which jewel to go in my shaftstop on my telezerker?

[Matt]

Decided on shaft over ed/life armor, I cant really get my hands on 4 insane jewels to make it more worth it, I made this barb all on a single player character editor, and experimented with shaft or a 100 life armor with 4x 28% ed jewels (i belive 30 is max for my level, i was trying to be realistic ;) ) and I found that I lost about 60 max pvp and about 100 life after battle orders by using shaft, BUT I gained 30% dmg reduction, and it made my shopping/jewel getting a bit easier :) So, shaft it is, now my question.

I'm going through my mules looking at all that I have for this barb so far, and I came across this jewel:

12-41 fire damage
1-85 lightning damage
7 Dexterity
16 cold resist

Useable at level 49. It seems to be a pretty good jewel, adding 13-126 damage with the fire/cold, lets assume 75% resist to both, so about 3-32 damage, assuming max resists, with no fire/light absorb. Of course, not all my pk victims will have max resists, so that could be significantly higher. On top of that, 7 dex will net me 7 more vitality, or 28 life, about 60 more after battle orders, which more than makes up for the life lost by not going with an ED/life armor, then a little cold resist vs orb sorcs and whatnot is just gravy.

So, do I go with my jewel, or try to get a good ED jewel? Thanks!
-Matt

[doubleOObubble]

What weapon will you choose? That's sort of relevant if you want to compare that jewel with a +%ed one :)

[Matt]

Eth Kingslayer BB

[TunaMofo]

Decided on shaft over ed/life armor, I cant really get my hands on 4 insane jewels to make it more worth it, I made this barb all on a single player character editor, and experimented with shaft or a 100 life armor with 4x 28% ed jewels (i belive 30 is max for my level, i was trying to be realistic ;) ) and I found that I lost about 60 max pvp and about 100 life after battle orders by using shaft, BUT I gained 30% dmg reduction, and it made my shopping/jewel getting a bit easier :) So, shaft it is, now my question.

I'm going through my mules looking at all that I have for this barb so far, and I came across this jewel:

12-41 fire damage
1-85 lightning damage
7 Dexterity
16 cold resist

Useable at level 49. It seems to be a pretty good jewel, adding 13-126 damage with the fire/cold, lets assume 75% resist to both, so about 3-32 damage, assuming max resists, with no fire/light absorb. Of course, not all my pk victims will have max resists, so that could be significantly higher. On top of that, 7 dex will net me 7 more vitality, or 28 life, about 60 more after battle orders, which more than makes up for the life lost by not going with an ED/life armor, then a little cold resist vs orb sorcs and whatnot is just gravy.

So, do I go with my jewel, or try to get a good ED jewel? Thanks!
-Matt
Hey Matt, correct me if I'm wrong, but a further 1/6th PvP penalty applies to the damage from that jewel, leaving it.... somewhat lacklustre :P

Damage jewel all the way ;)

[Matt]

that 1/6th penalty effects the elemental damage as well? Ooooh, I have no clue, you are probably right, thanks tuna :) Can anyone verify this, neither of us seem 100% sure :scratch: Thanks! Yeah, looks like Ill go ed jewel, thanks guys!

[NeoHydragen]

I have a 30%ed jewel and a pretty decent one that I've been saving for some unknown reason, the stats on my "decent" jewel look like this:
+5 Min
+6 Str
+5 Dex
+14 Mana
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This jewel would net you 11 more points in vitality, which in turn is 44 life.

*Neomaker if you're interested

[doubleOObubble]

Matt. Assuming you go for max berserk and synergies you will benefit a whole lot more from max damage jewels, just so you know :). It's a difference in several hundreds in max dam if you go with +%ed jewels or with max ones.

Of course, I don't know your exact build, but unless you already have it, I'd suggest you check it out for yourself with my nifty little calculator made for just these occations :thumbsup:

Get it here (http://medlem.spray.se/doub/) if you want to toy around a bit! :howdy:

[Matt]

Whaaaaaat? Wow, thanks DoB! I hadent socketed anything yet, but I was very sure ed jewels were better, didnt even think to check it... Thank you very much for telling me!! So, I aim for 15+ maxers? Also, any idea how that effects my armor choice? If the difference in damage is much higher with max's, then max//life armor could be a lot better than shaft (60 max as opposed to 15) Thanks again.

-Matt

[NightShade]

Max damage is always the prime target imo, thus the carnage jewels take precidence.

[PhatTrumpet]

Vermillion of Carnage


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[Eblocher]

I have a 26% ED jewel sitting on a mule Matt, that I am incline to give you, because I traded all but one of my max dmg charms for Max Dmg jewels for my PK/PKK level 18 necro.

Is your account the same?

[Matt]

yeah, its the same. But dont worry about it, I hear max>ed anyhow, its all good, because I traded my HoZ too :) Got an offer I couldent refuse.... Shako for it!

-Matt