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Yeah 'Breath of the Dying' is pretty damned snazy, I think my Necro's Merc has a Collosus sword, (it's the biggest, best sword you can get in the game so whatever it's name is) with that rune word, took ages to find all the bits and make and now the merc is probably better than my char.
Any one have sets that they use, that they particualrly like?

An eth thunder maul is a waste of a Botd. It it 1000 base damage or from a skill? And the poison is useless at high levels.

I don't think there are any decent set weapons, the only set items I have eer used for duelling are propably Angelics and Griswold's helm.

And I missed a decent weapon:
Eth 5 socket Rune Master with Zod and x4 40/15's.

ok people what part of this is for unique weapons, not rune word weapon combos dont you understand.

and there are alot more of the weapons with over 400 damage on them. rune words not included.

besides an azure wrath can be made into a demensional (sp?) blade, but, you have to be on ladder to do it. and it beats lightsaber in duels hands down. i even use a couple when people try pkin me and my clan

I still don't understand what is good about Azurewrath. What leading build would use it? Not to mention the only good use of lightsabre is against lightning NOT for proper combat. And Azurewrath can't be upgraded since Phase blade is already the elite version (Dimensional is exceptional).

ok ive been playing diablo2 for a while now, HOW THE HELL DO I GET THOSE SORT OF WEAPONS????

Do you make them up with the CUBE??? Or are they drops from powerfull foes... Do i need to get LOD to get anything remotely as good as those that you have described.

the best stuff i can find is from the COW KING as im only lvl 27 (sob!)

@Danthe: most of the items people mention in this thread, are not availble in D2 classic (ie D2 without LoD). Also, you will not find them unless you are very lucky, and play a lot at Hell Difficulty.

I really recommend you to get LoD, it adds so much to the game and it's really cheap nowadays. One more act, lots of new items - jewels, runes/runewords, many new unique and set items, class specific items etc, new monsters and 2 new classes (assasin and druid, I love the assa).

thanks i think!!!

what a bummer, i really need that expansion disc dont i???

im getting it soon off a mate of mine. however at this rate ill still be playin this damn game trying to get the hang of it even when im old, grey and wrinkled.....lol

perhaps you could set up a thread that could aid the peolple that don't have the expansion disc yet.. would that be possible to do?

just to give a little helping hand to those who dont get the privilage of being an assassin or druid.... its a real pain cos im doing nightmare mode and im having trouble killing zombies in act 1.(IM SERIOUS) how ridiculous is that?????

i like a fury claw for my sin ww sins totally own
if not that then my ethereal botd zerker axe 4 my pally

Fury and BotD =/= Unique. Though they are pretty nice .

[QUOTE=Noober]I still don't understand what is good about Azurewrath. What leading build would use it? Not to mention the only good use of lightsabre is against lightning NOT for proper combat. And Azurewrath can't be upgraded since Phase blade is already the elite version (Dimensional is exceptional).[/QUOTE]I have a L92 barb , and it has twin azures for switch
(both 10/270) from twin , eth ccbs 414/15 415/15 . Now azures you see
are great for diablo clone and I also used them , swapping with botds to
take care of the uber 3 . Azurewrath is extremely competent vs monsters
with high resist to physical damage . Using frenzy (maxed synergies) ,
It is only slightly slower at killing than my botds . The sanctuary also
comes in handy .

The sanctuary aura on Azurewrath completely negates physical immunity of undead monsters, and since most PI's are undead it's very nice to have on switch for melee characters.

For necromancer i liked my +3 to bone spear wand.Bought it from a shop though.Ofcourse the wand had other things too,but they weren`t so important.

The best weapon, in my opinion, is an eth upgraded Kelpine Snare. Put this baby on a Holy Freeze merc and enemies can barely move with the added benifet of your merc doing good damage.

