White Wand

[BobCox]

White Wand

Saves some points elsewhere (I like the fire golem but Decript is nice too) and +3 BS
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/7646/pwandwhitenf1.jpg
now I found it just got to make it.

 

[maiku]

Very nice. I have one +3 Bone Spirit one which I can "White," and a few other +3 Bone Spear ones with various mods like +1 Dim Vision, +RS, +2 Golem Mastery, etc. I'm trying to get Drognan to cough up one with +3 Bone Spear, +2-3 Corpse Explosion in a bone wand.

 

[BobCox]

The fire is such a distraction cast but better than iron as a free point - if you want a high end item iron to last you have to hard point it but a fire as a distraction cast works well with clay to pull a mob off coarse

 

[maiku]

Yeah, gotcha. Sparky's HF pulses seem to wake up or pull in a lot of monsters, and that's useful for getting them off the Necro and on to Sparky. I use a Fire Golem on my Fishymancer for distraction/attraction.

I was thinking of going with default Clay Golem for new Bonemancer.

In your opinion, which one of these possible wands for a "White" would you value more?

1. +3 Bone Spear, +1 Dim Vision (Dim Vision is handy, I tested the wand on my little Necro and blinded a bunch of guys)
2. +3 Bone Spear, +2 Golem Mastery (will make Gumby more strong)
3. +3 Bone Spear, +2-3 CE (still do not have, but want to try to shop it, so I can CE crowds to the max)

If I come across a better wand than the above, I'll make it into a "White." I've got several Dols and Ios right now, so it's not like a disaster if I make a "White" I don't like.

 

[Ed from Russia]

I would choose wand 3. Dim Vision is useful but requires more investment (min. 15 points incl. bonuses) to make the range useful, so one point does nothing. Your Clay Golem should be fine without the extra points in Golem Mastery, and recasting is easy enough. Corpse explosion is useful for a PvM Bonemancer.

Personally, I would be ok with any wand with +3 to Bone Spear; the runes are relatively cheap so you can always make another.

 

[maiku]

I'll keep shopping with Drognan then for the elusive #3.

 

[Ed from Russia]

This is actually quite funny: Your message inspired me to start looking for a White wand on my own. Guess what I found after 22 Drognan runs:

Bone Wand
+3 Bone Spear
+2 Corpse Explosion

Europe ladder unfortunately, otherwise I'd gladly share it.

 

[maiku]

Very good luck there. Sigh. The woes of being on West.

I'll see if I can have more luck this weekend with Drognan for a wand. Today I went ahead and made a "White" in the +3 BS, +1 Dim Vision one so that my Necro doesn't tap his fingers at Level 35 with no decent wand to use.

 

[TheDuderman]

i use a white wand with +3 bone spear, +1 bone spirit, and +1 revive...found that to be VERY useful. might want to consider something like that if you find one, as the revives can be of great help.

 

[AgentMarth]

I love that base wand. Specifically the Decrp.

To me the ideal wand (if possible) would be this:

+3 Bone Spear
+x Decrp
+x Revive

You get a damage boost, a curse you would otherwise have to spend 4 points to get, and tanks that would cost you alot to normally get.

Afaik though, it is not shoppable, and I don't know the best way to go about getting one other then sheer luck.

 

[Ed from Russia]

To me the ideal wand (if possible) would be this:

+3 Bone Spear
+x Decrp
+x Revive

I agree that's pretty much the best you can have, possibly with an additional bone skill.

But yes, only luck will get you that.

 

[superman22]

how do you shop drognan for these? doesn't drgonnan only give magical wands?

 

[Ed from Russia]

how do you shop drognan for these? doesn't drgonnan only give magical wands?

Normal Drognan also gives white wands. But only with skills with requirement lvl 6-24 (I think), so no skills like Revive or Lower Resist.

Just keep entering games, run to Drognan and check the white bone wands. Normally there are 2 or 3 of them. Close the game and start a new one. Continue until you have a temporary ban. Start over again half an hour later.

 

[maiku]

Better way is to spawn a game with Drognan close by the town entrance and run in and out of the town, checking him each time. New wands will spawn every time. This way you won't have to make new games every minute and work your way to a temp ban.

 

[Ed from Russia]

Better way is to spawn a game with Drognan close by the town entrance and run in and out of the town, checking him each time. New wands will spawn every time. This way you won't have to make new games every minute and work your way to a temp ban.

I'm (almost) sure that doesn't work; it doesn't immediately reset. I think you need to kill something to reset the shop.

Will try it though, it would be a huge improvement.

 

[DH Amazon]

Re: White Wand

I'm (almost) sure that doesn't work; it doesn't immediately reset. I think you need to kill something to reset the shop.

No need to kill, just visit outside of town (running, taking wp or tp).

While checking my mules, found this
2 socket
3 poison nova
1 low resist
1 summon resist (no real use)
-> nice low level (lvl35) white for my new poison/summon hydrid.

 

[thepandafactor]

Re: White Wand

you cannot shop drognan for wands with revive, decrep, poison nova, or any of the 24/30 skills.

 

[Friiser]

Re: White Wand

Does the character's level have any affect on the mods capable of spawning on a bone wand (or any wand, that is)? or is it just lvl 18 skills and under?

 

[MasterMynd]

Re: White Wand

When shopping, all you have to do is go far enough outside town to see the "Entering ..." message. Vendor wares reset on next entrance to town.

Note that it is "going from inside town to outside town" in the same act that allows the reset to occur, and it occurs for that Act only! (And only if there are no players in that town.)

So taking a TP from Rogue Camp to Stoney Field and back would reset Akara's inventory. But taking a TP from Rogue Camp to Dry Hills and back would not.

So if you wanted to shop both Akara and Drognan most efficiently, you'd have to do something like:
A1 town WP -> A1 "outside" WP -> A2 "outside" WP -> A2 town WP -> Drognan -> A1 town WP -> Akara. Rinse and repeat.

 

[Skullbash]

Re: White Wand

A little off topic here, but would it be possible to shop a plain war scepter with +hammer off of one of the vendors?