In legacy versions of the game, this rune word's chance to cast Firestorm on hit used to cause severe lag in multiplayer games, as well as noticeable animation locks and attack interruptions due to a bug causing on-striking skills to trigger their respective effect's casting delays. Exceptional, one-handed: Coldkill Butchers Pupil Islestrike Pompeiis Wrath Guardian Naga. Thanks to its unusually large amount of enhanced damage if made into a shield, Phoenix is (by a considerable margin) the most damaging shield for most characters specializing in physical damage to use. Normal, one-handed: The Gnasher Deathspade Bladebone Skull Splitter Rakescar.

The -28% fire resist is also useful for characters who specialize in fire damage. Phoenix is the only way to get enhanced damage on a shield (aside from +x% enhanced damage jewels), and the Redemption aura is very helpful in keeping the character alive. And with the +IAS you should be dishing out the damage in a hurry.1.10–current Phoenix is the rune word ' Vex Vex Lo Jah' for weapons or off-hand armor in Diablo II: Lord of Destruction. I imagine that a good honor, twitchthroe and full iratha's could get you through NM fairly easily unless you have something better for that period. Either way, I think that'll leave the merc plenty capable of clearing out whatever the RC doesn't own first.

Definitely frees up the helm slot a bit at that point, though. Or maybe Duskdeep, that +max damage might be better, I'm not sure. Come to think of it, thanks to the leech on weapon I could forgo the wormskull and socket a biggin's bonnet for the added +%damage. Thanks for the tip.Īnd Honor definitely can pack a punch: the DS, + damage and + strength combine together quite well. Only problem is I have multiple eth Partizans but no eth Lances, so I'll probably socket a twicththroe and a wormskull and go with that and try to look for a Lance to upgrade to later. Re: Honor Hadn't even thought about looking into the spears (I don't spend much time on optimizing early game items I just hate that part of the game altogether), but the Lance does seem like a much better idea.

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