What should I socket my griffon with?

I goy myself a Griffon for my

Nova sorceress and I was wondering what should I socket it with.
The obvious option would be a lighting facet, but I have doubts because the Griffon is not perfect.

Do you think is worth spending on a 5/-5 facet for a non perfect Griffon? Or should I go for a cheaper one 5/4 or 4/4, something like that
Or maybe should I socket it with something different?

Facets are relatively cheap, go for it.

stick a

Zod in it

I would try to get a -20 one before I socket it if not single player.

Man, that's a good Griffon's and a Facet will make it only better.

I hope the latter two replies are ironic...

Meh, perfect gear is expensive and for minimal gains IMO, I would only worry about that once you're very rich and have nothing else to shoot for. Doesn't take long to get a socket quest, if that's what you're worried about; and you can even pay for those if you cba.

I say whack a facet in it, cheaper one will do if you're still a bit tight, or upgrade to RotW and get yourself a

Guardian's Thunder.

Janet the Java wrote: 1 day ago

Meh, perfect gear is expensive and for minimal gains IMO, I would only worry about that once you're very rich and have nothing else to shoot for. Doesn't take long to get a socket quest, if that's what you're worried about; and you can even pay for those if you cba.

I say whack a facet in it, cheaper one will do if you're still a bit tight, or upgrade to RotW and get yourself a

Guardian's Thunder.

That's actually a really good call, I'm checking prices and low Guardian thunder is cheaper than a 5/-5 Facet lol

Kinslayer233 wrote: 1 day ago

Janet the Java wrote: 1 day ago

Meh, perfect gear is expensive and for minimal gains IMO, I would only worry about that once you're very rich and have nothing else to shoot for. Doesn't take long to get a socket quest, if that's what you're worried about; and you can even pay for those if you cba.

I say whack a facet in it, cheaper one will do if you're still a bit tight, or upgrade to RotW and get yourself a

Guardian's Thunder.

That's actually a really good call, I'm checking prices and low Guardian thunder is cheaper than a 5/-5 Facet lol

Probably a ladder/non-ladder thing?

Kinslayer233 wrote: 1 day ago

I goy myself a Griffon for my

Nova sorceress and I was wondering what should I socket it with.
The obvious option would be a lighting facet, but I have doubts because the Griffon is not perfect.

Do you think is worth spending on a 5/-5 facet for a non perfect Griffon? Or should I go for a cheaper one 5/4 or 4/4, something like that
Or maybe should I socket it with something different?

My rules of thumb:
- Facet value ~ item value
- Performance over resell value

If you are using the griffon on a self wield Infinity sorc, you can go with a 5/-4.

If this is for a Javazon, go for a X/-5.

in d2r , 1p , LoD,

Nova sorc


if you have Infinity in merc or yourself.
You can try

Um or jewel all res+damage to mana or

Sol.

facet is okay if you dont have extra thing. like self wield inf.

Run it see which suit you.

Just to repeat one important thing:
There is literally no difference that could be noticed between -5/+3 and -5/+5 facet once you have

Lightning Mastery maxed out.

vued wrote: 5 hours ago

Kinslayer233 wrote: 1 day ago

Janet the Java wrote: 1 day ago

Meh, perfect gear is expensive and for minimal gains IMO, I would only worry about that once you're very rich and have nothing else to shoot for. Doesn't take long to get a socket quest, if that's what you're worried about; and you can even pay for those if you cba.

I say whack a facet in it, cheaper one will do if you're still a bit tight, or upgrade to RotW and get yourself a

Guardian's Thunder.

That's actually a really good call, I'm checking prices and low Guardian thunder is cheaper than a 5/-5 Facet lol

Probably a ladder/non-ladder thing?

I think it could be related to only being able to wear one uber jewel at a time. That couple with the fact there is almost certainly (in my humble opinion) fewer 5/5 lightning facets than Guardian Thunders; e.g., there is a direct farming route to an uber jewel, but facets are just pure RNG you cannot shape.

Unless you plan on waiting to find a perfect one for some reason, I'd just toss a facet or one of the new lightning jewels in it. That roll is really good.

I would go for a cheap

Guardian's Thunder. There are plenty of them out there by now, both ladder and non-ladder.

Or buy a lightning facet with -5 to enemy light res. -5/3 is cheap and totally fine. Minus light res is much more important than light damage.

I have long time not check light facet...looks like that market crashed.
3 x perfect light facet =

Jah. (sample today, range from

Vex to

Ohm, some sold in

Ist and

Lo-

Jah are exclude)
And low thunder is

Ohm

in lod's calculation, facet is 4.x

Ist while

Ohm is 4. but in rotw , it is 3.x

Ist... almost same price.

I remember it was 2-3

Jah back to LoD days. That I still have very few 5/5 in house...

I have feeling , by the time I get rotw, those facet will down to 1

Ist or less....

==

Nova sorc can use engima , Phoenix , eye means only need 1.

meanwhile, javzon , eye, 4/3 os armor or chain of Honor, nix / 4 os shield , may still need it.