05-12-2003, 09:30 PM
Quote:I don't think I have found a single rare weapon that has rivalled the best magic item I've found in the Expansion, and that's not good. Same goes for non-circlet headgear and body armor.
Yeah, magic/unique items are far superior. Using the three chips and a sword recipe and some nice jewels you can get a weapon with far more damage than a rare and possibly more affixes. Since LOD came out I have seen only one rare weapon that can rival cruels/elite uniques. It was a rare ethereal berserker axe with around 170% enhanced damage, ias, self-repair, and the fool's mod. Saw it on diabloii.net marketplace about a month ago, real nice weapon. But the odds of getting something like that are near impossible (haven't done the math, but to get the that combination of mods on an ethereal elite weapon has got to be less than a zod rune), and as far as damage goes cruels can still beat it. I think schaeffer's might have had a higher damage as well. Blizzard definately needs to thin out the affix pool for rares.
On a sidenote, cruel is too powerful in my opinion. It needs to be toned down to 250% or removed completely, in the current version of the game ferocious is plenty powerful enough.
USEast *ghost-70