(always check the drop from purple itens, high chance of coming wrath or health steal) I actually have: Possesed Scytle +30% Health Steal, Possesed Axe +30% Wrath Steal Possesed Mace +30% Wrath Steal Possed Gauntlet +95% Wrath Steal 30% or 95% is actually the same thing, u can get max wrath with one hitn same goes for health ! (thumbs up, so more ppl can read this :)

arcane can also effect ice, frost, fire, inferno, shock, and lightning damage.

Great explanation of the Strength vs Arcane and how they help build damage for your Harbinger and Necromancer skill trees. I actually hadn't noticed that. I'm just about to head into the final battles and now I know how I'm going to redistribute my skill points. Thanks!

Great video, thanks for the breakdown on how/what strength and arcane affect.

Love what i just saw and love the way you just explained it thank you so much Great job !

Oh man, you shed a light on possessed weapons for me. I had no idea that the things you fed the weapons actually affected the stats of that weapon when it levels. I was under the assumption that the upgrade choices were random. I will now be more careful with what I choose to feed my possessed weapons. Thank you so much!

Kind of a latecomer into Darksiders 2 (I like to wait til the games are cheap and buy it pre owned...LOL!). This is by far the best and most informative vid I have seen. thumbs up!

Tha was superbe dude....i've lookin all oner the net for some info on the very topics that u discussed and since they were on the vid,this vid was the most helpful

Very good video! You explain everything precisely and clearly! THANKS SO MUCH!

THANKS MAN Helped a lot, didnt know that it matters what weapon/armor u use for your possesed, i always just looked at the bar:P

I find that they become more frequent towards the end of the Kingdom of the Dead. You can go to Vulgrim and save/restart until a weapon has health/wrath steal on it. Crucible also gives pretty good weapons at wave 25+

Thank you very much you saved me alot of truble...helpful as allways Mopinion :)

Thanks a bunch man, this really helped me :D

Working on it..thanks for the patience!

u do awesome vidd keep up the good work

man manufacture i dont know how you get so low views your vids are great and i love the commentary keep up man!

the real question is, is it better to keep around regular items (loot) w/ desired stats you pick up for possessed weapon builds or get legacy artifacts instead? its definitely quicker when sacrificing to use loot w/ desired stats. problem is keeping it around fills the inventory pretty quickly & prevents you from hanging onto legendary weapons (which i like to hold on to). legacy artifacts can be bought anytime as needed, as can "loot", but good "loot" is way pricier to buy at high xp levels

Thx! great video, help me out a lot.

As he said in the video, you can visit Vulgrim or look around there are some very well hidden places where you can find possesed weapons, I've found some very nice scythes in the Land Of The Dead and so on after the Forgelands.

this video helped so much cheers

How is this for a powerful set up on the Scythes ( Necromancer) Damage 284 - Arcane Critical Damage+51%- Health Steal +36%- Wrath Steal +36%- Execution Chance +56% -( Stats)= Arcane Critical Chance 105%- Arcane Critical Damage +507 % -(with right talisman) - Execution Chance up to 84% and Arcane 470 ..... In the Crucible anything goes down like butter within 3 seconds or less. Mode is Apocalyptic. Has anyone have a more powerful set up? I would like to know

Ok guy I saw a few of your vids the past few days while playing this game and I gotta say.......your vids are helpful as fuck! You seem to nerd tf out on this game lol I love it! I played this game years ago and upgraded my possessed weapons but forgot I could even do that. Also I saved right in front of Vulgrim and bought some trash, reloaded, and I still had the trash weapon with my Vulgrim money still gone. I'm playing the 360 version on the one. They probably patched it or I did it wrong.

dude manufacturedopinionn ur darksiders2 videos are very kool i subscribe to them now and ur videos help me out

Thnks for the help, i kept checking the vendors until they had those ;)

yeah..usually the weapons that you find later are higher levels though so it balances out in the end. You just may have to go through the process a couple of times.

I'm pretty sure the increase in damage is entirely dependent on the level of the possessed weapon, same as for how much each stat goes up at every level up. The only thing I can't seem to figure out so far, is which stats apply globally and which are weapon-specific; For example, I currently have a Mace in my offhand that has STR, DEF, RES & ARC as its stats - essentially using it as a stat-shield/accessory. I did this as from what I can tell, things like crit rate only apply to that weapon.

