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The weight class of armor matters for some people too right? Like a light plate is a faster run/walk than an archon plate if you’re making enigma for a sorc?
Important for people to know too when you use the cube recipe, it always picks a random number 1-6 for sockets no matter the item. If the item can only have a max of 4 sockets, the game still randomly picks 1-6, and if the number rolled is 4 5 or 6, the item will get 4 sockets. So rolling an archon plate or a monarch for example has a 50% chance of getting 4 sockets, because the random selection of 4-6 will give it 4. Hope that makes sense.
@@SuperChuckABoo with the cube recipe yes, it can roll anywhere from 1-4. 1 2 and 3 have a 16.67% chance each, while 4 has a 50% chance. Obviously if you’d rather be safe than sorry, use Larzuk instead to guarantee 4. Personally I will never waste a socket quest on a monarch because of that 50% chance of it getting 4 through the cube.
Could have been worth mention regarding armors for thoose that don't know, that the biggest advantage (imo) of seeing a superior isn't so much the 0-15% ED but the fact that it will (due to having a %ED) always spawn with max roll on the defense. IE the Archon plate, that can roll anything between 410-524, a superior will always roll 524+whatever %ED you got on the superior roll. And in an eth merc base that is really something that will bump the end defense in say fortitude or some other high %ED armor to that really high level.
Dude you were so concise and careful with your wording, this video is going to help tons of newer D2 players flooding in due to the remaster. Great work.
Hey, do you think you might make an Iron Golem guide? I think it's probably both the most interesting and least understood spell in the game. Now that they don't seem to randomly disappear I think iron golems deserve to be much more popular. Letting players know what easily found items (e.g. IK Maul) with good stats could be used or giving players ideas for new synergies unlocked by being able to proc something or generate an aura. There's so many possibilities. I'd love to see a video on this topic!
iron golem doesnt disapper he can only die then u need to make new one from new weapon. you can make golem from insight in any any low base to get free aura and use something like obedience or bonehew on merc. if you are rich you can make pride on golem, infiniti on merc and beast on hero so you have all 4 dmg auras on necro
Hey DB, as a new D2 player, I am eternally grateful for your videos. A suggestion for a new video: As a new D2 player, and starting a Smiter character to farm my own torches, I had a million questions about the mechanics of Smite, the gear, what stats work on weapons, what stats work on gear, IAS, CB, DS, OW... the list goes on and on. I found most answers, but only after searching 5-10 different online discussions. There is no legit YT video explaining the must know info for new Smiters! Keep doing the great work my friend! Best D2 vids, hands down. Cheers!
i think he made video about smiter already. only cb and ow works, for ias you should use ias calcurator based on your weapon and fana lvl. and you should use phase blade because you ll destroy your weapon very fast
It is a good video the only thing I think is missing to mention, for superior armors you can repair them with a ral rune, that's how I repair mine the gold cost is just insane.
I believe you are not entirely correct on the Larzuk quest. As you stated, the item will roll its maximum number of open sockets, but this maximum isn't determined solely by the item type, it is further limited by the ilvl of the item as well (detemined by the location where the item dropped) Bonus tip: if you find a Low Quality/Crude/Damaged or similar white Archon Plate, you can use a cube recipy: 1 El Rune + 1 Chipped Gem + Low Quality Armor which removes the low quality modifier and also makes the item ilvl=1. If you then bring this Archon Plate to Larzuk it will roll 3 open sockets not 4 which would be the maximum. And there you have your base for Enigma.
Great video DB. I get this question all the time on my videos and livestream. Going forward I'm just going to send them to this video. Also congrats on almost 100K subs. Well deserved!
Insights best runeword base is the Partizan very high moderate damage leading to a weapon that is basically overpowered for most of the game and youre merc will be able to wield it with Level 27 for sure. For the endgame youre guide is accurate but you rly should focus on the useability of those runewords for the majority of the game and do not only expect people to xp rush all the way to hell. For a runeword that powerful and easy to obtain there is no need to search for the perfect match anyway as you will have a much harder time to find at least one matching base than to regain the runes to create it ;)
At 2:17 when you cubed a giant thresher and got 2 sockets I felt that. Same thing happened to me a few days ago with an eth thresher and I died a little bit on the inside. RIP thresher, you will be missed.
Yesterday I aquired my final rune for Duress and thought I will search your vids for... exactly THIS video here ^^ Proof that this is one of the most reliable sources of "mini guides" besides great build videos. Great work! :)
It's worth noting while talking about Larzuk that he will always give maximum number of sockets for the particular base depending on it's ilevel. For many high end bases this doesn't matter because when you drop them it's usually in areas of high enough level to always give you the max number of sockets but it DOES matter when the item has been cracked and repaired (in which case it's iLevel is 1 and you can say goodbye to rolling 4 sockets in that Monarch) or in the case of low level bases like Broad Sword - which can get 4 sockets if you drop it halfway A5 on Normal but only 3 sockets if you find it before.
Threshers and giant thresher are preferred because with treachery and socketed andy face you can reach 75% ias on the mercenary, which is also a breakpoint for a very fast jab. More attacks = more crushing blow (infinity), enemy monsters more often thrown into hit recovery and more consistent life leech. Also giant thresher has an 0.5 higher avg damage than base thresher. So there's that. So the best base is dependent upon the rest of the setup and if you're serious about minmaxing you should research the possibilities with the IAS calculator.
