Question about sorceress' staves..

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Question about sorceress' staves..

What skills can.. and cannot spawn on 4 socketed staves (capable of runeword)
Is it possible to make an insight in a staff with say:
+ 3 Cold Skills
+ 3 Warmth
+ 3 Frozen Orb
+ 3 Cold Mastery

Or the same.. but lightning orientated..

 

[krischan]

Re: Question about sorceress' staves..

Warmth and cold mastery bonuses cannot be on the same staff, their minimum levels are too far apart. To be precise, the one is on the first tier and the other on the sixth and tier numbers cannot differ by more than 3.

You need the jeweler's prefix to have 4 sockets on a magical item, but +3 cold skills is a prefix as well and only one can occur on a magical item. Rares don't have such a severe limitation, but a couple of prefixes cannot occur on them at all, like +3 skilltab bonuses and also jeweler's.

 

[purplelocust]

Re: Question about sorceress' staves..

Take a look at Uzziah's guide in the SPF for more info about possible staffmods and tiers. The staffmods are sorted into tiers (more or less, the levels on the skill allocation screen from 1 to 6*) and it is not possible to get staffmods from tiers that are too far apart. It is unlikely to get staffmods that are reasonably far apart, tier-wise.

And if you are looking for Insight, you need a grey socketed staff, not a magical one, so the +3 cold tab is definitely out.

In general, it's hard to get a +3/+3/+3 staff with the quite desirable skills as the probabilities start getting pretty outrageous.

*: barb skills have a wierd tier mechanism because there are so many level 1 skills, but basically the top ones on the screen are tier 1, then the next ones (level 6) are tier 2, etc. for each class

 

[stephan]

Re: Question about sorceress' staves..

*: barb skills have a wierd tier mechanism because there are so many level 1 skills, but basically the top ones on the screen are tier 1, then the next ones (level 6) are tier 2, etc. for each class

Barbs don't have more tier 1 skills than other classes. The 2 handed masteries and throwing mastery are tier 2.

 

[purplelocust]

Re: Question about sorceress' staves..

Sorry- I stand corrected! There are six level 1 skills but seven level 6 skills. I think there are just 6 tier 2 skills, so one of the seven level 6 skills is bumped up to tier 3, I believe.

Edit: thanks for the correction, Orphan, my counts were obviously off!

 

[Orphan]

Re: Question about sorceress' staves..

There's 5 skills per tier, and spear mastery is on Tier 3:

Tier 1:
Bash
Sword Mastery
Axe Mastery
Mace Mastery
Howl

Tier 2:
Find Potion
Leap
Double Swing
Pole Arm Mastery
Throwing Mastery

Tier 3:
Spear Mastery
Taunt
Shout
Stun
Double Throw

Tier 4:
Increased Stamina
Find Item
Leap Attack
Concentrate
Iron Skin

Tier 5:
Battle Cry
Frenzy
Increased Speed
Battle Orders
Grim Ward

Tier 6:
Whirlwind
Berserk
Natural Resistance
War Cry
Battle Command