I’ve been playing this game again after a while, hence the comment but i wanted to ask, can you not bring your gears and weapons from apocalyptic to deathinitive?

i had no idea it worked like this! i just sacrifice random junk in my inventory! thanks man ill think i bit more next time ;)

For harbinger I would replace crit chance with health steal..crit damage is huge with upgraded teleport slash/unstoppable as it is.

It`s a decorative effect that abyssal spaulders give.

ive got one good idea you can put one possessed weapon health on criltical damage the whole time and then make an other possessed weapon on fire and ice damage if you need health put the heal one if you most fight with some one strong then put the fight scythe

You can execute any enemy at any health except the main bosses in the story-line, those are automatically executed when they are at a specific health level whether or not you have execution chance. Because they are supposed to get defeated in a specifically cool way. Although, that only goes for a few of the bosses in the game... Any other enemy can be executed at 99% health.

Well that depends, if you're one of those who prefer to have their space and cause much damage I recommend the Necromamcer, but if you're the kind that go all melee I recommend the Harbringer. As I said it depends on whether you and I highly recommend this game

@jedi87t critical chance is how often you crit hit. crit damage is the dmg output when you crit hit

I have a possesed weapon and feed only maces axes and polearms to it with my favorite stats. it incresed my maindmg of the weapon so much i didnt find a better dmg weapon till now.

I was able to replicate the CRIT based build on one of the videos I've seen on youtube and I still think it's one of the best way to go by mixing it with ICE and Life on CRIT. I was able to achieve a whopping 15K average crit, nearly broke the 20K and off-hand with Aftermath reaching 56K crit. Crit output is around 580%.

How about critical chance? I'm never sure which to get out of critical chance and critical damage? I figured critical chance would be better because obviously the more critical hits the better? Or not?

manufactured opinionn can u do a complete walkthrough of darksiders 2 from beginning to end with all of ur possessed weapons and armors etc.it would be really awesome if u did that man

Very informative, I tip my tiny hat to you.

Execution chance only happens once health gets to a certain level, though, so for the boss rounds, it's essentially useless, if you can't get their health down to the level where Execute is available before you're killed. But if you've got one with high Execute chance, AND a high amount of Health Steal......

What you do is, when the weapons pop up before you do ANYTHING if they aren't the weapons you want you press the Xbox button and then go to the dashboard before you press A or B or whatever, and when you come back to the game you'll have your money and tokens.

could you give me some tips for a necromancer build? what armor should i get, what things should i look for with armor/gear and what skills should i have for my necromancer build, im only level 11 at the moment, please reply im so stuck and i really want to move forward with the game, my stats just suck at the moment, i want to focus on necromancer build i just dont know what stats i need to focus on:(

Could you give me some advice? Where can i find health steal weapons? Or wrath steal?

Doesn't strength also affect the normal damage output of your weapons, like normal swipes with the scythes, and arcane increases the damage of elemental or magic attacks like fire, lightning, and ice? Because I have a weapon with high Arcane, and my inferno scythes do nearly 5000 inferno damage.

Hey Manafactured i was thinking of getting this game, but i wanted to know in your opnion which tree is better Harbinger or Necromancer?

Hey Manufacture, i was wondering, i have these great looking pair of scythes but obviously as i progress my game+ im falling behind on damage output since i don't wanna change them, is it possible to find exact looking scythes if i look hard enough?

a perfect health steal weapon , would be black demise sycthes which you can retrieve from the soul arbiters maze

What is health and wrath steal? Does he mean wrath/health on kill? I've never seen health steal and I'm just starting the 2nd world

Finally found health steal by the way, level 17, I hope this game doesn't end to soon it's seriously the best game I've ever played, maybe I need to play more games but I'm 32 and have played a few although I've normally steered clear of RPGs because in the past they've been to slow and boring, if anyone can recommend any games similar to this It would be very much appreciated, also is the crucible worth getting? I bought this pre owned, I'm thinking at this stage it is because like I said I never want this game to end, although my gf certainly does.

strength affects the damage of the harbinger skills and arcane amplifies your necromancer skills

Stupid question, but what's the best way to find weapons with wrath/health steal

The best way to level up your possessed weapons is to have crit chance, crit damage, wrath steal and health steal on claws or armblades for a secondary weapon and crit chance and damage, defense and execution chance on a primary weapon. That way you get super high execution chance and defense but your secondary weapon is really fast with crit chance and damage.

I see thanks for that info.

