What bases do you look out for while farming?

Spectie wrote: 6 months ago

oh Oath. I have an Oath BA that i can't trade either LOL. It's such a neat cheap runeword.

That's because it needs to be made in an

Eth

Feral Axe

human_being wrote: 6 months ago

Yep, and my preference is far away from those. I was mentioning the masks in particular because I understand they're quite popular.

Demonhead and Bone Visage have a good ratio of defense and strength requirement, which makes them very popular.

Of course it is a matter of taste, but combined with the right equipment, these look amazing:

Assassin wearing

Demonhead and

Sharktooth Armor

Necromancer wearing

Scythe,

Bone Visage and

Mage Plate

Amazon wearing

Bone Visage and

Wyrmhide

What I really like about runewords is the customization! For me, the appearance of a hero is an important thing which most of the time is considered when I am making endgame runewords. Sometimes, this is even more important than having perfect stats. I just don't want to have my heroes all look samey.

The Natalya set is ugly as hell, at least it's kinda fun. But compare this to my other assassin...

Assassin with moustache and metal-rimmed glasses

Or:

Paladin wearing

Andariel's Visage,

Wyrmhide and

Sacred Rondache

Sadly, there are some items being the absolute BiS bases: The well-known toy swords a.k.a. Phase Blade and Monarch. Hard to pass if you don't want to sacrifice a lot of life or damage potential. Same is for

Archon Plate. But with a few more points in strength, there are fine alternatives.

Barbarian wearing

Arreat's Face,

Wire Fleece and plastic swords

In some cases and depending on runeword (Enigma or Dragon being very pleasant examples) I step down one class and opt for the exceptional version.

Druid wearing

Hunter's Guise and

Sharktooth Armor

Paladin wearing

Winged Helm and

Cuirass

Luckily, Mage Plate/Archon Plate are awesome on most heroes in terms of stats and looks:

Sorceress wearing

Tiara and

Mage Plate

Druid wearing

Jalal's Mane and

Mage Plate

At some day, I will make an Avenger Paladin with a

Colossus Blade. Just because.

DasNarf wrote: 6 months ago

human_being wrote: 6 months ago

Yep, and my preference is far away from those. I was mentioning the masks in particular because I understand they're quite popular.

Demonhead and Bone Visage have a good ratio of defense and strength requirement, which makes them very popular.

Of course it is a matter of taste, but combined with the right equipment, these look amazing:

Assassin wearing

Demonhead and

Sharktooth Armor

WoFAssa.jpg

Necromancer wearing

Scythe,

Bone Visage and

Mage Plate

FireNecro.jpg

Amazon wearing

Bone Visage and

Wyrmhide

Bowazon.jpg

What I really like about runewords is the customization! For me, the appearance of a hero is an important thing which most of the time is considered when I am making endgame runewords. Sometimes, this is even more important than having perfect stats. I just don't want to have my heroes all look samey.

The Natalya set is ugly as hell, at least it's kinda fun. But compare this to my other assassin...

Assassin with moustache and metal-rimmed glasses

NatalyaSet.jpg

Or:

Paladin wearing

Andariel's Visage,

Wyrmhide and

Sacred Rondache

PaladinAndys.jpg

Sadly, there are some items being the absolute BiS bases: The well-known toy swords a.k.a. Phase Blade and Monarch. Hard to pass if you don't want to sacrifice a lot of life or damage potential. Same is for

Archon Plate. But with a few more points in strength, there are fine alternatives.

Barbarian wearing

Arreat's Face,

Wire Fleece and plastic swords

WWBarb.jpg

In some cases and depending on runeword (Enigma or Dragon being very pleasant examples) I step down one class and opt for the exceptional version.

Druid wearing

Hunter's Guise and

Sharktooth Armor

FireDruid.jpg

Paladin wearing

Winged Helm and

Cuirass

Dragondin.jpg

Luckily, Mage Plate/Archon Plate are awesome on most heroes in terms of stats and looks:

Sorceress wearing

Tiara and

Mage Plate

Enchantress.jpg

Druid wearing

Jalal's Mane and

Mage Plate

SummonerDruid.jpg

At some day, I will make an Avenger Paladin with a

Colossus Blade. Just because.

