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Game Forum / Role Playing Games / Diablo 2 / March 2007Crafted Items
I notice there's little mention of these (crafted items) here. I assume this is because uniques and runewords are superior, or am I wrong (since I'm wondering if it's worth trying to make some Blood/Safety items to help my paladin through hell)  SignatureCC > I notice there's little mention of these (crafted items) here. I > assume this is because uniques and runewords are superior, or am I > wrong (since I'm wondering if it's worth trying to make some > Blood/Safety items to help my paladin through hell) Unfortunately crafted items were toned down in 1.09 and have since been almost entirely superseded by runewords. You can still make some nice jewelry though, if you're willing to use up a *lot* of gems and runes ;) Signature-- * I always hope for the best. Experience, unfortunately, has taught me to expect the worst. Yahoo: evilbill_agqx Web: http://www.evilbill.org.uk >> I notice there's little mention of these (crafted items) here. I >> assume this is because uniques and runewords are superior, or am I [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > almost entirely superseded by runewords. You can still make some nice > jewelry though, if you're willing to use up a *lot* of gems and runes ;) Also belts and gloves. Mickey >> I notice there's little mention of these (crafted items) here. I >> assume this is because uniques and runewords are superior, or am I [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >almost entirely superseded by runewords. You can still make some nice >jewelry though, if you're willing to use up a *lot* of gems and runes ;) As Mickey already mentioned you can craft some nice Gloves and Belts, but not with all recipes... Also, in my opinion, there are a few more worthy candidates. First, the link which is the entrance to all recipes for those who are wondering what we're talking about: http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/items/crafteditems.shtml With regard to gloves, Hit Power Gloves are nice if you need Knockback somewhere (usually only usefull on Strafing Amazons). Very popular are Blood Gloves, due to the 5-10% Crushing Blow and Life Leech which always spawns on them. The other gloves are less popular. Belts then, a Blood Belt is nice due to the extra life, Life Leech and Open Wounds. You can also craft a pretty nice Caster Belt, although none will really overshadow Arachnid Mesh. Other items of note to craft: Hit Power/Blood weaponry: if it spawns with the Cruel and Master's prefixes, together with the 35-60%ED of the recipe, you can end up with a weapon which does 300+150+60 = 510% Enhanced Damage. Still, you need a boatload of luck, and even then, it will be outperformed by an ethereal Runeworded weapon. If you really like gambling, you could use an ethereal input weapon, and hope for the auto-repair mod + Cruel + Master's. ;) Boots: Blood Boots can have some pretty nice life and have Life Leech. Caster Boots can turn out interesting: if you craft one with good mods, FRW, FHR and some resists, you have some godly boots. Caster Amulets are very popular, if you craft something with 10%FCR + 10FCR affix, +2 caster skills and some res/life/mana, you'll have something godly again. For other ideas, browse around a bit at the link I provided to get an idea what to expect. The outcome of some of these recipes are outright useless though, however good the mods... Regards, Patrick. On Mar 28, 11:50 am, CarpeCerevisi <carpecerev...@gmail.danceswithsheep.com> wrote: > I notice there's little mention of these (crafted items) here. I assume > this is because uniques and runewords are superior, or am I wrong (since [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > -- > CC The last freezealot that I built wore a set of blood vampirebone gloves pretty much all the way through Hell. They had 10% CB, 3% LL, and +18 or 19 life, plus a little bit of resistances, magic find, and I think they had some IAS also. I never found anything better, so he wore them until the end. My last Sorc wore a crafted caster belt from Act IV nightmare through the middle of Hell. For any sorc I build I burn through a ton of pamethysts and Ral runes making caster amulets. I've gotten some pretty nice ones, and some pretty crappy ones. I also built a throwbarb a while back that wielded dual crafted blood axes for a long time. I had quite a bit of crafting luck with that character - I seemed to get a lot of +skills on the axes. I think he also wore a crafted blood belt for awhile until he found a SOE. Bottom line - if you have the gems, runes and jewels to craft with, it can be worth your while. You'll get some real crap, but you'll also get some damned fine items. >I notice there's little mention of these (crafted items) here. I assume >this is because uniques and runewords are superior, or am I wrong (since >I'm wondering if it's worth trying to make some Blood/Safety items to >help my paladin through hell) Here's the thing: the best post-1.09 rune words kick almost all other items to Hell and gone, but _there_are_no_sockets_ in belts, gloves and boots. And jewelry, of course. So lots of people do craft belts, gloves and boots, and occasionally get really nice stuff. What better use for all the useless blue elites and low runes you find? -- Roy L |
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