I usually find myself making this armor at the start of a new ladder when good armors are hard to come by. The amount of defence that this has over what you find in nightmare difficulty is very good. The repair cost can be high but put this in the cube with a ral rune and it gets fully repaired with just the cost of the ral and if you want to repair and recharge just add any flawed gem to the ral. Also the extra strength can sometimes help with equiping better weapons on a merc without having to get it on the merc's helm.
Newbie here. Cool informations ! From what I’ve read and seems to haves misunderstood, I thought only normal equipment could receive runeword, I didn’t know you could use it on superior equipment. Keep getting rid of them. Now I know better. Thanks for the great video.
Yes Superior Equipment with bonus stats will work for runewords however there are restrictions. Superior equipment can only be socked by larzuk or be found with the right amount of sockets. Also Superior equipment tend to be costly to repair at the vendor.
Well, speaking about FHR, I've heard and seen that Act V mercenary barbarian doesn't have any hit recovery so it will always stoically take all hard hits without even a shrug of an eyebrow. If this will be a thing in patch 2.4 the barbarian can become an ultimate tank machine for builds which will need it
I love clay Golem on my bone necro. Holy freeze merc, clay golem, and decrep. Slow cap on every one. I don't even mind cold damage pops, you absolutely do not need to explode every corpse to obliterate packs. One or two usually do it.
Only runeword I ever made was a perfect stone with extra 13ed. I found the sacred armor base in cows. And a few runs later found a um. Traded it for something really nice. Can't remember what. It's been over a decade
I two never tried this runeword till a few months back. My buddy act 2 Merc kept dying. I kept this Eth scald husk for fort lol. I convinced him to make the Stone for the hit recovery. Mercs are LVL 85 have enough base resistance that +15 isn't all needed but it's best to have more incase monsters have - resistance aura. Bonehew with Crown of theives with Stone makes a very beefy Merc. I'll probably do this same combo for Hardcore Mercs.
For merc recovery win over ias because if merc face minions that hit him fast even if je got 100 ias he will not hit because he can't recover fast enough also 300 vs. Miss its huge since mercs lack of def in general the armor that have low rez its merc design since mercs have passive natural rez and dont need much a merc with 0 gear will have in hell at lvl85 at least 44 while players will get insane - rez with 0 rez gear so stone and duress are merc design special made and beat treach 100% but i like your point and video and i respect your experience and so on
I remember finding a um rune. Didn't k kw what to do with it. Ended up finding a 4os eth 15ed sacred armor and rolled a perfect Ed stone with 15 Ed over top roll. I had no idea how much it was worth. Ended up trading for a enigma or something.
Cap for slows target is 80% slow. So they would stack until reaching 80% and stop. They don't stack by adding 50+50 they stack by subtracting in order until the 80% cap is reached. So like 100-50% =50. 50-50% = 25 ect. 20 remaining would be the cap
@@GGMentor Perhaps my lack of in-game time (for years now) is where I miss out on processing this sort of data. I see the value! Thank you for the content, per usual.
I usually find myself making this armor at the start of a new ladder when good armors are hard to come by. The amount of defence that this has over what you find in nightmare difficulty is very good. The repair cost can be high but put this in the cube with a ral rune and it gets fully repaired with just the cost of the ral and if you want to repair and recharge just add any flawed gem to the ral. Also the extra strength can sometimes help with equiping better weapons on a merc without having to get it on the merc's helm.
Nice, that's great
I cant believe I never used the golem before.....and i love this armour use it all the time in NM
The golem is the best part lol
Newbie here. Cool informations ! From what I’ve read and seems to haves misunderstood, I thought only normal equipment could receive runeword, I didn’t know you could use it on superior equipment. Keep getting rid of them. Now I know better. Thanks for the great video.
Yes Superior Equipment with bonus stats will work for runewords however there are restrictions.
Superior equipment can only be socked by larzuk or be found with the right amount of sockets.
Also Superior equipment tend to be costly to repair at the vendor.
The clay golem from stone got me through hell on multiple chars absolutely no problem. Ya hell die here and there but just recast. Very very useful.
Well, speaking about FHR, I've heard and seen that Act V mercenary barbarian doesn't have any hit recovery so it will always stoically take all hard hits without even a shrug of an eyebrow. If this will be a thing in patch 2.4 the barbarian can become an ultimate tank machine for builds which will need it
That sounds really good tbh. I always loved the A5 Merc and now he seems to be viable with the higher stats and the shout.
