Ok, I think it may just be a myth then, maybe ill test it myself but after looking some more i read that some people had tested it and found it to be not true

aite but ill be changing it a little cuz i need to add some stuff and what u said make sence since i never did the math to factor travs vs brogues with the sc changes. but i like the 20% frw from the belt cuz the rep will do little in a duel vs a hdin or a nec. dins would kil in 2-3 no mattter wut and necs usually go quite fast on duels unless mb then no way to kill lol

so when i post the final one u can redit the link lol

This post was edited by budiu22 on Dec 6 2010 04:30pm

WAYYYY to much frw....stick with around 150% and get some charms with 20 life, will be much more beneficial

oki

its called diminishing returns...

check my guide for a graph that will help visualize it.
http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=15660633&f=87

nice guide bro !

how are you getting more dps with diamond bow vs gmb? by any analytics i've done, i gain min dmg and stats on items (verdungo life/dr/rep, circ life/res) for a loss of avg dmg when making the switch from gmb to diamond -- even gaining 2skill/20 dex/20 res in a circ (i.e. gaining 4x 3max sc's), i don't think it makes up for the dmg advantage of gmb and extra 40 ed jewel... and i don't like having lower jav throw speed (95 is the highest easy-to-achieve bp)

and, if the item gains were significant in my testing, i personally had better stats with gmb+160/60/life+verdungo+ed/res/etc jewel'd helm (100 ias with armor/amu/glove) -- and i can use gaze (bow dr nice vs other zon teams, also allows phoenix+40 dr for fast throw+nice dmg if vs barb or charge or smite or something) or shako or kira (cold stack) or my 120/45/30 if i choose (i made up the res from fort/circ with high res/stat ring and jewel'd helm)

Plus, i really prefer war travs to rare boots (9x 3max = 27max, war travs 10-25 max -- there's no loss of life or frw because you'd just replace 3/20/20 with 20/5res (or 3/20/5 with 5/5), and the loss of AR doesn't mean much of anything with the 14k AR it'll have anyway). You do lose 5 frw. Then, war travs have 10str/10vit too, so the stat gain is diminished to 11. You built for hotspurs anyway, so i don't know that the str helps that much while the dex will give a little dmg

/close gonna post the more clean version of this ^.^