I am about to make an enigma but I am having a problem whether I should go with a normal one or with 15% ED. AFAIK ED jacks up the repair insanely. Why do people want dusk shroud with 15% ED?
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Armor? Maybe get hit by melee 1% less often? Way better trade/resell value for your Jah Ber investment because much higher demand?
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maybe i am mistaken but just for that measly 15% people are paying up to 500k in gold when the entire thing can be repaired for 30k gold if it is just a plain one. Am I missing something here? People can’t possibly be that retarded… I think d2r players are fairly clever in general so if many people are doing it, I must be missing something or I gave d2r players too much credit.
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And 500k gold is worth? Idk, I think it’s pretty retarded to care about D2R gold tbh.
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mostly because resell value and pvp… in pvp everyone have almost the same build, that extra few ed can result in life and dead
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You can cube repair armor with a ral rune to save gold.
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Who would repair a 15ed dusk with gold? Ever heard of cube repair?
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for me, runes are gold. I would never waste any runes to repair an armor. Even worthless rals can be traded for higher runes since a bunch of people will start crafting soon.
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it means max defense+1 plus 15%
it would probably be better in most cases to get a max defense non superior because of the repair cost when not using runes to repair but that’s also much more rare.
but the real reason is people want to have perfect items in d2 and the highest possible dusk shroud enigma is using a 15% ed and 15% dura (though most people don’t care about the dura as it isn’t a character stat you can max) base
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i play necro myself, i am planning to use normal mage plate for that sexy red underwear pants looks. it brings good luck
You’d have to stockpile a whole mule of rals to really trade up for much, and at that point, you might as well cube them up yourself. This is non ladder, which will have a smaller player base when ladder starts. Ral is so common, I don’t pick up usually. I save 4 in my shared Incase I need for a recipe, runeword or for repairing a superior base. Though since I upgraded to a non superior coh from a sup scarab smoke, I don’t use em anymore.
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I dunno. I am pretty poor. I had to literally sell and cube my runes to get jah and ber. AFAIK 20 rals are maybe worth a pul and I think that is something signifcant. It takes me days to find one measely fal. I don’t want to make any dumb mistakes. So guys, in the end, is the ED worth it?
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To each their own, but to answer your question, depends on if you pvp or not or if you have the base. If you don’t pvp or plan to trade the complete runeword, you don’t need it unless you really want to min max.
The gold for gambling might be worth more than the rals.
Never cube up rals, they are for crafting and repair
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rarity. clout. it’s just the best version of that base item to make an enigma from. if you’re going to spend a jah and a ber for a runeword then you may as well make it as perfect as possible. gold is literally useless by the time you can afford a jah and a ber so that’s a non factor.
the same reason people would rather buy a Rolex with the official documents from the manufacturer instead of a used watch with no documentation. you’re already in a high tier market so why would you stop at just the base aspect of your purchase?
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To have more armor obviously 
Repair cost doesnt matter as you can easily repair with chipped gem and rune.
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I keep Ral just for that.
Also 500k is like selling 15 items worth 35k.
When people spend a fortune to make enigma, the extra ED is worth more than the repair cost to them.
But if you are stingy by all mean use a lower cost base. But don’t call people stupid just because people don’t align with you.
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You don’t pay gold to repair enigma, you use the ral recipe.
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Enigma + Ral in Cube = No worries about repair cost 
Not sure why you’re hellbent against using the cube recipe… Rals are super easy to find.
Just get that 15% ED if you can. It’ll be worth it in the end.
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because at that point they don’t use gold for repairs, they use ral and ort runes in the horadric cube. ED runeword bases aren’t the only thing that has a super stupid jacked up repair cost. anything with charges of a skill on it gets the same effect in repair cost.
also, unless you are dying repeatedly and often, 500k gold every now and then is nothing. a few hours, and you’ll have a million gold if you’re actually clearing packs of enemies instead of just teleporting through the zones to kill one single boss/elite/unique.
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