Spirit Forge-what oh what

[viamede]

Spirit Forge-what oh what

Found one last night. Charsi looked highly interested. Then I thought hm life per level, not horrid defence and two sockets...it must have a use...but what..

Thus far I have thought of sticking it on merc to relace his spirit shroud (shudder) but at a loss on what to socket it with (sol's? or ort/ral?) or putting it on necro to replace his two socketed rare armour which has 59 life and triples res and then socket it with two perf rubies for a nice life boost. The res I could probably make up by dumping his topaz socketed tarnhelm.

Any thoughts?

 

[PhatTrumpet]

Definitely a nice ghetto armor before you find a Dury's Shell or make a Lionheart/Smoke. Socket with resist runes if you need the resists, topazes if you want some mf, rubies otherwise. It's also decent with two amethysts if your Merc needs a dose of steroids to equip some big weapon or whatnot.

Doesn't sound like the best Necro armor though (put the Spirit Shroud on him instead?).

 

[viamede]

Have a dury's on zon atm...she needs it more. Lum has eluded me thus far but may be able to cube up some runes for it. Res is covered but life at 775 could be higher. With addition of homo I am adding dex to get block up....its at 48 now. He had some dodgy moments with some boss archer packs visting the countess so I thought more life might be a an idea...besides not spending 30 minutes to get to hell countess for a tal, ral and eth . Perhaps holding fo merc booster is the best idea. I don't like shroud at all. Merc lacks anything better and I figured the CBF and one skill boost was ok for he with many lives.

Thanks for the suggestions.

As an aside I did learn a valuable lesson last night with sorc...don't open evil urns with vipers in the area...unlike other monsters who pop a little distance away the stupid vipers popped right on me twice eeeek!

 

[xeyloderixed]

anything socketed will always have a use for your merc when you take on hell. you can use the sockets to shore up resistances, or if you are a speed freak like me, you can always put plain 15 ias jools in em so waheed attacks real fast. the extra ias is most useful for nec merks, because the bulk of his damage comes from the merc.

as for the urns, they are deadly at any difficulty (assuming, of course, you are playing through). fana fanataurs, fana vipers, and amp succubi are the worst i can think of, and ive had all of them spawn at one time or the other. i highly suggest skipping past them unless you have a very good reason to kick em.

 

[viamede]

Good ideas both xey...

Yes I have always popped the urns figuring they were good xp ...this was only in NM...usually they spawn away from me and orb or two drops em flat...for some reason the snakes spawned right on me so lucky I have some FHR to get out before too much damage was done...I shall definately take a pass in the future.