What is the best bases for HOTO?

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new player, need help

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Flail, since Dex/Str bug is gone just plain old 4 os flail.

If you want to be fancy 15ed/3ar flail, its useless but some poeple like perfection.

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ethereal 15 ed 3 ar flail for maximum flex

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Damn, thx for correcting me :smiley: . Yep what he said for maximum satisfaction effect.

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Flail, 4os

Pay attention it’s not ethereal :slight_smile:

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but it’s ethereal if you are a super cool person

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^This. / t h r e a d

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Practically a flail is the best. Since you use it on a caster, you don’t care about the weapon’s stats, and flail has the lowest str/dex requirement.
You can also create it in a scourge or a knout. These are also fine, but not optimal because of their higher stat requirement.

BE CAREFUL however. These are the only three bases in which you can create a HOTO.
No war hammers, no nothing else. Flail, Knout or Scourge.

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Since HoTo is caster weapon (hammerdin, elemental druid, etc.) you want the lowest requirements – Flail. The knout or Scourge has higher dex/str requirements and you don’t care about base damage, just HoTo stats. Flail is the only practical choice.

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This renders the Oak Sage charges meaningless, hardly a flex IMO.

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An ethereal 15 ed 3 ar 4 open socket flail.

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We need more bases for HoTO because Flail is probably one of the ugliest items in D2.

Purists come at me.

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He is asking for HOTO base? So wtf man? Please read topics before you post.

@ OP Take the flail, eth for lower req or non eth if you want to use the charges.

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Thanks for the input :smiley:
just done with crafting my HOTO
got 37 all res
my first HOTO in d2 :slight_smile:

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Yes nice, good roll too :slight_smile:

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If you don’t plan on using any of the spell charges then sure. Also, no need to worry about the extra dex required for a non eth. Any class should be able to hit the requirement from having a hellfire torch.

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oak sage is already useless. it’s level 4. if you’re using oak sage you’re a psycho for trying to babysit a summon with 3 life. that and it definitely isn’t even nearly worth enough to not flex on all of the poor losers with your ethereal flail. it’s more efficient to put some mediocre small life charms in your inventory

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