Advice for Tomb Reaver sockets

[DagnyTaggert]

I found a 3os Tomb Reaver. It has 47 resist all and 78 mf. The damage is average.

I have a level 87 meteord sorc right now and am thinking about what to put in the sockets. I currently use Insight and I'm prepared to guzzle mana pots when I lose it.

My initial feeling is a 40% ED jewel and 2 Ber runes (when I can afford a second).

What do you recommend? Thanks:azn:

[krischan]

Who's going to use that thing ? I guess you don't mean yourself, but the merc of your character. Which helm and which armor does he wear ?

Your sorc will have no mana problems with timered spells, even with base mana, except when you spam fireballs like hell or teleport long distances, but you normally will find far more potions than you need. If your style of play is mana-intensive, fill 8 a belt slots with mana potions, that will even out even long barren runs.

[Master Zap]

Vote 1

Sheal
sheal
Amn
Use Gface and duress armor for the CB
Save the ber for something worthy.

Vote 2
Sheal sheal sheal
use a vampgaze/Crown of thieves or tal helm for the LL

Vote 3
Sheal Amn 40/15

I'd be inclined simply to speed it up a ton and get Cb from other gear. As long as it has some LL your going to be set.

Sheal'ing it now means you can use that tomby on a shifter druid or wolf barb in the future :)

I wouldnt use a HR in tombreaver unless it was 30's and eth

[DagnyTaggert]

Should have mentioned:

This is for my Merc. He has Stone (1907) Great Hauberk and I'm trying to get him a Vamp Gaze.

Since the weapon already has 60% ias, are Shaels really a good option?

[Mursilis]

I like this (http://forums.diabloii.net/showthread.php?t=339731) combo personally. Granted yours isn't ethereal, but since everything on Bnet is duped anyway the items aren't too expensive.

If you're going for a lower budget combo, then shaels/amns would be my suggestion. Faster attack speed combined with life leech will keep the merc alive quite well.

[krischan]

That weapon is not ethereal, so it will deal less damage than the usual runewords. I would say, 2 Amn runes and if makes your merc meet the next speed breakpoint, an IAS/something jewel or a shael rune. I wouldn't insert a Ber rune for CB, it won't have enough impact and a noneth Tomb Reaver isn't worth enough to justify it.

[thegiantturtle]

Should have mentioned:

This is for my Merc. He has Stone (1907) Great Hauberk and I'm trying to get him a Vamp Gaze.

Since the weapon already has 60% ias, are Shaels really a good option?32% IAS to the next breakpoint, assuming he is not under fanaticism. Either hit that bp (ias jewel + shael) or put something else in it.

[jamespal]

What is the tomb reaver? this a 4 socketable spear you found?

[Mursilis]

It's a unique polearm item.

Tomb Reaver
+60% Increased Attack Speed
+4 to Light Radius
+(200-280)% Enhanced Damage
+(150-230)% Damage to Undead
(50-80)% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
All Resistances +(30-50)
+(250-350) to Attack Rating against Undead
10% Reanimate as: (Param - MonIndex)
+(10-14) Life After Each Kill
Socketed ((1-3))

[Master Zap]

For a base speed 0 wep with 60 ias on your merc , here's the ias chart
http://forums.diabloii.net/showthread.php?t=485631
http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/items/elite/upolearms.shtml


% ias frames per attack
0 8
9 7.5
20 7
37 6.5
65 6
105 5.5
200 5

So a very good option would be IMO
Sheal sheal Amn , and use a vampgaze helm with a fevor jewel and he'll hit 5.5 fpa or about 5 attacks a second

he'll also have 15% ll which should be plenty to stay alive coupled with his fast attack speed.

[jamespal]

ok what is the Fevor jewe? that you mention in the v.gaze

[Master Zap]

ok what is the Fevor jewe? that you mention in the v.gaze

It's a fairly common jewel that adds 15% ias. This way you hit the 2nd best attack speed with the merc. 200% really isnt feasible IMO

It can be done with sheal sheal sheal tomb reaver + 15ias from a fevor jewel in a andy's helm and using treachory armor.

[thegiantturtle]

For a base speed 0 wep with 60 ias on your merc , here's the ias chart
http://forums.diabloii.net/showthread.php?t=485631
http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/items/elite/upolearms.shtml


% ias frames per attack
0 8
9 7.5
20 7
37 6.5
65 6
105 5.5
200 5

So a very good option would be IMO
Sheal sheal Amn , and use a vampgaze helm with a fevor jewel and he'll hit 5.5 fpa or about 5 attacks a second

he'll also have 15% ll which should be plenty to stay alive coupled with his fast attack speed.The listed table is for regular attack. High level mercs jab more often than not. 55% and 92% are the interesting IAS breakpoints for jab.

Even if you wanted to hit the 105% regular attack breakpoint, dual mod IAS jewels would be a better option than Shaels.

[dabeas]

i just don't see why anyone would want to spend all that $ on a merc, such as derfbarion's godly weapon. when i was first planning out my blizzballer i thought that i would eventually make an infinity or doom for him, but i didnt have the resorces at the time to do so. so, i made obedience in a eth cv and now that i can afford a infinity or doom i simply can't justify it. my merc has stone runeword armor w/ 2100 def (around 20500 w/ aura), obedience w/ dmg of 1067 (3800 actual dmg), and a tal mask that someone gave me. he has no problems of staying alive (except for im of coarse) and can kill countess in ~4 hits. as far as i'm concerned as long as he keeps the mobs off of me while I mow em down i couldn't ask for anything better, and i plan on using this setup for all of my mercs for now on.

[Tigereye]

For a base speed 0 wep with 60 ias on your merc , here's the ias chart
http://forums.diabloii.net/showthread.php?t=485631
http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/items/elite/upolearms.shtml


% ias frames per attack
0 8
9 7.5
20 7
37 6.5
65 6
105 5.5
200 5

So a very good option would be IMO
Sheal sheal Amn , and use a vampgaze helm with a fevor jewel and he'll hit 5.5 fpa or about 5 attacks a second

he'll also have 15% ll which should be plenty to stay alive coupled with his fast attack speed.

Tomb Reaver is at base speed 10 NOT 0, and the jab attack is more important than normal attack.

This is the important table:
Act 2 Merc Jab Attack WSM 10 fpa+ActionFrame
IAS frames ActionFrames
0 16 7,12
3 16 7,11
5 15 7,11
11 14 6,10
22 13 6,10
27 13 6,9
35 12 6,9
42 12 5,9
50 12 5,8
56 11 5,8
89 10 5,8
95 10 5,7
120 10 4,7
147 9 4,7
215 9 4,6
292 8 4,6

[Mursilis]

i just don't see why anyone would want to spend all that $ on a merc, such as derfbarion's godly weapon.

I believe it was going to be used in PvP, so in that case most people spare no expense in equipping their characters.