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Best 60 Main Hand & Talisman for CW
johneco1
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I did some searching but cannot find anything on the best gear aside from the sets. Specifically:
Main hand
Off hand
Neck
Rings
Waist
If you happen to know any or all of these, please make some suggestions. If it is build dependent, please mention your build and the candidate for the best weapon.
Main hand
Off hand
Neck
Rings
Waist
If you happen to know any or all of these, please make some suggestions. If it is build dependent, please mention your build and the candidate for the best weapon.
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CN talisman
One with an offense slot
One with an offense slot
One with an offense slot
What is CN? I did see that the most expensive right now is the Ancient Court Magister's. Is that the one you are referencing?
Recently I replaced my grand slavemaster rings with ancient necromancer ones /w arm pen enchants because I had very high recovery but no armor penetration at all. Necromancer rings and excorcist neck helped me achieve more balanced build and they were awesomely cheap as for benefits they offer.
The most expensive things are not always the best. I think defense for CW is very underrated for most people. Many go full offense because they want to compete in dps table but for CW to do his job, being able to survive some hits is also very important. I'm looking forward to see some tanky master control wizard build, which stays alive no matter what is going on.
Valid points. I am going for a more balanced build also and looking to raise defense, recovery and critical strike. Seems my biggest issue is power. I think the optimal power score is about 2000. I think I read that any more than that is negligible but it seems like all gear has power and I end up with much more than 2000. Maybe someone else can chime in regarding power.
What about the second best orb and talisman for wizard ? Something that doesn't cost 1 mil AD on the AH but is second best to the Ancient weapon set ?
Overseer orb is 2nd best and it is a lot cheaper.
As for talisman it is all about what stats you need most with your current gear config. I think Shadow Weaver talisman is nice, because it is the only one offering all three Power/Crit/Recovery stats.
Ah yes, I forgot about this one. It is same tier as Overseer's, just takes some GG grind to get.
Power increases the raw damage of your weapon.
That still doesn't mean much. There is a damage coefficient to each specific Power. 500 point of Power may increase a Power's damage by 50damage, and another by 10damage. It is the reason why Power is my least favorite stat on ANY class I play. I never enchant Power. Hec I'd rather have an empty offensive slot and save for something worthwhile then to put in a Power enchant.
I've just spent over a week ready and thinking about what gear to shoot for. If you spend too long looking, you would have missed out on playing and actually earning gear.
It really does vary based on your play style and current stats. There is not necessarily the Best, Second Best, Third Best...
When I was looking, since actual weapon damage is important, I rated the Orbs as:
Ancient Court Magister's Orb
Orb of the Shadow Weaver
Orb of the Arcane Overseer
Drake's Orb of the High Vizier
Burning Shard of Elemental Fire
And then from there, it starts getting more towards your build. I still went in this order:
Orb of the Fatebender
Orb of the Archmage
Orb of the Focal Magi
Orb of the Spirit Cave
Orb of the Gladiator
Similarly with the Talismans, I went:
Ancient Court Magister's Talisman
Shadow Weaver's Talisman
Magelord's Talisman
High Vizier's Talisman
Talisman of the Arcane Overseer's
Fatebender's Focus
Gladiator Mage's Talisman
Archmage's Focus
Its probably worth picking something up on the AH or for gold just to have something better than a lvl 58 green you go while questing/grinding. The best item you can get at that point is what you can afford or are willing to spend.
Get good gear and then start running dungeons to get the gear you think you want.
Good luck!
There is also the Illithid Psionic Crystals; pretty unique looking "orb"
It didn't make my list since its base damage is 140 below the lowest one I listed... Although, still a nice weapon with stats suitable to a blue.
LOL, no I think you are referring to the Illithid Psionic Shards (blue orb), NOT the Illithid Psionic Crystals (purple orb). It is very rare, I have one.
Stats:
641-784
1344 Power
248 Crit
248 Recovery
270 Armor Pen.
It actually has much better offensive stats than Ancient, but the base damage is 33 less.
I use severe reaction which i think people under rate. Its very helpful in PVP and PWE where we have lots of adds pounding after DC threat nerf. There is no cap to it as well.
Ancient Court Magister's Talisman
Ancient Slavemaster's Ring of Control x2
Ancient Fugitive's Belt of Revolt (Piercing Berserker Belt on your pet, which is blue, the reason for using the Ancient Belt on yourself is that you can easily reach the armor pen soft cap without the offensive slot, which is all that really matters, so this belt nets you a lot of extra HP)
Just a tip. I was shopping for rings last night and was looking at that Ancient Slavemaster's Ring of Control and they wanted over 300k. I continued searching and found the little brother of that ring called the Grand Slavemaster's Ring of Control for 1/3 of the price. Almost identical with just 4 points missing from the 3 stats. 12 points is not worth 200k to me.
To some people it's more for bragging rights :P
Does anyone know on which boss we can loot these orbs? Thanks!