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Mine is insight. Just keep making new ones every time I find a stronger base lol

yea, not sure why they decided everything needed jah runes in 1.1, other than the popularity of fury in 1.09 -_-

@@Alzorath Fury wasn't even that good in 1.09. People normally cubed Cruel Colossus Blades with 3 sockets using the 3 chipped gems recipe and then dropped Shael Shael Eth in it. I believe weapon masteries were bugged, so everyone had 100% critical strike, making the deadly strike on Fury useless. Eth rune was bugged, too, which made it ignore 100% of the target's defense. Shael runes provided the max breakpoint for a 1-handed whirlwind.

@@1987jjl Fury BB and CCBoX (and their bugged counterparts - all of the above duped to hell and back) were the most popular swords in 1.09 - the quality of them, and the state of the bugs surrounding them, were not part of the discussion.

@@Alzorath we’ll, yes, I was specifically avoiding the dupes and bugged stuff like oculus rings. Just saying that Fury was still not a good runeword by any means.

1) Only the mercenary's attacks themselves, it will have no effect on your damage. 2) Lawbringer + Crescent Moon - significantly easier to find, and in most situations better (not all)

@@Alzorath Any other budget combo for cow ?

it would be a fairly solid weapon, and be able to take you through hell, though generally I prefer them in Ethereal Scourges or berserker axes for general use (on all classes) - as far as 2handed axes, specifically for wereforms, generally I favor Feral or Champion Axes for the better speed, BUT with the new IAS system for werewolves in D2R - you can hit some good breakpoints with the decapitator as long as you have a handful of plus skills and max werewolf. For werebear, I'd still probably stick with the faster axes, since decapitator will struggle to hit the breakpoints, even with the new maul.

@@Alzorath thank you for the thorough response!

not really direct lore, a lot of item names in general are references/puns/etc. or were just named that "because they sound cool"

Never re-roll a grief, sell it (to me) and try again. I've done the game several times with a low grief pb. Max fanatacism, max sacrifice (zeal synergy), max zeal, max holy shield. You mow down pretty much everything in the game except for physical immunes. (I used Atma's scarab for that, but there are other options). One point in smite is the better way to go and it's an ideal build for ubers if you have a source of lifetap (drac's ideally). For ubers it's best to make a treachery armor and pre-buff before killing meph so you can keep fanaticism instead of salvation to counter the massive drop in resists from Meph's aura. (or a ton of all res charms...)

Phoenix shield, dragon armor and Hand of justice as weapon.

Dude right!!! I just switched from dual spirit to full druid set with spirit shield. My sorc had dual spirit until my friend gave me occy....but now my necro and hammerdin both use dual spirit lol

6 Ist phase blade for the win! Well, except for a 6 Zod phase blade...

Yes

Yes and I have heard people say it's actually the biggest dmg boost you can have on a sorc weapon, more than eschuta with facet

@@pizza.doctor yes - Eschuta's is only 20% and facet can only get 5% max. Crescent Moon is 35% That said, a Jeweler's monarch with a socketed Eschuta's would net you more, as that could be as much as 45% EDIT: Wasn't paying attention - you can get more with a Crescent Moon sword and a Jeweler's monarch, but for as pricey as that would be...

If you get a Lo make a grief phase blade. With a zealer it's insane... (max sacrifice, fanatacism, zeal, holy shield)

Or on switch for a Physical Zealot, works wonders to kill Physical immunes, breaking Undead, and since the CTC Decrepify is high, it triggers fast, which let you increase Grief damage output a lot in P8 and also reducing incoming Physical damage alot.

I just swept through single player hell with lightsabre/lawbringer on my frenzy barb and it was very fun

Paladin and Barbarian are the main sword users, though most clases can use them in one form or another (especially considering spirit is sword/shield only)

It deals damage to paladins, much like using Sacrifice.

No way! That is hilarious! Please create a video of this! Of all my time playing this game how have I not seen or heard of this bug!?

Superior Scimitar.

@@Alzorath I see, thanks. I thought the "superior" prefix stayed in the weapon name even after socketing. I guess I wasn't paying attention for the last 20 years.

causes damage to him

Are you referring to people thinking the bone spirit isn't tracking properly? Because it actually is working properly in that regard Explanation as to why: The effect when you cast it sends the bone spirit targeted at the enemy being struck - if the strike kills the enemy, the bone spirit reaches its "target" and then continues on since the target is no longer there (you get a similar effect if someone kills your target before it gets there, or when spamming spirits in pvp and the player dies before the remainder get there). While the target is still alive, you will see the white-explosions from the spirit on the target, if they're not there, the spirit goes on without collision, similar to what is explained @ www.theamazonbasin.com/wiki/index.php?title=Bone_Spirit (third bullet point)

@@Alzorath Ah okay, so its a basically tricking us ok well that sucks

For a Frenzy barb? You get your wep IAS from Your mainhand i believe.

frenzy is complicated, you should google how it works.. it's not as simple as weapon with most IAS mainhand if you are using Grief PB + Death CS/CB you should use grief mainhand and death offhand

While the dual wield attack speed bug doesn't exist in D2R (so I've heard, I haven't played it), grief in main with death in second is the way to go. Prior to D2R, depending on the weapon in question, you'd want the faster weapon in the offhand, but you'd bug it by unequipping and re-equipping the main hand weapon - again though, depends on what you're rocking.

definitely in terms of cost vs value - there are arguments for a few of the other strictly in the end-game, but none can really compete in long-term usability

@@Alzorath Yes, I meant in terms of cost vs value

it's a variant of the bone necromancer (a gimmick off-meta build), though it leans a bit more into the defensive boosts, and it ends up playing a lot like the warrior princess amazon (which is a non-spear/non-bow amazon). Generally guides for these types of builds (off-meta challenge builds) do horribly unless it's sorceress or paladin (or since 2.6, assassin) - so less people make them, but they also are harder to surface in search :(