Which Insight is better?

Kind of new to Runewords so I am trying to understand what to be looking for on the Insight?
I am guessing the

Voulge is better because of the Med Aura and dmg?

Cheers!

Dhamm wrote: 4 years ago

Kind of new to Runewords so I am trying to understand what to be looking for on the Insight?
I am guessing the

Voulge is better because of the Med Aura and dmg?

Cheers!

The

Voulge is better.

Unless you're planning to wield it yourself instead of hireling (hence low requirements), use an elite weapon instead, such as

Thresher,

Cryptic Axe,

Giant Thresher or

Great Poleaxe.

Just as a character you can reach certain IAS (Increased attack speed) breakpoints on your mercenary. I suggest you find a calculator online which would give you more information. You could search for something like "Mercenary ias breakpoint calculator". The

Scythe would allow you to reach a breakpoint easier since it is faster than a

Voulge. Since Insight gives no IAS you would need it on the rest of his gear to reach a certain breakpoint. You can see that here Polearms. But I wouldn't worry too much at the level you are at. I would focus at getting an elite base with 4 sockets to start with. Would be even better if it's ethereal since the gear on mercenaries don't break.

In conclusion I would say that the weapon with the higher

Meditation is better at the moment since it would allow you to regen your mana faster. Only worry about min maxing your mercenary at a later stage with elite bases found in Hell difficulty.

It's ok to have a Normal level base to start off with but as your merc lvl's up, upgrade it to an Exceptional lvl base, then to an elite base. Keep the old ones for new toons to use.

You can look up the base types on here. -10 is the faster speed while 10 is slower speed, A

Scythe,

Battle Scythe,

Thresher is the fastest and does the lowest damage with the lowest stat requirement. The

Poleaxe,

Partizan,

Cryptic Axe is the slowest but does the most damage with the least stat requirements.

the stat people look for on them is the level 12-17

Meditation.

I would choose the

Voulge one just because of the level 17 med aura

personally,

Voulge is a better one obviously.

The

Voulge. Don't discount that roll on

Critical Strike!

Deckard Cain, NA PC wrote: 4 years ago

It's ok to have a Normal level base to start off with but as your merc lvl's up, upgrade it to an Exceptional lvl base, then to an elite base. Keep the old ones for new toons to use.

You can look up the base types on here. -10 is the faster speed while 10 is slower speed, A

Scythe,

Battle Scythe,

Thresher is the fastest and does the lowest damage with the lowest stat requirement. The

Poleaxe,

Partizan,

Cryptic Axe is the slowest but does the most damage with the least stat requirements.

the stat people look for on them is the level 12-17

Meditation.

You can upgrade items with runewords in them? I thought that only works on unique items? Can someone confirm that?

Omoxyron wrote: 4 years ago

Deckard Cain, NA PC wrote: 4 years ago

It's ok to have a Normal level base to start off with but as your merc lvl's up, upgrade it to an Exceptional lvl base, then to an elite base. Keep the old ones for new toons to use.

You can look up the base types on here. -10 is the faster speed while 10 is slower speed, A

Scythe,

Battle Scythe,

Thresher is the fastest and does the lowest damage with the lowest stat requirement. The

Poleaxe,

Partizan,

Cryptic Axe is the slowest but does the most damage with the least stat requirements.

the stat people look for on them is the level 12-17

Meditation.

You can upgrade items with runewords in them? I thought that only works on unique items? Can someone confirm that?

Only normal and Unique items. Not set items, or already socketed items (pretty sure). However. You could theoretically upgrade a normal item to elite, then socket it with either the cube or

Larzuk, then make a runeword out of it.

Omoxyron wrote: 4 years ago

Deckard Cain, NA PC wrote: 4 years ago

It's ok to have a Normal level base to start off with but as your merc lvl's up, upgrade it to an Exceptional lvl base, then to an elite base. Keep the old ones for new toons to use.

You can look up the base types on here. -10 is the faster speed while 10 is slower speed, A

Scythe,

Battle Scythe,

Thresher is the fastest and does the lowest damage with the lowest stat requirement. The

Poleaxe,

Partizan,

Cryptic Axe is the slowest but does the most damage with the least stat requirements.

the stat people look for on them is the level 12-17

Meditation.

You can upgrade items with runewords in them? I thought that only works on unique items? Can someone confirm that?

you can only upgrade unique items and rares, and low quality normal items to normal quality but this sets the ilvl to 1.