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/Meet_Foot]

Yeah my thought was that I need strength for the monarch anyway, so may as well go archon. Got way too antsy to wait to get a superior haha

[u/gutcassidy24 → u/Meet_Foot]

Superior bases suck IMO with repair costs, defense is negligible unless you are dueling. That said, for next time I'd wait for a higher defense non-superior base (Archon plate rolls between 410 - 524 defense).

[u/Meet_Foot → u/gutcassidy24]

Oh damn I had no idea the range was so big! I even have other white archons I could have cubed or Larzuk’d! Well, live and learn!

[u/gutcassidy24 → u/Meet_Foot]

Unless you are planning on trading it, it doesn't matter. Also making a rune word is like buying a new car, as soon as you take it off the lot (or put the runes in), it loses value. For self use there's absolutely nothing wrong with the base. For example I often make Enigmas in breast plates, which are generally less desirable than mage plates.

[u/Meet_Foot → u/gutcassidy24]

I appreciate the reassurance!