That awesome I now have scythes with a 78% execution chance , health on execute frost damage and 28% health steal

instead of tryig to find weapons with healt stealt or hope they drop from chest,just go to vendors and chech the weapons ,cuz i got 2 weapons with healt steal so far and didn t checked very often.Also check all the weapons including green.

If you upgrade your possesses weapons only with legacy items from Vulgrim they will take 2 random stats.Savve before upgrade and if you dont like the stats quit game and re enter tha game again.I build my scythes always with Crit chanse,crit damage, ice damege and lifesteal %.For more possesses weapon drops, you better find the demonheart talisman.You need 20 book of the dead pages, sell the 2nd chapter to vulgrim and you will find the talisman at the Lost Tomp,Lair of deposed kind.

I've seen one Wrath Steal on a level 26 Scythe, but that's it so far. I'm really looking forward to building a superior Scythe that has high Crit Damage, Health Steal, Wrath Steal, and high Execute Chance, all in one. With other pieces of gear increasing my Crit chance, I'll never die and I'll kill things off quickly and without mercy.XD

When can I get the amulet of legacy from vulgrim I'm at level 14 in the game or is just in the deathinvitive edition

I would like to dis agree, I have possessed sythe that gives me 9 heath on crit that I'm tring to level up its stats and in the skill tree section there it a Stat that gives you a 10% Critcal Strike chance so if it had heath steal and crit steal I feel it vould be good but I fed some rathsteal to them but it didn't about the stat

You'll have to show me a video of that before I'll buy into it, because I've never had that happen during an actual main-story-line-boss fight, not even once.

thats awesome, but a pro tip if you are gonna make more possessed items, use ice damage not lightning damage, because ice damage has a chance to completely freeze the enemy

Manufactured, how did u get your scythes? They are looking so awesome :D

if ur looking for a certian stat just buy the tailsman item from vulgrim. sacrifice that to ur weapon if the stat u want not on there just press LB [not sure about ps3 and pc]. eventually you'll come across the stat u wont. this might be helpful tho in new game plus. or at the start of the game and duplicate a crap load of items to get money. the item cost 25K and takes 2-3 tailsmans to lvl ur weapon up. now u dnt need to go around and hopefully find the stat u want. thumbs up so every1 can see

Next set should start over the next couple of days

If I was the game dev director of this game, I would allow the user to upgrade any of their base stats, including critical chance and health regen. I would also give them the possibility to literally craft a powerful weapon instead of looting useless weapons over and over. To craft the most powerful weapon they would just need money that they will invest into a blacksmith, and there will be different tiers. With the highest tier, you can make the best weapons in the game. You could choose the specific model and shape, as well as some colors on your weapon. There will be a more efficient weapon crafting system than what the possessed weapon system allow you to do. Lastly, the inventory won't be so limited. You'd have much more slots(50 per tab/category). With that, gamers could share the stats they play with and make gameplay demos of them.

so let me get this straight for a necromancer build you should focus on arcane,wrath steal,health steal and critical damage? then for harbinger focus on strength,critical damage,critical chance and wrath steal?

I'm confused. I sacrificed a secondary weapon with high damage output, and then sacrificed two epic weapons with high strength. When it leveled it only let me choose from crit chance, and wrath per crit. Strength wasn't in the list of options.

Anyone know why the legacy artifacts won't appear in vulgrims inventory playing on normal mode. Like it won't even give me the option to purchase it. Any help greatly appreciated

How sure are you about strength increasing the damage on teleport slash?? i read elsewhere that arcane is what affects the damage of your skills, like teleport slash. i would really like to know please!! thanks!

Best is accualy to do element+ pearce+hp and wrath steal... u can swap pearce for a stat of ur choice tho.. like reaper form + idk anything XD then just get crit rate % from stones... I did element and steal hp+wrath.. i dont even remember what i put on the blades for other stuff but once i got ton arcane and phy rate % i jsut got some str not even that much .. 2 playtrughts and its now super booring to play The thing is if u have critical % ull do op damage on any hit i got 100% its godly... and for arcane rate its just 2nd best stat after rate since it makes u do elemental damage like same % as u have arcana rate... btw the elements from primary and 2ndary weapons stack... i used to have no element scites and some special item with fire encahnts... i did alot of fire damage :D.. i like stacking lighting since its most op i think since moobs are not abla to attack alot :D and it looks best when u swing the blades :D sutes death the best also :D So ya i only have less then 300% on crit damge but the game is so easy its borring XD ... dont forget the hp steal tho since even tho i got ton damge output moobs hit me like rly hard :D

i have secondary gauntlets with health/wrath steal +54% lightning damage +59 and strength +55. litterally unstoppable with how fast those things hit.

have you tried Necromancer? personally I prefer it over Harbinger since ghouls can also block attacks that wouldve hit you otherwise

Health steal and Wrath steal, and some other stats that don't commonly show up, I believe these stats chances of being applied to weapons found or bought is lower for this reason of farming these weapons for possesed weapons.

