Weapon damage with Zeal

[chien]

Hi, all:

I've made a "oath" rune word in eth warspike for my fana zealot. On screen, it is about 1.4k-2.5k now. Is this damgage good enough for Hell ? Now, he is currently lvl70 ( or 71 can't remember now :P) with maxed fana (lvl23 with skill), maxed zeal and almost maxed sacrifice (5 solid pts in HS, 1 each in paryer, cleansing, vigor, defiance, meditation and redemption).

BTW, i've asked in other thread but no one answer me :( . How is the bone spirit work when it is triggered? I can't see it hit anything ?? it just passes through baddies. Is it worthwhile to put marrowwalk to synergize it ?


Thank you very much for you kindly help!


Chien

[Armor_Biff]

1400 - 2500 is a bit low for hell. But if you have some deadly strike and crushing blow from equipment (gore rider war boots for example) then its ok atleast.

Hmm... so the bone spirit just passes through monsters every time ? Now that would suck, I was kinda interested in that runeword too.

[chien]

Hi, thanks for the reply. Oh, 1.5k-2.4 zeal is bit low ? My thinking is that since warspike has -10 weapon speed, with oath rune word (50 IAS) and lvl23 fana, I am already zealing at 4 fps. This means 6.2 attack/sec or 9K-14.4k /sec. still low?

About the bone spirit, I don't know.. I seemed to read somewhere that it will only chase the monster you hit if the monster wrong away from your attack. Any one can verify this??

Thanks!

Chien

[Vesio]

1.5-2.4k damage does seem a little low for a zeal. I am used to seeing about 1.9-2.2 min damage when i build a zealot depending on the weapon im using with max of 4.5-5k.

I have an unsynergized zealot (only the one point prereq in sacrifice) that i can get to about 5.1k max on the LCS.

but then i have a synergized zealot on ladder using grief and his displayed damage is 750-950 or so but still kills quite effectively in hell act5.

I guess this is the long way of saying that display damage isn't everything. It does depend on what other mods you have working in your favor. if it is just straight damage without any other mods then yes it is kinda low. However, as Biff suggested an outside source of of something (DS CB or the like) can make that into a passable damage for hell.

[Phoenixtech]

The bone Spirit only passes through monsters when u kill it before it has a chance to fire, otherwise it would land right on the monster u hit. It's very difficult to see with zeal but u can definately hear the sound of it firing off.

To really see how it works, put on marrowwalks and get an asn and use blade fury. You can see that it really does target the monsters and other PPL if you do pvp.

[chien]

Oh, thanks for the explaination.. So, marrowwalk might be a good option for boosting the bonespirit damage.. But, I still wish it could randomly chase any monster on the screen ,though ... :xrollseye

PS: so, lvl20 bonespirit is ava 396.5 magic damage. With lvl33 synergy from marrowwalk, it would be 396.5x(1+33x6%) = 1181.6 ave magic damage everytime bs is trigger. Not bad...