Crown of ages best use?

Hey y’all! I finally found a unique

Corona after a bunch of normal, socketed and even the set version dropping for weeks. Whoot

Terror zones!

It rolled amazing as well, 2 sockets, 28 all res and 14 damage reduction. Sadly I’m offline, so this won’t be going towards a pvp build…

So what’s the best use for it? Or everyone’s recommendations?

2

Perfect Topaz gems for extra MF (or two

Ist runes but it's more expensive) or 2 perfect Facet jewels for - minus to resistances.

The only one I saw was from a very rich PvP player. He put BerBer for maximal damage reduction.

The BiS helmet for Dragon paladin. Put 2x 5/5 fire facet in. Flickering Flame is useless compared to faceted CoA.

FoHdin can make great use of it,

Griffon's Eye is cool and all, but CoA works perfectly fine too.

Would also choose it for poison javelineer, and again, with facets.

It's an option for 2x15ias jewels in a

Helm. Some physical damage builds or hybrid builds can use this, but it's not usually best in slot for pvm I think. If I ever find one in singleplayer, I will put it on my Death

Ettin Axe zealer

Any thoughts on slotting x1

Cham and x1

Ber on a x2 socket

Crown of Ages?

ghostpos wrote: 9 months ago

Any thoughts on slotting x1

Cham and x1

Ber on a x2 socket

Crown of Ages?

I am definitely not an experienced player, but, to me, it seems that this is its absolutely best use, for a HC melee character. Its stats provide some defenses already, and these two runes provide even more, while also freeing up a slot of mandatory CBF equipment.

I really wish I had all of these, the helmet, the runes, everything.



HC is scary.

Queegon wrote: 2 years ago

The BiS helmet for Dragon paladin. Put 2x 5/5 fire facet in. Flickering Flame is useless compared to faceted CoA.

FoHdin can make great use of it,

Griffon's Eye is cool and all, but CoA works perfectly fine too.

Would also choose it for poison javelineer, and again, with facets.

Prefer 2/20

Circlet with 1-2 sockets for FoHdin personally. +skills is huge for Holy

Bolts.

On topic, possibly

Um+

Ber for CoA? Or 2xPTopaz like someone said for extra MF?

Nice find, congrats! I've been dreaming about finding one myself for days now, after dropping two

Griswold's Valor

Corona...

On topic: the

Ber+

Cham or

Ber+

Ber options sound great, if expensive or even prohibitive for Single Player... Personally I wouldn't go the MF way (PTopaz/

Ist). Perhaps 2

Um Rune for even higher resistances?... it depends obviously on the characters you play! Anyway enjoy!

EDIT: geez, old old topic!

Nate wrote: 2 years ago

Hey y’all! I finally found a unique

Corona…

So what’s the best use for it? Or everyone’s recommendations?

You put it on your character's head and enjoy that he dies less often.

tadkarcz wrote: 1 day ago

Nice find, congrats! I've been dreaming about finding one myself for days now, after dropping two

Griswold's Valor

Corona...

On topic: the

Ber+

Cham or

Ber+

Ber options sound great, if expensive or even prohibitive for Single Player... Personally I wouldn't go the MF way (PTopaz/

Ist). Perhaps 2

Um Rune for even higher resistances?... it depends obviously on the characters you play! Anyway enjoy!

EDIT: geez, old old topic!

It's much easier to get elemental resistances than physical resist, so if you can afford it, socket

Ber instead of

Um. If you are melee and do not have any other source of "cannot be frozen", then socketing a

Cham is a no-brainer.

i have a

Crown of Ages for my firedin/dragondin. I personally think its better than using Flickering Flame. two 5/5 jewels in there.

TooRowdy wrote: 16 hours ago

i have a

Crown of Ages for my firedin/dragondin. I personally think its better than using Flickering Flame. two 5/5 jewels in there.

Are you running a sunder charm with your setup? On my offline dragondin I use Flickering Flame for both the -enemy fire resist and to counter the sunder negative resist on self. I could move the Flickering Flame to my merc, but then I need to find the CoA and facets.

I'm currently using a 2 socketed CoA with 2 ×

Um runes on my Dragondin. Total +60 all resist. This allows me to use more elemental damage small charms for more damage output paired with sunder charm and

Conviction.

TooRowdy wrote: 16 hours ago

i have a

Crown of Ages for my firedin/dragondin. I personally think its better than using Flickering Flame. two 5/5 jewels in there.

I am using Flickering Flame for the looks and the 95% fire resist. Really nice to be almost immune to fire.

In terms of damage and overall stats, facetted CoA is better.

Queegon wrote: 2 years ago

The BiS helmet for Dragon paladin. Put 2x 5/5 fire facet in. Flickering Flame is useless compared to faceted CoA.

Must disagree (at least in Softcore). Imho, Jeweler's

Tiara/

Diadem of Speed, socketed with 3x 5/5 Fire Rainbow Facet is way better. Let's look at CoA's stats:

Defense: 349-399
Useful, but not that much of a difference concerning chance of not getting hit

+1 To All Skills
Damage from Dragon won't scale with +Skills, so maybe better

Battle Orders and less hard points in

Conviction, but that's all

Damage Reduced By 10-15%
With the rest being high-end gear, you'll be around 3-3.5k HP anyway so chances to get killed are allready quiet low.

All Resistances +20-30
The most useful stat here, as the rest of your gear hasn't got that much res. But you can compensate with Shimmering Small charms of Inertia (5@R/3frw)

+30% Faster Hit Recovery
Second useful stat, but look above concerning dmg reduce by %. Enemies allready die in 2-3 hits by the aura on /p1, so stunlock isn't an issue. And if you want to play /p8, dragondin is far away from rocking anyhow

I think using CoA, you

Sacrifice two stats that are hard to get anywhere else just for some def, res and fhr:

• Faster Run/Walk, which is a QoL improvement and 30% is significant
• 5% Fire Damage / -5% enemy fire res which increases your damage output and makes some mob die in 2 instead of 3 hit by the aura

I tried some helms by myself, CoA with RBF was one of them and i regret socketing the two jewels on it. Fortunately, i found a happy buyer for it

Don't get me wrong: CoA is a great item for a Dragondin, but i doubt its BiS

Sidenote:
Why is frw so important on Dragon paladin?

• It's scaling is linear up to a point of 300% (which you won't reach).
• You don't use Enigma and even if you got a dreamlike
  Blood Amulet with
  Teleport Charges, you will be running around or Charging most of the time
• Charge gets faster by frw, not by skill level. And you need it for getting from a to b, not for its damage

I even replaced

String of Ears with

M'avina's Tenet and i don't want to go back