What weapon to make doom out of?

Yoshi245

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What weapon to make doom out of?

I've been thinking about this since I will do a frost zealot and a fire zealot.
I plan to make a doom runeworded weapon for my frost zealot and i intend to have fanatacism for right mouse button so I can have 2 auras going at once.

So the question is, if I plan not to use fanatacism and purely just max out Holy Freeze with synergies which is better? A 5 OS Caddy? Or a 5 OS War Spike? I actually don't have the war spike but I can probably look around and hopefully trade for one soon. On the other hand I do have a 5 OS superior caddy with 11% ed as well as 14% dur (making repair costs really mean). But I have many ort runes so I can just repair it after awhile and it has 79 durability on it with bonus 14% durability mod. I also have a 5 socket phase blade but then my damage will be a bit too low, my caddy is 41-47 damage (the damage difference compared to the phase blade isn't that high, but 20% slower for about 10-12 damage?). I also have a premade doom on a zerker axe with sufficient damage, but I intend to use that if I go with fanat. If I don't go with fanat I have either a war spike, a caddy, or a phase blade.

Phase Blade: 31-35 Damage, -30 speed, 2 Range (no need to repair obviously)
Caduceus(superior): 41-47 Damage, -10 speed, 2 Range (due to superior affecting dur, alot more to repair, this has no extra paladin mods)
War Spike: 30-48 Damage, -10 Speed, 2 Range (since I don't have a 5 OS one yet, I can't say much else)
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already made doom zerker

most people would probably say just use the doom zerker, max synergies and attempt to use fanat with it. I'm inclined to agree but I wanna play my frost zealot a bit different.
 
i believe doom can't be made into swords/scepters, so your best choice is war spike. good avg damage, not too expensive, and will give you best speed options, opening up other gear choices for CB, OW ect.
 

Yoshi245

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He's right, I just went to look at the arreat summit page for runeword and it's on axes/hammers/polearms. So I'm gonna have to go look for a good 5 OS warspike soon heh.
 

NightBlade

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Yoshi245 said:
He's right, I just went to look at the arreat summit page for runeword and it's on axes/hammers/polearms. So I'm gonna have to go look for a good 5 OS warspike soon heh.
good luck on your search!
 

Armor_Biff

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Yoshi245 said:
So I'm gonna have to go look for a good 5 OS warspike soon heh.
Just go with a normal one. If you're trying to get a superior one, then get ready to stack up with millions of gold because of the insane repair costs. Or get lots of ORT runes and do the repair thing with your cube.
 

Yoshi245

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Well I got a 13% superior 5 OS War Spike. (had 15% dur so repairing gonna be expensive). I made doom out of it and the 2 varied mods came out practically perfect. 383% enhanced damage (370 max, but thx to +13% off sup), and -57% to enemy cold resists (-60% is max).

I now have a nice 144-231 damage, doom war spike for my frost zealot :)
I have many ort runes so I'll be fine for a bit.
 
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