Misc D2X ME items images, with captions.  Read 'em and weep. Captions are above the shots.

It could be better, but not by much.  It's 5% max damage per Clvl on a Clvl 76 char.  This was awesome for nightmare, but lacking by act 5 hell due to no crushing blow and less than max Zeal speed.

So I think I'm giving up on big bow damage, and just going to try and get a fast one with a lot of crushing, since that's worked very well for my Paladin.  He kills about 3x faster with this than with the War Mattock shown above, despite the huge damage difference, and did so even before I put in the Ruth.

Crushing and attack speed is what it's all about if you want to do Valar on Players 4 or higher.  Note that this has a Ruth in it, which makes it something like 45-323 to demons or undead. I'll add another Thon: 5% Crushing, as soon as I find one. Though I wouldn't mind an Aglar (20% Crushing, #30), not that I'll ever find one.  I have 10% crushing on my gloves and 10% on my ring, and with a total of 44% crushing blow, the first 80% of a monster's hps vanish almost like I'm using Static Field.  It's the last 5 or 10% that takes the longest time, and the merc helps a lot with that since he's doing like 900-3400 with a very fast jab.

This is the elite bigger damage of the 2 elite amazon bows.  I'd been disappointed by the lacking damage elite bows, (the elite LWBow in ME does less dmg than the excep LWBow in D2X) and was waiting and waiting to find the amazon bow, figuring it had to be the best damage, and would be worth trying to get good stats with the 3s rare cube recipe. I'd never seen either type of elite Amazon bow, despite having found dozens of every type of normal elite bow, and was wondering if they even existed.

Finally at Clvl 85 my Paladin found this from a random minion on Worldstone lvl 3.  The name thrilled me, I picked it up and saw the item graphic and my heart leapt, and then I saw the damage, and almost cried.  Even with 400% ED this would be just 105-204.  Sheesh, why bother even having the top elite bow if it's slow and not even enough damage to be a good Excep, much less Elite?

Nice damage.  If it had had life leech instead of mana, I probably would have socketed an IAS rune and used it on a merc, despite the super slow speed. I'm just considering that now.  Or possibly socketing it to indes and putting it on my Druid, though the IAS would be a pain.

 

 

Not a bad merc armor, eh?  Elite armor has a dmg reduce property by default, on the normal, magical, and socketed types.

 

 

Amusingly huge damage for a dagger.  And the stats aren't even that great.

 

MF goes a bit higher on small charms than it does in D2X.

 

Why yes, there are rather nice crafted items possible.