Short Questions Thread

[Istaryu]

one more thing i am not sure: when i go curare, does it help the fire elementals damage when i have +psn dmg? or is this only for my dmg?

They benefit from curare, but not from any of your poison stats. I don't know what you mean by +psn dmg, flat added to your weapon, or spell dmg, (or maybe poison pierce), but they dont inherit any of that. Minions never inherit your stats, unless stated otherwise. So the poison dmg they get from curare will be useless because they cant have poison pierce.

[nobrainnopain]

one more thing i am not sure: when i go curare, does it help the fire elementals damage when i have +psn dmg? or is this only for my dmg?

They benefit from curare, but not from any of your poison stats. I don't know what you mean by +psn dmg, flat added to your weapon, or spell dmg, or poison pierce, but they dont inherit any of that. Minions never inherit your stats, unless stated otherwise. So the poison dmg they get from curare will be useless because they cant have poison pierce.

ok ... thx

[nobrainnopain]

one more thing i am not sure: when i go curare, does it help the fire elementals damage when i have +psn dmg? or is this only for my dmg?

They benefit from curare, but not from any of your poison stats. I don't know what you mean by +psn dmg, flat added to your weapon, or spell dmg, (or maybe poison pierce), but they dont inherit any of that. Minions never inherit your stats, unless stated otherwise. So the poison dmg they get from curare will be useless because they cant have poison pierce.

and the only way to push the canonade dmg is by using the 2 SUs?

[Istaryu]

one more thing i am not sure: when i go curare, does it help the fire elementals damage when i have +psn dmg? or is this only for my dmg?

They benefit from curare, but not from any of your poison stats. I don't know what you mean by +psn dmg, flat added to your weapon, or spell dmg, (or maybe poison pierce), but they dont inherit any of that. Minions never inherit your stats, unless stated otherwise. So the poison dmg they get from curare will be useless because they cant have poison pierce.

and the only way to push the canonade dmg is by using the 2 SUs?

Well, yes, but you still have to build fire spell dmg, energy, and spell factor to benefit from the orange text from the items. No need for fire pierce, since they get that from synergy, and they dont inherit it from you. There is also

Crown of Arnazeus

Crown of Arnazeus
Einherjar Helm (Sacred)
Defense: (1762 - 2447) to (1895 - 2632)
(Amazon Only)
Required Level: 100
Required Dexterity: 534
Item Level: 105
Fire Elementals Gain 100% of Their Physical Damage as Fire
+2 to Amazon Skill Levels
+(7 to 10) to Fire Elementals (Amazon Only)
+(20 to 40)% to Summoned Minion Life
+(10 to 20)% to Summoned Minion Damage
+(10 to 20)% to Summoned Minion Resistances
+(80 to 150)% Enhanced Defense
Maximum Fire Resist +2%
Socketed (4)

, but i think the dmg from that is negligible since fire canonade does a lot more dmg, and you would need minion dmg from items (and minion ar) to make their physical dmg do something, which you dont have.

[patrick_pkl]

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?

How about you play the game and tell us about it?

You really need to pick a build before asking questions like that.

Can't really tell if the reply is being sarcastic/nasty.. But ok, thanks I see that it's all build/class dependent.

I've only restarted playing the game abt 2 weeks ago, and I only play for 1-2 hours after work, so I'm fairly new and just wrapping my head around the game and the myriad of item options..

I'm not asking about a specific build because I'm just using a starter build (relatively ungeared cold sorc) to farm gear for more gear dependent builds that I'll try in future. So basically deciding whether to farm for xis runes or great runes or farm areas that drop SUs (whichever good gear drops, I'll try out subsequently).

[paolo12]

Just cycle through different farming areas eg. Zagraal run + Duncraig + Fauzt + (gulp) Toraja + any other farming area that may drop items You're interested in. You can find essences AND SU or great runes AND SU in these places.

[patrick_pkl]

Just cycle through different farming areas eg. Zagraal run + Duncraig + Fauzt + (gulp) Toraja + any other farming area that may drop items You're interested in. You can find essences AND SU or great runes AND SU in these places.

Thank you

[nobrainnopain]

and again fire elementals: Synergie "+5% fire damage per base level" .... %5 of which value? the "normal" damage of them?

[aldien]

What's wrong with Ring of Five? I cleared already three times full Duncraig. And still this ring didn't drop.

[Cheno]

What's wrong with Ring of Five? I cleared already three times full Duncraig. And still this ring didn't drop.

Bad luck, sometimes it drops 3 times per run, other times it doesn't drop at all.