Quote (izParagonzi @ Jul 8 2022 11:22pm)

I looked at the advice (agree to some extent, but... there is the but).

I looked at your character and level with the items you are using and decided to purchase and I am sick and tired of people saying that 80% EE SCALE armor is better when you could have purchased a +30 Strength Plate (level 40 or 45) to give you more killing speed than buying that +28 Earth Charm that is level 45, you could have brought a level 15-30 charm with the same stats at a reasonable price and you can use it in earlier levels through to Master Quest.

Plate / Chain would give you more time in a catacomb compared to that of a Scale armor... the only time you need to use a Scale armor is when you get a Headhunter... you are a LONG way off achieving this if your starting character is a Barbarian / Fighter as 99% of the community SUGGEST you start with... so you won't use a Rogue who uses Scales.

No matter what people say, sometimes it is better to purchase High EE heal charms @ level 25 + and stat 30 base to Intelligence and use the ability Salvation.

Hey, I play my game against the grain, I agree with their advice to some extent (basically if you have the funds to buy great gear), but, as a beginner, buy cheap that will get you to level up just as fast and not die and keep the prof points you have gained and enjoy the game a bit better, and yes, you will make fg from Softcore, they are paying higher than Hardcore because of more player base, so you will end up with some decent items.

EDIT: Forgot to add in my toon... yes my weapon is great, and it is two(2) handed (1.8 sec delay), but I will change my armor @ level 45 to 0% Enhanced Effect with +38 Intelligence / +16 Vitality / +8 life regen up to Master Quest which is level 75 for a Paladin... oh, also change from level 35 Longsword to 45 Polearm around level 65.

https://forums.d2jsp.org/user.php?c=3&i=234344&p=421445

View it yourself.

EDIT2:

Forgot to add... reduce the life of the slugsliders to around 5 pixels, kill off all slugsliders that are HEALING first and when you are fully healed up, and all 9 have around 5 pixels of life left, enter and kill off as much as you can before going back into town and before they can respawn (call) more in... so some form of healing will make this faster for you and keep you in game long enough to wipe them out.

Quote (Monkey_king @ Jul 9 2022 09:01am)

Thank you for all this useful information. I greatly appreciate it. Sorry it took me so long to reply, I was tending to my disabled wife.

Quote (a_hotter_otter @ Jul 9 2022 11:37am)

take everything Rex says with a grain of salt :P

He is fairly knowledgeable but has some outlandish viewpoints because he plays an extremely niche style of play, which relatively works, but takes him 3X time as long each MQ, so.

my suggestion for you if you are interested in looking at his suggestions as well as do a couple tests where you slash with the EE armor for one or two regens, then count how much damage you have done during those two regens (mouse over your character) and then do one or two regens with a strength armor, and count how much dmg.

Alomst 100% you will do more damage total before you have to regen using the EE armor because your weapon is not strong enough to make the breakpoint.

Quote (Bob888 @ Jul 9 2022 11:50am)

topic is epic lol

Quote (HoneyBadger @ Jul 9 2022 01:50pm)

buy the 100+ ee armors from this guy
https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=95769533&f=273

Magical amber scale armor
Level Req: 25
+103% Enhanced Effect

Rare adamantium plate mail
Level Req: 35
+109% Enhanced Effect
+1 Jubilance

Magical fossilized scale armor
Level Req: 40
+105% Enhanced Effect

Quote (Monkey_king @ Jul 9 2022 03:09pm)

all 3 of them??

Quote (Monkey_king @ 10 Jul 2022 07:09)

all 3 of them??