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Mod 16 best in slot gear for hunters round up.
Been fiddling around with my gear for a week or so, while my stupid arm un-breaks itself. (I may have fudged some of the names).
Head.
Lomm and MEs: spyguild hat WAI +5% dmg.
Everything else: mume's soupbowl WAI +5%dmg after kill.
Chest:
Atm. Gundam's defence. WAI +1500 power - 2500 def
(When fixed) ebony stained hide 1% of your power x10 stacks
Or - if you have +4 and +5 fane rings - furred kunico of the bear for 2nd +3% melee.
Arms: Terrored grips +3% on encounters . WAI
Feet.
Heels of fury. +3% on melee WAI
Neck/waist/arti. The orcus set. Godamnit.
Rings. 1x ebony assault +3% on melee (second stack) WAI / 1x fane ring 2-2.5% dmg when close to target. (or 2x fane rings +4/+5).
Shirt/pants +3% damage when you have 75% stamina / AP gain on crit.
These are all for combat build ofc. Total: 19% - 34% dmg buff + max 10% extra power.
Note: for the brave souls trying a ranged build, redfang drops earth-treaders WAI - these give +5% dmg when you go stand in the pink circle.
Anyway, post if you have any better suggestions, but I think this is about the best atm.
Head.
Lomm and MEs: spyguild hat WAI +5% dmg.
Everything else: mume's soupbowl WAI +5%dmg after kill.
Chest:
Atm. Gundam's defence. WAI +1500 power - 2500 def
(When fixed) ebony stained hide 1% of your power x10 stacks
Or - if you have +4 and +5 fane rings - furred kunico of the bear for 2nd +3% melee.
Arms: Terrored grips +3% on encounters . WAI
Feet.
Heels of fury. +3% on melee WAI
Neck/waist/arti. The orcus set. Godamnit.
Rings. 1x ebony assault +3% on melee (second stack) WAI / 1x fane ring 2-2.5% dmg when close to target. (or 2x fane rings +4/+5).
Shirt/pants +3% damage when you have 75% stamina / AP gain on crit.
These are all for combat build ofc. Total: 19% - 34% dmg buff + max 10% extra power.
Note: for the brave souls trying a ranged build, redfang drops earth-treaders WAI - these give +5% dmg when you go stand in the pink circle.
Anyway, post if you have any better suggestions, but I think this is about the best atm.
No idea what my toon is now.
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+5% dmg when attacking a target from behind (added dmg proc of 5% dmg dealt)
Currently glitchy in attacking multiple targets if they are facing away from you. (Hit 1 critter, everything in the 80+ ft area not facing you gets hit with the dmg proc)
Cleric: You can be an angel of mercy or give in to hate. - Shinedown
Wizard: The more the dark consumes me, I pretend I'm burning bright. - Shinedown
Barbarian: Am I beautiful... as I tear you to pieces? - In This Moment
This may not be "BIS" but I don't think the damage is far off of the focused feat combat warden.
Head: Protege head piece +5% undermountain damage. I think broken cap of the omnipotent would be best everywhere else?
Chest: Hags Rags. +3% ranged
Arms: Eyestalk Wrappers. +3% ranged
Feet: Heels of fury. +3% on melee
Neck/waist/arti. The music box set. +15% damage from behind after daily.
Rings. 1x ebony assault +3% on melee / 1x shadowstalker 2.5% dmg when close to target.
Shirt/pants: protege set for encounter cool down reduction
Also, this build relies on other encounter cool down reduction abilities (insignia bonuses, CHA etc.)
- chest : Fured Kiuno of the Bear
- rings : shadowstalker +5 / shadowstalker +4
> Chest piece: Executioner's Black Attire from SH Mystery Merchant
> +5% dmg when attacking a target from behind (added dmg proc of 5% dmg dealt)
> Currently glitchy in attacking multiple targets if they are facing away from you. (Hit 1 critter, everything in the 80+ ft area not facing you gets hit with the dmg proc)
Agreed. It’s certainly bis gear for dps. And I think it works like arcturia set, you don’t have to face away the mob, you just need a good tank who aggros the mobs. That’s how arcturia set works and these two bonuses have similar words. So it shouldn’t work like seeker’s vengance, instead, it should work like inherit danger bonus. Btw i didn’t test it yet.
