Cute tower 200

is orange not red

free bump

please can someone tell me why these kind of low def shields are valuable in classic?

well, defense sucks is the basic easy answer, its good but its the worst of all the good mods so ur normally just giving up a superior mod to have it

defense is really only good in 1 match up in the game which is vs barb, so either bvb or pvb (shout/holyshield)

other wise if you have a caster style item a bone shield is going to be superior to a grim shield, grim shields are to high strength require for a caster and dont really fit any major match up and take away the importain mods on the shields prefix slot, resistances

a god shield on classic looks like this

bone shield
30/20
50 cold res
50 lightning res
20 fire
20 posion

that is only 4/6 honestly the 5th and 6th mod on a bone shield are generally pretty useless as, faster hit recovery sucks, strength is ussually not needed on a low str req character, replenish is more sorc vs sorc but is still best in slot but rather lack luster outside of other match ups sadly once you have the 4/6 mods prolly the best thing you can get other then replenish is actually PLR75% for more damage reduction from posion which really only has a very small affect in PVM but would be better then 17fhr and 9str if useless, plus PLR offers a red color so... yeah

30/20
5 replenish
50 cold
50 lightning
20 fire
20 posion
75% PLR

5/6 high is pretty much what ur looking for, you can get 6/6 high and add one of the useless mod we talked about but i would not give up higher resistance values for an extra suffix 5CR or 5LR is superior > to 17faster hit recovery or 9 strength although there are some builds out there for like a war barb that u could use 9 strength but im not gonna dig that deep