I generally liked the idea of bringing some focus to durability and repair costs of superior items, but (at 17:30) focusing on durability as the primary reason for rolling Grief on a phase blade instead of a berserker axe is so misleading when obviously the more important point is that phase blade has 30 points faster attack speed than berserker axe and most of grief's damage comes from the flat damage bonus it gives.
archon plate for everything, thresher, phase / crystal for weapons, and 1 flail for hoto, and the monarch sheild. everything else is specialty specific use stuff., most rune words can go into those
Thank you so much for your videos! I am so glad that with D2R you get more attention. Well deserved! Keep up the good work and hopefully keep on enjoying what you do
Rolling Sockets in the Cube has not the same chanses on number of sockets if the item has less than 6 sockets. It has 1/6 for each low roll every roll over the max socket will be max socket. A Monarch rolled in the Cube has 1/6 1os 1/6 2os 1/6 3os and 3/6 (50%) 4os
You can also find a cracked or low quality item, when you fix the quality in the cube it changes how many sockets you can get. Did it on single player to get my 3socket dusk shroud for enigma from larzuk
I prefer dusk shroud over archon plate for enigma because the STR requirement for dusk shroud (77) plus the STR u get from enigma is almost the STR needed for the monarch shield (156)
hi dbrunksi, I have been watching for your video for quite sometime now though i'm not a subscriber myself. Today I have finally decided you deserve my sub because of these following: 1. Well-explained and concise narration 2. Good pacing 3.Very informative 4.easy to digest 5. Good narrative voice 6.Pleasant Personality These are the traits I have saw in you, when I saw your face on battle net launcher I'm not surprise at all, I knew blizzard had chosen the right person for the job and I have watched all the bite-size build guide you have done for D2r I must say very easy to understand and straight to the point. Keep it up and thank you for what you have done to d2 community, you deserve a lot more :)
Larzuk will install the maximum number of sockets into the base item type ... as determined by the item's (hidden) iLvl. Larzuk will install fewer sockets into the same item if it spawned with lesser iLvl (from lower aLvl maps, from lower mLvl monsters, from lower cLvl vendors, etc). Or if it was a "Low Quality", "Crude", "Cracked", "Damaged" item upgraded (to iLvl=1) in the cube.
Thank you! That is the comment I was looking for. Especially in case of items with low level requirements, like a broad sword for spirit. Those items can be found on normal difficulty which leads to lower area levels - > monster levels - > (hidden) item levels. Items, which have been found on Hell difficulty, will always get their specific maximum numbers of socket from Larzuk. For items found on other difficulties, it depends on the area and monster class type (norm, boss, elite/unique).
On fortitude bases , if you're running a ww barb you actually should use a " heavy " class armor which elites are loricated mail , hellforge plate and shadow plate if possible. I personally like loricated mail for the lowest str requirement. Reason being that ww uses fast run / walk in its travel speed. Heavy armors have a movement speed penalty. The faster you move by and in/ out of a mob while spinning the less hits ww will do in its small area of range so a slower movement speed will land you many more ww hits. So basically you want slow movement speed + high attack speed for max dps ww.
It also means it keeps you longer in whirlwind and makes you slower, unless you have eligma (which you don't, because you have 40tude), or serious mana problem, I wouldn't go that way ever.
@@brakpseudonimu236 why not ? You think the dps doesn't outweigh the slower moving ? Also an enigma isn't " needed " when Tele staffs and amulets exist unless using for pvp With a high bo like in every ww build, life charms to get over 5k with min effort, a high def Fort and good leech gear dying is a rarity in pvm
@@ViciousPandaJ Because I lose travel time in advance and then whether it improves dps or slows it down is a gamble, if being slower saves me an extra spin, it's cool, if not, it's just a slower spin, that's it.
@@Akeem034 how is it pointless? And do you mean ww in small short bursts and small triangles around the enemies to maximize hits as proper ww technique?
Regarding the Grief runeword: if you play PvP, there is another point to consider - the range of the weapon. BA has a higher range than PB which is important in PvP for classes like WW Barb who is teleporting into/around enemies and tries to hit them. I was a former PvP player and this range advance can't be appreciated enough. Especially if you don't want to ww through your enemy but around him and still hit him. Against Hammerdins and Dudus for example. Or triangle ww around sorcs.
I was actually kinda blown away that when i found 20 year old saves form D2 and imported them to offline, all insane Acestrall Recall mod crafted items were normally interpreted and still kept their insane values like in Ancestral... :D which is basically no fun... cause you are OP as f* but i was a kid back then :D
Would have been great to add where is the best area and levels to farm these bases. If I can find Matron and Grand Matron bows in nightmare, I am wasting time farming in hell difficulty. Also, can you go ravage dark woods? or flayer jungle? or is cows the best? what level area do you have to be in to find these items?
On the subject of enigma - how many builds want to use both Enigma and Spirit Monarch? Seems like you might as well go archon plate if you're gonna hit that monarch str req.
Double Axes make good CtAs. They max at 5 sockets, so you can roll them more easily than a Crystal Sword, and they are tied for the lowest strength requirement of any 5os, non-Flail, 1-handed weapon.
Important point about Archon Plates for Enigma. If you're around the mid to late 80's, the strength bonus from enigma will give you the requirement to wear a Spirit Monarch. If you have some GG items (like perfect torch, anni and Godly rares with str), the AP can be worn without putting stats into strength (or very few). Dusk shroud does the same but you'll have to put into strength to wear spirit monarch. A non-issue for paladins lol
Thank you for making this video, soo many of my friends constantly ask me questions about bases and now i can just link them this vid :D You covered the most important stuff, but I also get many questions about claw bases so i guess thats maybe something that woulda been nice to touch on, great vid tho!
