Facets - jewels - your thoughts

I have a few facet wonderings/questions

I have a chain lightning sorc, would a lightning facet be good in the
helm.armor.weapon? She is a lot of fun but the lightning could use a
boost, the 5-3000 damage is quite a swing. When it hits for 3000 it
sure is nice, but the low zaps make things slow sometimes.

How about a fire facet in the Chantress gear. Does this extra boost
benefit other players and their mercs or would the facet only benefit
her.

How about a facet in a merc. One of the ones that has a level
40somthing something upon death. If that is on a merc does the effect
take place still?

Thanks for your thoughts.

RU

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RU42 <nospam.DeleteThis@nospam.com> wrote:

>I have a few facet wonderings/questions

Go right ahead, I'll see what I can do.

>I have a chain lightning sorc, would a lightning facet be good in the
>helm.armor.weapon? She is a lot of fun but the lightning could use a
>boost, the 5-3000 damage is quite a swing. When it hits for 3000 it
>sure is nice, but the low zaps make things slow sometimes.

Yep, they sure help. Of course, they work even better if you have
something which is a able to break lightning immunities: cheap option is a
wand with Lower Resist charges, the expensive option is an Infinity
polearm on the merc. Especially since monsters with a broken immunity
still have very high resists to the broken immunity, facets and other
-resist gear work very nicely to further lower those monster's resists and
increase the damage they take...

>How about a fire facet in the Chantress gear. Does this extra boost
>benefit other players and their mercs or would the facet only benefit
>her.

All facets only benefit the character (merc of player) wearing it. Also,
the -res part of a facet is usually more important that the +dmg part,
since the +dmg part is actually pretty small compared to the boosts you
get from fire/lightning mastery. Cold Mastery is the odd-one out, there
both are about equally useful, unless you have Cold Master at a very very
high level.

>How about a facet in a merc. One of the ones that has a level
>40somthing something upon death. If that is on a merc does the effect
>take place still?

I've got a Cold Facet/Die in the hat of my UT Smiters merc, and while the
effect from the Facet certainly also triggers when the merc dies, the
Blizzard from that doesn't make a dent in any of the monsters there. Said
merc doesn't die that easily in the regular game, so I can't really
comment on the performance of the Blizzard from the facet there.

Short answer: Yup, works. Effectiveness to be determined, so go right
ahead.

Regards,

Patrick.