I'm all in on coolness over power. Especially when playing online, since you probably don't play on "Players 7."

For example, I feel like using a

Phase Blade (or pretty much any one-handed sword) with a Barbarian is aesthetic sacrilege, so my Barbarian uses a Death

Colossus Blade and

The Grandfather. I mean, what's cooler than TWO two-handed weapons? Masks just seem to break the aesthetics of most characters and look generally out of place, IMO. That assassin is a good example of how you can make it work, though (additionally, masks definitely look better in D2R than they did in LOD).

The fact that masks are popular due to stat requirements makes a lot more sense to me, though, since then it's obviously a power-over-aesthetics decision. Still, to be clear, I'm not saying "no one should like masks," I'm expressing my own preference, which is that they look like

The Face of Horror.

human_being wrote: 6 months ago

I will never understand how Diablo players managed to wear those horrible masks as helms. Especially in LoD, they look a bit cooler in Resurrected.

Because in LoD, your character's head was maybe a grand total of 6 pixels.

DasNarf wrote: 6 months ago

Sorceress wearing

Tiara and

Mage Plate

Enchantress.jpg

When I was deciding on a Flickering Flame base for my Sorceress, I was all set to trade for a Superior

Diadem before I took a look at a

Tiara on the character selection screen using the D2 Runewizard hero editor and decided on that instead. The

Diadem looked chunky and ill-fitted on her head in comparison. It looks better on the Amazon even though it still looks like a headlight on her too.

DasNarf wrote: 6 months ago

human_being wrote: 6 months ago

Yep, and my preference is far away from those. I was mentioning the masks in particular because I understand they're quite popular.

Demonhead and Bone Visage have a good ratio of defense and strength requirement, which makes them very popular.

Of course it is a matter of taste, but combined with the right equipment, these look amazing:

Assassin wearing

Demonhead and

Sharktooth Armor

WoFAssa.jpg

Necromancer wearing

Scythe,

Bone Visage and

Mage Plate

FireNecro.jpg

Amazon wearing

Bone Visage and

Wyrmhide

Bowazon.jpg

What I really like about runewords is the customization! For me, the appearance of a hero is an important thing which most of the time is considered when I am making endgame runewords. Sometimes, this is even more important than having perfect stats. I just don't want to have my heroes all look samey.

The Natalya set is ugly as hell, at least it's kinda fun. But compare this to my other assassin...

Assassin with moustache and metal-rimmed glasses

NatalyaSet.jpg

Or:

Paladin wearing

Andariel's Visage,

Wyrmhide and

Sacred Rondache

PaladinAndys.jpg

Sadly, there are some items being the absolute BiS bases: The well-known toy swords a.k.a. Phase Blade and Monarch. Hard to pass if you don't want to sacrifice a lot of life or damage potential. Same is for

Archon Plate. But with a few more points in strength, there are fine alternatives.

Barbarian wearing

Arreat's Face,

Wire Fleece and plastic swords

WWBarb.jpg

In some cases and depending on runeword (Enigma or Dragon being very pleasant examples) I step down one class and opt for the exceptional version.

Druid wearing

Hunter's Guise and

Sharktooth Armor

FireDruid.jpg

Paladin wearing

Winged Helm and

Cuirass

Dragondin.jpg

Luckily, Mage Plate/Archon Plate are awesome on most heroes in terms of stats and looks:

Sorceress wearing

Tiara and

Mage Plate

Enchantress.jpg

Druid wearing

Jalal's Mane and

Mage Plate

SummonerDruid.jpg

At some day, I will make an Avenger Paladin with a

Colossus Blade. Just because.

I 100% have made my barbarians armor an aesthetic choice over optimization. His Enigma and fort are both in Kraken Shells because i love how they look