Highest % Inc. Phys. Dmg. ?

Been using this:


using a 5L Sunder with Hatred Aura. Goes through mobs pretty good.

Looted this:


and burned through all my chaos orbs trying to get higher increased physical damage than the scepter I'm already using. Looking at the wiki and I see Lv. 73 155-169% damage increase. So is that the highest I'd be able to crank out on that thing? Another 50% or so over my current weapon would be neat. But I'm starting to think I should start using my chaos on a chest piece or something.

Trying to craft a physical DpS weapon with chaos is a frustrating task.
It's most likely not going to work, you're just burning money.

I prefer alt/aug/regal/mastercraft.
Especially on a non crit build, you can get the most important stats within 3 affixes.

Search for flat damage or high % damage on your alteration orb, hope for the other one on the regal, or mastercraft it instead.
Ideally you also get attackspeed on your alteration orb.

Crafted these using this method (the regal was the shit roll, of course):

~300 DpS seems to be a realistic goal on the highest bases.
~400 DpS if the regal ever hits a high tier affix instead of me mastercrafting it (not going to happen).

Yours has ~280, so you can probably still upgrade.

You also want to use itemlevel >80 for the highest possible affix tiers.

(Highest possible % damage is about 250%, but that's only possible with a combination of tier 1 % and tier 1 hybrid (% and accuracy))

For physical damage weapons, the best have 3 physical damage prefixes...Physical damage %, physical damage % / accuracy % hybrid, and flat physical damage. If you look at the item level of what you're crafting, you can see the highest tier of each of those you have available. If you're really trying to craft a better damage weapon, I think chaos orbs are the wrong approach. Roll it blue to get a high tier prefix, and then use a regal orb to turn it yellow. If you're lucky, you can get a second damage prefix that way. And if you're really lucky, one of them will be the hybrid prefix so you can use a crafting bench to add the third damage prefix.

Edit: typed too slow :)

Thanks guys. I've got it figured out now. Man, I found a new time/money sink. Best I got was 107% phys. That was after 550 alts. Got a few +physical damage in the 30s. Each time I augmented I got like +mana or something silly.

Thanks for the explanation. =]

If you find a high lvl mace with attack speed implicit, than alt spam that one instead.

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Hizsoo wrote:

If you find a high lvl mace with attack speed implicit, than alt spam that one instead.

I have that in the stash, but its only 72. From what I understand, since I'm running Hatred aura I'd want increased ele damage as the implicit. I think?

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Westwood1121 wrote:

I have that in the stash, but its only 72. From what I understand, since I'm running Hatred aura I'd want increased ele damage as the implicit. I think?

If you use a crit pure ele attack than the attack speed mace is 4.3% worse, but it is lot easier to roll. If you have less ele and go non-crit than the attack speed mace should be better, but didn't checked how much better.