10-30-2003, 02:49 PM
Well, since you don't say exactly how bad your weapons are, here's some things that might help:
Find a pair of gobblin toes (boots). If your damage really is awful, the crushing blow will help.
Shop for a cruel elite. I was casually checking Larzuk 2 nights ago and found a high end cruel colosus blade. Friend of mine bought it.
Make some imbue mules. I saved up my 3 imbues and several white elites for 1.10 in hopes of getting something nice with one of the 3. My first imbue was a 312% ed 30% ias elite.
Use one of the new magic+socket rerolling recipes and hope for a 3 socket cruel.
If you were an axe barb, I would have suggested trying to craft an elite blood axe, which can go up to 560% ed (300% cruel, 200% grandmaster, 60% set mod).
Also, magic find no longer works on end bosses (like meph) and certain uniques (like pindleskin).
I can't really comment on armor, since my only melee char is a tank java, and she was holding her own against diablo clone wearing twitchthroe and irathas set (50% dodge, 75% block). My advice would be to hunt down some runes for a runeword armor, since many of them can be made with semi-rare runes (as opposed to many super rare runes for the weapons).
Find a pair of gobblin toes (boots). If your damage really is awful, the crushing blow will help.
Shop for a cruel elite. I was casually checking Larzuk 2 nights ago and found a high end cruel colosus blade. Friend of mine bought it.
Make some imbue mules. I saved up my 3 imbues and several white elites for 1.10 in hopes of getting something nice with one of the 3. My first imbue was a 312% ed 30% ias elite.
Use one of the new magic+socket rerolling recipes and hope for a 3 socket cruel.
If you were an axe barb, I would have suggested trying to craft an elite blood axe, which can go up to 560% ed (300% cruel, 200% grandmaster, 60% set mod).
Also, magic find no longer works on end bosses (like meph) and certain uniques (like pindleskin).
I can't really comment on armor, since my only melee char is a tank java, and she was holding her own against diablo clone wearing twitchthroe and irathas set (50% dodge, 75% block). My advice would be to hunt down some runes for a runeword armor, since many of them can be made with semi-rare runes (as opposed to many super rare runes for the weapons).