If I socketed my sigon shield with and eld, giving it 71% block, would this be good enough to hit max block later on in hell? I realize stormshield is the ideal shield, but I don't have it.
Originally Posted by LonghornRob
Your gonna eventually get something better.. even storm is in reach. I used my hell hellforge (mal rune) to get my storm. Even if you dont want to get SS, you can get things like lidless for pgems, and that KICKS sigons ***.
well the question was in regards to max block and thus lidless is awful. sigons is a serviceable shield but yes there are better. an upgraded mosers, upgraded visceratuant, rhyme (i like it in a heater), and stormshield are all better options for max block. i would also probably *not* waste a socket quest on sigons as i would expect to find one of the other shields. nightmare meph can drop mosers and visceratuant. also dont eld your shield, go for pdiamond. almost all sorceresses need more resist. eld might save you 15-20 dexterity and thus 30-40 life but you can get that life just two small charms. getting 19 resist all takes twice as much charm space.
They are worth Mal right now? :eek: That's expensive. Sigon is only good for lvling equip, but it is great for that purpose.
are you talking about a big vietnamese guy?
yes, it's decent for low levels, if you can't get a viscauteraut. however, the str req is pretty high. i usually go with a rhyme shield and then a spirit. however, at levels 1-29, a staff is usually a better choice.
for high levels, just get a spirit shield.
for block, just get a whistans guard for huge block
my necs got 50 something block with only 90ish pts into dex
but better overall would be mosers, due to the 63 res (2 p diamonds)
and decent blocking
Visceratuant gets too little love.
It both give high block and +skills. The secret is to upgrade it to a Heater. Heaters have a natural 42% block chance. Visceratuant adds 30% to that number for a whopping 72%. Better than Whitstans in my opinion.
I agree. SS is great for block, resists and especially damage reduction, but an up'd visceratuant is a very nice intermediate shield - and cheap because everyone thought lidless was better in 1.09/1.10.
Sigs shield is great starter gear, and I pump strength early to use it, but as soon as you can use a visc instead I'd do that.
(Spirit is nice, using one now till I get SS, but block is bad. Lidless is pretty much worthless since the Spirit runeword came out.)
Greer
aka Jon on US West
Stormshield still owns it, skill or not.
With stuff like bugged Tomb Vipers around Damage Reduction (or more correctly Physical Resistance) just can't be beat.
Those tomb vipers piss me right off.
And I play SP, so trading for a stormshield isn't as likely. I do have a Moser w/2 Pdiamonds though. I'm saving a lot of stat points until I get into hell anyway, so I'll just switch over to it whenever I get up there (I have midrange resistances in NM w/o the Moser.)
thanks fo the help guys!
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