Best 1 handed defensive weapon??

Thinking about doing that new spectral shield throw build and so weapon damage no longer appears to matter. What's the best defensive weapon out there?

Plus you get a free Fortify gem for your Shield Charge, which ironically goes into anything but your shield for SST. No access to Leap Slam though, that sucks.

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Vipermagi schrieb:

15% Block is pretty good. Gonna be hard to top that.

this item is obviously made for just this situation. it's basically just defensive stats and it even looks like a shield

Stat sticks still work though. When I saw the SST design I thought they wanted to "balance" dual wield (with a stat stick) vs 1H (stat stick) + shield with this this skill...

depends what u play, if ur an acrobatics ranger then the block becomes less of a thing right?


The damage from ur mainhand weapon is still a factor with SST because of global buffs like unholy might, phys as extra elemental, % increased damages like wed, global crit multi etc etc. So the mainhand weapons local hit damage doesnt matter but you can still get an awful lot of damage from your weapon.


For an evasion build whos suffering a block penalty but has a lot of evasion The Dark Seer beyond sceptre has some blind on hit while also being able to roll +1 life per level, so 90 flat life at lvl90 with blind is a pretty nice defensive option. I believe it has an up to 50% increased generic damage affix + a 22% elemental damage implicit for a little damage. But compared to a shaper statstick or a doryanis or something like this its damage cant rly compete.

Eclipse Solaris isn't bad either with blind nearby enemies plus crit multi and crit chance versus blind targets, but have to use flame dash or lightning warp.

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Snorkle_uk schrieb:

For an evasion build whos suffering a block penalty but has a lot of evasion The Dark Seer beyond sceptre has some blind on hit while also being able to roll +1 life per level, so 90 flat life at lvl90 with blind is a pretty nice defensive option. I believe it has an up to 50% increased generic damage affix + a 22% elemental damage implicit for a little damage. But compared to a shaper statstick or a doryanis or something like this its damage cant rly compete.

'being able to roll life' - are there different versions?

I got this in Abyss:

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Zrevnur schrieb:

'being able to roll life' - are there different versions?

I got this in Abyss:

Dark Seer rolls any random two of Life, Mana, or ES, all +1 per level. As the Wiki does not currently state, since I just checked. Somebody needs to fix that.

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1453R schrieb:

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Zrevnur schrieb:

'being able to roll life' - are there different versions?

I got this in Abyss:

Dark Seer rolls any random two of Life, Mana, or ES, all +1 per level. As the Wiki does not currently state, since I just checked. Somebody needs to fix that.

It says down below in version history.