Favourite weapons of most builds I played:

Orb/FBall, Blizzard and Orb/CL Sorceress: Oculus. I had a good Eschutas that gave me more damage, but the resists, MF, life and mana on Oculus make it a much better allround sorc weapon. The annoying teleport effect even saved my life a couple of times (and killed me a couple of times too).

Dragon Talon kicksin: Kingslayer Phase Blade. 33% Crushing Blow and 30% IAS is all a kicksin needs. With 15 more IAS I got from a jewel in my armour, I hit 7/3 kickspeed without having to use BoS. I used Fade instead, which gave me 50% Physical Damage Reduction and an easy 90% resist all when combined with Guardian Angel and Stormshield.

Summoning Necromancer: Arm of King Leoric. Can't beat +5 Raise Skeleton/Skeleton Mastery. The ctc boneprison is as annoying as Oculus' teleport though.

Bonemancer: White runeword in a +3 Bone Spirit wand. It's nearly as good as Boneshade (some would say better, and most of the time I agree) and much easier to find. Boneshade has so much variable stats that it's very hard to find a good one. Death's Web looks good too but the lack of FCR kills it.

Venomancer (nova based) Death's Web. Contrary to pubbie belief, the -% poison resistance adds much more damage than the +% poison skill damage from Bramble or Trang Oul's gloves.

Venomancer (dagger based) Blackbog's Sharp. The slow target is great (I love slow and flee effects on daggermancers), the poison rate and duration is high enough to avoid messing up your poison dagger damage, and the +5 poison dagger adds tons of damage. The only useless mods are the +50 defense and the 30% IAS.

Frenzy Barbarian: My dream weapons would be a Beast Caduceus and Grief War Spike, but I never managed to acquire the runes so I went with upgraded Headstriker (tons of damage!) and an Oath Conquest Sword (Oath gives lots of ED and IAS and is very cheap)

Polearm Whirlwind Barb: Tomb Reaver socketed with an ED/IAS jewel for the -60 breakpoint, and 2 ED/Max jewels. The weapon does a good amount of damage (he was a pure strength/no vit barb, 600 Strength = 600 off-weapon ED, so lots of added damage), and the weapon also gives resistances (the lack of a shield that comes with using 2-handed weapons means you'll have a harder time getting those resists to 75, this weapon is great to make up for that), magic find, some life after each kill (which is pretty useless when compared to life leech, but life is life and life is good), and very high attack speed (you only need 10 additional % IAS to get the last WW breakpoint).

Javazon: Ethereal Titan's Revenge. Too bad it doesn't have any IAS, but the +skills, +stats, life steal, F R/W and replenishing makes this a Javazon's wet dream. For a pure Lightning Javazon I'd pick Thunderstrokes however. The added lightning damage, IAS, +4 javelin skills and -% lightning resistance makes this much better for LF'ing those Cows than Titan's.

Bowazon: Upgraded Riphook. Just about any bow does more damage than this one, but I loved the speed. 7/2 strafe all the way! It became a little weak in Hell, but I managed to fight my way to Matriarch with it so it wasn't that bad.

[QUOTE=skatar]I have a L92 barb , and it has twin azures for switch
(both 10/270) from twin , eth ccbs 414/15 415/15 . Now azures you see
are great for diablo clone and I also used them , swapping with botds to
take care of the uber 3 . Azurewrath is extremely competent vs monsters
with high resist to physical damage . Using frenzy (maxed synergies) ,
It is only slightly slower at killing than my botds . The sanctuary also
comes in handy .[/QUOTE]

What on Earth are you doing with dual sowrds -_- (BotD's none the less!). As I understand a level 26 Sanctuary aura only gives at maximum 144 magic damage. Surely a Berserk off your BotD's would be much more effective, and there should certainly be better anti-UD weapons (I can't think of any immediately because I had Warcry boosters on switch).

