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I'm sure there's a guide somewhere that tells me, but I can't find it with my limited searching. Does Concentration work properly with Grief or is the damage calculated separately?
Concentration works properly with Grief (or any off-weapon %ed). The charactrer screen just doesn't show it properly, it seems it adds the Grief damage bonus after off-weapon %ed.

Afaik Vengeance is the only skill for which it does not work. Unsure about Blade Fury.
The elemental bonus of vengeance doesn't benefit from Grief's bonus or off-weapon %ed, but from on-weapon %ed and +min/max damage (including "adds x-y damage"). It's still dealing physical damage, to which off-weapon %ed is applied. See here: https://diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Vengeance_(Diablo_II)
 
Yes it works with Concentration. Just remember that Concentration does NOT effect the 350 to 400 +damage that grief does.

From Amazon Basin
Damage + adds to both minimum and maximum physical attack damage before +% Damage is applied. Character screen does not add Damage until after +% Damage is applied, so actual damage can be much higher than displayed. It is also added to shield damage before +% Damage is applied when calculating Smite damage. Character screen does not add Damage at all.

It does not apply to the following:

Dragon Talon
Dragon Tail
Dragon Flight
Blade Sentinel
Blade Fury

It also does not get included when calculating Vengeance added elemental damage (although it still gets applied when calculating its final physical damage).
 
What about the extra damage to demons, would that bring up the weapon damage part that is enhanced by auras (melee skills in general I assume)?
 
Not sure with respect to auras but afaik damage to demons and undead is considered off-weapon, even when it is on the weapon itself. So it should be added to vengeance but not to smite or kicks
 
Haven’t played since RFL, and that only briefly.

My computer (aged Intel MacBook Pro) has pretty much died on me, so just waiting for a shiny new M4 MacBook Air to arrive.

Installing D2R is going to bring some new challenges, but can be done apparently. Let me know if anyone has already done this.

Hope everyone is keeping well.
 
I'll be keeping extremely well when this accursed cast comes off my foot tomorrow. It's been a very, very long two months.
 
well, i found a 1.07 armor rack that can be manipulated to drop balrog skin........ see u guys in like 3 months when i get the valor drop
 
any use for one of these in 1.07? gonna probably be finding plenty of every kind of balrog skin before i get the unique so i have been keeping 4 socketed (both eth and noneth)
 

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No, you only need the gold ones. I would recommend getting at least 3 before you re-roll the rack (one to forward, one for you + merc)
 
i still have the map but i started doing cs+baal runs to reach 85, so merc can be 85. i think mainly i will let the merc use it, for now. i do agree i will probably go back for one more, since this only took a couple days. the rack is very stable, and only very rarely drops anything other than a balrog skin. so i don't really want to give it up yet.

required level 85 kind of makes me not care so much about having this for practical use. you have to play the entire game and then some to be able to use it. i could see wanting it for a barb. barb gets about 1k health from 1.07 valor.

i have a goldstrike arch and two burizas, so i was thinking of making a zon. i have something like three or four valks now, i'd like to socket them and use them on a physically attacking character. wearing it on the orb sorc is fun for teleporting around but not that useful, i started using vamp gaze because with energy shield the damage reduction from gaze+string of ears is very nice.
 

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i can't say i've seen this exact type of glitch terrain before. only reachable with teleport, or maybe leap? i don't have a barb on 1.07 and i'd have to find a map like this again anyway
 

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I recall sometimes seeing elite items drop from nightmare Griswold and the Smith. It is probably quite rare but the targets are very safe to run and at least. With a magical, rerolled-with-gems or crafted elite weapon the early nightmare would start to look very much easier for many characters.

Anyone have an idea of how common elite items are from these smiths?
 
Anyone have an idea of how common elite items are from these smiths?


https://www.theamazonbasin.com/wiki/index.php/Griswold_(N)

Using MaxRoll calc 0% mf

Griswold (N)

Smith (N)

looks like you could play through entire nightmare 85 times until you on average get an elite weapon
 
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