Rolled a bad Grief and had to sell it for Vex. sold a 1 BO CS for an IST as well.
Is fortitude a good gamble as long as the base is good? evein its 25 res 1 Life? Gonna make one for my A5 merc or sell it if its a decent roll.
That’s about the only one I can think of, since you’re only gambling on a Lo.
Hoto is not a bad idea man. With a vex rune you can potentially get sur (39) or ber (40) depending on roll for res
If it doesn’t roll well, then all you lose is two ist because you can usually sell those 33 ish rolls for ist
HOWEVER, given the market right now basically people just want perfect things. Gambling and rolling for profit a big risk right now. Ladder just started also. I would personally hold off if I were you unless you have the funds, but if you’re doing a post like this I imagine maybe not so much.
Get Teemo a 2 open socket blue 3 war cry sword and he’ll give you 3 Jah—this is absurdly reasonable and attainable.
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First you have to make it in the right armor and it can have good resale value if the stats are good. You might not even get a Lo for it with 25 res / 1 life.
I can’t think of any runewords which would have a decent return on bad rolls.
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I usually just have the runes for 1 roll haha
I watched a couple of Northforce CTA streams a few months back. Got this ridiculous idea that he sucked all the bad luck and the 1st roll of my runeword is going to be great if not decent. Clearly not. LOL
I guess I just like the idea of rolling each runewords at least once on my account, same with ubers, I only beat them once and I havent had to urge to run them again.
Unbending Will: FAL+IO+ITH+ELD+EL+HEL
18% Chance to Cast Level 18 Taunt On Striking
+3 to Combat Skills (Barbarian Only)
+20-30 % Increased Attack Speed
+300-350 % Enhanced Damage
+9 to Maximum Damage
+50 to Attack Rating
+75% Damage To Undead
+50 Attack Rating Against Undead
8-10 % Life Stolen Per Hit
Prevent Monster Heal
+10 To Strength
+10 To Vitality
Damage Reduced by 8
+1 To Light Radius
Requirements -20%
When you want a cheap but decent weapon for youre A5 merc use this in 6 opensocket Phase Blade or in Colossus Sword/Blade and all of youre problem is solved.
Fast,good lifeleech, +3 too Frenzy or Bash, damage reduction, very strong roll on enhanced damage with cheap runes and other good things.
What do you want more?
PS: im use om my frenzy A5 merc my my bigest lowroll grief(32/341) with a 7% ED PB (331+7:338)Unbending Will and he murder every mob without blinking and rarely die.
When you say return, are you talking about runewords that don’t lose the sell value when you get a bad roll? If so, there aren’t many, since people can just make the item themselves with better odds of a better roll than to buy a bad one. No matter what the item is, infinity, HOTO, Grief, spirit, if the roll is worse than average, you won’t get back the value of the runes you put into it.
The runewords that hold up value on bad rolls the best are ones with few variables, and therefore little incentive to toll for profit. Enigma, for example, has a very small variance in defense, so the difference between a trash roll and a perfect roll doesn’t actually matter much except to real min/max-ers. A bottom roll enigma is still worth close to what you put in, and a high roll isn’t worth much more than you invested.
The wider the range of possible outcomes, the more profitable your good rolls and the less you can recoup on your bad ones.