No, it won’t give you Teleport, like Enigma, and the Magic Find is lower, but it adds significantly more survivability. Ethereal if it’s for a mercenary, normal if not.Ĭhains of Honor is great for melee combatants and casters alike, giving a boost to cast rate, life leech, +2 skills, +65 all resistances and 8% damage reduction. Pretty much anything up to Lacquered Plate will work fine, but if you want to keep Strength requirements down while still ending up with high base Defense, seek out Archon Plate (410 – 520~ Defense, 103 Strength required).
It also means you might as well seek out an ethereal suit of armor, as it won’t lose durability while equipped on a mercenary. Case in point, Fortitude (El + Sol + Dol + Lo) and Chains of Honor (Dol + Um + Ber + Ist), which both have different ideal armor bases.įortitude is mostly used as mercenary armor, which means its Strength requirements can be fairly high – your mercenary will gain Strength every level, anyways. 4-socket Armor Chains of HonorĮnigma isn’t the only game in town, there are 4-socket runeword armors worth crafting, as well. If you care more about style points and/or you want to reduce Strength requirements further, you can always go with Mage Plate (220 – 260~ Defense, 55 Strength required). Suffice to say, your resources will determine what minimum Strength you can get away with, but it’s pretty safe to shoot for some elite armor like a Dusk Shroud (360 – 460~ Defense, 77 Strength required).
Of course, you factor in Annihilus and Hellfire Torch and you’re easily looking at another +20 – 40 Strength in charms alone. The Strength needs for different characters varies, but many characters will want to hit 156 Strength for a Spirit Monarch and this armor will give +67 Strength by Lv90, which means you’d need about 90~ Strength. Normally the routine for such gear would be “get the best armor your Strength allows”, but Enigma is an oddity in that it adds +0.75 Strength per Character Level, meaning it’d be foolish to overinvest in Strength for an item which, frankly, will account for a large portion of your Strength. Given that expense, you’ll want a good suit of armor to put it in. 4-socket Broad Swords, Crystal Swords and Long SwordsĪrguably the best suit of armor in the game is (Jah + Ith + Ber), which is quite expensive in terms of runes.4-socket Balrog Blades, Colossus Swords and Colossus Blades.Don’t waste those drops through ignorance – know what base items work best for each runeword and you can avoid suffering the most odious of fates in Diablo 2: having the runes to make a potent runeword, without having a proper base!īelow you’ll find a table of items you should look out for, if you don’t really care about reading the explanations why: Base Item Fortunately, it will likely take a lot of farming to collect the high runes you need for the best runewords, and that means a lot of potential base items will drop. Scoring those sweet high runes is all well and good, but they’re of little use if you don’t have anything to put them in, and tossing runes in the wrong base item can have subpar results or worse, waste the runes entirely.
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Runewords dominate the endgame meta, and much effort is spent farming these wondrous slabs – a process we discuss on the page How to Find High Runes, while the process of creating runewords is covered in the page How to Make Runewords.
This page will recommend the base item bases for various runewords, items you should keep an eye out for and collect to ensure you’ve got them on-hand for when you finally get the runes you need.
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