Random questions...

[solo eye]

Random questions...

Hi everyone.

I feel the need to purge my head of some of the unrelated unknowns in my gaming experiences.

I am always mildly amused on occasions when I am shocked after popping a Monster Shrine, and death's advocate fails to approach, or when an Evil Urn produces xxx gold instead of a champion or unique pack. This happens more than I think that it should. Occasionally (it could be always, I'm not sure) I have killed every monster on screen, prior to tripping shrine, when there is no spawn. What are the chances of these props spawning?

The other day I was mfing DoH3 (on players 8 Hell) and killed Wyand Voidbringer. He dropped an Antidote potion ('ray) and two piles of gold with exactly 37,497(.5?) each. That adds up to just a hair under 75,000. What is the max gold drop for a monster? Was this Voidbringer's max drop? This toon has 659% gold find.

If I gave an A2 Might merc Arioc's Spear and CoH, would the +all skills be added to his Might aura? He is lvl 92, no +skills; what is the Might level now, and with above equipment?

Which Zealot Fanatic weapons reign supreme? Two categories - physical and elemental damage, one criteria - damage/frame.

Thanks,

*solo-eye

 

[mephiztophelez]

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I am always mildly amused on occasions when I am shocked after popping a Monster Shrine, and death's advocate fails to approach, or when an Evil Urn produces xxx gold instead of a champion or unique pack. This happens more than I think that it should. Occasionally (it could be always, I'm not sure) I have killed every monster on screen, prior to tripping shrine, when there is no spawn. What are the chances of these props spawning?

no idea.

Which Zealot Fanatic weapons reign supreme? Two categories - physical and elemental damage, one criteria - damage/frame.

pvp or pvm?

pvp: grief, theoretical godly fools weps, e-DeathZ and e-Death Cleaver (all phys damage).
pvm: the choices are wide open. i kind of like a stormlash myself.

 

[sirpoopsalot]

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I don't know much (obvious understatement ), but to tackle a few of them:

- I think Monster shrines have a limited range - something like ~2 screens or thereabouts.

- I've only noticed Evil Urn's that are "below ground" produce packs/champs (so the one by Thresh Socket doesn't). And even the "below ground" ones aren't 100% reliable (more like ~60% packs, ~25% champs, ~15% nothing).

- Yes, +all skills will boost your merc's might aura. If he's granted an aura by an item though (think: Insight or Infinity), +all skills will not boost that aura. Also, the barbarian mercs in Act5 are "true" barbarians, so they also benefit from +barbarian skills.

- I believe Grief is the best Fanatic-Zealot weapon when it comes to damage per frame. I think there's 800 threads floating around the paladin forum that have discussed this very topic endlessly, btw, so you could probably search for a complete discussion if you're up for it. For elemental damage, I'd be surprised if anything surpasses Gimmershred's, except maybe the "right" rare weapon.

 

[Orphan]

Re: Random questions...

The other day I was mfing DoH3 (on players 8 Hell) and killed Wyand Voidbringer. He dropped an Antidote potion ('ray) and two piles of gold with exactly 37,497(.5?) each. That adds up to just a hair under 75,000. What is the max gold drop for a monster? Was this Voidbringer's max drop? This toon has 659% gold find.

You can get quite abit more than that in gold drops. There's a few guides around here built around gold find characters (check out http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=710241 for some) but I've heard recently of some gold drops being in the 60k range (and sometimes my memory isn't too good, so there could have been higher ones).

If I gave an A2 Might merc Arioc's Spear and CoH, would the +all skills be added to his Might aura? He is lvl 92, no +skills; what is the Might level now, and with above equipment?

At lvl 92, his Might aura is lvl 19. Plus skills will increase the aura level normally.

- I think Monster shrines have a limited range - something like ~2 screens or thereabouts.

Indeed. The monster shrine converts a monster which is close enough by to a unique monster. If there is no such monster then it'll fail.

 

[solo eye]

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Thanks for the input. I won't kill everything around the shrines anymore.

I had no idea that a gf barb could earn up to 20 mil in ~1 hour. I foresee that in two weeks or so that a turn for the worst is coming re: my new gf barb and my gambling habit.

@poops thanks. I think you may have been off by an order of 10 about the pally threads. *chuckles*

@orphan thanks. your signature reminds me of an old GD lyric"...i ain't always right, but i've never been wrong..." -Robert Hunter, Scarlett Begonias

*solo-eye

 

[sirpoopsalot]

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@poops thanks. I think you may have been off by an order of 10 about the pally threads. *chuckles*

... you mean there's like 8000 of them?!?!?

Yikes.