EoFF Diablo II again, anyone?

[Chzn8r]

Question: I have a Superior Scarab Husk, 508 defense. Obviously that's very good given the str requirement (95), in fact it's better than the best of plain Archon Plates. The problem is I can't run the socket formula on it because it's superior. Would it be worth spending a socket quest on this to give it 4, allowing for Chains of Honor (I wouldn't make but could trade it off) or to make a Stone for myself? Or if I'm going to do stone I should probably wait for something bigger and eth because it'd be an obvious Merc armor.

[Tavrobel]

So I found Occy this morning. Go me.

[Flying Mullet]

Is the Conviction on Infinity strong enough to break immunities?

[Tavrobel]

For Lightning Sorcs, yes, it is strong enough to break every Lite-immune regular enemy in the game, with the exception of the Cow King.

[SeeDRankLou]

Mmm, I'd have to do the math, but I'd say on average a lv 12 Conviction will break a good 70% of the immunities in the game. Some immunities go up to 150, and lv 12 Conviction will only do -17 to the immunity when it's trying to break it. They probably have the immunities at intervals of 5, so if you have anything with an immunity of more than 115, then I don't think it will break the immunity.

However, if you are wanting to use this for a lighting based character (i.e. your ZappyMulley), then I don't believe there is a lighting immunity on a none unique that is higher than 115, so it would be a very wise choice there.

[Flying Mullet]

Good news. Of course, there's just the little matter of getting all of those high runes...

[Tavrobel]

Well, I have an Ist I no longer need to use, so if you get the two Ber runes you need, you can have mine.

[Chzn8r]

Man, perusing the Rune Word list again... there are SOOOOO many equally great and viable runewords for many builds. It's crazy how many of them get ignored just for the standard BOTD, CoH, Enigma, Hoto, and various others.

But most of them require so many high runes which I'll just never have

Well, actually I spotted a pretty cheap one I want to use my 5os Cryptic Axe. I'd just need to get a Fal rune for "Obedience". I could put this on my Druid's mercenary - the Enchant would definitely help him & I take on Physical Immunes, and the other stats are just beastly to begin with. Guaranteed 370% ED? 40% CB? Those alone make it worth it.

[Tavrobel]

Most likely ignorance is a result of the extended length of Season 3. By that point, people weren't looking for items that merely "sufficed," it was necessary to obtain weapons that were at the end of a build. Since BotD and Hoto were the "uber weapons," their existences as the only weapon for a class were solidified. Cookie cutter builds were the only items that one could trade for. People don't realize that they have to find the build that works for them as a player.

Of course, since I've suffered the poor syndrome for every season, I know how to make use of everything. Frankly, BotD is too costly for what it provides. But then again, Diablo II is all about self-sufficiency and riches.

[Nominus Experse]

I decided I want to do a Melee Sorceress or Necromancer instead.

If someone could help me to through (AKA leveling/rushing/items), that would be grand. Crawling through Vanilla Diablo is a little dull...

[Chzn8r]

I'm guity of usually starting with cookie-cutter builds (though not necessarily equipment setups - usually because I'm too poor), but only to get the goods necessary to finance and support the more interesting characters I do towards the end of any Diablo 2 addiction. I want to do 3 kinds of other Druids (other than the WW druid I usually do) I haven't done in a while. I've gotten an Elementalist (Hurricane/Tornado) all the way to high level but it wasn't that fun/interesting. I'm going to try a pure Summoner (with WearBear & Shockwave to back them up), a Earthshifter Druid (if I can get the weapon) who uses Armageddon while transformed, and either a Hunger or Fire Claws WearBear.

Also, my current Druid is gearing towards a high-end Maul as his end-game weapon but I think if I back off points into Str before it's too late (I already have like 170 or 180 base) I could turn him into a Ribcracker Druid who could challenge Ubers

edit: Grats on trying a Melee Sorc, sounds fun. I've never had the guts to make one.

[Nominus Experse]

Ughhh, my ping is constantly up at around 2500.

This is stupid. I've been in the Den of Evil for half an hour now. I'm done until I get a ping to at least drop to 1000.

[Tavrobel]

Turn off your downloads, and cancel the login if you actually manage to finish reading the load messages, such as "Checking Version."

EDIT: Chunk, you know you'll have to add us eventually if you want to play with us, right?

[Nominus Experse]

And of course Nominus would have never attempted such a thing, nor anything else that may have been eating bandwidth in an effort to lower ping. Thank the heavens Tav is weighted with such a brain as his own.

It would seem the fact of the matter is, simply put, my internet is slow and thus cannot possibly support online play at the moment. Hopefully it will ease up - otherwise it will seem that I will be stuck offline.

[CimminyCricket]

Tav, will you be on later? My sorc is absolutely filled with gems and I've got no room. If you could be on tonight, that would be grand.