And for people who doesn’t use primal arms, its certainly bis. At 165k power it gives more than 8k power at max stack which is pretty easy. Vivified version is also better. Protege head, pants and shirts, heels of fury, ebonized assault and shadow +5 are also what im using.
Chest Piece: The free gear handed out at start of Mod 16 had a chest piece with +5% damage in Undermountain, which should be BIS for LoMM. I also think we should keep an eye on the Ebony Stained Hide, which stacks power similarly to the Primal arms, but is currently broken in that you get a buff on your bar but it doesn't actually add the power. If it ever gets fixed, it will be BIS, since it stacks to 10% power.
Boots: Makos offers Enduring Boots in Omu which have 3% damage when your stamina is over 75%. Since the bonus is to all damage instead of limited to just melee like Heels of Fury, I think it should come out ahead (so long as you don't have to dodge a lot). Also, the 3% melee bonus doesn't stack more than 2, which means you can use the ring with that bonus and Fured Kiuno to max it out and then add Enduring Boots.
Rings: The ring from MEs that gives 3% ranged damage will show two stacks in your buff bar with just one equipped, so I think it's giving 6% though I've not tested it. If you use your ranged abilities, it's worth considering. The ring also has combat advantage on it, which is difficult to cap, while the 3% melee ring has stats you'll likely already be capped in.Looked at this ring again tonight and I'm not seeing the double stack. Either I was mistaken before or it was fixed.Primal Arms : These are nowhere near as good as one would expect them to be. They only count base power, excluding all temporary buffs and all power coming from your companion. You'll get something like 5k power at max. With 150k (buffed) power, that's 2% extra damage. Getting 5 stacks isn't easy at all as well, unless you somehow have very little HP which would be a bad idea anyway, and each stack has a seperate timer. I definitely prefer a permanent 3% boost to encounter damage.
That +5 fane ring never dropped for me, actually, +5 rings never ever drop lol.
another topic what are you guys doing for mount bonus's now? same line up as before or significantly different?
and the other combatants maneuver for those with a leg mount
edit although CM has two not so good insignias. the brutal enlightened is one of the most expensive insignias in the game and the crescent is not so good.
I mean, come on, in the Reddit event, when one of the devs mentioned "adjustments to all the old hunt gear" that players prefer... it instantly brings to mind the "adjustments" to the old High sets.
> I heard successor gear may receive buffs instead of nerfs to old gear. *shrugs*
That would be better
This week, executioners black attire and vivified gwanti? arms.
pros.
Black attire works, and in a LoMM run with act yesterday accounted for 4% of my damage, about on par with rnk 14 tenebrous.
Gwantis also work, my base power is 160k, and at 5 stacks (stacks very quickly btw. Whenever I looked in combat, it was on 5) gives around 5x1.6k = 8k power but more like 6-7k realistically. That boost is on par with a 3% damage increase from terrored grips, which I believe equals 6.6k power (maths - heard from a guildie) but, rather than just encounters, power boosts everything. So in my book - it's a keeper. Edit: further checking - the power boost seems more like 1k per stack - 5k. So that gives you a choice, 3% on only encounters, or whatever the game classes as "encounter damage" or about 2.5% on everything. Toss up, but I think gwantis - affecting everything with a power component on calculating damage, is a solid contender, on bosses where you can keeps up stacks anyway.
Cons.
Terrored grips have a little bit more power, but only like 50 points or something. And higher IL / hitpoints. No biggie. Building and maintaining stacks, while not a big problem, is still a head-scratcher, especially on trashmobs when they die quicker than you can get the full 5.
Compared with Gundam's defence, executioner's attire is a big drop in IL if you care about that, hitpoints (a lot - which affects tenebrous), and stats (though technically you do get 2500 defence back). The difference in power is somewhere around 2-3k - call that a 1.5% damage decrease across the board. Final opinion... Undecided. On paper it looks like a 2.5% extra damage source, (4 -1.5), also, if you have +4/+5 fane rings (I don't), you can't wear this and have 2x swordsman perks. I'll keep it for now, as I think ebony hide is a typo in the tooltip, rather than a bug - "butcher's guard" does sound defence-based afterall.
Hmm. Final conclusion, I think terrored grips still best, and black attire until it gets hit by the nerfbat, or until that fabled +5 fane ring drops.
Since M16 has been out for quite some time, you’d think there would be better answers out there, but there’s not. So if anyone has a gear breakdown per slot, it would be greatly appreciated. (I can post what I’ve got on me later when I log in.)