Abyssal Pauldrons. It's a piece of Legendary Armor that you can earn.

Upgrating your possessed weapons with Legacy Items from Vulgrim only will give you 2 random stats to choose on the upgrade.

How do I get really high crit damage and chance? And is there ANY way to get health steal before level 10? I started a new game on deathinitive difficulty on the xbox one. I'm not having any trouble yet but I want to be OP as soon as possible and I wanna get all the achievements in one play through....

What i like to do is use achidna`s fangs for the health steal ability and make my scythes do insane damage overall while having my relics give wrath, health and reaper energy per execution.

Yeah, that'd work i'm already max levels anyways i'm just looking for the Abyssal set now and i'll be good for my next play through.

I like to use possesses weapons and upgrading them but at the same time I usually find something I want to feed to it and it ends up that I can't because they're already fully upgraded, so I have to start the whole process all over again.

from watchn the video, ur stats is quite comparable to mine: 4 instance, Id focus on Health, Defense, Strength for armor health and wrath steal, critical Damage, strength , and elemental effect. which brngs me 2 this question, whats the differnce btween Criticl Damage and Criticl Chances?

Feed the weapon with health steal to your possessed weapon

Yeah I wish I had've known this. But thing is as well, when I bought it, I didn't get any box pop up to tell me what I received, and I received nothing at all, so as soon as I bought the box it went back to the buy screen. Was weird cause I tried on the other boxes and I received items from them.

so if i have a possessed weapon and i want health steal, i would have to level it up with another weapon with health steal? or just feed it to the possessed?

my scythes has crit chanse, crit damage, health per crit and strength 2nd weapon i use HAMMER- crit chanse crit damage, health steal and strenght with them i got 98% crit chanse and 430 ++ crit damage

No, the new value has only 30% life steal when i put that thing into a posessed weapon and this increased to 35% in the end. But totally worth it, because i put it in a very good claw and with that i could finish the crucible on apocalyptic mode from lvl1 - lvl100 + wicked k without drinking any health potion.... so i think 35% life + wrath steal should be enough to every situation.

You can get possessed weapon from Vulgrim or from the Crucible

Shit! your info is freaking clear and Awesome! Thanks you very MUCH! xD

@dsaasdf That makes more sence now. I'm farming for a weapo. with life and wrath steal. Then I'm going to stack strength.

did it keep it's value? i'm curios about that, because i also found weapons with health and wrath steal and i don't want to waste them^^

Arcane increases your wrath attacks dmg and strength increases your normal attacks dmg regardless of the skill three, at least thats how it is in DS3 and I am pretty sure its the same here

Does it get easier to find weapons with health/wrath steal stats later in the game, or in NG+?

if i sacrifice a weapon that has health steal but it doesn't work my weapon to the next lvl will i still get the option of health steal if i sacrifice a weapon with totally different stats?

What happens when you feed an already high level possessed weapon to another possessed weapon?

*IMPORTANT* When doing the Vulgrim trick, you cannot use the ingame menu to quit to title. Instead, you must use the xbox/ps3 menu (by holding down the centre button) to quit the entire game. You must do this once it shows you what weapon you got; DO NOT press A/X or you will be stuck with that item!!!!!

achidna's fangs is amazing for health steal

Thnks man, i´m a god now in this game.

Today i found my first health steal weapon (i am lvl28 on apocalyptic mode), its a gauntlet or something like that, with +75% health steal... i hope if i feed it with a good armblade the attribute will keep its high value...

Im in the same boat i do not have the legacy box either. Wonder why?!!?? I have been finding weapons with Health per kill, Health per crit and Health on execution but i have yet to find any health steal. Are those high level ones or something? Im level 15 right now (started over).

How did you get those Scyhes? i want them so bad!

Hey ManufacturedOpinion, can you do a video about how to level up faster in Darksiders 2?