I have an Eth Sacred armor I’ve been holding for months, and enough HRs to do something with it, problem is, I’m rather indecisive. All ideas and supportive arguments are welcome, even if I disagree with you on the direction of D2R I’d still like your input here, so don’t be dissuaded or discouraged.
My mains are sorc, barb, but if you have a good idea for a new class/spec I’m entirely open to leveling another character.
Thanks in advance!
ETH sacred armor is classic fortitude territory. ETH ap would have been a nice coh for a flickering flame merc.
Flickering flame merc? Eth ap? Go on.
Ap - archon plate?
I think I have an Eth one of those too, but I don’t remember the armor roll.
You put flickering flame on your merc for the extra aura and use coh for leech + stats.
AP = Archon Plate. Yeah because you won’t get extra str from andy to wear the sacred armor on the merc. AP lower req, so you can profit from the 20str on coh early.
It’s kinda neat for amazons which already struggle to get resists. But it might also free up some boot slots for spirit users.
Fire druids love it too, so they can wear ravenlore.
Since it’s an eth armor, you don’t really have a lot of options, imo.
You certainly won’t be wearing it since the durability will reduce if you use it unless there is an armor runeword with repair mod or indestructible.
So I presume only your merc can use it. And it’s gotta be a merc with high str since its STR requirement is rather high.
So if it rolls 4os (Guaranteed with Larzuk), you can go with Fortitude. If it rolls 3 sockets, maybe Treachery.
Yeah Fortitude seems good, I need a second one I suppose for my Trav barb. Ultimately that may be the choice.
now without the eth armor bug, only those which are superior have value
as long you can get Andarial visage helm its worth for merc
HOWEVER…i would try for Ethereal Superior Sacred Armor for your merc if your going to make a FORTITUDE as you be spending an high rune after all…preferably a 15% superior but due to sacred armor drop rate rarity i think settling for at least 13% would be k
while i would not recommend this…CoH is also an option if your goal is to make a merc tank Uber Meph conviction aura(if your trying to have merc do Crushing Blow dmg to Ubers)
i would recommend trying cube formula to gamble for a 3 sockets outcome to make a Duress runeword in it…15% Crushing blow…33% open wound…and some resists…
alternatively to duress you could use a Duriel Shell for Cold Immunity and resists
due to Andarial Visage and Fort interaction…your merc will heal a lot since he be hitting like a truck
cost wise…Sorc will be cheaper than Barb for your merc(IF its a cold sorc)
as for character cost…Barb will require a lot more expensive gear to perform near sorc level for farming(Enigma,2X Griefs
Barb Merc gear requirement
Weapon: Ethereal Doom polearm(Holy Freeze Aura,heavy ias, high % Open Wound, 20% Deadly Strike, and high % dmg(330-370%)
Eth Fort Armor
Andarial Visage Helm…Ethereal if you find it
Blessed Aim Aura(to drasticly increase your hit chance)
Sorc Merc gear
Andarial Visage Helm…Ethereal if you find it
Eth Fort armor
Insight Runeword(if your a cold Sorc)…just snag a sunder charm to remove immunes
Infinity(Lightning or Fire Sorc)
Holy Freeze Aura for defense
EDIT: honestly…stick to your sorc…best farm option…i dont even think hammerdin could even compete vs blizz sorc as of time being if you got Death Fathom orb and a sunder charm…but just to give you insight
build specialities(if you dont own Infinity///Enigma runewords)
Blizz Sorc: MFing(Andy,Meph,Trav guys at Travincal&Dur 3, Pindleskin)
Lightning Sorc(Hell Rush, Keys farm(Terror,Hate,Destruction)
Hammerdin: lvling room carrier
Javazon(Charge Strike/Thunder Fury): Cows farming, boss wrecker(except Ubers)
Kicker Assassin & Smiter: Ubers killers(due to kickers nerf, Smiters are king again for it)
Hork Barb: High Rune farming at travincal(require fairly costy gear)…honestly i dont think the build worth it as they’re more limited in term of farm zone…Barb is more about liking the play style than the effectiveness
Blizz Sorc, Light Sorc and Hammerdin become about equal in term of farming speed once they got their high end pieces…
Chaos Sanctuary is a premium mf area but without nigma or infinity i would not recommend farming the place as you be met with at least 1 set of enemy immune to you…in hammerdin case they need teleport(although they run it anyway early ladder for lvling purpose)…in cold sorc case you might need sunder charm for here…if i remember correctly…infinity doesn’t break lord de seis cold immunity or even the non-elite caster like him
EDIT 2: well…Javazon could explode ubers…IF you dont die to the sunder charm taking away all of your lightning resistance XD(rather expensive as hell to cover that 1 downside)
I appreciate all the ideas. As of now I use a nova sorc with griffs and merc infinity with ~500% MF for all of my farming. Sadly out of everywhere I farm Chaos Sanct has never dropped anything even remotely good and always feels like the biggest waste of time.
Pits, Baal walks, TZs, Shenk Eld Pindle and even Baal feel better than Chaos. For some reason every elite pack and Diablo are broke and never drop anything.
I’ll look through your suggestions and maybe make something to kill ubers, as that seems like a logical step. I only have one Fortitude and I took it off trav farm barb’s merc.
People love chaos because it’s mainly undead and the map is fixed
The stranglers have the highest chance to drop runes and I got jah/ber from them