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Stereox
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Inno86 wrote:hello,

I wonder how certain skills (which deal a % of the weapon damage) work...

in particular, how do they work with elemental weapons? how is the weapon damage calculated? what stats and bonuses affects skills like ancient's hand, stormblast, deathgaze, tantrum... ?

if say my helm adds 100-120 fire damage, is it calculated for the purpose of specific damage dealt by one of the mentioned skills?

if i use a standard sword for example, that deals physical damage... i calculate the damage of ancient's hand based on the damage in the sword, then i add 100-120 fire damage? or fire damage is calculated as part if weapon damage?

if i use mystic orbs that enhance the weapon damage? do they work with elemental weapons? and are increasing the damage dealt by ancient's hand, deathgaze, etc.?

thank you very much in advance for your support... i am a bit confused :)

I think this is how it work:

((Weapon Damage + Added Physical) * (%EWD + Str/Dex scaling )) * %Total Damage + (Added Elemental/Magic) + (Poison * Poison Duration)

Elemental/Magic only scaled by pierce/resist reduction, and spell damage on spells.
That's probably why flat elemental damage has very high numbers where physical only have pitiful 10-20-ish

Someone more knowledgeable please correct me if I'm wrong
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Hey guys, i've got a question regarding the 200% ed cap on the weapons and armor. I recently got an eth raptor scythe with 5 sockects, which has no ed and failed the lucky recipe. I'm about to make a sur-xis runeword (chtlon) on it and want to know if that's worth it. I have already made the runeword on a bonesplitter, which has 235% ed with no added mo's. The normal bonesplitter has base dmg of 82-84 and the eth raptor scythe has 96-100 and the runeword does not have a variable +max dmg (constant 125). My question is what this 200% ed cap actually means for the weapon damage. Does 235% ed make difference to 200% ed and does adding %ed mo's or jah runes after 200% ed make any difference?
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ILoseControl wrote:Hey guys, i've got a question regarding the 200% ed cap on the weapons and armor. I recently got an eth raptor scythe with 5 sockects, which has no ed and failed the lucky recipe. I'm about to make a sur-xis runeword (chtlon) on it and want to know if that's worth it. I have already made the runeword on a bonesplitter, which has 235% ed with no added mo's. The normal bonesplitter has base dmg of 82-84 and the eth raptor scythe has 96-100 and the runeword does not have a variable +max dmg (constant 125). My question is what this 200% ed cap actually means for the weapon damage. Does 235% ed make difference to 200% ed and does adding %ed mo's or jah runes after 200% ed make any difference?


I'll give you a better eth base with 5 sockets, has ed and ar.

you can MO eth items now, and eth items have an innate 25% ed bonus to the base, so ed from mo's and runeword will feel like a larger effect.
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Semigloss wrote:With ilvl 99, changing qlvl from 90 to 99 does nothing for alvl.

From the farming I've done, I'm certain quality level impacts when it can drop. I put all 4 sacred elemental bases on my drop notifier and not a single one ever dropped until I was in a 115 zone. First run into K3BA I got the crystal sword and battle bow. Few runs later got the battle axe. Maybe my bad RNG, but thats a pretty big sample pool to not see anything from levels 90 to 114.


Update: just dropped a sacred crystal sword in an area level 85 zone, guess it was just bad RNG.
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Hi! I'm fairly new to Median but have already hit lvl 128 with my Mana Sorc. I've earned nearly all of the charms/trophies but want to farm for UMOs, so I have tried focus- farming areas like Fauztinville and Viz-Jun with no results- but what is the best farm spot(s) for this character searching for ...Soul orbs?

Another question I have in mind is about "Magic Find"- does it affect drops significantly? What I know for sure is that it doesn't affect runes of any kind, right? But what about maybe jewles and UMOs)- I also tend to make other characters in the future with alot of space for Magic Find, I can handle clear speed factors and defence & resistances and blah blah. Which value would you say leads to amazing drops?
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Thegreat610 wrote:Hi! I'm fairly new to Median but have already hit lvl 128 with my Mana Sorc. I've earned nearly all of the charms/trophies but want to farm for UMOs, so I have tried focus- farming areas like Fauztinville and Viz-Jun with no results- but what is the best farm spot(s) for this character searching for ...Soul orbs?

Another question I have in mind is about "Magic Find"- does it affect drops significantly? What I know for sure is that it doesn't affect runes of any kind, right? But what about maybe jewles and UMOs)- I also tend to make other characters in the future with alot of space for Magic Find, I can handle clear speed factors and defence & resistances and blah blah. Which value would you say leads to amazing drops?


Not sure mf does not affect runes ( well for great rune at least ) . I'va made 10 runs in toraja without any single rune drop. Someone told me to put mf so I put on ~220 mf and got 2 great runes in 5 games. ( I know it's not big enough data to actually confirm it .. but it looks like having effect ).
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Thegreat610 wrote:Hi! I'm fairly new to Median but have already hit lvl 128 with my Mana Sorc. I've earned nearly all of the charms/trophies but want to farm for UMOs, so I have tried focus- farming areas like Fauztinville and Viz-Jun with no results- but what is the best farm spot(s) for this character searching for ...Soul orbs?

Another question I have in mind is about "Magic Find"- does it affect drops significantly? What I know for sure is that it doesn't affect runes of any kind, right? But what about maybe jewles and UMOs)- I also tend to make other characters in the future with alot of space for Magic Find, I can handle clear speed factors and defence & resistances and blah blah. Which value would you say leads to amazing drops?


http://mxl.vn.cz/doc/docs_XVc_2.94_test ... tions.html

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pretty sure it's the same for jewels.
schnuppy
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Hi all,

im looking for an older version of D2stats for the notifier and the dropfilter. The currently available one just works for sigma, and after a long search in the web, i wasnt able to find any older version, which works for MXL 2017 for example or even older versions... can someone help me out pls / upload it for others too???
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Ah, that's a bummer, was really hoping for some guaranteed improvement to my sorceress. But to you that brought me this information I thank. I don't have the mere time to farm everyday nor countless hours, but it seems that's what it takes to get these drops and must be extremely rare to sought out if taking that time. So for now I can only grow slowly and will be taking alot of time to get to max lvl.
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Thegreat610 wrote:Ah, that's a bummer, was really hoping for some guaranteed improvement to my sorceress. But to you that brought me this information I thank. I don't have the mere time to farm everyday nor countless hours, but it seems that's what it takes to get these drops and must be extremely rare to sought out if taking that time. So for now I can only grow slowly and will be taking alot of time to get to max lvl.


This is why trading is so important. You've probably found things that you don't need that others are having a hard time finding.