Ignatz,Jul 13 2003, 07:17 AM Wrote:Getting a +8 to PN White bone wand is not hard to do at all (shop shop shop). Then you stick a vanilla +2 skills ammy on, and get another +2 from armor, rings, charms, whathaveyou, and you're already up to a very fine killing speed. Heck, you can snatch up a good +skills shrunken head without much trouble. The gear doesn't matter much at all (see my PS), so long as you get get at least 10 to skills.+8 to PN white bone wand is not hard to get; it's impossible to get. The highest you can achieve is +6. Since white doesn't give any native bonuses to poison nova, you have to find a plain or 2 socket +2-3 poison nova wand. And it's not nearly as easy as it sounds. I scoured probably a hundred games before I found one with +2 poison nova when I needed it. And it took me another 100 games to find +3 skill one.
But yes, +10 skills should not be that hard to get. Still, I think the real reason why it kills better is simply because it stops monsters regeneration; which otherwise makes things twice or more times harder (or sometimes even impossible) to kill.