D3 HC - I found a what??

[MuddyHusky]

Keeping my DH alive with all that Vitality!

[Intolerance]

Found another SoJ! What's the odds?

[ZappaFan]

I had a Blacksmith Plan drop for Exalted Fine Conquest Sword. I did a single craft just to try it out and got this:



Time to collect my chips and walk away from the table!

I ran it through the EHP calculator and it turns out it's actually better than the sword I'm currently using! Wow! At a glance I didn't think so because I lose almost 3K dps, but what I gain in everything else way offsets the loss in DPS. I'm going to give it a whirl and see how it works!

[Solwolf]

That's a pretty money Monk weapon. Congrats, Zappa!

[ZappaFan]

That's a pretty money Monk weapon. Congrats, Zappa!

Well just to push my luck I did two more crafts. Here's #3:

[VHD]

I can't seem to get recipe drops at all - blacksmith or jewel crafting... Any tips on finding these things?

Are you going into business crafting swords to fund better gear, Zappa, or just dabbling a bit?

[ZappaFan]

I can't seem to get recipe drops at all - blacksmith or jewel crafting... Any tips on finding these things?

Are you going into business crafting swords to fund better gear, Zappa, or just dabbling a bit?

I did 20 more crafts and got three more that are sellable (for a total of 5). One of them is 890 dps, 350 LoH, socket, 70 str, 54 int, 18% chance to inflict bleed for 474-693 dmg/5 sec. Not bad!

I'm definitely going to keep trying to craft these. As long as I can roughly break even it's worth it in the hope that I get a really uber one.

[VHD]

I found a hilarious Barbarian only 2 hander yesterday. 1050 dps with a reduced level 14 modifier. Talk about overgeared for lvl 46 Nightmare :P

[ZappaFan]

Kulle was very nice to me just now:

[ZappaFan]

Just had a perfect star emerald jeweler design page drop.