I’m a new player, still leveling my first character, at about level 60. I’m finding lots of powerful looking green items, and sometimes not entirely sure which ones to keep for other builds I don’t have experience with. So I’m hoping more experienced players can impart some of their wisdom and advise which bonuses and affixes to be on the lookout for when deciding whether to keep items or sell them.
For example, if I were to find a Vampiric (weapon) of Alacrity, that seems like it would be a good item to keep, correct?
More generally, it seems that important bonuses to look for on items are:
Resists (any ones particularly valuable / hard to find?)
OA
DA
Health + Health Regen + % Health
Crit damage
+x to relevant skills
ADCTH
Reducing enemy resistances
And certain bonuses seem not terribly useful, here’s a guess:
Energy leech
Life leech
+Cunning or Spirit
+All damage (for focused damage builds)
Those are just guesses from what I know so far, but I would love to hear from more experienced people
Sounds about right to me. To go down your points in order:
Resists: Aether and Chaos are notoriously more difficult to get than the others. I like high Vitality resist too, since it helps with a lot of (but not all!) life-leeching attacks.
OA: Yes, especially percentile OA increases.
DA: Less important, but you still want enough to not get critically hit.
Health: Flat health is probably the most valuable since Percentile increases are common in devotions and skills. Don’t worry too much about regen unless you have skills like Blood of Dreeg that can really capitalize on it.
Crit Damage: Yes, but OA is better.
Skills: Yes, but keep in mind some skills scale better into ultimate ranks than others.
ADCTH: Very nice to have, but it doesn’t work on all enemies.
Reducing resistances: Definitely. Also be on the lookout for things that reduce damage (the Tyrant’s affix does this).
I have to head out now but I can try to give more info on affixes later if you want.
Alright, this is just off the top of my head, but here are the affixes I look out for the most.
For weapons, I mentioned “Tyrant’s” earlier. It’s a rare weapon prefix that increses physical damage and reduces targets’ damage output. It’s great if you can find it, but good luck since it’s pretty rare. “Alacrity” is a good weapon suffix, but “Fury” and “Fervor” are better if you can find them. Also, keep an eye out for “Plaguebearer’s” and “of the Abyss” weapons because they reduce all of a target’s resistances.
For armor, “Stonehide” is one of my favorites because it gives a lot of defensive bonuses. Shields can get a modifier called “Chronomancer’s” that gives cooldown reduction, which is nice.
For jewelry, keep an eye out for “Incorruptible”. It gives some key resistances.
For all items, “of Vitality” gives a large chunk of health, “of Attack” gives the most OA, “of Readiness” gives a lot of OA and DA, and “Prismatic” gives elemental resistance.
There are many, many more affixes out there, but these are the ones that I find useful for any class. Let me know if you have specific questions about anything.
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