Ok I want to well and transmute items on ladder slasher and I figured I would ask the experts before I do this because I'm not sure if this idea would work.

Is a melee rogue good for magic finding?

Suppose I use a good cheap staff with high %ee (100+ suppose)
An ok armor with decent defense with mods like strength, dex, or magic find
And charms with strength/magic find or dexterity/magic find

Depending on the gear I could obtain maybe dump all points into dex and try to bank off strength gears

I figured this might work as staves are dirt cheap on the mp but i'm unsure.

Anyone out there ever build this type of character?

Also are there perhaps other builds that are more effective in terms of cost.

This post was edited by mewizard on Jan 20 2009 04:03am

I wouldn't suggest using a melee character for welling, check this guide out might interest you.

http://forums.d2jsp.org/index.php?showtopic=27247710&f=74

any char can be good with magic luck

but unless you got some great and very expensive gear, you're gonna have a really hard time welling items

it can much easier with a mage tho if you like to mf /well
a mage with a good mq charm ( lvl 55 130+ ee ) et a good heal charm ( 150+ ee )

No, Simply...NO

Melee rogues that use staffs aren't even meant to solo @ higher levels (They do do it..but its much slower)

and if you wanted a nice % weller as a melee rogue..your gear would have to cost you probably more fg than you currently have..to be a good soloer / weller @ high levels.

for melee i wouldnt suggest going as a rouge.

with melee the thing about wells is that you dont do them consistently where a mage can.

with my barb ill sometimes kill them easy and sometimes they kill me easy. it just depends on the stats really.

if its barb vs caster ill probably loose since i have no intelligence to speak of and he just bypasses my armor.

but when its vs melee it can be a different sort of deal. Of course all i get is pretty much trash unless its a lucky second or 3rd drop or whatever.

since they use the items that they will be dropping you can get pwnt easy vs any monster using good gear. of course if they are meleeing you and with a rusted axe while having a 200+ ee ice charm then you might win and get that charm but thats gonna be some lucky shit to make things work EXACTLY like that.

like i said- consistency.