Hot dayum, this is good, right?
What’s it worth? Should I regal it?
Isn’t the base damage on it too low though? Yeah, critical chance is great, and increased level for bow gems is good, but it won’t help someone do decent damage when the base damage is low, with no enhancement to it, and you need to be level 68 to use it.
For my Fire Nova Mine Shadow, I went into the stash and guild stash yesterday, trying to find a way to keep my resists up, but also enhance life.
You guys had a very nice ring in the guild stash that added +73 to life. And gloves that I enhanced that gave me +43 life or something like that. That doesn’t sound like a lot, but when combined with all my life nodes, it pushed me up to over 1400 life from 1000 life. But it also meant that my cold and lightening resists went down because of the ring I replaced. I was able to compensate for cold resist by changing out my shield and head piece. I can’t currently use decoy totem anymore because I have no red slots.
The guild stash also has boots that give me high fire resist and lightning resist. So once I’m level 48 (one level away), I should be able to wear those. Unfortunately, they are armor boots, not energy boots, so I’ll have some armor that’s worthless. But still, I gained about 475 life thanks to the guild stash and my stash, while losing about 40% lightning resist and decoy totem. I think this should help me survive the labyrinth tonight.
Damage is fine, given it has no damage rolls and is not yet regalled (rare) - it’s nearly as good as it gets for base damage on bows. It should be an excellent base for an end game crit bow build - I gather +2 to bow gems is highly desired.
There is nothing on poetrade with +2 bow gems and >~35% crit chance, 5L or otherwise (actually, there is a couple of 2L’s)
I see. So a regal makes a magic into a rare without changing the existing properties? That’s awesome. I can’t wait to see one of those drop. That could be really awesome for you, or it could really suck, because you end up with properties that you don’t want.
Yep, regals are rare and super valuable because of their crafting power. Transmutes and Alterations drop like candy, so crafting a blue with the affixes you want is relatively easy. Regaling that then drastically increases your chance of getting a good yellow with desired stats, as opposed to dropping alch/scours to hope for the same.
Make sure you are selecting the right mods (implicit, explicit, etc)
http://poe.trade/search/kakamebadozare
Ah yep, I was kind of banking on the summary total poetrade sometimes calculates.
Just had a 15% Empower gem drop as well. Will I devalue it by pre-leveling it before potentially trading?
I assume that means you don’t have enough of some of the various currency types to roll enough and/or right color slots. So I put a bunch in the guild stash. It won’t help a lot if you’re trying to do something odd like roll red on an ES-only armor, but it’s enough if you just need a few Jewelers Orbs to get four sockets on an item or a few Chromatics to shift colors around.
In other news, after my Marauder died no less than three times due to game crashes, I finally decided I’d better try to do something about it. Using Steam’s repair function didn’t seem to help, so I completely uninstalled the game. Reboot, make sure all the old files are gone, then re-installed. Thus far, no more crashes. Keeping my fingers crossed!
And mandatory Vorici Calculator (chromatic re-rolls).
Remember to unsocket any gems when checking the str/dex/int requirements on an item before you plug in the stats. You want the base requirements, not the requirements with all your high level gems installed!
Thanks for the invite, Bob
I’m mostly running around with Evade + Energy Shield equipment or ES-only equipment, since I have high intelligence and dex. So I didn’t even bother trying to waste Chromatics on it. I think the odds would be non-existent to get reds.
Getting one is pretty easy. Good luck getting more than 1 on a 4-slot.
Bateau
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Regal and hope for +1 generic then sell for lots of money. As is, it’s not worth much, +2 is really easy to hit with alts.
For future reference, +skill bows only sell for builds that scale well with gem level, like Explosive arrow (but for that you also need top tier attack speed), caustic arrow, SRS, etc. Without a good phys roll that bow is worthless to regular archers.
And no your empower won’t lose any value if you level it, quite the opposite in fact.
That 1-3 fire damage might just make a difference though!
I’ve got a friend who recently started playing and I decided to roll a new character to play with him. I started a marauder with an eye towards going… I think Zerker with righteous fire. So far I’m just using Sunder as my tack scale as my attack skill but man that is one powerful skill.
Kadath
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2 hours in with a rogue thingy…
Act 5 Kitava down with my hierophant. I took one large smack to the face, but otherwise rather smooth. Occurred to me after I should have run normal lab first, so I went and did that as well (way over level, so it was trivial).
I have such a Marauder too and it is very powerful. At least at level 42-ish.
