This may cause you to want to reroll Insight if you happen to get a bad roll on the Meditation level. When you're running a mana-hungry build, it's a significant difference. At level 12, Meditation increases mana regeneration by 575% with a radius of 22 yards at level 17, it's up 700% with a radius of 28.6 yards. Meditation increases mana regeneration, which goes up by 25% per level and increases the radius of the effect by 1.3 yards per level. The only real issue with this Runeword occurs when you get a very low roll on the Meditation aura. But the Meditation aura is so strong at mid-levels that the small sacrifices are worth it. It shows some of the problems with any compromise, in that it's average but not spectacular at either job.

In fact, its other properties show a remarkably good balance between being a caster weapon (for leveling casters) and a melee weapon (for Act II mercenaries). It's also sometimes used in a staff for casters, as it has good Faster Cast Rate. It still works well as a melee weapon for the Mercenary. The Meditation aura can be a game changer, even to Sorceresses who can regenerate mana with Warmth. Insight is most commonly used as a weapon for an Act II Mercenary, as the Meditation aura is an amazing boon for low-to-mid-game characters that struggle with mana-intensive builds and few tools to deal with it.

For mercs with a lot of crushing blow the extra strike rate can be helpful but in general find your target IAS and go with a gpa or ca.Level 12-17 Meditation Aura When Equipped Threshers and giant threshers are typically about 1 frame ahead in attack speed (though gpa is as fast at certain IAS) but the added speed doesn't make up for the significant weapon damage drop (12% less than gpa, 18% less than ca).

High damage mercs using ebotd and andy's should use a war pike for max damage instead of a gpa (15ias jewel in andy's is useless for this setup, the optimal breakpoint for ebotdwp is 80ias) A typical high-quality merc (eth fort, eth andy's with 15ias/30fire res jewel, and infinity/insight) will have 35ias and therefore a cryptic axe or colossus voulge will do the most damage per second. Great poleaxes do the most damage over the largest range of IAS, but ca/cv have max damage at important breakpoints. IAS WEAPON (gpa=great poleaxe,ca=cryptic axe,gt=giant thresher) Just found something to end all polearm debateĪct 2 merc base weapon selection (highest damage per second for every IAS)

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