Mid game would benefit a lot from the Spirit Sword nerf

[Slomo4shO-1943]

Oh just the sword? It’s not like te Paladin can’t use both sword and shield at 25 whereas every other class requires at least 54.

Also, spirit is a level 25 runeword. It’s not really available at 25 in the beginning of the LADDER. See topic below

Lets Talk Runewords

Before discussing runewords, lets have a small discussion about sockets in gear and some of the level requirements for higher socket items. First order of business is that Normal difficulty has a maximum of 3 sockets in any piece of gear regardless of whether the maximum sockets for said piece is higher. This limit increases to 4 for Nightmare. This is to say that it is impossible to find any weapons with 5 or 6 sockets in Nightmare and below through monster drops. Socketing using Larzuk results…

Also, how is it any different in terms of power compared to Honor (+160% ED) or Insight (+200-260% ED)? Nothing even remotely comes close in terms of power from low level sets or uniques