Best Claw bases are Runic Talons or Scissor. If you can find some with +3 Lightning Sentry or Death Sentry. They are very valuable and used with Chaos Runeword. Mind Blast and Venom are also very nice. Eth Claws aren't very useful. Hope this helps 🙂
damn, I should've subscribed to you instead of to the others who doesn't provide detailed guides. Thanks for this Edit: I'm using Sorc Level 35 Fireball x Blizzard and Orb = will Respec to Firewall x Orb or Blizzard just finished Normal and trying to farm at Secret Cow Level I don't know what to do next
If you're planning on making a Hammerdin then you should definitely NOT make your Enigma in an Archon Plate. Otherwise you're going to lose out on a lot of extra life and basically cripple your Hammerdin. Also there's a big difference between Enigma and Fortitude when it comes to picking out a base. Enigma gives a huge amount of strength while Fortitude don't. Fortitude gives a lot of %enhanced defense while Enigma gives none. Therefore the criteria for picking a base is COMPLETELY different when comparing these to rune words.
Got the luckiest luck on D2R today. Farmed for 9 hours and got Jah and 2 Surs to make Ber for Enigma on a 3 OS Archon I've holding onto for the longest.
For a few niche cases Giant Thresher beats out Thresher due to its longer range. It's usually quite negligible but if using Obedience on. WW barb or so, it may have some use.
Very informational. I would suggest however, for those who are not terribly familiar with the game (i.e. new players) to either avoid jargon or explain what the terms are at some point in the video. Ex: Eth, and Res. I've been playing long enough to know what you're talking about, but it's always frustrating to try and figure out terms when you've no experience with them.
With the CTA I use crystal sword on my HDIN with hoto in flail and a flail for my smiter who has a greif Phase blade. For my sorc I use a crystal sword too just for style points and I use a ist'ed occy for more MF.
Faith is probably among my top 3 runewords. I could really spend every Jah rune I have to roll a perfect one. I really like bowazons with elemental damage (fire and cold) and faith is the perfect runeword for this build. Gives so much. In general bowazons are like the build no one plays and it's a little strange because they can actually be quite powerful with elite gear and very fun to play.
I played this game on and off every year (approximately 20 years span) and made a bowazon everytime. Probably the most enjoyable and relax build, I'd have to say.
lars quest goes by ilvl(depends where item dropped) not just gives the max. normal cow gives cs and poleaxe 4os for example. and game difficulty use of lars quest are all the same, just depends on the ilvl.
Wouldn't it be better to run CTA on a Paladin using a War Scepter with +3 Holy Shield? Just to maximize. I guess if you get lucky enough to pull off a 5 socket with +3 Hshield.
Did they patch bugging an armor with strength on it? Meaning have a charm that gives you strength to wear an armor with strength, and then removing the charm to be able to still wear the armor with the strength requirements. Turns red on me when I use IK gloves to wear a high strength required helm, that has plus strength on the helm. Remove gloves, and doesn’t give me the helm plus strength, making the helm red. Did they fix this work around?
the weight of your armor decreases your run walk speed. bases can be light, medium or heavy, and will cap your speed in 5frw increments. so 5 for a medium and 10 frw penalty for heavy armors. i read that on arreatsummit
This matters a lot while clearing through the game i.e when you want to make a stealth early on et.al... When you approach lategame and you talk about a base for an enigma it does not actually matter that much cause the run/walk penalty stacks addetivly with other run/walk stuff you might have. In such a lategame you pretty much have enough to offset it, let alone the fact that enigma lets you teleport so you never really walk long distances anyway.
Don’t worry , u should be happy u didn’t roll it through cube , CV can only have Max 4 slot , so u are guaranteeed an infinity base with larzuk quest !
The only time you would consider alternate shields for almost any of the shield runewords is in the case of being a Smiter and you are wanting to min-max damage.
insight is cheap to make, so if you're new, you shouldn't be afraid to put one in any 4os POLE not SPEAR. It will not work in a spear! I recommend partizan while your looking for something better. later on you can always give it away or turn it into a golem 🤣
Holy shit Im so hyped. Bartuc's finaly dropped for me, after like forever of looking for it. Never lucky anymore. My first Bartuc's since the original launched way back when. Now I only need 1 more Ber rune and I'll have Infinity. Next weekend gonna grind till my eyes bleed!
Great Video! Just wanna share my bad experience, just got the superior dusk shroud from the pit, it rolled 15ed, and 15max durability, the base def was 10 points off of perfect (457/467) I was so stoked on it and then when I looked more carefully, it rolled 2 open sockets, jeez!!!
I believe they have a boosted range of what it can roll, not necessarily always max. So instead of 100-150 it might be like 180-230 (arbitrary numbers for an example)
i have a plus +44 res crown and +44 sacred targe that i have been holding onto forever unsure if they are worth holding on to... is it not all res you want to keep but some other stat? Wasnt super clear to me in the shield section. Thanks for the content!
I made a Fortitude in a etheral Dusk Shroud for the merc. It had 12% increased defense and just shy of 800 def. 2200 something defense (212% total ED total) and it rolled max res. SUPER pleased.
Archon Plate and Sacred Armor are the only choices for armor runewords. And because of Sacred Armor's ridiculous strength requirement I go for Archon as a rule.
Entirely unrelated to this video, I found my first high rune thanks to your LK human-bot ideas. Caught a Sur, still looking for Ohm and Vex so I can get a CTA and hoto
i started with LK too - the runes will come u just need a bit of perseverence, once u have good gear go with travincal, more fun and it drops ber and jah :) got 2 jahs, 3 bers, 2 surs, 2 vex, 3 ohm and about 5 guls over 3000 runs (it sounds like alot but its fun for me). i did over 500 runs this weekend and only dropped a gul so rng can play with you sometimes but im sure it will reward me soon :D
also found like 6 rainbow facets, 2 maras, 2 herald of zakarums, about 4 highlords, at least 7 skill grandcharms and loads of other good gear and charms
Very nice! I've probably got about 3-400 LK runs in so far, I've gotten some good grand and small charms and a +3 cold skill ammy. Chilling there till I get better gear then hitting trav and chaos
Personally I do think Infinity should be always be made in one of the Thresher bases. This is due to the high cost of the rune word and the fact that it give 40% Crushing Blow which significantly increase the value of IAS. But for Insight I agree that it doesn't really matter what base you use.
