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hyram vendor goodtobuy MI
location= Malmouth steelcap district
Fleshwarped Core
Temporal Arcblade is the main competition for 2h Callidor’s Tempest. Soulsplitter is one of the main competitors for 2h Aether auto builds.
3/4-You want decent to above average rolls for this item to outperform other options overall.
Fleshwarped Tome
Puts a noteworthy amount of damage onto AAR. Though has competition in the slot depending on setup.
3-You want decent rolls for this to shine over other options.
Colossal Bulwark
A mix of defensive bonuses and other features that can yield an interesting option for select aether melee builds. Main competition is Will of the Living.
3/4-It’s a narrower range of affixes that truly make this item shine.
Colossal Fortress
An excellent option with little in the way of competition for Blood Knights that include Soldier.
1-Any affixes work, though given it can be vendor farmed it isn’t hard to get useful affixes on one.
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Agarrad vendor goodtobuy MI
location= Port Valbury high town skelekey dungeon
Fleshwarped Incinerator
Pretty potent for canister bomb, though there’s a variety of options here
3-You’ll want decent affixes
Haunted Shoulderpad
Primarily useful in a niche for the +2 to word of pain, the conversion isn’t easily leveraged by the current assortment of skills and builds. Chaos → Ele doesn’t have a clear application.
2-While there is a lack of direct competition within this niche you’ll want at least a baseline roll for this item to fully carry its weight.
Overseer Eye
God item for stunjacks
1-BIS for lightning stunjacks.
Pulsing Shard
Other alternatives have arisen mostly relegating this to a leveling item
4/5-Godroll it, otherwise it can’t come close to the competition.
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Vinelton vendor goodtobuy MI
location= Ancient grove skelekey dungeon
Basilisk Crest
The skill mod alone makes this an amazing item, BIS for ravenous earth.
1-Get whatever you can on it. This is the only medal to consider for Ravenous Earth builds.
Basilisk Fang
Useful slot filler for various non physical aegis builds
2-You want at least one nice roll, though some builds may be calling for higher stat density to fit in every last desirable piece.
Basilisk Mark
Acid Ring of Steel and to a lesser extent acid nightblade builds make use of this item.
2-You want at least one nice roll, though some builds may be calling for higher stat density to fit in every last desirable piece.
Living Ring
Health, a resistance and other potentially useful stats make this a strong base ring for generalist options as well as a potent platform for rolls that put some legendaries to shame.
3-At the very least you want decent rolls here.
Vine RingThe only reason to even glance at vine ring is for the damage bonuses it grants.
5-Perfect rolls for pierce damage or just ignore this thing.
Ugdenbog Bilelauncher
With decent rolls this item outperforms Quillthrower of Dreeg for 2h ranged Amarasta’s Blade Burst builds.
3-You’ll want a decent baseline of affixes for this item to pack more oomph than Quillthrower of Dreeg.
Ugdenbog Sparkthrower
A rather potent option for ranged Primal Strike that doesn’t see much competition from the likes of attack speed deficient Raka’Jax.
3-You want a decent baseline of rolls for this item to shine above the other legendary options.
Leafmane Horn Definitive option for acid ravenous earth.
1-You’re playing acid RE, you use this.
Ugdenbog Waistguard Aether to ele may enable some niche setups down the road but when the most likely source of aether is arcanist there needs to be sufficient item support for the ability otherwise it’s doomed to fail - lacking RR.
Potential niche, no clear use yet.
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Karros Adal vendor goodtobuy MI
location= Bastion of Chaos (BoC) skelekey dungeon
Bloodsworn Signet
With the abundance of powerful pet ring options this item is mostly relegated to filler, often to take advantage of its cast speed.
3/4-Given this is sought after as a filler option it’s all about the rolls. Good to amazing ones.
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Benevald vendor goodtobuy MI
location= Blood grove rift
Kymon’s Badge
The badge for lightning Grenado, do not pass GO! without it.
1-The skill mod alone is the winner here, use whatever rolls you can get your hands on. If you’re not using Scion of Burning vengeance this is the only other option for 100% pierce → lightning on grenado.
Spectral Longsword With better options existing for cold Shadow Strike this item is a filler option, though it outperforms legendaries and is easily accessible due to vendor farming.
1/3-For leveling any old one will do, but you have the luxury of quickly farming a vendor for decent rolls.
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Yurrith vendor goodtobuy MI
location= Court of magi skelekey dungeon in Tomb of the Heretic, Lost oasis rift
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Marris Kas vendor goodtobuy MI
location= Steps of Torment skelekey dungeon, Broken hill rift
Spectral War Shield
Spectral War Shield(Need insight on relevance) -replies from other players
It’s a mandatory item for retal Drain Essence (DE) builds (usually - physical). As such, you want physical/elemental retal mods on it, they make a huge DPS difference. Physical retal DE builds are very tanky and strong ones in endgame, but are very gear-dependant, particulary - on the shield mods.
Build examples for physical retal DE:
[1.1.9.0] THE Z U C C - Phys Retal DE Oppressor - (ALMOST) EVERYTHING+ 4
Death Knight, Level 100 (GD 1.1.9.4) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator 1
Also it’s a nice DE leveling item.
Spectral Bludgeon An enabler for cold TSS. While Trozan’s Scepter doesn’t offer as much potential for cold support, it outperforms this item unless there’s good enough affixes. (Note, unless various blues/legendaries receive a rework this item is actually IRRELEVANT due to the ease of obtaining 100% lightning → cold)
3-You need a decent baseline of affixes for this item to outperform the main competition.
Spectral Longsword With better options existing for cold Shadow Strike this item is a filler option, though it outperforms legendaries and is easily accessible due to vendor farming.
1/3-For leveling any old one will do, but you have the luxury of quickly farming a vendor for decent rolls.
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