What Was Your Best Drop Today?

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I did a lot of crafting today - a total of over 90 amulet crafts. I did much better during the first 40 than I did during the remaining 50 (i.e. nothing at all).

To start it off, I crafted this necro amulet. I think it's probably useless seeing as every necro needs 10% fcr at the very least. Still, it blows the crap out of maras so it's likely worth something:

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This paladin amulet is a good temp. It would have been better with a higher strength value, or a much higher life mod than it got:

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This is an amulet that I will probably throw away, but I was pretty angry that the game couldn't just be nice and give +2 assassin skills. Come on blizzard!

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This is probably the only good amulet I got. Yes, it only has 5% fcr, BUT druids only need 4% fcr on their amulet to reach the 99 fcr breakpoint. of course, it doesn't hit the next breakpoint - you need 17-20% fcr for that one - but this is still a very good amulet. It would have been made even better if the life roll was at least over 30 too.

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Lastly, we have another paladin amulet. I have mixed feelings on this, but I couldn't throw it away. The fcr on it is likely useless, and I am having trouble figuring out many builds that don't need fcr but would benefit from 15 to energy. Yes, 45 total stats look fantastic, but this is probably something to charsi at the end of the day. A shame:

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All-in-all, I got 1 good amulet, some okay ones and a lot of pure, absolute junk ;)
 
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Just got these. These are not bad for frostmaiden actually. Has all the right mods. Too bad it doesn't have knockback... but if you're going to use Giant Skull instead of Nightwings... or Windforce instead of Ice... these would be real nice gloves for you:

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Well, here's a pretty fascinating ring...

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WEEEE! This is the first ethereal suicide branch I've ever found! I had to up it immediately ;)

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Well, here's a pretty fascinating ring...

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WEEEE! This is the first ethereal suicide branch I've ever found! I had to up it immediately ;)

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Grats on the finds. But why would one up a suicide branch? Seems absolutely pointless, when all it does is to increase the lvl req with 15.. Trade value?


 
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Grats on the finds. But why would one up a suicide branch? Seems absolutely pointless, when all it does is to increase the lvl req with 15.. Trade value?

The non-ladder price for the up'd eth suicide branch is about 16-24 hrs. The ladder price is admittedly much cheaper... it's only about 3-4, around there. It's a pretty rare drop. Wands of any type don't seem to drop much. And eth ones are rarer still. Up'd eth ones are pretty rare on non-ladder, even now. I admit, there's nothing really special about it beyond a normal sucide branch, but they are desirable and its rare.


 
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I crafted a ton of amulets again. Everyone was a dud except for this. Works well enough for 99fcr builds.

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Finally found a Tal's amulet today! Only took me 62 green amulets before I found it, man that thing had been haunting me!

Also found some pretty gold items that I can't really mention yet.
 
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I just made this CtA, not really anything to brag about.

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The first one I made had +3 BO, the second had +1 BO, this one have +2 BO, I'm not in particular lucky with my rolls.
 
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Darn, that sucks. Still with a couple SoJs, spirit, anni, and a shako or whatnot (depending on build obviously) you get a useable duration on BO even with a 1 BO CtA.
 
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Yup. I'm just going to save these CtA's for future builds. They are always useful until you can afford some with higher BO than your current.
 
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[highlight]Stone of Jordan[/highlight]

it has been a while since i found a soj. grabbed it from countess minions in NM.
 
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slightly off topic, but CtA is the worst thing about a full tal's sorc. Your only sources of +skill that isn't sorc-only are SoJs, spirit, and anni. Resulting in at best 7 BO from a 1 bo CtA - which only lasts 95 seconds. At best you have 12 BO for 145 seconds duration. Sure there's the life difference too, but the difference in having to recast all the time is the annoying part.

A non-tal sorc using:
Chains of Honor
Griffon's
2x SoJ
Mara
anni
cta/spirit

This gets 12 BO from a 1 BO CtA, for 145 seconds, and at best 17 BO, for 195 seconds. So the unique setup with the worst CtA gets the same BO as the tal setup with the best CtA.

It isn't enough to make me give up tal's on my blizz/nova sorc, 'cause the balance of life/resists/skills/MF is just too good - but I think about it all the time when I'm re-casting BO.
 
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