Which new jewel to use, and does -MRES matters ?

This post was edited by CKOPOCT on Mar 3 2026 01:26pm

+magic skill damage doesn’t work with berserk. It does all the calcs as physical damage then lastly just converts damage to magic damage.

The -magic res does work though, so go with that. Alternatively, nearly nothing is immune to magic, and if it is, your 1 point in conc will work just fine.

Thanks i know how to deal wit magic immune.
My wondering is will the - magic resist help for killing stardart mobs in p8 and Heralds faster or flat dmg is better.
And also with the new jewel will the ED be better than - MRES.

This post was edited by CKOPOCT on Mar 3 2026 01:35pm

-mag res will always help, but heralds get seriously dangerous for berserk barbs once they’re tiered up. No defense and if you opt for no block, can make the game go sideways for you. Excessive use of howl to flee their pack before spamming berserk.

As for everything else, most non-act boss monsters just fold to a good berserk, regardless of a sunder or ancient jewel.

As for the physical jewel, I think they’re bugged in anything but a weapon.

10% magic pen basically gives +10% total dmg vs 0magic res mobs (most of them). Or a whooping 200% bonus dmg vs sundered immunes set to 95% res.

And as far as I know, the ed/min/max bug isn’t fixed, so unless you put the phys one in weapon, you don’t get much from it on a zerker who does not benefit from the -dr at all also.

You’ll need a renewed black cleft with -magic res also, cuz yeah the one giving +% magic dmg won’t work with zerk as the dmg output is calculated before being converted to magic.

You can get more magic pen with sling ring and gheed’s wager.

Thank you very much boys.
In the end what will you suggest me to sock my the Shako with : Guardian's Light or Protector's Stone ?

Guardian's Light

50% drop from Madawc



Definitely Light

This post was edited by ZeaLORDeaL on Mar 3 2026 02:16pm

What’s giving you cannot be frozen?

Horazon boots

The only case where the stone jewel will not be bugged in a non weapon is items with native %enhanced damage. I.e. all that %enhanced damage on the jewel is nulled for those that don't know.

Like the Mephisto Book, or a rare circ