Underrated Uniques

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JohnNamikaze wrote:

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ladish wrote:

That crit dam reduction works at end game as well ;). Belt of the deceiver + indomitable passive will cut any crit damage by 50% (ofc you take the full non-crit portion) especially useful vs powerful crit rares and crit mod maps. Downsides are underwhelming stats (especially the life) and pretty crippling if you hope to get anything out of block/spell block. Still if you build around it it's a 2 alt item with huge mitigation from some of the most dangerous spike damage you will encounter. Plus it gives you a skirt mtx :).

Losing out about 40-60 max life (or more with heavy/leather belt) is kinda bad, but the combo of the belt and that notable completely makes it up and a bit more. It is the cheaper option to that of what the Brass Dome which gives you no life and res at the cost of not taking any extra damage from crit.



Overall, I see Belt of the Deceiver as one of the best leveling belts period unless you use Facebreaker than Meginord's Girdle will pretty much be BiS for the setup throughout the entire game. Once you get into endgame, then Belt of the Deceiver will start having a lot of competition depending on the build setup. If you feel there is no other belt that can outperform Belt of the Deceiver by endgame with whatever build you have planned out, then you one less gear slot to worry about. Pretty much, I am 50-50 on Belt of the Deceiver being underrated, so I cannot really refute Belt of the Deceiver is not underrated (despite my previous post having the tone of refuting the case). :)

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Geisalt wrote:

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epancake wrote:

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adghar wrote:

I dunno if it counts as underrated, but Oro's Sacrifice gives absolutely insane bang for the buck. 1 chaos and it grants super massive damage. Well, your build will probably require more than that (30c? I don't remember prices) for a 5L, but the sword itself is dirt cheap for the throbbing raw power it gives.

actually only raw weapon dps is higher than a physical 2h. I did the math comparing the avg. physical tree with neversink's oro tree and the resulting dmg is even lower than the phys. About 5300 dps (with a 400 dps axe) for physical and 5100 for oro. Also with oro you need fire pen and flammability curse

neversink Oro' tree is VERY bad.

I can make you a 1M flicker slayer dps build if you want ( with shock and pene, full charge, so like 300K tooltip) With 90% crit chance so you ignite all the time.

K thx and 6K hp, unfortunately it needs assa mark to be efficient, and flamma gives good dps but it can be replaced by enfeeble.

So yeak never sink build is just bad ;)

Fire pene is not a downside, it boosts the effective damage, elemental is always lower by 30% compared to physical, because of resistances. So the 750 DPS is comparable to a 500 weapon damage; )
with 40% fire penetration you get a 825 dps weapon compared to a weapon with 500 physical 1.5 melee phys 750. There is a some scaling difference but it's the general idea.

The main difficulty is to get damage scaling with increased%, there is a lot of ways but the best is rings, belt and amulet: 150% increased easily.