The Cranium Basher...thoughts?

I just found a Cranium Basher. It's my first time seeing this weapon, and I'm impressed with its whopping 75% chance of crushing blow and a nice +25 to all resists. However, its damage is kind of low compared to similar weapon choices (like my BotD) and it requires over 250 Str! I can't even wear that with my Fury druid with the +30 to all attributes from my current weapon. It seems like this weapon could be good for uber runs (I'd have 100% crushing blow), but I'd have to socket it with a

Hel rune to even use it.

Anyone ever used this item? If so, what are your thoughts? Is it worth using?

It’s certainly a lot of strength, and it’s also a bit slow - with level 30

Werewolf and a level 12

Fanaticism aura (from a Faith bow act 1 merc) you’d need 109 IAS to reach the max breakpoint for

Fury: Skill (72 for the second highest breakpoint, which only loses you 1 frame in total on a complete

Fury: Skill attack sequence). Of course if you use Mark of the Bear from Metamorphosis and/or

Burst of Speed from Hustle it’s easier, but depending on your intended gear you might need to swap around gear specifically for prebuffing. This link is prefilled with these numbers, you can adjust accordingly:
attackspeed.php?char=Druid&data=3-2-Thu ... -0-0-0-0-0

But I mean, it could work. I encourage you to play around with maxroll’s skill & gear planner. And remember to double check IAS calculations with the IAS calculator here (see the above link).

Yeah, I'm thinking I'll need to just make a clone of myself in the hero editor and test the weapon out to see if it is worth using my last socket quest on it, just for uber runs.

Cranium Basher - that brings backs memories to the Warcraft 3 map "DOTA" (today most will probably better be familiar with League of Legends)

There was a weapon Cranium Basher - gave your attack "

Bash", which was quite usefull for fast-attacking heroes.

Anybody else remembers Dota?

WedgeAntilles wrote: 6 hours ago

that brings backs memories to the Warcraft 3 map "DOTA"

Omg, played a lot with friends in LAN and online.

hitechhobo wrote: 8 hours ago

I just found a Cranium Basher. It's my first time seeing this weapon, and I'm impressed with its whopping 75% chance of crushing blow and a nice +25 to all resists. However, its damage is kind of low compared to similar weapon choices (like my BotD) and it requires over 250 Str! I can't even wear that with my Fury druid with the +30 to all attributes from my current weapon. It seems like this weapon could be good for uber runs (I'd have 100% crushing blow), but I'd have to socket it with a

Hel rune to even use it.

Anyone ever used this item? If so, what are your thoughts? Is it worth using?

Regarding crushing blow, i'm going to give you my opinion: you don't need anything near 100% CB.

I made a calculator once to seek the "optimum CB amount" and, in my calculations, it was around 30~40% max.

CB have some super diminishing returns, and even on uber runs i don't go anywhere over 40%.

IMHO melee in D2R in a nutshell: stack tons of increase attack speed, Prevent Monster Heal and 40% crushing blow max. Everything else is +life and +resistances.