Questions about +2 skills white wand and optimum shield/armor variations

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Questions about +2 skills white wand and optimum shield/armor variations

Merry Christmas, everyone! :smiley:

1) I'm looking for a plain white wand (not the RW) with at least 2 +Summoning/+Necro/+All Skills, but I don't know if they are viable. If so, could I shop for it? Is there a 'best' place to look for them?

2) Correct me if I'm wrong... Homunculus gives a base Block of 72%, independent of you DEX stat, right? Shouldn't it be more useful to spend all the hards point in VIT instead of DEX? %3 Block is quite negligible.

3) Homunculus and Enigma are pretty much the ultimate shield/armor for fishies, accordingly to what I listen in the threads. Suppose I'm relying on a charge amulet for the Teleport, which would be a second optimum choice for the necro? Bramble, Fortitude, CoH? Or the other mods in Enigma (MF, +Skills, etc) still make it the best armor for them?

A few noob questions, hope you manage to help me!

Peace.

 

[anilrobo]

Merry Christmas, everyone! :smiley:

1) I'm looking for a plain white wand (not the RW) with at least 2 +Summoning/+Necro/+All Skills, but I don't know if they are viable. If so, could I shop for it? Is there a 'best' place to look for them?

White wands can spawn only with +1-3 individual skills, never all skills or even skill tabs. The best place to shop for white wands is Akara in normal difficulty.

2) Correct me if I'm wrong... Homunculus gives a base Block of 72%, independent of you DEX stat, right? Shouldn't it be more useful to spend all the hards point in VIT instead of DEX? %3 Block is quite negligible.

Homunculus has 72% block, but the actual block you achieve will vary with your dexterity. Just having homunculus in your hand won't give you the block listed, you must pump your dexterity to obtain that. I think you need 182 dexterity for 75% block with Homunculus at level 80. The required dexterity will rise with your level, about 200 dex needed at level 90. If you want to save those few stat points and put them somewhere else, consider crafting a safety amulet (Magic amulet, perfect emerald, thul rune, and any jewel in the cube and transmute) which adds to % block, thus reducing dexterity requirements for max blocking.

3) Homunculus and Enigma are pretty much the ultimate shield/armor for fishies, accordingly to what I listen in the threads. Suppose I'm relying on a charge amulet for the Teleport, which would be a second optimum choice for the necro? Bramble, Fortitude, CoH? Or the other mods in Enigma (MF, +Skills, etc) still make it the best armor for them?

It's "Fishies" or "Fishys" rather than Fishes :wink3: If you do not have enigma, consider Trang Oul's armor. It gives +2 to summoning skills, which is functionally similar to what enigma gives (+2 to all skills) though enigma has several other properties which makes Trang Oul look like Trash Oul. Still, if you do not have enigma, Trang appears to be the best in my opinion. You will not benefit from fort or coh because those are mostly for melee chars (the % dmg enhanced works only for the wearer, not your skellies).

 

[Doppel]

Shop at Drognan at normal difficulty instead, he is the only NPC that sells white wands able of having 2 sox, namely the bonewands, all other white wands you could shop for at Akara can't have 2 sox (only one, wich is pretty useless for a white wand, even for a magical wand)

 

[zallus]

If you are making a fishymancer then I think the best wand hands down is a AoKL