A noob needs a price check - Aurumvorax Basket Rapier

Don't see the reason for this existing other than the resists. I don't think anyone would honestly use this as a weapon but just as a shield since the resists are so high.
GGG gives me Diablo 2 Teleport? I give them 50 bucks. No questions asked.
It's actually pretty viable as a placeholder if you're farming with 2 x Andvarius rings as it negates the negative resists, until you can afford better gear.
IGN - Hamusuta

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Col_Jessep wrote:
Found one of them this morning, too.

I'm trying to think of a way how this item could be useful. Mine has almost 60% elemental resistances - pretty beast for one item. But as a weapon it has not enough damage potential. The 60% increase resistances would be great when you move from Cruel to Merciless. But at that point this weapon will barely make a dent into mobs.

How could you make use of it? As spellcaster? Dual wield it with another weapon if you want to fight Piety?

Right now I can only think of it as something you put on weapon swap if you get cursed with elemental weakness and have to run away. Other ideas?

Ancestral Bond and Summoner builds. I often dual weild two of them, because then with the purity aura I can easily max out resistances at 85% without ever investing in a single all resist node.

Since I don't need all resist on any of my gear, this also makes all my other pieces of gear EXCEPTIONALLY cheap because gear without any resistances are considered quite crappy.
and no one notices that reduced rarity drop mod?

its only good when you already have the gear ready for a leveling char
Last edited by agbudar#4976 on May 29, 2013, 10:03:49 PM
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agbudar wrote:
and no one notices that reduced rarity drop mod?

its only good when you already have the gear ready for a leveling char

The reduced rarity doesn't really cause any problems, because since you don't need to stack resistances, you can uze a Gold Ring to counter-act the stat loss. The build I run that has two of these runs an andvarius because I still end up with 40% all resist, while also getting a beautiful +40% item rarity.

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