I had to do it.....

Im highly impracticle and slightly insane when it comes to using my self found items in D2.So I am therefore going to utilise the Non-Eth Elite Giant Thresher - Stormspire I recently found on a Fury Wolf. My question is, does anyone ever do this with their underwhelming Elite Unique items or am I the only crazy one out there. I can think of so many better Fury Wolf weapon options and with the high str & dex reqs why do I do this? I just cant make it an Iron Golem, or Charsi it, or even let a Merc use it. I think it might be ok as its Very Fast and once Shael'ed might even shine a bit?? So whats the worst Useless Unique/Green/Rare you just had to make a build around??

|||Pelta Lunata gives hit blinds target on my poison dagger necro, I could change it out for much better options, but the necro would die without the hit blinds target . I took a kicksin through nightmare with a crushflange. I've built a staff sorc once around a lightning based unique staff. And on my current char (grenadier assassin) I'm using steel RW for the IAS and mana after kills it gives.

For me things are slightly different as you can see, I find a low end/crappy unique, do the happy dance, and make the best of it . Seeing the damage on stormspire you should do fine if you can get some DS on your build. And if it doesn't work out you can allways switch to insight runeword for comparable damage and ~45% CS. Don't know if the fury wolf is the best build for this though, I'd use it on a one hit kill build...|||Quote:








I took a kicksin through nightmare with a crushflange.




Lol, 'flange is by no means underwhelming, imho

My starting character this ladder, also a kicksin, was still using it at lvl 84 |||Had a Hellslayer drop over the weekend and I know it will just draw dust. That weapon used to be the bomb back in the day... now it's just a knickknack for a mule.|||My current dude (a stormranger, untwinked) has just made it to Nm WSK2 using a shael'ed Wizendraw (unique long battle bow).

He has a Strength mace for bosses, however.|||Quote:








My current dude (a stormranger, untwinked) has just made it to Nm WSK2 using a shael'ed Wizendraw (unique long battle bow).

He has a Strength mace for bosses, however.




I have a Widowmaker (low %ed of 200 tho) if you want to rock the Guided Arrow dude, let me know when he's lvl-ed for it |||Stoneraven

Two-Hand Damage: (214-247) To (316-361) (263.5-304 Avg)

Required Level: 64

Required Strength: 114

Required Dexterity: 142

Durability: 28

Base Weapon Speed: [0]

(Amazon Only)

+230-280% Enhanced Damage (varies)

Adds 101-187 Magic Damage

+400-600 Defense (varies)

All Resistances +30-50 (varies)

+1-3 To Javelin and Spear Skills (Amazon Only) (varies)

(Ladder Only)

(Only Spawns In Patch 1.10 or later)

Sad isnt it that I found an ETH +3 / 48 all resists version of this weapon ??? WTF is it good for besides a mool ?? Durabilty 28 will break in less than an hour Id bet... maybe it might make a decent iron Golem - lol .... Even I cant justify using this thing ...

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Stoneraven

Two-Hand Damage: (214-247) To (316-361) (263.5-304 Avg)

Required Level: 64

Required Strength: 114

Required Dexterity: 142

Durability: 28

Base Weapon Speed: [0]

(Amazon Only)

+230-280% Enhanced Damage (varies)

Adds 101-187 Magic Damage

+400-600 Defense (varies)

All Resistances +30-50 (varies)

+1-3 To Javelin and Spear Skills (Amazon Only) (varies)

(Ladder Only)

(Only Spawns In Patch 1.10 or later)

Sad isnt it that I found an ETH +3 / 48 all resists version of this weapon ??? WTF is it good for besides a mool ?? Durabilty 28 will break in less than an hour Id bet... maybe it might make a decent iron Golem - lol .... Even I cant justify using this thing ...






You could always just use it for an hour for ****s and giggles, and then toss it once it breaks. Imo, that is a better solution then having it take up precious mule space.

Or as you said, make it into an Iron Golum... again, at least it won't be taking up mule space....

-hps|||Quote:








Lol, 'flange is by no means underwhelming, imho

My starting character this ladder, also a kicksin, was still using it at lvl 84




Vouch.

During one of our CTA runs we had a crushflange fall. Of course after the run I had to toss it on my untwinked Zeal/Convictor and kill DClone with it. Respect the 'flange.