Peace Runeword Test

[friedbananazzzz]

Peace (Amazon)
3 Socket Body Armor (I used a Mage Plate)
Shael + Thul + Amn
4% Chance To Cast Level 5 Slow Missiles When Struck
2% Chance To Cast level 15 Valkyrie On Striking
+2 To Amazon Skill Levels
+20% Faster Hit Recovery
+2 To Critical Strike
Cold Resist +30%
Attacker Takes Damage of 14

The runes are low enough, so I thought I'd test out the CtC Valk. I tried it on a Ranger first, and then on a no-passives BowZon; in the Durance and the first area of A4 (Steppes?) of Normal.


Hmmmmm... :scratch:

Paladin
Well, 2% on a Ranger sucks. By the time it finally triggered, I realized I had to make a trip to town. It 'died' in town as soon as got through the portal. Alright, that sucked, let's try it again. Entered Durance 3, it finally triggered on Meph himself, but didn't really seem to make a noticable difference (A2 merc was already tanking). I was able to take the armor off, and she stuck around... Hmmm, maybe this could be useful after all. Entered A4, she decided to join us right away (twice even!), leveled up, and as soon as I spent that skill point, she 'died'. What the hell??!?

Amazon
2% on a strafer? Great. She's always around. But placing her becomes a problem. One second she's tanking a mob on the right (blue armor), and then all of a sudden she's standing in front of a single monster way off screen on the left (red armor), and the mob comes right at me. Later, I had my inventory open, and drank a minor potion (when did I pick that up?) to make room for something else. Bam, she's gone. Again, what the hell, there's no one anywhere near us!?! A couple minutes later I open the inventory to move a stack of arrows onto my weapon slot, have some extra, put them onto another stack in the inventory, and she 'dies'.

At least this is Normal and I've got KB, so I'm not in any danger, but this will just not work in Hell. The +2 to skills is fantastic for the level, but there are far better armors to use than this, +skills be damned.

The other mods?
CtC Slow Missiles: They were both ranged characters, so I don't think I saw SM trigger once, they just don't get hit that often.
+2 CS: It's alright, 25% on the Ranger, 38% on the Zon (49% with +3 skills from other sources: SoJ, rare amy, Peasant Crown). But not really important on elemental damage, which is primarily what I'm going for.
Rune mods:
Shael and Thul aren't terrible, but the Amn is an absolute waste, even on a melee character.


Anyone else ever use this armor? Or any of the other 1.11 RWs? (besides Treachery :rolleyes
...If I can find a few spare Um runes I'm considering putting Bone on my Zon... 135-143 magic damage FTW!:grin:
:rolleyes:

[slayer37]

Alright! Someone finally got to test the ctc Valk in Peace RW. I was toying with the idea of using this with my Fender (she had no D/A/E so no valk) just to avail of the valk. She really needs meatshields and no one is as tough a tank as her trusty Valk.

Your tests confirms that the Valk can exist without a hard point into her. The only problem is she is somewhat buggy and seem to take off on her own without any reason. Crap. Nevertheless, I'll still make one for my Fender. Thanks for testing.

edit: Why do you refer to her as "it"? Valk is certainly female. She may not be really alive but I absolutely adore her so she deserves it. :grin:

[Ugla]

First, I don't think the CtC valkyrie is of much use on non-amazon characters. She tends to poof because of so many reasons that takes a really fast-attacking character to keep her around. However, as friedbananazzzz mentions, such a character also recast her in an undesirable manner every now and then. In the best case, it's an additional meat-shield with very unpredictable behavior :undecided:

The other mods including +2 CS are easily beaten by more all-around combat armors like 'Duress'.

I was fooling around the WSK for a while with 'Peace' on my javazon, and the valk was gone most of the time. The +2ama are definitely not bad for the price, but again, there are superior choices including 'Treachery'.

'Peace' is nice for elemental magezons, which can afford to spend a hard-point in Valkyrie preventing the CtC one from poofing, but don't wish to spend more points there. MS could be used to trigger a new valk quicker.

As for the other 1.11 armors, both 'Bone' and 'Rain' seem to have decent mods as well, it's just they are for the classes I rarely play :rolleyes:

[Frosty_The_Snowman]

Yup, the only 1.11 armor I've ever used is Treachery. Most of my hirelings wear one, and even my überkiller had a treachery for a max speed smite :grin:.

[FlimFlan]

Anyone else ever use this armor? Or any of the other 1.11 RWs? (besides Treachery :rolleyes
...If I can find a few spare Um runes I'm considering putting Bone on my Zon... 135-143 magic damage FTW!:grin:
:rolleyes:

I used this on my PJ zon, but strictly for the plus skills. I had no hard points in valk, so she would disappear for absolutely no reasn.

I also used Rain on my Firestorm Druid, once again for the plus skills. He was not hit very much, so it was worth it for him.

[Nightfish]

I remember trying it and concluding that it sucks. The specifics elude me but I think the valk didn't stay around very long if I didnt have points in Valk... Either way, it sucked...