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Personally, I'd go for a couple of reforged items, and make 3 runic items, from one. I've still not gotten a valorite hammer yet (I didn't feel like going through 15-20 smith NPCs to find the 30 or so bribe possibilities to jump up a set to 20 EX plate)
I have been so disapointed that runics no longer work like thye used to that I temporarily quit doing bods after aquiring a valorite runic and a gold runic and a plus 60 ash
I jumped over to test centre a few times and tried reforging katanas and shields with nothing selected (1 charge), then just powerful (2 charges) all the way up to exalted, grand, sublime, blah blah artifice at 6 charges a shot. So far nothing I have produced on test centre has encouraged me to try using the hammers for real.
Here are some of the things I produced using a valorite runic on test centre.
Using Powerful reforge only on Katana (all items have 40% damage increase from initial creation unless otherwise noted)
Katana #1 Hit Fatique 20%, HLD 70%, MR 3, DCI 15, FC 1,
Katana #2 Hit Life Leech 75%, STR +5, Luck 80, LMC 5%, DI 50%, Cold Resist 5%
Katana #3 Hit Life Leech 25%, Mana Drain 30%, HLA 70%, DCI 20%
Katana #4 Mana Drain 30%, Spell Channel, INT +4, HCI 15%, DCI 20%, FC -1
Katana #5 Hit Life Leech 20%, Stamina Inc 5, HCI 20%, LMC 4%, SSI 15%
Katana #6 Hit Mana Leech 37%, DEX +5, SR 3, HCI 15, Fire Damage 100%
Powerful with Animated of Wizardry (6 Charges)
Katana #1 Spell Channel, DEX +4, Mana Inc 3, Stam Regen 6, MR 6, FC -1
Powerful with Animated of Haste (think that's all I chose)
Katana #1 Hit Stam Leech 60%, HLD 50%, Stam Inc 5, Stam Regen 3, Enhance Potions 5%, Poison Damage 70%
Shields with no selection (not even powerful - all shields have 1% poison resist)
Shield #1 STR +5, Stam Inc 4, HCI 3%, DCI 20%, DI 10%
Shield #2 STR +4, DEX +4, Mana Inc 5, FC 1
Shield #3 STR +4, Stam Inc 5, DCI 15%, LMC 4%
Shield #4 STR +5, HR 1, Luck 130, HCI 5, DCI 10
Powerful Animated of Aegis
Shield #1 Soul Charge 20%, Stam Inc 5, DCI 15%, SSI 5%
Shield #2 Soul Charge 20%, Stam Inc 4, DCI 20%, SSI 5%
Shield #3 Reactive Paralyze, Stam Inc 4, Stam Regen 1, DCI 15%, SSI 10%
Here are some of the things I produced using a valorite runic on test centre.
Using Powerful reforge only on Katana (all items have 40% damage increase from initial creation unless otherwise noted)
Katana #1 Hit Fatique 20%, HLD 70%, MR 3, DCI 15, FC 1,
Katana #2 Hit Life Leech 75%, STR +5, Luck 80, LMC 5%, DI 50%, Cold Resist 5%
Katana #3 Hit Life Leech 25%, Mana Drain 30%, HLA 70%, DCI 20%
Katana #4 Mana Drain 30%, Spell Channel, INT +4, HCI 15%, DCI 20%, FC -1
Katana #5 Hit Life Leech 20%, Stamina Inc 5, HCI 20%, LMC 4%, SSI 15%
Katana #6 Hit Mana Leech 37%, DEX +5, SR 3, HCI 15, Fire Damage 100%
Powerful with Animated of Wizardry (6 Charges)
Katana #1 Spell Channel, DEX +4, Mana Inc 3, Stam Regen 6, MR 6, FC -1
Powerful with Animated of Haste (think that's all I chose)
Katana #1 Hit Stam Leech 60%, HLD 50%, Stam Inc 5, Stam Regen 3, Enhance Potions 5%, Poison Damage 70%
Shields with no selection (not even powerful - all shields have 1% poison resist)
Shield #1 STR +5, Stam Inc 4, HCI 3%, DCI 20%, DI 10%
Shield #2 STR +4, DEX +4, Mana Inc 5, FC 1
Shield #3 STR +4, Stam Inc 5, DCI 15%, LMC 4%
Shield #4 STR +5, HR 1, Luck 130, HCI 5, DCI 10
Powerful Animated of Aegis
Shield #1 Soul Charge 20%, Stam Inc 5, DCI 15%, SSI 5%
Shield #2 Soul Charge 20%, Stam Inc 4, DCI 20%, SSI 5%
Shield #3 Reactive Paralyze, Stam Inc 4, Stam Regen 1, DCI 15%, SSI 10%
Sadly I leave most of that on the corpse in shame.... seriously if you're going to burn a single val runic charge you should be able to pick one mod whatever you want at the highest intensity without negatives. So you can have a starting point for imbuing.
I have seen:
leafblade: 40 DI, UBWS, and about 50 HLD + HLL + HML + HSL
Also I have seen on this forum a person had sold few valorite runic crafted weapon for 100m each. So I don't think valorite runic is useless.
Try a bronze hammer (powered, di + luck selected).
Thanks for the tip, so craft the shield, and reforge with powered, di and luck?
Really some great "food for thought"... Thanks so much for taking the time to share all this with us!
I'll take 4 of each please.
Really? I thought they were okay but hardly worth the 6 charges per hammer - then again, until they get Shame loot back where it was , maybe that is my best bet for hammer usage. I'll do some more testing with shields and see if it's worth risking for real.I'll take 4 of each please.
For my sampire, when I am using a 1 handed weapon, I tend to use a shield now for most fights... I am almost to the point where I will use a shield full time. I need to test it out against like Rikktor and Semidar. I am pretty sure my fencing sampire can do it, thanks to feint... swords... not sure. And it's not that hard to make a macro to unequip the shield, drink a pot and re-equip it.
Soul Charge is nice, so it reactive paralyze... but really, the DCI/SSI really can free up slots for other things.
Soul Charge is nice, so it reactive paralyze... but really, the DCI/SSI really can free up slots for other things.