It is often chosen over its counterpart, the Colossus Voulge, because the latter has requirements not as easily met. It is popular for making rune words for act 2 mercenaries.

However, if I could find a stable thresher rack or other elite polearm (other than cv) within a few hours, that would certainly be my best option. A Cryptic Axe is a Two-handed Elite polearm. I understand they have only slightly worse odds to drop these elite polearms than hell cows, and I could sort of hybrid run them with 200MF or so, so I could be finding other good items with a decent chance to drop the polearms. I gather that farming hell cows would probably take 100-200 runs or so, and that would take quite a while. Unique Jewels Set Items Magic Grand Charms Magic Small Charms Magic Jewels Runewords Basic Items (white) and Socketables 1.Currency 9-10 Pgms (random) Pul 40 Pgms (random) Ist 20 P amethysts Ist 25-30 P rubies Ist 2. I haven't even been able to find anecdotal evidence about how long I should expect to be resetting maps and testing racks at different angles, so I was hoping for some input. I'm trying to figure out if it's worth my time to try and farm up a thresher rack (for an eth 4os elite polearm) or if it takes so long to find the right map/rack that my time would be better off in hell cows, or even just running pits/AT.

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