Can a rare be better than botd?

[lumpor]

I thought to myself how the perfect rare weapon would be.

Would it be this?

Etheral berzerker axe

Prefixes:

Cruel - 300% ed
Master's - 150% ed and +300 ar
Mechanic's - adds 2 sockets

Suffixes:

Quickness - 40% ias
Fast repair - Repairs 1 durability in 20 seconds
Lamprey - 9% life leech

Would this be the best case scenario? Would it be better if it had the slaughter suffix instead of lamprey?

Anyway, if you put 2 40%ed/15%ias jewels in it, it would look like this basically:

Berzerker axe

530% enhanced damage
+300 attack rating
+70% increased attack speed
9% life stolen per hit
Socketed (2)
Repairs 1 durabiliy in 20 seconds
Etheral (cannot be repaired)

You could also socket it with shaels, bers, amns and ohms etc

I know this would be rarer than 5 dropped zods in a row, but it is theoretically possible. It would be better than botd and a perfect rune master right? How about grief?

[karatedan]

Personally, I'd rather have a Fool's prefix than the Mechanic prefix. But yes, it theoretically is possible and I would definitely use it before botd. Heck I might even use it before grief for style points.

[lumpor]

Don't you get enough ar from frenzy/berzerk/concentrate/whirlwind already?

[Spankeh]

If you are using for Frenzy, I would equip it on off hand and therefore wouldn't require the IAS from weapon or jewels.

Etheral berzerker axe

Prefixes:

Cruel - 300% ed
Master's - 150% ed and +300 ar
Mechanic's - adds 2 sockets

Suffixes:

Quickness - 40% ias Change to Slaughter - 20 to Maximum Damage
Fast repair - Repairs 1 durability in 20 seconds
Lamprey - 9% life leech

Keep leech, but now add Ber and Ohm in sockets for Crushing Blow and +50%ED

[Omikron8]

can you find one like that theoretically ? yes

will it drop realistically in all your years of play time ? no

[Karky]

what about something that adds tons of elemental dmg? I don't know what they are or how much, but I'm thinking some of the pre and suff - ixes listed could be exchanged for something that gives mad elemental dmg..

[lumpor]

The suffixes give very little elemental damage. Like the max lightning damage you can get from a sufix is 1-120 I think. You can get 1-480 from a prefix, but taking away the mechanic prefix (which is the least important prefix) is like taking away one of these:

40% ed + 15% ias
50% ed
20% ias
20% crushing blow
7% life leech

For example, the ohm would give damage equal to: the base damage of an etheral berzerker axe x 1 + (your strength, skill ed, aura ed and all other off-weapon ed).

That damage will easily surpass 240,5 average lightning damage, and you would be able to leech from it too.

Omikron: I already said in my first post that it would be more likely that 5 zods in a row would drop

Oh, and for frenzy, yes, it would probably be better to skip the ias and 30% ed to get +20 maximm damage and 20% crushing blow instead

[Omikron8]

if you're looking for "mad elemental damage" with some decent phys damage/speed thrown in just use frenzy with 2x gimmershred

[Spankeh]

if you're looking for "mad elemental damage" with some decent phys damage/speed thrown in just use frenzy with 2x gimmershred

Or Famine...

[Omikron8]

famine is one of those older runewords (before the release of ladder only runewords) where i'm left thinking "two high runes and all you get is a cruel with some elemental damage ?"

[lumpor]

Hey, I just found the grinding mod. Seems better than mechanic's

[Metalkon]

http://forums.d2jsp.org/index.php?showtopic=22267021&f=169&st=0

Here's something close that just poped up. :P

[sequoia]

Might be better than an ebotd, but when it comes to zealing PvP, nothing beats Grief. Absolutely nothing - not even the most perfect rare eth weapon.