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twitchx85
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Hello Everybody,
Some questions. I have searched the forums and google and cant find the answer i am looking for. For my Trickster Rogue i am at just shy of 12K gearscore. I am about to have the items to unlock either Shores of Tuern, Lair of Lostmauth, or my artifact main hand. What do you advise first? Since i havent unlocked them i cant see what the skirmish or dungeon drops and when looking on the neverwinter Wiki it lists Shores of tuern as the only place that drops Draconic gear in the epic version and the normal has jewelry that has a set bonus.
I have been having horrible luck to get any tier 2 pieces to drop. What do you advise as my next step?
1) Unlock Shores- farm jewelry, then unlock main hand artifact weapon
2) Artifact main hand before shores or lostmauth
3) Lostmauth
I would like to get to 13K the quickest to do the epic versions, just not sure which way is the best?
Some questions. I have searched the forums and google and cant find the answer i am looking for. For my Trickster Rogue i am at just shy of 12K gearscore. I am about to have the items to unlock either Shores of Tuern, Lair of Lostmauth, or my artifact main hand. What do you advise first? Since i havent unlocked them i cant see what the skirmish or dungeon drops and when looking on the neverwinter Wiki it lists Shores of tuern as the only place that drops Draconic gear in the epic version and the normal has jewelry that has a set bonus.
I have been having horrible luck to get any tier 2 pieces to drop. What do you advise as my next step?
1) Unlock Shores- farm jewelry, then unlock main hand artifact weapon
2) Artifact main hand before shores or lostmauth
3) Lostmauth
I would like to get to 13K the quickest to do the epic versions, just not sure which way is the best?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBXET4COfEY watch the first 10-20mins of that video, he explains on how to get your Artifact main hand, you dont just simply unlock it because you need to run Shores to be able to obtain one of the Dragon Gem's to unlock the Artifact chest. First you need a certain key which requires you to wait 20 hours before its ready, or you could simply purchase 5 of them from the Zen store, you should only require 3 keys MAX before you get the Artifact main hand you want, unless your lucky enough to get the wep you need first time around then of course you will only need 1.
Guaranteed main hand VS random drop.
My money goes to the guaranteed.
This isn't completely true.
The key opens a chest at the end of Shores or Lostmauth that only has a chance (a low one at that) to give you the gem required to open the artifact chest which will give you your artifact main hand. You don't actually need a key at all to acquire the weapon. You can simply purchase the dragon bone and gem and the dragon forged steel and then attempt to open the chest. It will however take 20 hours each time you attempt to open the chest.
Each time you open the chest you will get one of 6 random artifact weapons and a shard of dragon forged steel. In the event that you do not get the weapon you were looking for you can salvage it for 1 more shard of dragon forged steel.
This means that you only need to open a maximum of 3 chests before acquiring 6 shards of dragon forged steel allowing you to purchase the one you want from the campaign trader across from Harper Boward.
So basically what we can come up with is that if you have extra AD laying around and buying up to 3 of each dragon forged steel, dragon bone and dragon gem isn't very costly to you then you might as well get your artifact weapon first so that you can go ahead and be refining it while you farm Shores/Lostmauth.
Otherwise you'll need to unlock Shores/Lostmauth so you can farm for your materials as you must have them and there isn't any other way to acquire them outside of the skirmish/dungeon aside from buying them from other players.
As for whether you want to unlock Shores or Lostmauth first. I prefer Lostmauth but that's only because I have a group that can farm it easily. Otherwise I'd say go with Shores. It's quick and easy and has a chance to drop the book you'll need to unlock boon #4. Either way I wouldn't worry about it too much. At most it only takes 5 days to unlock one after the other and that's assuming you had used up every single campaign material unlocking the first one.
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So...
1. Shores (Day 1)
2. Artifact (Day 2 (maybe day 3 & 4))
3. Lostmauth
Does the artifact mainhand increase gearscore that much for example leveling it to blue? i think i have enough mats to get it to blue on day 1
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You can queue up for the epic version at 13K, but that doesn't mean people will let you stay. Be prepared to get kicked by people who glance at your GS instead of your stats (I have an Ioun Stone) and figure you died because of that (they died too but I'm sure that was because of my GS).
Also, watch for people kicking in the epic version when they're in a guild, just like T2 dungeons.
I run the regular version now, because only one of my guildies has gotten that far in the campaign and it's not worth the hassle alone. Some good stuff drops from the regular version too, FYI, so it's worth farming while you get your GS up
You will have really good and profitable drop from shores. Its quick and easy to run, and you have a good chance at getting the best ring/necklace set currently. (not available in epic version)
I have 3 dragon bone and one steel, should i try and buy 3 gems and two more steel before i unlock the artifact campaign to try and avoid the grind fest for the gems?
Im kind of regretting doing dragon horde enchantment campaign this morning
You definitely do not want to buy those items all at once. If you do plan on buying them, you should only buy enough to open one chest at a time and wait until the results are in from that chest before buying another set of materials. The reason for this is because the weapon it gives you is a random one out of 6. It could very well give you the exact one that you wanted on the first try and then you'll have to resell the materials you bought taking a 10% from AH posting. You'd just lose AD needlessly.
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