Anyway, the best, IMHO, weapons for each class are:
Sorc - Eschuta's, HotO RW, Memory RW (pre-buff ES), Fathom (cold sorc only), Passion RW (for those funny uber high aura stacking damage characters)
Sin - Jade Talon, Bartuc's, Chaos RW, Fury RW, Death's Web, Malice RW, Fool magic claw (only for high defence pala's)
Barb - Death Cleaver (for the sake of having a Unique), GRIEF RW, Beast RW, Echoing Hand Axe of Simplicity
Necro - HotO RW, WizSpike, White RW (only godly versions), Arm of King Lerioc (summoners only)
Druid - HotO, some fast Phase Blade, Griswald's, Beast RW
Amazon - Windforce!, Faith RW (which is far better then Windforce solo), Titan's, CTA RW (for finishing with Guided Arrow for Plaguzons)
Pala - Super rare godly War Pike (gogo Charge!), Doom RW, WizSpike, Grief RW, HotO, 5x Light Facet caduceus

You seem to forget that the Sanctuary aura lets you negate physical resistance on undead monsters.

[QUOTE=Noober]What on Earth are you doing with dual sowrds -_- (BotD's none the less!). As I understand a level 26 Sanctuary aura only gives at maximum 144 magic damage. Surely a Berserk off your BotD's would be much more effective, and there should certainly be better anti-UD weapons (I can't think of any immediately because I had Warcry boosters on switch).

Anyway, the best, IMHO, weapons for each class are:
Sorc - Eschuta's, HotO RW, Memory RW (pre-buff ES), Fathom (cold sorc only), Passion RW (for those funny uber high aura stacking damage characters)
Sin - Jade Talon, Bartuc's, Chaos RW, Fury RW, Death's Web, Malice RW, Fool magic claw (only for high defence pala's)
Barb - Death Cleaver (for the sake of having a Unique), GRIEF RW, Beast RW, Echoing Hand Axe of Simplicity
Necro - HotO RW, WizSpike, White RW (only godly versions), Arm of King Lerioc (summoners only)
Druid - HotO, some fast Phase Blade, Griswald's, Beast RW
Amazon - Windforce!, Faith RW (which is far better then Windforce solo), Titan's, CTA RW (for finishing with Guided Arrow for Plaguzons)
Pala - Super rare godly War Pike (gogo Charge!), Doom RW, WizSpike, Grief RW, HotO, 5x Light Facet caduceus[/QUOTE]I like swords - it's a matter of
personal taste I suppose , and any PB with native 30ias sounds good to me
( weee 4 the BP's )
, I'll go without fant aura - I hate repairing weapons . btw
I have a pair of twin PB last wish and twin PB grief (392 , 399)
dual swords , gotta love that
p.s - I believe some mods don't work properly with runeworded axes ....

Heart of the Oak is my favorite for sorceress, hammerdin, or any caster. Hands down the best caster weapon. FCR, Resistance (one of my 3 was perfect) +3 skills etc. Awesome for any caster.

I feel old school, kind of.

I still love Hellslayer on my fury druid. Is that wrong of me?

I really like my upgraded Lycander’s Flank. If only I had an Ethereal one and a Zod rune....

Lycander’s Flank
Matriarchal Pike
Two-Hand Damage: 153 to 580
Required Dexterity: 149
Required Strength: 132
Required Level 60
+2 Amazon Skill Levels
+20 to Strength
+20 to Vitality
+20% Enhanced Defense
+247% Enhanced Damage *With Ohm
+25 to Minimum Damage
+50 to Maximum Damage
30% Increased Attack Speed
+ 9% Life Steal
+2 Spear and Javelin Skills
+1 Socket with Ohm Rune

Anyway, this clears house on my spearzon. The fact is, Impale, Fend and Critical Strike are good enough that you can quest in Hell with a regular Lyscander’s Flank, but the upgrade and Ohm make life much easier, although you have to repair all the time.

Don’t upgrade Bartuc’s claw! It is not worth it!