aerial wrote:1. That axe crafting, and UMO. You wanna bless it with weird and hope for good extra %enhanced damage roll. You want to push it to 200% (before runes), and MO can give you only 15*5 = 75. It is tricky part about crafting, getting that nice max damage roll, but with poor ed, and result axe will be worse than some with high ehnaced damage but lower +max. Using that umo isn't worth it, you get 100 AR for 10 levels (vs 100 ar for 8 levels using regular mo). Other mods on it not so usefu.
As for considering upgrade from TU labrys, keep in mind that one has skills, crushing blow and slows target, all these are premium stats. So for this to be worth swapping to crafted axe, it needs to be really solid upgrade, ideally have either really good damage or bunch of other good stats, such as skills or/and good proc.
2. Doom I think it overwrites wolf curse, and you don't want it to happen. These curses are basically the same, with doom being bigger range but much weaker damage, especially from proc (it has base level synergy if you are a sin that uses that skill). Procs = soft points, so damage of ctc doom from curse is really rather poor. Wolf companion curse is stronger than even smaxed doom on sin, let alone crappy proc.
3. While 2h axe set or just axe? Axe alone I don't think will be an upgrade, but full set will. It is by no means great set, but it is ok for what it, 25% dodge chance is very high. If you want cheaper upgrade, warewolf set chest + belt, that combo is pretty neat.
4. Ideal shrine for crafting would be either creepy (extra strength) or maybe sacred (cold pierce), intimidating (extra deadly strike). But in reality weird shrines are premium because they give you best odds of rolling high %enhanced damage, along with some bonus +damage. They also tend to roll lot of those min-max additional damage where both numbers are nearly the same, you get free min roll. Main problem with crafting is getting that high enhanced damage AND +flat damage at same time, which is harder to get with non-weird shrines.
When do you want to make an item honourific before shrining it? I've seen some people pointing this out and I have no idea what I'm supposed to be doing with crafting.
