Necro Circlets - A good and a meh?

Found these on ladder season 12.

I think Grim Visage is decent - not nearly GG, as it only has one socket for instance, but it is at least a 2/20 with resistances and mana. That's good, right?

I think Bitter Hood is not nearly as good, but it's got some dex (helps reach max block), life, res, mdr... I think using the

Shako test it's self-use only? It's also a failed unique with its triple durability, which I thought was fun lol.

Thanks!
[Parsing item text from your screenshot...]

Grim Visage

Circlet
Defense: 30
Durability: 35 of 35
Required Level: 67
+2 to Necromancer Skill Levels
+20% Faster Cast Rate
+10 to Energy
+66 to Mana (Based On Character Level)
All Resistances +14
Magic Damage Reduced By 3
24% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
Socketed (I)
Shift + Left Click to Unequip

Bitter Hood

Circlet
Defense: 23
Durability: 104 of 105
Required Level: 67
+2 to Necromancer Skill Levels
+76 to Attack Rating
+16 to Dexterity
+30 to Life
All Resistances +15
Magic Damage Reduced By 3
Shift + Left Click to Unequip

1st one: The socket came from

Larzuk and rares can only get 1 (only magic items can get 2 from

Larzuk).
2/20 with good all res and mana should get a couple of

Jah on non-ladder.

2nd one is missing fcr, but life and all res make it borderline sellable. Somewhere around

Ist maybe?

The second one seems quite inferior to

Harlequin Crest IMO.

Instead of roughly +130 to Mana and +130 to life and 10% Physical Damage REduction and +50% MF you get roughly +60 to life and +15 All Resistance.

So you basically get 15% All REsistance, but lose 80 life, 130 mana, 10% Physical Damage Reduction and 50% MF.

(The +16 to dex I've converted to Vitality in my math and done the same with the +6 you get on dex/str/vit from Harlequin. So netto, you gain +10 vitality from your

Circlet and generously equaled that with 30 life)

The only plus side is that

Harlequin Crest is looking quite ugly, so maybe some people prefer an item where the stats are inferior, but the look is superior.

WedgeAntilles wrote: 21 hours ago

The second one seems quite inferior to

Harlequin Crest IMO.

Instead of roughly +130 to Mana and +130 to life and 10% Physical Damage REduction and +50% MF you get roughly +60 to life and +15 All Resistance.

So you basically get 15% All REsistance, but lose 80 life, 130 mana, 10% Physical Damage Reduction and 50% MF.

(The +16 to dex I've converted to Vitality in my math and done the same with the +6 you get on dex/str/vit from Harlequin. So netto, you gain +10 vitality from your

Circlet and generously equaled that with 30 life)

The only plus side is that

Harlequin Crest is looking quite ugly, so maybe some people prefer an item where the stats are inferior, but the look is superior.

+30 life is BO'able, life from vita (via dex) or from per-lvl (like in

Shako) is not. So the difference is bit less but your statement is still correct.
The main benefit from the circ is that it doesn't look ugly. The res doesn't compensate 50 mf, 10 dr, and the mana boost.

Ist is more the upper limit. I'd sell it for less (~

Pul) but you might be lucky.

Agreed on 2nd: worse than

Shako which can be found for less than an

Ist.

First: magic find at 24 is, I assume, a ptopaz, so not a built in affix.

So it's a 2/20 with decent all res and mana, while usually mana comes from rings and life from amulet or head - not that well placed.

I'd value this around 1

Ber to 1

Jah, not more, sorry.