Short Questions Thread

uberecht wrote:I found a golden cycle, what is the best general wormhole one can aim for ?
(General as in, is useful to a wide variety of classes/builds)

Mf one ofc, with Large Cycles.

uberecht wrote:I found a golden cycle, what is the best general wormhole one can aim for ?
(General as in, is useful to a wide variety of classes/builds)

Not worth to use it on anything but if you aim to min max the character for bosses , it wont make any difference for farming builds, either sell it or use it on a str/dex wormhole

Hello,

I’m testing a Werebear Rend 2H build to hopefully refresh the werebear guide because it needs work. I have been dumping crafted Ber IAS jewels plus points into str and almost none into vitality so I can use a Gotter once I find/trade for it. I have some questions about some skills and mechanics:

Rend - is ranged melee damage. Life on attack does not work. Life leech does work. Life on striking does not work.

Is this correct?

Life leech - this is werebears main healing ability, it’s baked into hunger which also improves the vine companion. In destruction difficulty, life leech is 1/14 effective and bosses are all even lower.

Is it even worth all the time I’m investing in LL? I am at like 40 from hunger and a bit more on my runeword jewels. I think I have like 70 total life leech atm. Are there better life healing stats I should go for? I have minimal replenish life and almost 9k life at lvl110. I had a lot of issues once I was in Destruction, but getting from 0-13 static physical resist fixed it a bit. Not so dependent on Idol.

If I shrine craft and get 200%ed it doesn’t go higher with MO’s or blessing?

I made an great ax by shrine crafting with an intimidating shrine then shrine blessed it with a weird shrine. Should I have done it the other way because the blessing only added +3 damage and didn’t increase my ED from 200% to any higher.

I’m doing all this from memory and it’s been a few days so my number might be off a bit. This is my first character building from scratch and planning to make a guide for. First time doing shrine crafting to this extent, too. I have *not* done any of the Ubers past 115 in any season (time constraints and some are just bonkers tough on some builds), but I’ve been playing since this was Median 2007. Played melee sorc most of the time, messed with Barbs, assassins, Pallys, and Zons. Sorry necro.

Are SSSUs or xis/great runewords the best options for late game items?

havocspartan wrote:Hello,

I’m testing a Werebear Rend 2H build to hopefully refresh the werebear guide because it needs work. I have been dumping crafted Ber IAS jewels plus points into str and almost none into vitality so I can use a Gotter once I find/trade for it. I have some questions about some skills and mechanics:

Rend - is ranged melee damage. Life on attack does not work. Life leech does work. Life on striking does not work.

Is this correct?

Life leech - this is werebears main healing ability, it’s baked into hunger which also improves the vine companion. In destruction difficulty, life leech is 1/14 effective and bosses are all even lower.

Is it even worth all the time I’m investing in LL? I am at like 40 from hunger and a bit more on my runeword jewels. I think I have like 70 total life leech atm. Are there better life healing stats I should go for? I have minimal replenish life and almost 9k life at lvl110. I had a lot of issues once I was in Destruction, but getting from 0-13 static physical resist fixed it a bit. Not so dependent on Idol.

If I shrine craft and get 200%ed it doesn’t go higher with MO’s or blessing?

I made an great ax by shrine crafting with an intimidating shrine then shrine blessed it with a weird shrine. Should I have done it the other way because the blessing only added +3 damage and didn’t increase my ED from 200% to any higher.

I’m doing all this from memory and it’s been a few days so my number might be off a bit. This is my first character building from scratch and planning to make a guide for. First time doing shrine crafting to this extent, too. I have *not* done any of the Ubers past 115 in any season (time constraints and some are just bonkers tough on some builds), but I’ve been playing since this was Median 2007. Played melee sorc most of the time, messed with Barbs, assassins, Pallys, and Zons. Sorry necro.

Life on striking should work with rend. LL is your best bet tho since LoS is very very rare and comes in very small numbers.

Only way of exceeding 200ED is via socketing skulls/jah/xis runes, or by applying ED MOs before making a rune word. Blessing with intimidating is recommended mainly for the deadly strike. You want at least close to 200ED and 300+ max dmg on your crafts

patrick_pkl wrote:Are SSSUs or xis/great runewords the best options for late game items?

Depends heavily on the build, but honestly SSSUs are so rare it doesn't make much sense to plan a build around them. Most rely on SSUs

Diaco wrote:
havocspartan wrote:Hello,

I’m testing a Werebear Rend 2H build to hopefully refresh the werebear guide because it needs work. I have been dumping crafted Ber IAS jewels plus points into str and almost none into vitality so I can use a Gotter once I find/trade for it. I have some questions about some skills and mechanics:

Rend - is ranged melee damage. Life on attack does not work. Life leech does work. Life on striking does not work.

Is this correct?

Life leech - this is werebears main healing ability, it’s baked into hunger which also improves the vine companion. In destruction difficulty, life leech is 1/14 effective and bosses are all even lower.

Is it even worth all the time I’m investing in LL? I am at like 40 from hunger and a bit more on my runeword jewels. I think I have like 70 total life leech atm. Are there better life healing stats I should go for? I have minimal replenish life and almost 9k life at lvl110. I had a lot of issues once I was in Destruction, but getting from 0-13 static physical resist fixed it a bit. Not so dependent on Idol.

If I shrine craft and get 200%ed it doesn’t go higher with MO’s or blessing?

I made an great ax by shrine crafting with an intimidating shrine then shrine blessed it with a weird shrine. Should I have done it the other way because the blessing only added +3 damage and didn’t increase my ED from 200% to any higher.

I’m doing all this from memory and it’s been a few days so my number might be off a bit. This is my first character building from scratch and planning to make a guide for. First time doing shrine crafting to this extent, too. I have *not* done any of the Ubers past 115 in any season (time constraints and some are just bonkers tough on some builds), but I’ve been playing since this was Median 2007. Played melee sorc most of the time, messed with Barbs, assassins, Pallys, and Zons. Sorry necro.

Life on striking should work with rend. LL is your best bet tho since LoS is very very rare and comes in very small numbers.

Only way of exceeding 200ED is via socketing skulls/jah/xis runes, or by applying ED MOs before making a rune word. Blessing with intimidating is recommended mainly for the deadly strike. You want at least close to 200ED and 300+ max dmg on your crafts

Thanks. I’ll get another axe and try recreating my craft.

Is Gotter a SSSU or SSU? I’m SSF and I imagine this will be hard to farm. Do you think you could shrine craft something better than Gotter? Does the ragh nar rook red text line do anything?

I feel like shroud royal is going to be tough to beat for a pure STR build. Any replacement tips? Mine has max resist gems now and I’m thinking more IAS or FHR LL jewels at end game.

This the right forum?
Coming back to Median after a hiatus, my music volume works, but no sound effects, like attacks/spells/hits... really annoying.. am I missing something in the settings?

EDIT:
apparently it's my headphones... other set of headphones work fine.. so that's weird.

Diaco wrote:
patrick_pkl wrote:Are SSSUs or xis/great runewords the best options for late game items?

Depends heavily on the build, but honestly SSSUs are so rare it doesn't make much sense to plan a build around them. Most rely on SSUs

How about SSUs vs xis/great runewords? Comparable? Guessing it's dependent on which build the xis runeword is for.

How do xis runewords compare to great/elemental runewords?

What are late game options for sockets?

Can people see if I put them on my "Foe" list?