No; there is no meaningful difference between the bases except for CV being easy to get 4os but requiring high str. Dmg/sec difference, crushing blow on faster bases and consistent leach are all arguments that only exist on paper. In practice, you can never tell the difference.
@@onurdagci You can definitely tell the difference between a Thresher and CV when you reach certain IAS break points. Or maybe you can't but other people can. Depends on what level you play.
@@kasper1241 You can see difference in animation speed if that is what you mean... But I meant meaningful differences in merc survival rate, kill speed etc. No observable differences in these in practice; only slim differences on paper. This is just a fetish the community has; any veteran worth his salt will tell you that these are just min/maxing fetishes with no real life meaningful impact. Btw, I cannot agree with your statement about 'you can see the difference at certain brakpoints' either. The speed difference at the same ias breakpoint between different basis is almost always constant; gpa will be behind thresher by one breakpoint and cv will be behind gpa by one breakpoint at all specific ias values except for a few where the gap is less (ie, at 20ias, gpa is as fast as thresher but also hits harder)
@@onurdagci A lot of the min maxing people do in D2 is nearly worthless. People will pay 10x the price of an item if it's perfect and it will increase their characters power by like 0.1%. It is silly, but alas, making items in a more desirable base will make it worth more should you ever choose to sell it. I'll always go with style personally. Rolling a fort in a kraken shell looks way cooler on an amazon than the archon plate that every single other person is running. I'll always sacrifice that .1% power to look cooler and stand out in a crowd.
I wish they would fix the larzuk quest so you could get the max # of socket on uniques rares or magic items it’d be sweet to roll 3 sockets in a shako lol
It is a myth that superior armors are more expensive to repair. The extra defense is what makes it more expensive to repair, not the fact that it is superior. In fact, bonus maximum durability on superior weapons and armor is a mitigating factor in the cost of repairs. Archon plate, for example, normally has 60 max durability, so each point of durability repaired would cost 1/60th the vendor cost of that particular armor (1/60th of what the vendor would charge if they were selling that item). A superior Archon Plate with +15% maximum durability would have 69 max durability, so repairing that armor would cost 1/69th vendor cost per point as opposed to 1/60th per point, meaning the superior one would be cheaper to repair overall, and would furthermore need to be repaired less often, whether by vendor or cube. This is one big reason to eschew Dusk Shrouds in favor of Mage Plates and Archon Plates.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the item level dictates how many sockets you get from the socket quest? E.g. you can get 4 sockets on a lower level thresher? That's a huge deal that this video is missing.
I found a perfact superior 15/15 3os bone visage on D2r Nl yesterday and I can't for the life of me find what it's worth. Any info would be appreciated, thank you for the hard work and video.
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Hello dbrunski l played diablo 2 many years ago, but never traded always played alone. Now yesterday Andy dropped perfect stats eth titan revenge. I got loads of offers for it and explored a bit... Now can a god of diablo tell a real value for it. Thank man
The weight class of armor matters for some people too right? Like a light plate is a faster run/walk than an archon plate if you’re making enigma for a sorc?
@@danf8986 you could but you have to meet the str/dex requirements to equip. That's why people typically use a crystal sword or flail.
@@danf8986 .
Important for people to know too when you use the cube recipe, it always picks a random number 1-6 for sockets no matter the item. If the item can only have a max of 4 sockets, the game still randomly picks 1-6, and if the number rolled is 4 5 or 6, the item will get 4 sockets. So rolling an archon plate or a monarch for example has a 50% chance of getting 4 sockets, because the random selection of 4-6 will give it 4. Hope that makes sense.
Good stuff !
Ty
Monarch can roll with less than 4 sockets? Thought Monarch only does 4os
@@SuperChuckABoo with the cube recipe yes, it can roll anywhere from 1-4. 1 2 and 3 have a 16.67% chance each, while 4 has a 50% chance. Obviously if you’d rather be safe than sorry, use Larzuk instead to guarantee 4. Personally I will never waste a socket quest on a monarch because of that 50% chance of it getting 4 through the cube.
@@SuperChuckABoo only with Larzuk
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Could have been worth mention regarding armors for thoose that don't know, that the biggest advantage (imo) of seeing a superior isn't so much the 0-15% ED but the fact that it will (due to having a %ED) always spawn with max roll on the defense. IE the Archon plate, that can roll anything between 410-524, a superior will always roll 524+whatever %ED you got on the superior roll. And in an eth merc base that is really something that will bump the end defense in say fortitude or some other high %ED armor to that really high level.
This comment deserves more likes. Thank you for the info dear sir! I'm a returning player (played a lot in my teen years) and I never knew this.
@@vhyles i didnt know this, does any superior armor (even without any +ED%) roll max? And if so, why? Im new
@@Laverti12345 I think only +ED% (like OP said) will result in maximum roll on the defense, even if it's +1% ED.
@@Laverti12345 very good question!
nice to know
Dude you were so concise and careful with your wording, this video is going to help tons of newer D2 players flooding in due to the remaster. Great work.
Hey, do you think you might make an Iron Golem guide? I think it's probably both the most interesting and least understood spell in the game. Now that they don't seem to randomly disappear I think iron golems deserve to be much more popular. Letting players know what easily found items (e.g. IK Maul) with good stats could be used or giving players ideas for new synergies unlocked by being able to proc something or generate an aura. There's so many possibilities. I'd love to see a video on this topic!
Make a faith iron golem for fanaticism obviously!
Nevermind that you can't make one out of a bow
@@Phnxkon Beast could be used, though the Fanaticism level is not as high.
