

hopefully that makes sense. trying to understand exactly what changed regarding scorpion blade and it's (almost) unique "active poison damage" type.

Thanks!

[Helzopro]

poison!

only 1 instance of poison can be active at a time, if the poison is at its maximum number then any subsequent poison attacks will deal 1 frame of damage each time it hits, or something like that. It used to work the same way with miasma when it actually dealt damage and could shred bosses.

[snt2523]

After playing median for so long, I still have problems leveling 50-70 (Act 1 - Beggining of Act 2 of terror).
But the problem doesn't lie with difficulty, but the fact that I have problems getting my gear upgraded.
It's mostly about mid level runewords. Runes seem to drop up to lvl 40. And I am not going to spend all my life just farming billions of lower level runes to cube em into high ones...

I have this problem everytime I lvl up a character. Once I reach lvl 50-70, I am stuck until I get good runes that will boost me well enough so I can continue lvling again.

I dont know... I just feel like average rune lvl in that area is just too low for what I have to fight...

Do you guys ever had problem like this during lvling in that area? How to overcome it if you can't mule high lvl runes? Do you guys recommend any places to try to farm runes on act 1 of terror?

You can farm Nilathak (Act 5) for runes after fews run( its constantly give 3 tier unique). It drop rune < 65 lvl. You dont need more than that do you?