Nova sorc

tatarjj wrote: 1 hour ago

An interesting thought but no FCR on the armor forces you into using subpar options on your other gear slots. The only thing that Trangs or Magefist give you is FCR.

Sure, but it is still the most optimal place to add magic find (other than travs). It's suboptimal at other slots. But the question remains how to inject magic find. You can add 21 MF at the cost of a skiller. You can add 40 mf at the cost of 20 FCR at the glove slot. You can add up to about 30 MF at the cost of a skill at the ring slot. Or you can add 99 mf (plus strength) at the cost of 20 FCR and 1 to Nova and 5% -ELR (when replacing Ormus). If you split engima into two mentally, you can have 40 mf for 20 FCR and, and 59 mf for 1 to Nova and 5% -ELR. That's an excellent trade in both cases, and it ignores the strength benefit. Since we're considering opals as the replacement for the FCR, this could be rewritten as engima offering 99 mf (plus strength) and an extra 5% -ELR in exchange for losing 1 Nova and 2 skills and mana. If we assume -5% ELR is roughly equivalent to one skill, it looks like 99 mf (plus strength) for -1 Nova -1 skill and mana.

It looks something like this:

Engima gains 99 MF at a cost of 20 FCR ( Ormus baseline) and -5%ELR
Chancies gainst 40 MF at the cost of 20 FCR
Nagel gains 30 MF at the cost of 1 skill
Sling gains 20MF and 10 FCR at the cost of 1 skill
War Travs gains 50 MF at the cost of poison res or mana (sandstorm or silks)
Gheeds gainst 40MF at the cost of 1 lightning skill


So Enigma remains the winner for adding MF to the Nova sorc (other than travs). This assumes, however, that you have either a 2/20 and some combination of 5% opals. Second place would be Chance Guards. For example, chancies with 2x Sling rings can net you 80MF at the cost of 2 skills and mana.