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Insight is popular among casters because of the relatively cheap runes necessary for its creation, as well as for the

Meditation aura it provides. Instead of wielding it themselves, most players let their Act 1 or Act 2 mercenaries carry it.

As of Patch 2.4, Insight can also be built in Missile Weapons.

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Teebling Admin

4 years ago (pre-Resurrected)

Insight is popular among casters because of the relatively cheap runes necessary for its creation, as well as for the

Meditation aura it provides. Instead of wielding it themselves, most players let their Act 1 or Act 2 mercenaries carry it.

As of Patch 2.4, Insight can also be built in Missile Weapons.

Deleted User 632

Guest

4 years ago (pre-Resurrected)

An Act 2 Mercenary with

Prayer aura and holding Insight will have a double healing effect as

Prayer is a synergy also activated through

Meditation.
With Cure helmet on top you can get up to triple healing power as

Cleansing shares the synergistic healing effect as well.

Symbiosis

4 years ago (pre-Resurrected)

The

Meditation aura really helps when you accidentally

Teleport in the middle of a group and are instantly zero mana from

Energy Shield!

Yacuy

4 years ago (pre-Resurrected)

It doesn't work with Pikes, just tried

Some necromancers create Iron Golems from an Insight weapon, retaining the possibility of equipping the hireling with another weapon with an aura. Thanks to low required runes, even if the golem dies, the loss is negligible.

Zlomy

4 years ago (pre-Resurrected)

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d3/t/ ... unch/42973

11. Ladder-Only Runewords Unlocked for Single Player + Non-ladder

I am not sure if it is permanent but with this maybe database need to be updated. Or to Ladder only add * or something like that...

Beezil

4 years ago (pre-Resurrected)

Polearms and Staves NOT spears.

Beardozer Moderator

4 years ago (pre-Resurrected)

Melee Sorceress meme build with an Insight weapon and

Energy Shield

BillyMaysed Moderator

4 years ago (pre-Resurrected)

crocorinho

4 years ago (pre-Resurrected)

Due to the cheap rune price and relatively easy-to-find base weapons it is common to re-roll Insight to find a Lvl 17

Meditation aura roll on it (1 in 6 chance)

Teebling Admin

3 years ago (pre-Resurrected)

Blizzard wrote:
Developer Comments: Insight is a popular Rune Word, and we feel that allowing it on ranged weapons will promote more build possibilities that complement the skill and mercenary changes seen above.

Blizzard's comment regarding the patch 2.4 change that now allows Insight to be built in Bows and Crossbows (Missile Weapons).

Deleted User 632

Guest

3 years ago (pre-Resurrected)

The Math on Insight: ED vs Critical Strike

TLDR: the level of

Critical Strike has a similar impact on damage output as the amount of enhanced damage.

Deleted User 632

Guest

3 years ago (pre-Resurrected)

_DarkMaster wrote:
A1 mercs are capped at +3
Critical Strike from oskills, so as long as you have +3 CS on her then she's maxed. This applies to CS from both Insight (+1-6 CS) and Peace runewords (+2 CS).

fredkid

1 year ago (pre-Resurrected)

In a simple calculation, thanks to the 1-6 to

Critical Strike, the "effective Enhanced Damage" can vary from 248% (200% + Level 1 - 16% CS) to 425.6% (260% + Level 6 - 46% CS).

Mod: that's a bit of a tricky way to show this. I leave it but better refer to the graph above.

Queegon

1 year ago (pre-Resurrected)

While you could build Insight in any polearm base, you should think twice about making it in a

Colossus Voulge because it's the only base your merc can't wield together with Cure due to its high strength requirement (that is unless you are opting for a non-Fortitude armor with + strength on it).
Cure is arguably the best-in-slot headgear for Act2 mercenary wielding Insight.

With Cure + Fortitude on, the strongest base in terms of DPS is

Great Poleaxe, closely followed by

Giant Thresher.

Aelanwyr

1 year ago (pre-Resurrected)

A slvl 12

Meditation aura will provide a +575% bonus to mana recovery rate.

Each additional slvl will increase the bonus to mana recovery rate by 25%. Thus, a slvl 17

Meditation aura will provide a +700% bonus to mana recovery rate.

Aelanwyr

1 year ago (pre-Resurrected)

I like to make low-level Insights in a

Bill, as an ethereal

Bill can be wielded by an mlvl 27 Desert Mercenary, and Bills will gain 4 sockets from

Larzuk regardless of where they are found (assuming

Recipe: Normal Quality Weapon of Same Type was not involved).

fredkid

1 year ago (pre-Resurrected)

If your Act 2 Merc is using

Twitchthroe (which is one of the better low level armors for damage), Merc may use an Ethereal

Battle Scythe Insight on level 27 (an Ethereal

Bill Insight can be used on Level 27 without any Str/Dex bonus)

Aelanwyr

10 months ago (pre-Resurrected)

When using

Meditation, it is helpful to know that a character's natural rate of mana regeneration is 0.83% of their maximum mana per second. Stated another way: under normal conditions, a character will go from 0 mana to full in exactly two minutes.

This fairly readily demonstrates the power of the Insight runeword. Rather than needing two minutes to recover from an empty mana orb, a poorly-rolled Insight reduces the recharge time to just under 18 seconds, with a perfectly-rolled slvl 17 aura reducing that time to 15 seconds.

gensymmed

8 months ago (pre-Resurrected)

Deleted User 632 wrote: 3 years ago
The Math on Insight: ED vs Critical Strike

TLDR: the level of
Critical Strike has a similar impact on damage output as the amount of enhanced damage.

If you find that the lack of axis labels on these graphs makes it unclear what they are trying to show, here's a description from the creator (found from a comment in the linked reddit post):

Apologies for not labeling the axes. These are basically frequency distributions (histograms). Damage is on the X axis. Frequency (percentage of observations) is on the Y axis. For example, for the first chart, the blue line (Min ED and Min CS), about 26% of the simulated attacks resulted in between 200 to 300 damage in the first chart.

I simulated 2048 attacks per line, and used 100 damage wide buckets. There's some noise in the lines, but it would have taken >10k attacks per line to really smooth them out.