Short Questions Thread

[GreyRook]

You can treat sacred as the 7th item tier that can only be found as drops.

Ah, thought as much.

Max block is a late game thing, you need charms for item stat requirements so you can put all your points into dex and then boost it high with +% dexterity modifiers either from abandoned crafts/jewels/pamethysts and/or item mods. How much dex you need depends on your class (check defense and block under concepts in docs)

Okay, so it's not something I should worry about in Terror, then.

You can upgrade vendor items with a cube recipe (check docs).

That's... rather beside the point. Arcane Crystals are hard to get, and it seems very odd that vendors don't sell items that drop just outside the town.

Doesn't work for gift box items.

Swish31 specifically said that they weren't using gift box items. Apropos of nothing, does Griswold drop gift boxes in Terror, or just in Hatred?

[Malkail]

K so I made Nasrudin and uptiered it, but the stats did not increase? Is that its best stats or do I need to uptier then change it to a runeword. Tk suggested it for mid range gear, but I find Thunderdome much better. So just wondering if there is a way to make Nasrudin better?

[stanbsl]

K so I made Nasrudin and uptiered it, but the stats did not increase? Is that its best stats or do I need to uptier then change it to a runeword. Tk suggested it for mid range gear, but I find Thunderdome much better. So just wondering if there is a way to make Nasrudin better?

You can't upgrade a runeword's stats. On 121 you can make the better version:

Nasrudin (Xis)

[Malkail]

ahh, okay, hmm wonder why that wasnt mentioned in the guide, by then you'd have his endgame sacred armor hopefully. TY

[zmeckancek]

Sup muchachos, I have 2 questions. First one is about the 'next delay' and the 'hunting banshee' skill
Let's say I shoot 5 hunting banshee missles per cast. I use the spell once and all 5 missles hit the same target at the same time
1a.) does the target only take damage from 1 missle (because of the 'next delay')? So basically increasing the number of missles only improves the AOE coverage and not the single target damage?
1b.) will increasing my cast speed at a certain point actually lower my DPS (because, for example, every other cast won't do any damage, because the next delay wont 'reset' fast enough)?

Second question is about the Arcane torrent spell. My arcane torrent tooltip damage on the character sheet is much higher than any other spell on my other chars of comparable level, and yet the actual damage output of arcane torrent is the weakest by far, even on full mana bulb. Do the monsters have high natural magic/feedback resistance (I'm testing this on level 30 characters, so no penetration items)? It's just super weird to me

[Rishab]

Good Day to everyone!

I just started playing D2SE last 2 weeks ago,

I would like to know why the Catalyst of Disenchantment is not working at all for me?

Yes I didn't put the Uniques that comes from farming at Grisw.

I tried various uniques (both Unidentified & Identified)

Somebody can help me? Any requirements (Act,Killing boss, level requirement) before I can use CoD?

Thanks and Best Regards!

Only griswald uniques dont work, rest all should work. If you are 100% sure that you are not using gris uniques then make a video and show us here

[SwineFlu]

Are the ones in the middle and right columns hands down better than the first column?

It depends but it's not always the case, sometimes it's quite the opposite.

Do they drop more rarely?

Yes, the rate is 20:8:1 for SU:SSU:SSSU but for some uniques it might be different iirc.

Can you only get them to drop in certain areas?

No, area doesn't matter, as long as you can get any sacred unique you can get another one as well.

[SwineFlu]

1a.) does the target only take damage from 1 missle (because of the 'next delay')? So basically increasing the number of missles only improves the AOE coverage and not the single target damage?

Yes, missile from the same skill will not be able to deal the damage before the delay expiration from the previous missile.

1b.) will increasing my cast speed at a certain point actually lower my DPS (because, for example, every other cast won't do any damage, because the next delay wont 'reset' fast enough)?

No, you can't lower your damage output, though there is a point of "saturation", after that point your damage won't increase further because of the next delay.

My arcane torrent tooltip damage on the character sheet is much higher than any other spell on my other chars of comparable level, and yet the actual damage output of arcane torrent is the weakest by far, even on full mana bulb.

You can't compare the raw damage numbers from the skill description, if skill and its synergies (from its level or other skills) does not provide you a significant damage boost, generally speaking it might point you out that this skill is just inferior to others.

[zmeckancek]

thank you for your answers, everything is super clear now!
shame about the arcane torrent though, I really like the simple bluish looks and mechanics of the skill

[sebneo]

Hi

I have a lvl 121 barb with max block (75) and Damage reduction 50%

Do you think bear stance is still needed or wolf stance could be better ? or an other stance i play deathgaze barb