Without cta or enigma it's not even worth
iron golem doesnt disapper he can only die then u need to make new one from new weapon. you can make golem from insight in any any low base to get free aura and use something like obedience or bonehew on merc. if you are rich you can make pride on golem, infiniti on merc and beast on hero so you have all 4 dmg auras on necro
Infinity works in mancatcher too, which is hands down the best choice for an infinity because of weapon speed.
Hey DB, as a new D2 player, I am eternally grateful for your videos.
A suggestion for a new video: As a new D2 player, and starting a Smiter character to farm my own torches, I had a million questions about the mechanics of Smite, the gear, what stats work on weapons, what stats work on gear, IAS, CB, DS, OW... the list goes on and on. I found most answers, but only after searching 5-10 different online discussions. There is no legit YT video explaining the must know info for new Smiters!
Keep doing the great work my friend! Best D2 vids, hands down. Cheers!
i think he made video about smiter already. only cb and ow works, for ias you should use ias calcurator based on your weapon and fana lvl. and you should use phase blade because you ll destroy your weapon very fast
It is a good video the only thing I think is missing to mention, for superior armors you can repair them with a ral rune, that's how I repair mine the gold cost is just insane.
How much do they usually cost? I've never owned an endgame piece so I never thought about it 😮
I believe you are not entirely correct on the Larzuk quest. As you stated, the item will roll its maximum number of open sockets, but this maximum isn't determined solely by the item type, it is further limited by the ilvl of the item as well (detemined by the location where the item dropped)
Bonus tip: if you find a Low Quality/Crude/Damaged or similar white Archon Plate, you can use a cube recipy: 1 El Rune + 1 Chipped Gem + Low Quality Armor which removes the low quality modifier and also makes the item ilvl=1. If you then bring this Archon Plate to Larzuk it will roll 3 open sockets not 4 which would be the maximum. And there you have your base for Enigma.
Great video DB. I get this question all the time on my videos and livestream. Going forward I'm just going to send them to this video. Also congrats on almost 100K subs. Well deserved!
Hey, I watch your channel as well
@@mattl1807 hey thanks!
Insights best runeword base is the Partizan
very high moderate damage leading to a weapon that is basically overpowered for most of the game and youre merc will be able to wield it with Level 27 for sure.
For the endgame youre guide is accurate but you rly should focus on the useability of those runewords for the majority of the game and do not only expect people to xp rush all the way to hell.
For a runeword that powerful and easy to obtain there is no need to search for the perfect match anyway as you will have a much harder time to find at least one matching base than to regain the runes to create it ;)
At 2:17 when you cubed a giant thresher and got 2 sockets I felt that. Same thing happened to me a few days ago with an eth thresher and I died a little bit on the inside. RIP thresher, you will be missed.
I've gotten 1, 3, 3, 3, and 3 sockets so far
Yesterday I aquired my final rune for Duress and thought I will search your vids for... exactly THIS video here ^^
Proof that this is one of the most reliable sources of "mini guides" besides great build videos.
Great work! :)
It's worth noting while talking about Larzuk that he will always give maximum number of sockets for the particular base depending on it's ilevel. For many high end bases this doesn't matter because when you drop them it's usually in areas of high enough level to always give you the max number of sockets but it DOES matter when the item has been cracked and repaired (in which case it's iLevel is 1 and you can say goodbye to rolling 4 sockets in that Monarch) or in the case of low level bases like Broad Sword - which can get 4 sockets if you drop it halfway A5 on Normal but only 3 sockets if you find it before.
I'm not sure if someone else already mentioned this, but I believe in some Druid builds it's ideal to use an (ethereal) Archon Staff for BotD.
Threshers and giant thresher are preferred because with treachery and socketed andy face you can reach 75% ias on the mercenary, which is also a breakpoint for a very fast jab. More attacks = more crushing blow (infinity), enemy monsters more often thrown into hit recovery and more consistent life leech. Also giant thresher has an 0.5 higher avg damage than base thresher. So there's that. So the best base is dependent upon the rest of the setup and if you're serious about minmaxing you should research the possibilities with the IAS calculator.
In real life, you can never tell the difference between the bases. These are minute differences.
I generally liked the idea of bringing some focus to durability and repair costs of superior items, but (at 17:30) focusing on durability as the primary reason for rolling Grief on a phase blade instead of a berserker axe is so misleading when obviously the more important point is that phase blade has 30 points faster attack speed than berserker axe and most of grief's damage comes from the flat damage bonus it gives.
And don't smiters prefer shorter range (in the phase blade)?
Exceptional content! Thank you! I for one would not be upset to see an extremely long video on the subject. This information is straight gold!
archon plate for everything, thresher, phase / crystal for weapons, and 1 flail for hoto, and the monarch sheild. everything else is specialty specific use stuff., most rune words can go into those
Thank you so much for your videos! I am so glad that with D2R you get more attention. Well deserved! Keep up the good work and hopefully keep on enjoying what you do
Rolling Sockets in the Cube has not the same chanses on number of sockets if the item has less than 6 sockets. It has 1/6 for each low roll every roll over the max socket will be max socket. A Monarch rolled in the Cube has 1/6 1os 1/6 2os 1/6 3os and 3/6 (50%) 4os
Love your humble and quiet way of explaining things. Keep it up!
You can also find a cracked or low quality item, when you fix the quality in the cube it changes how many sockets you can get. Did it on single player to get my 3socket dusk shroud for enigma from larzuk
How does this work? Can you elaborate?
I prefer dusk shroud over archon plate for enigma because the STR requirement for dusk shroud (77) plus the STR u get from enigma is almost the STR needed for the monarch shield (156)
The problem with Dusk Shroud is that your character looks like a homeless person in it.
