Quote (TERROR1ST @ Mar 5 2016 11:00pm)
rare pikes can be good on merc. big damage but a little slow. also, no set items allowed on wolfy?
ps. isnt it a massive mistake to waste your imbue quests in normal this early? I feel like saving imbues for eth feral axes would be your best chance at a gg item? i always save all my imbues til lvl 70+
It's a utility problem. The chances of getting a useful imbue late in the game is really small. How many good imbues have you had? Be honest. Not many. But If the eth large axe had rep mod, and 70+ ed, it could be upped as needed...eventually into 70ed eth rep feral axe. There is a lot of potential there. But without the repair mod, it still had use on andy and duriel. I've played the game a long time and never gotten an imbue that was worth much. On the other hand, I've seen one person get a +5 nado blue antler from imbue. What are the chances? Infinitesimal. Another P8'er pointed out that imbuing a circlet early on is very useful because of the mods it can get...like life leech or mf or what have you. Its the early utility of the imbue they value. So if you have a 50% chance to get some use out of an imbue early and say a 1 in 1000 chance to get use later, how do you make the decision? It's not easy to figure. But, when you say I made a colossal mistake using the imbue early, you are looking into the future and saying a 1 in a 1000 good result will happen and a 50% chance now will not happen. This is not correct thinking. Further, I might have gotten a 10ias, amping, self repair, 70+ed large eth axe now and it would have been good for a long time
infinitesimal, yes. I've crafted items with 95th level chars using high ilvl and the chances are greater that I'll make a good craft but it rarely happens--so many variables. But I've crafted nice things on low level chars with lower ilvl and found use. It's a similar issue. Things have more use early on. Utlitmately, I view Imbue is a small part of the game. A colossal mistake is dying without using the imbue
Yeah, the pike could have been good. But the savage Partizan is good!