Why pick up blue/magic rings?

[Hookipa]

Hi all,

Lately I've been wondering whether I should keep picking up and ID'ing blue rings?

I basically do it out of habit, but seeing that LK runs drop quite some rings, which I pick up, it increases my cain/vendor stops over multiple runs.

So I went to Arreat site and checked some affixes/suffixes and for the life of me I can't find a nice combination for a character which is not surpassed by rare or unique combinations.

So what do u guys do? Pick them up and ID them? If yes, for what godly combination of stats.

For now, I'l stop picking them up and breaking up with a 10 year or so diablo 2 habit .

Hookipa.

 

[Greebo]

In 1.13? Virtually no use in twinked play for a moderately rich player. 120 mana / fcr on ES sorc maybe.

@15 / 25mf, 40mf were also options I was looking for back when. However I think 1.07 beats those easily, or at least it can.

 

[Gripphon]

Fastest way to farm blue rings is to have goldfinder character and gamble rings. You will get tons of them. Otherwise, no point in picking them up, all they do is take space in inventory and waste time picking them up. Chance to get something usable is too low to bother with them.

 

[Crazy Runner Guy]

In 1.13? Virtually no use in twinked play for a moderately rich player. 120 mana / fcr on ES sorc maybe.

Agreed - even a rare/craft /w FCR beats this (and I did use it on an ES sorc long ago).

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[Hookipa]

Thanks for your opinions, I won´t pick them up anymore.

That will save lots of inventory space .

 

[MYK]

This seems to be a conflation of "I want to run LK fast, and I'm doing things like picking up items instead of that" and "why pick up blue rings at all".

The first is simple: if all you care about it speed, the answer is straightforward.

The second is a rabbit hole: why pick up anything at all that isn't The Best? There's all sorts of answers to that one.

 

[deepfriedpizza]

Fortuitous Ring of Fortune can have 30+ MF, but the odds of getting one are obviously pretty low.

 

[helvete]

I only pick them up when I already have a craft combination for them (as in Sol, Pruby, Jewel). I don't even ID them before I craft, since the go-to option for blue rings is gambling, as stated above. I do the same, but add amulets (Ral, Pame, Jewel) for AT runs, since my runner is high enough level for the item level to not matter. Doesn't really save time muling, but it adds a little variation to runs I otherwise find pretty boring.

 

[ZeroAffex]

Since were on the subject of blue items, are blue jewels worth picking up? I admit I play on 1.09d. I see blue jewels all the time and was curious if your able to reroll them somehow? Maybe turn them into yellows? One can dream? Another is blue amulets, are they able to be rerolled? Thanks guys.

-zero

 

[FredOfErik]

Since were on the subject of blue items, are blue jewels worth picking up? I admit I play on 1.09d. I see blue jewels all the time and was curious if your able to reroll them somehow? Maybe turn them into yellows? One can dream? Another is blue amulets, are they able to be rerolled? Thanks guys.

-zero

Blue jewels have the potential to be very good, and since they can't be gambled, if you want those jewels you have to pick them up. Even the bad ones are useful for crafting.

They can be rerolled (3*pgem) but it isn't really worth the amount of pgems it takes.

 

[ZeroAffex]

Blue jewels have the potential to be very good, and since they can't be gambled, if you want those jewels you have to pick them up. Even the bad ones are useful for crafting.

They can be rerolled (3*pgem) but it isn't really worth the amount of pgems it takes.

FredOfErik, thank you for this information! I will definately be putting it to good use and am sure not to walk past any more blue jewels! 3pgems is a hefty price no doubt to reroll but at least I know the option is there.

-zero

 

[japanzaman]

Definitely pick up those blue jewels, for the reasons mentioned above. There's always the chance you can score a Ruby Jewel of Fervor, one of the most valuable items in the game, but even a Ruby jewel can be useful for socketing into helmets and armor. There's also the chance of getting at a +15 resist all jewel coupled with another useful mod- and these can be socketed into weapons unlike Um runes.

 

[Zenigma]

Just so you know, that 3 pgem + magic item applies to all magic items, not just jewels. Use it to reroll high level grand charms to look for those valuable skill gcs with loads of life.

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[Korlic]

Perfect Shimmering jewel of fervor must be the most rare magic jewel with highly regarded stats.

 

[Grape]

Perfect Shimmering jewel of fervor must be the most rare magic jewel with highly regarded stats.

I think so too, but I think you meant Scintillating of Fervor While Ruby has more variation 31-40ed vs 11-15 allres, scintillating is four times rarer prefix than ruby.

There can't be many [email protected]/15IAS jools around SPF. Anyone? Would love to socket couple of those in a perfect trapper claw for example...

 

[Gripphon]

Note that if you have 0 base speed primary claw and -30 base speed secondary claw, once you wsm bug them you need only 20 ias on -30 base claw to have max trap laying speed. That makes such nice jewels a kind of waste to socket them into claws. Unless you are not into claw bugging, then additional ias might help. And using bug is not a big deal. For example, wsm bug happens naturally for my pvp trapper because my secondary claw is holding my primary claw with additional stats, so my claws are "naturally" bugged once I switch. Sometimes it can be rather annoying to prevent it from happening.

 

[japanzaman]

Perfect Shimmering jewel of fervor must be the most rare magic jewel with highly regarded stats.

Probably the rarest, but not nearly as useful as the RJOF. Resists are usually not much of a problem for most builds, and damage makes a much more logical pairing with the IAS.

 

[Grape]

Note that if you have 0 base speed primary claw and -30 base speed secondary claw, once you wsm bug them you need only 20 ias on -30 base claw to have max trap laying speed. That makes such nice jewels a kind of waste to socket them into claws. Unless you are not into claw bugging, then additional ias might help. And using bug is not a big deal. For example, wsm bug happens naturally for my pvp trapper because my secondary claw is holding my primary claw with additional stats, so my claws are "naturally" bugged once I switch. Sometimes it can be rather annoying to prevent it from happening.

Good note on that. I'd definitely take the advantage of wsm bugging.

 

[Korlic]

Probably the rarest, but not nearly as useful as the RJOF. Resists are usually not much of a problem for most builds, and damage makes a much more logical pairing with the IAS.

Yeah I know. The only char I would LOVE to have such a jewel is on my Dual Dream sorc

 

[Mungojerry]

Rerolling for RjoF is probably one of the last things you do in D2 career since first you want 1/45'ers all around and just getting that on one char will most likely never happen. Then also a lot of Pgems goes to crafting elusive perfect 2/20 caster amulet, maybe a blood/caster ring aswell. ilvl 99 small charms from baal can be rolled for pestilent of anthrax, arcing of storms and [email protected]/20.