Memory Base

Baron_G wrote: 8 months ago

1. where to farm? Norm or nightmare?

The best place to farm bases is typically cow level. You can farm normal cows, but the chance of spawning a tier 5 (req level 24) skill is much higher if the monsters are level 37+. So nightmare cows is probably better.

Baron_G wrote: 8 months ago

2. Which vendor might sell non-magic base with +es?

None. Normally, only vendors in act 1 normal and act 2 normal sell non-magic items, and the ilvl cap for act 2 normal is 20. To be able to spawn Energy Shield on a staff, it needs at least ilvl 25.

EDIT: Correction - it may technically possible to show base staves with Energy Shield. You need to be exactly level 19 - you should be able to shop it from act 3, 4 or 5 on normal if you're level 19. It won't be possible to find one with 4 sockets, you need to look for ones without sockets.

Actually, I'm not sure it's possible to shop the Energy Shield staves after all. Like I mentioned, the staff needs to be ilvl 25 to be able to spawn Energy Shield, but at ilvl 25 (character level 20) vendors will only sell magic items. They only sell non-magic items at ilvl 24 and lower (character level 19 and lower).

Maybe someone else can confirm this.

Yeah, it's a pre-buff item. If you put Memory in a staff with +3 to Energy Shield, the staff will yield in total +9 to Energy Shield. It's quite a substantial boost, and also makes it much more manageable to reach level 40 Energy Shield (the max).

You either have it on swap permanently (instead of Call To Arms), or take it out of stash/cube when needed to recast Energy Shield (at level 40 it will last 18 minutes, so you typically only need to do this once per game, unless it expires due to running out of mana).