@@impact0r Not a problem at all, it is according to everyone's perception, my light sorc looks very sexy wearing a DS and I love it!
Unless you decide to use your armor on a paladin and now you have wasted str points :)
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You've been such a big help for so many of us. Much appreciated good sir!
Larzuk will install the maximum number of sockets into the base item type ... as determined by the item's (hidden) iLvl.
Larzuk will install fewer sockets into the same item if it spawned with lesser iLvl (from lower aLvl maps, from lower mLvl monsters, from lower cLvl vendors, etc). Or if it was a "Low Quality", "Crude", "Cracked", "Damaged" item upgraded (to iLvl=1) in the cube.
Thank you! That is the comment I was looking for. Especially in case of items with low level requirements, like a broad sword for spirit. Those items can be found on normal difficulty which leads to lower area levels - > monster levels - > (hidden) item levels. Items, which have been found on Hell difficulty, will always get their specific maximum numbers of socket from Larzuk. For items found on other difficulties, it depends on the area and monster class type (norm, boss, elite/unique).
On fortitude bases , if you're running a ww barb you actually should use a " heavy " class armor which elites are loricated mail , hellforge plate and shadow plate if possible. I personally like loricated mail for the lowest str requirement. Reason being that ww uses fast run / walk in its travel speed.
Heavy armors have a movement speed penalty. The faster you move by and in/ out of a mob while spinning the less hits ww will do in its small area of range so a slower movement speed will land you many more ww hits. So basically you want slow movement speed + high attack speed for max dps ww.
It also means it keeps you longer in whirlwind and makes you slower, unless you have eligma (which you don't, because you have 40tude), or serious mana problem, I wouldn't go that way ever.
@@brakpseudonimu236 why not ? You think the dps doesn't outweigh the slower moving ? Also an enigma isn't " needed " when Tele staffs and amulets exist unless using for pvp
With a high bo like in every ww build, life charms to get over 5k with min effort, a high def Fort and good leech gear dying is a rarity in pvm
@@ViciousPandaJ Because I lose travel time in advance and then whether it improves dps or slows it down is a gamble, if being slower saves me an extra spin, it's cool, if not, it's just a slower spin, that's it.
If you know to properly ww this whole discussion is pointless.
@@Akeem034 how is it pointless? And do you mean ww in small short bursts and small triangles around the enemies to maximize hits as proper ww technique?
Regarding the Grief runeword: if you play PvP, there is another point to consider - the range of the weapon. BA has a higher range than PB which is important in PvP for classes like WW Barb who is teleporting into/around enemies and tries to hit them.
I was a former PvP player and this range advance can't be appreciated enough. Especially if you don't want to ww through your enemy but around him and still hit him. Against Hammerdins and Dudus for example. Or triangle ww around sorcs.
I was actually kinda blown away that when i found 20 year old saves form D2 and imported them to offline, all insane Acestrall Recall mod crafted items were normally interpreted and still kept their insane values like in Ancestral... :D which is basically no fun... cause you are OP as f* but i was a kid back then :D
Would have been great to add where is the best area and levels to farm these bases. If I can find Matron and Grand Matron bows in nightmare, I am wasting time farming in hell difficulty. Also, can you go ravage dark woods? or flayer jungle? or is cows the best? what level area do you have to be in to find these items?
Wonderful! I'm going to use this video as a reference guide from now on to check my bases when doing runs. Thanks for the great detailed content!
On the subject of enigma - how many builds want to use both Enigma and Spirit Monarch? Seems like you might as well go archon plate if you're gonna hit that monarch str req.
Yes i was thninking this too. So many builds uses spirit shueld and enigma.
Double Axes make good CtAs. They max at 5 sockets, so you can roll them more easily than a Crystal Sword, and they are tied for the lowest strength requirement of any 5os, non-Flail, 1-handed weapon.
I always roll CTA in a double axe too. 43 str 5 os and very easy to distinguished from spirit hoto or grief.
This answered so many questions for me. Thanks for this video dude!
You missed the most important distinction regarding Grief.
PvM? Phase Blade.
PvP? Berserker Axe. It has a longer range.
Important point about Archon Plates for Enigma. If you're around the mid to late 80's, the strength bonus from enigma will give you the requirement to wear a Spirit Monarch. If you have some GG items (like perfect torch, anni and Godly rares with str), the AP can be worn without putting stats into strength (or very few).
Dusk shroud does the same but you'll have to put into strength to wear spirit monarch. A non-issue for paladins lol
Thank you for making this video, soo many of my friends constantly ask me questions about bases and now i can just link them this vid :D You covered the most important stuff, but I also get many questions about claw bases so i guess thats maybe something that woulda been nice to touch on, great vid tho!
Best Claw bases are Runic Talons or Scissor. If you can find some with +3 Lightning Sentry or Death Sentry. They are very valuable and used with Chaos Runeword. Mind Blast and Venom are also very nice. Eth Claws aren't very useful. Hope this helps 🙂
i got a Vex to drop. I rolled HOTO in a War Hammer because it said Mace Class. I cried. 3 months later i was able to Cube up to a Vex.
That's rough buddy
damn, I should've subscribed to you instead of to the others who doesn't provide detailed guides.
Thanks for this
Edit: I'm using Sorc Level 35 Fireball x Blizzard and Orb = will Respec to Firewall x Orb or Blizzard
just finished Normal and trying to farm at Secret Cow Level
I don't know what to do next
If you're planning on making a Hammerdin then you should definitely NOT make your Enigma in an Archon Plate. Otherwise you're going to lose out on a lot of extra life and basically cripple your Hammerdin.
Also there's a big difference between Enigma and Fortitude when it comes to picking out a base. Enigma gives a huge amount of strength while Fortitude don't. Fortitude gives a lot of %enhanced defense while Enigma gives none. Therefore the criteria for picking a base is COMPLETELY different when comparing these to rune words.
