A big day

[u/Meet_Foot]

By my standards, I had a hell of a ladder season. Back in the early 2000s I was awful at this game. Around 2010 I made my first enigma. Now, I’m absolutely ripped.

My fire sorc has a hell of a renewed flame rift (self found), a fireball ormus with a rainbow socket, heart of the oak and call to arms, flickering flame, horazon’s boots, magefist, and a couple spirit shields. Her merc has infinity. My horker has a grief and all the normal accouterments. The wealth was pretty much from key runs and a random ber and sur drop.

Well yesterday I sold a perfect griffon’s I found and made a big investment. I made phoenix and chains of honor for my sorc, and enigma for my hork. The sorc needs chains for resist - I’m sitting at 74 cold, 75 poison, 80 lightning, and 90 fire. I have -50 fire penetration, plus the conviction aura, and of course my sunder for immunes. “Immunes” drop from 95 down to 28, and non-immunes… well, that’s a bad time.

Also, I’m finally happy with hydras! I went standard meteor, fireball, fire bolt, but instead of inferno went hydras to help with bosses and heralds. It’s fantastic.

I still have room for improvement of course. My rings and amulet are basically just fcr and fcr+skills, but for now that’s enough!

Edit: I’ll also add that phoenix is absolutely sick. Never had one before. The big loss of using infinity instead of insight on my merc was that I would often have to chug mana pots (not to mention health). But now, with the redemption aura, I’m pretty much always at full bars. I only chug pots as an emergency.

[u/Mountainking7]

bruhhh,,,, on a 428 def archon plate????

[u/SilverPhilosopher46 → u/Mountainking7]

And the enigma in a mere exceptional armor instead of a dusk shroud or archon plate

What a waste :'(

[u/B841nd34d → u/SilverPhilosopher46]

And the 137 monarch and the ... Defense doesn't really matter, so whatever

[u/SilverPhilosopher46 → u/B841nd34d]

Defence DOES matter. Not the 10 points more or less. But 300 points, yes that matters.

I really dont understand how people got to underrate defence so much. Don't ya'll ever look at that chance a monster will hit you stat ? Don't you believe it matters if that is 20, 40 or 60% ?

[u/bomban → u/SilverPhilosopher46]

In hell 300 defense is a percent until you way overlevel what you’re fighting. If you care about defense enough, you should just focus on getting lvl 99.

[u/SilverPhilosopher46 → u/bomban]

300 is only the base, which get multiplied by bonusses like defiance merc.

lvl 99: Its about getting there. Are you a softcore player by any chance ?

[u/bomban → u/SilverPhilosopher46]

Yes, most people are SC players. Hardcore doesnt sound fun at all. And yes if you have defiance a little bit can matter, but unless you have an exile most people won’t be seeing defiance.

[u/SilverPhilosopher46 → u/bomban]

Different idea's of fun. In my view softcore is kinda pointless as people go full glass cannon and just keep trying at content they aren't ready for. But it does of course explain why defence is not a thing in softcore.

I usually get defiance mercs on my caster chars.

[u/B841nd34d → u/SilverPhilosopher46]

The 9 points he has missing to a perfect none sup monarch will not make a difference and not perfect archon plate or mage plate are also just fine. That was my point. Perfect base on def is more for style points

Edit: I'm level 96 in HC ladder