Best wand from vendor

[Dr Fleau]

I presently have :
+2 all necro skills
+3 Poison Nova
+2 Summon Resist
Level 2 Zeal (25 charges, never used)

Just got to Act 4 NM, SP. Can I buy or gamble a +3 all necro skills from a vendor ?

Thanx
Dr Fleau
We are born naked, cold and hungry. Then things get worse.

[weretable and the undead chairs]

Post by Dr Fleau
+2 all necro skills
+3 Poison Nova
+2 Summon Resist
Level 2 Zeal (25 charges, never used)
Just got to Act 4 NM, SP. Can I buy or gamble a +3 all necro skills from a vendor ?

No. You can get +3 to a skill tree like +3 poison/bone skills but not
+3 to all skills. There are some uniques that give more skills, if
you get lucky enough to find one.

[Jens Schmalzing]

Hi,

Post by weretable and the undead chairs
No. You can get +3 to a skill tree like +3 poison/bone skills but
not +3 to all skills.

But you can always get +1-3 points to up to three individual skills in
addition to the +3 to a skill tree or +2 to all skills. This means
that you can buy wands from vendors that give up to +6 to an
individual skill.

Post by weretable and the undead chairs
There are some uniques that give more skills, if you get lucky
enough to find one.

Specifically, Arm of King Leoric, Boneshade and Death's Web.

But I believe the highest bonus you can get is +9 to bone armor and +8
to bone spear, if you are fortunate enough to find a white or grey
wand with +3 to bone spear and +3 to bone armor, and then use it to
make the runeword White.

Ah, now you got me drooling over a wand like that again.

Regards, Jens.

[Aginrikr]

Post by Jens Schmalzing
But I believe the highest bonus you can get is +9 to bone armor and +8
to bone spear, if you are fortunate enough to find a white or grey
wand with +3 to bone spear and +3 to bone armor, and then use it to
make the runeword White.
Ah, now you got me drooling over a wand like that again.

Just go shopping at Drognan, act2. Got me a clean +3 bone spear wand. which
got 2 sockets at Larzuk.
My hand hurt for about 2 days after because of all the clicking in and out
of town, but that's another story...

Agin

[Jens Schmalzing]

Hi,

Post by Aginrikr
Just go shopping at Drognan, act2.
Got me a clean +3 bone spear wand. which got 2 sockets at Larzuk.

And I always thought you only get blue wands from vendors.
You mean Drognan in Normal and Larzuk in Hell, I presume?

Post by Aginrikr
My hand hurt for about 2 days after because of all the clicking in
and out of town, but that's another story...

I can feel your pain. I spent a couple of hours getting claws with +3
to traps, +3 to lightning sentry and other goodies from Anya in Hell.
It was made bearable by running LoD in a window and watching a movie
along with shopping. And I traded one of those claws for a Reaper's
Toll this weekend, so it was worth the clicking indeed.

Regards, Jens.

[Bingain]

Post by Jens Schmalzing

Post by Aginrikr
Just go shopping at Drognan, act2.
Got me a clean +3 bone spear wand. which got 2 sockets at Larzuk.

And I always thought you only get blue wands from vendors.
You mean Drognan in Normal and Larzuk in Hell, I presume?

You can get white or gray wands from Akara and Drognan in Normal Difficulty.
IIRC after that, only blue wands are offerred. That Larzuk gave Agin
sockets on his white-color wand.

Post by Jens Schmalzing

Post by Aginrikr
My hand hurt for about 2 days after because of all the clicking in
and out of town, but that's another story...

I'm still looking for a white-color/gray-color wand with +3 spear, +3
Attract/Revive/LowerResist (pick 2 from list) ^_^.

Currently I'm using a 'white' wand with +8 spear and +1 Attract (saved me 3
skill points in this sub-tree) and carry another wand with +3LR on switch in
case I play in a party with sorcs/trappers/etc.

+3 Bone Armor will only grant another 30 absorb which isn't a real biggie if
you already have around 600 abosrb. So it's why I'd rather opt for other
skills on a dream 'white' wand.

Bing

[nyra]

Post by Bingain

Post by Jens Schmalzing

Post by Aginrikr
Just go shopping at Drognan, act2.
Got me a clean +3 bone spear wand. which got 2 sockets at Larzuk.

And I always thought you only get blue wands from vendors.
You mean Drognan in Normal and Larzuk in Hell, I presume?

You can get white or gray wands from Akara and Drognan in Normal Difficulty.
IIRC after that, only blue wands are offerred. That Larzuk gave Agin
sockets on his white-color wand.

I'm not entirely certain, but i think the vendors in Kurast still
offer white/grey items when their inventory gets spawned by characters
below level 20. Definitely the case for Hratli and Asheara, can't
remember Ormus' stock, though. I've never had a <20 character in acts
IV+, so i don't know whether the rule still holds there. BTW, getting
a <20 char to act III is the only way i know of to have a vendor spawn
non-magical long swords (Fara only offers blues).

[David Carson]

Post by nyra
I'm not entirely certain, but i think the vendors in Kurast still
offer white/grey items when their inventory gets spawned by characters
below level 20. Definitely the case for Hratli and Asheara, can't
remember Ormus' stock, though. I've never had a <20 character in acts
IV+, so i don't know whether the rule still holds there. BTW, getting
a <20 char to act III is the only way i know of to have a vendor spawn
non-magical long swords (Fara only offers blues).

All vendors offer whites & greys to characters below level 20.. though
as you say, you won't be likely to have a <char in later acts, without
some silly rushing going on.

The Act 1 and 2 Normal vendors will offer whites & greys to all
characters, since the shop ilvl caps in those acts are lower than the
"no more whites & greys" level of 25.

Hralti in Act 3 and Halbu in Act 4 are the two who can sell non-magical
long swords (to sufficiently low level characters)

Cheers!
David...

[Jens Schmalzing]

Hi,

Post by David Carson
All vendors offer whites & greys to characters below level 20.. though
as you say, you won't be likely to have a <char in later acts, without
some silly rushing going on.

I happen to have a level 1 mule who can access all acts in normal.
Just checked out the vendors in all acts from 3 to 5, and got very
disappointing results - they showed me hardly anything. So it looks
as if the best best for a boner wand is still shopping Drognan in
normal with a high level character.

Regards, Jens.

[David Carson]

Post by Jens Schmalzing

Post by David Carson
All vendors offer whites & greys to characters below level 20.. though
as you say, you won't be likely to have a <char in later acts, without
some silly rushing going on.

I happen to have a level 1 mule who can access all acts in normal.
Just checked out the vendors in all acts from 3 to 5, and got very
disappointing results - they showed me hardly anything. So it looks
as if the best best for a boner wand is still shopping Drognan in
normal with a high level character.

Hmm, looking at the tables, I'd have guessed that Ormus might be
slightly better than Drognan (as in, offering more wands to choose from
per visit), but that the wand-vendors in Acts 4 and 5 (Jamella and
Malah) look to be inferior.

I haven't shopped them myself, though.

Cheers!
David...