Nice guide! I didn’t even realize some of those bases were used for runewords, I’ll start keeping those in the future :P
Got the luckiest luck on D2R today. Farmed for 9 hours and got Jah and 2 Surs to make Ber for Enigma on a 3 OS Archon I've holding onto for the longest.
u just talk about my dream....
For a few niche cases Giant Thresher beats out Thresher due to its longer range. It's usually quite negligible but if using Obedience on. WW barb or so, it may have some use.
But cv is better every other time
@@AboveEmAllProduction CA is strictly superior to CV. CV is the budget option as its much easier to obtain 4os
Also worth nothing that for mercs, range is fixed; so not important for mercs. WW is the best example as you have said, tnx
I am so glad this video came out. Im on the hunt for socket items
Very informational. I would suggest however, for those who are not terribly familiar with the game (i.e. new players) to either avoid jargon or explain what the terms are at some point in the video. Ex: Eth, and Res.
I've been playing long enough to know what you're talking about, but it's always frustrating to try and figure out terms when you've no experience with them.
For CTA, why not a Double Axe (Normal version) instead of Twin Axe (Exceptional Version)? Double Axe also gets 5 sockets.
Nice vid bro!!! In next video you could show how the area level influence on the item level, and how the iLvl is related to the socket number 😉👍
Thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for
The final installment of the epic runewords series
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You can repair using an ort rune. That shouldn't be any problem, right? I mean, do you need to repair more often than finding an ort rune?
With the CTA I use crystal sword on my HDIN with hoto in flail and a flail for my smiter who has a greif Phase blade. For my sorc I use a crystal sword too just for style points and I use a ist'ed occy for more MF.
Very well made guide saved me a lot of time ty!
Faith is probably among my top 3 runewords. I could really spend every Jah rune I have to roll a perfect one. I really like bowazons with elemental damage (fire and cold) and faith is the perfect runeword for this build. Gives so much. In general bowazons are like the build no one plays and it's a little strange because they can actually be quite powerful with elite gear and very fun to play.
I played this game on and off every year (approximately 20 years span) and made a bowazon everytime. Probably the most enjoyable and relax build, I'd have to say.
It can be hard to get the elite gear though.
@@riderjitsutv Yup it can be very expensive
Probably because it's insanely expensive for what you actually get.
Agreed and the multishot range is incredible too.
THANK YOU!! Such a useful video!!!
lars quest goes by ilvl(depends where item dropped) not just gives the max. normal cow gives cs and poleaxe 4os for example. and game difficulty use of lars quest are all the same, just depends on the ilvl.
Wouldn't it be better to run CTA on a Paladin using a War Scepter with +3 Holy Shield? Just to maximize.
I guess if you get lucky enough to pull off a 5 socket with +3 Hshield.
Im currently looking armor and polearm for treachery, delirium and insight! Finding the runes was easier than a good base anyways for me lol
Did they patch bugging an armor with strength on it? Meaning have a charm that gives you strength to wear an armor with strength, and then removing the charm to be able to still wear the armor with the strength requirements. Turns red on me when I use IK gloves to wear a high strength required helm, that has plus strength on the helm. Remove gloves, and doesn’t give me the helm plus strength, making the helm red. Did they fix this work around?
awesome video as always,dont worry about the lenght of it,i/we learn alot from these videos,so just keep up the good work. greetings from denmark.
the weight of your armor decreases your run walk speed. bases can be light, medium or heavy, and will cap your speed in 5frw increments. so 5 for a medium and 10 frw penalty for heavy armors. i read that on arreatsummit
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This matters a lot while clearing through the game i.e when you want to make a stealth early on et.al... When you approach lategame and you talk about a base for an enigma it does not actually matter that much cause the run/walk penalty stacks addetivly with other run/walk stuff you might have. In such a lategame you pretty much have enough to offset it, let alone the fact that enigma lets you teleport so you never really walk long distances anyway.
Hi, thanks so much for all the info. Wish I had this info last night I wouldn't of screwed up trying to get a for socket bow.
Great. Video like this 2 days after i made my infinity....
Love Your videos, peace
The best bases for mercenary are eth Mancatcher for Infinity, and eth Thresher for infinity, pride, and everything else.
Thank you so much for this video, I literally found a superior CV last night and was frustrated by the Cube recipe was not workinh.
Don’t worry , u should be happy u didn’t roll it through cube , CV can only have Max 4 slot , so u are guaranteeed an infinity base with larzuk quest !
The only time you would consider alternate shields for almost any of the shield runewords is in the case of being a Smiter and you are wanting to min-max damage.
insight is cheap to make, so if you're new, you shouldn't be afraid to put one in any 4os POLE not SPEAR. It will not work in a spear! I recommend partizan while your looking for something better. later on you can always give it away or turn it into a golem 🤣
very useful info. bookmarked for later use
Added to my short list of vids to watch before I spend the big runes
Holy shit Im so hyped. Bartuc's finaly dropped for me, after like forever of looking for it. Never lucky anymore. My first Bartuc's since the original launched way back when. Now I only need 1 more Ber rune and I'll have Infinity. Next weekend gonna grind till my eyes bleed!
Great Video! Just wanna share my bad experience, just got the superior dusk shroud from the pit, it rolled 15ed, and 15max durability, the base def was 10 points off of perfect (457/467) I was so stoked on it and then when I looked more carefully, it rolled 2 open sockets, jeez!!!
Aren't superior armors always max def? That was my understanding?
