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The video centers on the rune word "Pride" and its application in a game, particularly emphasizing its concentration aura, which significantly boosts damage output and provides attack interruption immunity. Created from Cham, Sur, Io, and Lo runes, Pride is an expensive and rare weapon typically used by mercenaries. Key features include enhanced damage to demons, bonus attack rating, lightning damage, deadly strike, and various utility effects like hit blinds target and freeze target. However, its usage can be problematic for necromancers who rely on corpses for abilities such as resurrecting skeletons or corpse explosion, due to its freezing effect which can shatter corpses.
The video assesses the overall effectiveness of the Pride weapon compared to others like Destruction, Doom, and Infinity, which offer higher raw damage but lack the unique concentration aura. This aura is beneficial for various classes, including Paladins and Barbarians, by combining with might and fanaticism to maximize damage. However, the cost of the runes, particularly Cham, and the sharing of valuable Sur and Lo runes with other powerful rune words like Fortitude and Grief, poses significant trade-offs. Pride's utility is highlighted for specialized builds, despite its drawbacks in damage output and corpse management.
The strategic implications of equipping Pride on different characters and mercenaries are explored, including potential alternatives for skeleton summoning in necromancer builds. The video concludes with reflections on the prioritization of rune words and their values, suggesting that while Pride has niche advantages, other rune words may offer more practical benefits for a broader range of character builds and scenarios.
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In this segment of the video, the host introduces the rune word “Pride” and highlights its special feature of providing a concentration aura when equipped. The weapon is typically used for mercenaries and is often made in an ethereal cryptic axe. The host points out that Pride comes with some drawbacks and proceeds to examine its variables and uses on a website. They discuss its rune composition—Cham, Sur, Io, and Lo—emphasizing the expense due to the high demand and rarity of some of these runes. The segment then focuses on the rune word’s effects, such as the level 17 Firewall triggered when struck, detailing its damage potential and spread, which makes it effective over a large area.
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In this part of the video, the speaker discusses the Concentration aura, a valuable Paladin aura known for its ability to render attacks uninterruptible 20% of the time, which significantly increases DPS. They consider its utility for a Spear Amazon character to address issues with attack interruption. The aura’s effectiveness is noted, detailing levels (16 to 20) and the associated weapon damage boost percentages (285-345%). Additionally, the 60% variance between the lowest and highest levels is mentioned, along with the overall benefit of this aura to the player and their allies, such as minions and mercenaries. Lastly, the segment highlights a 260-300% bonus to attack rating, ensuring a high hit chance with this weapon.
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In this part of the video, the speaker explains various weapon attributes in a game. These include “one to 99 damage to demons” based on character level, which enhances overall damage and stacks with the concentration aura. The weapon also adds substantial lightning damage and includes a 20% chance of deadly strike, potentially doubling the damage output. They detail how deadly strike and critical strike have independent roll chances and can increase overall hit probability. However, the speaker notes that these effects don’t stack for quadruple damage and mentions the diminishing returns for lower chances.
Additionally, the weapon has a “hit blinds target” feature, which can override curses like life tap but is effective in preventing monsters from attacking. It also includes “freezes target plus three,” an ability that can be beneficial or detrimental depending on the character’s needs. The ability can prevent monsters from leaving corpses, which is useful for certain characters but troublesome for necromancers relying on corpses for their army and abilities. The speaker highlights how freezing targets can sabotage a necromancer’s strategy by eliminating potential corpses needed for resurrecting skeletons or triggering corpse explosions.
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In this segment of the video, the creator discusses the use of a specific weapon that has a concentration aura and the freeze target effect, which increases minion damage significantly but causes frozen enemies to shatter, complicating its use for necromancers needing corpses. Additionally, the weapon provides bonuses such as +10 vitality, replenish life +8, and extra gold from monsters. The creator demonstrates the weapon in nightmare difficulty, noting its limitations against cold immune monsters and its proficiency in inflicting freezes and blindness. The weapon’s aesthetic effect is described as a glass-like shattering. It’s also highlighted that the weapon, especially in its ethereal form, does not deal high damage due to the lack of enhanced damage (ED).
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In this segment of the video, the speaker compares different weapons of the same caliber, particularly focusing on their top-end damage outputs. They explain that the weapon being discussed has significantly lower damage than others like Destruction, Doom, Infinity, Crescent Moon, Obedience, and Insight. However, it offers useful effects, such as a concentration aura that increases damage and a deadly strike that can double damage with a 20% chance.
The speaker also notes that while Destruction and Doom have higher damage outputs, they lack the concentration aura, with Doom providing a holy freeze instead. The lower damage weapon is highlighted for its utility in specific situations, such as preventing corpses from being used for corpse explosions when fighting cold-immune monsters.
Furthermore, the speaker considers using this weapon for a necromancer’s mercenary to stack damage auras: might, concentration, and possibly fanaticism if wielding Beast. Combining these auras would result in significant damage boosts for skeleton minions, making them exceptionally powerful in combat.
00:15:00
In this part of the video, the speaker discusses the strategic decision of equipping a mercenary with a pride weapon in a Necromancer build for generating skeletons. The pride weapon offers a valuable concentration aura but alters the need to rely on the mercenary for initial kills since it can’t perform well in this role. Alternatives like using the neonate portal for summoning skeletons are considered but aren’t always viable. The speaker suggests that although this build requires adaptation, it could benefit other classes like a barbarian or paladin, enhancing their damage through simultaneous boosts from concentration, fanaticism, and might auras. The cost and trade value of the runes necessary for this setup, including the rare Cham rune, are also evaluated.
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In this part of the video, the speaker discusses the merits and drawbacks of the Pride rune word in a game. The main issue highlighted is that the Pride rune shares valuable runes (Sir and Low) with other more commonly used rune words, such as Fortitude or Grief. The speaker advises that these alternatives might be prioritized due to their greater utility. Additionally, combining Sur runes to create a Burr rune is suggested for higher value items like Enigma. Only a main necromancer character might prioritize Pride early to enhance their army, but this comes at the cost of other valuable improvements, such as enhancing a mercenary’s survivability with Fortitude. The segment concludes with the speaker thanking the viewers.