I love clay Golem on my bone necro. Holy freeze merc, clay golem, and decrep. Slow cap on every one.
I don't even mind cold damage pops, you absolutely do not need to explode every corpse to obliterate packs. One or two usually do it.
Only runeword I ever made was a perfect stone with extra 13ed. I found the sacred armor base in cows. And a few runs later found a um. Traded it for something really nice. Can't remember what. It's been over a decade
I remember seeing an ebugged stone in Lod with 5.2K Def
Absolutely insane.
Edit just did a Google to make sure I'm not crazy, absolutely a thing.
Yeah, but ebug is not a thing anymore =\ so not possible
u can still make a Stone that has over 4k defense in a Superior ethereal Sacred armor.
My Stone is sitting at 3160def. Rolled nearly perfect on an eth Hellforge Plate with 8%ED. Its insane on a merc for survivability.
Nice defense
That's that OJ Simpson defense, that's that fort Knox gold vault defense
I two never tried this runeword till a few months back. My buddy act 2 Merc kept dying. I kept this Eth scald husk for fort lol. I convinced him to make the Stone for the hit recovery. Mercs are LVL 85 have enough base resistance that +15 isn't all needed but it's best to have more incase monsters have - resistance aura. Bonehew with Crown of theives with Stone makes a very beefy Merc. I'll probably do this same combo for Hardcore Mercs.
Put it in on an act 5 merc for middle of nightmare. He'd be pretty much immortal. Wear it yourself for bosses if you want for the clay golem.
For merc recovery win over ias because if merc face minions that hit him fast even if je got 100 ias he will not hit because he can't recover fast enough also 300 vs. Miss its huge since mercs lack of def in general the armor that have low rez its merc design since mercs have passive natural rez and dont need much a merc with 0 gear will have in hell at lvl85 at least 44 while players will get insane - rez with 0 rez gear so stone and duress are merc design special made and beat treach 100% but i like your point and video and i respect your experience and so on
A highly defensive armor
Clay golem also slows them when HE GETS HIT!
Yes
I remember finding a um rune. Didn't k kw what to do with it. Ended up finding a 4os eth 15ed sacred armor and rolled a perfect Ed stone with 15 Ed over top roll. I had no idea how much it was worth. Ended up trading for a enigma or something.
17:33 comparison
"I don't have the runes for Duress" Well ShealUmThul should be easy when you need Shael and Um for Stone anyway.
Lol 🤣 duress is basically the same runes
Hand of Justice Double Dragon build
Decent armor for a low zealot
I would say it's great for any Zealot.
I'm sure this golem would hold up in all areas in the game, similar to the peace valk
Put stone an act 3 fire merc so merc can dual spirit with flickering flame. Great synergy with a fire sunder druid that summons.
It would've been interesting to see what happens if you stack holy freeze on top of the clay golem's slow effect.
Cap for slows target is 80% slow.
So they would stack until reaching 80% and stop.
They don't stack by adding 50+50 they stack by subtracting in order until the 80% cap is reached.
So like 100-50% =50. 50-50% = 25 ect.
20 remaining would be the cap
@@GGMentor Ahh. Oh well.
I have trouble deciding between the value of extra resistances vs extra defense and sometimes vs extra damage coming from the armor.
Sir have a question , possible use 2nd golem for necromancer ? And how golem mastery will it work ?😮
Perfect for a cheap summoning druid :)
A golem alwways help
Little clay golem to go with your grizzly bear!
Could see an Bow Amazon with this Armor as well
What headset are you using, the mic sounds so good on it.
Cruiser p3210 with a ground loop isolator and obs noise filtration
@@GGMentor Thank you very much!
Should have went with eth Sacred Armor for style points
Hah 222 strength worth of style points 🤣
I make mine in either dusk or AP just for a merc needing the defense never make more than one and it just migrates between characters
Can the armor be found in Nightmare or does it have to be found in hell?
For four sockets in a good base try hell cows
What's cracking.
My back 😂
Wish it was a "good" runeword or lower level req ...
It is a good runeword many people use it end game.
@@GGMentor Perhaps my lack of in-game time (for years now) is where I miss out on processing this sort of data.
I see the value! Thank you for the content, per usual.
Will the clay golem stack with Necros clay golem?
No just one
Just one