@@voixlavoix Perhaps yes, but I'm not sure about that tho
I believe they have a boosted range of what it can roll, not necessarily always max. So instead of 100-150 it might be like 180-230 (arbitrary numbers for an example)
Great video ! We need more guides like that
i have a plus +44 res crown and +44 sacred targe that i have been holding onto forever unsure if they are worth holding on to... is it not all res you want to keep but some other stat? Wasnt super clear to me in the shield section. Thanks for the content!
I made a Fortitude in a etheral Dusk Shroud for the merc. It had 12% increased defense and just shy of 800 def. 2200 something defense (212% total ED total) and it rolled max res.
SUPER pleased.
Curious on your thoughts of using an eth scourge for botd? Also scepters for hoj?
Archon Plate and Sacred Armor are the only choices for armor runewords. And because of Sacred Armor's ridiculous strength requirement I go for Archon as a rule.
let get Dbun to 100k boys ! 99k for now !
D2 LoD has all shorts of items in variety to make, random rolls, uniques and rune words so it's huge gameplay quality.
I feel like I should have watched a video before this one, because I'm kind of lost. Does he have basic rune word tutorials?
Very nice! Was looking for something like this Video :)
I assumed CoH falls under the Fort/Enigma category then.
Thanks Dbrunski
excellent presentation
bookmarked and recommended
You’re awesome man, helping the poor as always
Entirely unrelated to this video, I found my first high rune thanks to your LK human-bot ideas. Caught a Sur, still looking for Ohm and Vex so I can get a CTA and hoto
i started with LK too - the runes will come u just need a bit of perseverence, once u have good gear go with travincal, more fun and it drops ber and jah :) got 2 jahs, 3 bers, 2 surs, 2 vex, 3 ohm and about 5 guls over 3000 runs (it sounds like alot but its fun for me). i did over 500 runs this weekend and only dropped a gul so rng can play with you sometimes but im sure it will reward me soon :D
also found like 6 rainbow facets, 2 maras, 2 herald of zakarums, about 4 highlords, at least 7 skill grandcharms and loads of other good gear and charms
Very nice! I've probably got about 3-400 LK runs in so far, I've gotten some good grand and small charms and a +3 cold skill ammy. Chilling there till I get better gear then hitting trav and chaos
@@timbennett7604 the best strategy to go imo :D hope u get them good lootz
Ahh still remember Making my Botd Eth thunder maul for my druid... Good times
thank you for the base info, very helpful
Personally I do think Infinity should be always be made in one of the Thresher bases. This is due to the high cost of the rune word and the fact that it give 40% Crushing Blow which significantly increase the value of IAS. But for Insight I agree that it doesn't really matter what base you use.
IAS can really help with their life leech as well
No; there is no meaningful difference between the bases except for CV being easy to get 4os but requiring high str. Dmg/sec difference, crushing blow on faster bases and consistent leach are all arguments that only exist on paper. In practice, you can never tell the difference.
@@onurdagci You can definitely tell the difference between a Thresher and CV when you reach certain IAS break points. Or maybe you can't but other people can. Depends on what level you play.
@@kasper1241 You can see difference in animation speed if that is what you mean... But I meant meaningful differences in merc survival rate, kill speed etc. No observable differences in these in practice; only slim differences on paper. This is just a fetish the community has; any veteran worth his salt will tell you that these are just min/maxing fetishes with no real life meaningful impact.
Btw, I cannot agree with your statement about 'you can see the difference at certain brakpoints' either. The speed difference at the same ias breakpoint between different basis is almost always constant; gpa will be behind thresher by one breakpoint and cv will be behind gpa by one breakpoint at all specific ias values except for a few where the gap is less (ie, at 20ias, gpa is as fast as thresher but also hits harder)
@@onurdagci A lot of the min maxing people do in D2 is nearly worthless. People will pay 10x the price of an item if it's perfect and it will increase their characters power by like 0.1%. It is silly, but alas, making items in a more desirable base will make it worth more should you ever choose to sell it. I'll always go with style personally. Rolling a fort in a kraken shell looks way cooler on an amazon than the archon plate that every single other person is running. I'll always sacrifice that .1% power to look cooler and stand out in a crowd.
Just what we needed! Great content as always
Awesome vid man! Thank you for this!
Just found a 12ed 4s +3gmb and rerolled faith a few times - sold for 10j 5b
Best barb i ever had was a EBOTD thunder maul, he was out here crushing everything in pvm and pvp
Yeah for sure xdd
I wish they would fix the larzuk quest so you could get the max # of socket on uniques rares or magic items it’d be sweet to roll 3 sockets in a shako lol
Saved to my save list.
Amazing !!!!! Thank you this answers so many good questions!!!!!
yes yes yes excatly the information i need! ur the best ✔👍✌😃
It is a myth that superior armors are more expensive to repair. The extra defense is what makes it more expensive to repair, not the fact that it is superior. In fact, bonus maximum durability on superior weapons and armor is a mitigating factor in the cost of repairs. Archon plate, for example, normally has 60 max durability, so each point of durability repaired would cost 1/60th the vendor cost of that particular armor (1/60th of what the vendor would charge if they were selling that item). A superior Archon Plate with +15% maximum durability would have 69 max durability, so repairing that armor would cost 1/69th vendor cost per point as opposed to 1/60th per point, meaning the superior one would be cheaper to repair overall, and would furthermore need to be repaired less often, whether by vendor or cube. This is one big reason to eschew Dusk Shrouds in favor of Mage Plates and Archon Plates.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the item level dictates how many sockets you get from the socket quest? E.g. you can get 4 sockets on a lower level thresher? That's a huge deal that this video is missing.
I found a 15% ED Eth Scarab Husk with 818 def, definitely saving that for my fortitude.
I found a perfact superior 15/15 3os bone visage on D2r Nl yesterday and I can't for the life of me find what it's worth. Any info would be appreciated, thank you for the hard work and video.