What Weapon to Use?

_Dryad_ - Lost City

I am almost level 70 and I have four/five choices of weapons infront of me. They have almost the same amount of attack, but differ in terms of their additional stats. I am very confused about which one to take, and would love to get an advice.b:laugh

The weapons I am saying are:

1. Sakyamuni's Light
2. Ashura's Sign
3. Grief's Breath
4. Alacantha Wand
5. Fine Pataka of Bodhi +5 which has more or less similar attack to these 4


My stats are as follows( For better suggestion)

Magic-217
Vit-22
Strength-78
Dex-88

Physical Defense is almost 1400.

Which weapon should I choose amongst these? Any suggestions and explanations would be very welcomeb:thanks

shlomo2

I assume you're a Light Veno and wish to have better attack/pet heal rather than more HP or phys defense. So +magic damage and +magic are the best opts for you.

Ashura's Sign. If you like good dmg spikes this 1 suits you best.
Acalanatha Wand. If you prefer stable pet heal choose this 1.

Baalbak - Dreamweaver

well... if you ever plan to get to using Sinrabansho (the TT 100 arcane weapon) youll have to make (or buy) 4 TT 60, TT 70, TT 80, and TT 99 weapons - 2 of which are listed in your list. If you plan to farm the mats yourself rather than buying them, I'd go with either Ashura's Sign or Griefs's Breath.

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Sinranbanso:
(other mats I've not copied over yet)
Souledge: Mirage
Souledge: Garuda's Flame Wing
Souledge: Broken Dream
Souledge: Scaredevil
58 Ultimate substances


TT99 Weapons:
(All these weapons will be decomposed to make the souledges necessary for Sinrabansho)

-Mirage
8 Skaidreds Orb
8 Giant Pincers
16 Sign of Twilight
1 Souledge: Wraith Conqueror
15 Ultimate Substances

-Garuda's Flame Wing:
8 Sacred Mother's Heart
8 Giant Beast's Black Aura
16 Sign of Twilight
1 Souledge: Wraith Conqueror
15 Ultimate Substances

-Broken Dream
8 Giant Beasts Crimson Horn
8 Ghost Lord's Power
16 Sign of Twilight
1 Souledge: Wraith Conqueror
15 Ultimate Substances

-Scaredevil
8 Skaidred's Edge
8 Evil Minions Burning Heart
16 Sign of Twilight
1 Souledge: Fantasy
15 Ult Subs


TT90 Weapons:

-Wraith Conqueror
(three of these are needed to make and decomp for the souledges necessary for the TT99 Weapons)
8 Dust of Devil
8 Horn of Feng's Horse
16 Stone of Sacred Temple
12 Ult subs
1 Souledge: Endless Vauge

-Fantasy (Innocent Reverie)
8 Astral Stone
8 Sorceress's Hand
16 Stone of Sacred Temple
1 SE: Yaksa
12 Ult Subs

TT80 Weapons:

-Endless Vague
(Three of these are needed to make and decomp for the souledges necessary for the three Wraith Conquerors)
8 Giant Ape's Tooth
8 Frenzy Lions Claw
16 Klunky Sword
1 SE: Grief Breath
9 Ult Sub

-Yaksa
8 Forshura's Hook
8 Tough Shard of Gold Armor
16 Klunky Sword
1 SE: Ashura's Sign
9 Ult Sub

TT70 Weapons:

-Grief's Breath
(Three of these are needed to make and decomp for the souledges necessary for the three Endless Vagues)
5 Frenzy Lions Skin
10 Mysterious Skulls
1 SE: Xyloedges
2 Ult Subs

-Ashura's Sign
5 Broken Shard of Gold Armor
10 Mysterious Skull
1 SE: Xyloedges
2 Ult Sub

TT60 Weapon - you need to make 4 of these total to make and decomp into souledges for the TT70 weapons above
5 Chentien's Edges
10 Pieces of Skeleton
1 Ult Sub

Peritia - Lost City

Baalbak - Dreamweaver wrote: »

well... if you ever plan to get to using Sinrabansho (the TT 100 arcane weapon) youll have to make (or buy) 4 TT 60, TT 70, TT 80, and TT 99 weapons - 2 of which are listed in your list. If you plan to farm the mats yourself rather than buying them, I'd go with either Ashura's Sign or Griefs's Breath.

Experience Required to Level (selected) wrote:

Level - TNL - Total EXP
1 - 55 - 0
10 - 5750 - 16100
20 - 25000 - 147605
30 - 63000 - 549580
40 - 130600 - 1452220
50 - 250750 - 3242970
60 - 468000 - 6620835
69 - 1057360 - 12873288
70 - 1153044 - 13930648
80 - 3875270 - 35025492
81 - 4350544 - 38900762
82 - 4876697 - 43251306
83 - 5457952 - 48128003
84 - 6102480 - 53585955
85 - 6813012 - 59688435
86 - 7598978 - 66501447
87 - 8464893 - 74100365
88 - 9418742 - 82565258
89 - 10470584 - 91984000
90 - 11688300 - 102454584
91 - 13394199 - 114142884
92 - 14933072 - 127537083
93 - 16613613 - 142470155
94 - 18447312 - 159083768
95 - 20448750 - 177531080
96 - 22631232 - 197979830
97 - 25006212 - 220611062
98 - 27596408 - 245617274
99 - 30412503 - 273213682
100 - 66954000 - 303626185
101 - 267816000 - 370580185
102 - 535632000 - 638396185
103 - 1339080000 - 1174028185
104 - 1750000000 - 2513108185
105 - CAP - 4263108185

12,873,288 / 303,626,185 = 4.24% of the way there.

Yeah... I'm thinking she will have more than enough time to consider that at a later time.

I personally went with Sakyamuni's, but that's because I changed to Heavy at 74.

Alphae - Lost City

If you're a light veno, either Ashura's or Grief's is best for you, imo.
Both provide more damage spike than a wand, which you need since your magic is lower than arcane (pure or light vit, either). Pick Ashura's if you want even more spike damage, pick Grief's if you want defense in HP.

If you're arcane, Sak. Light is great due to the P.def modifer. However both Ashura's and Grief's are also good. Again, Ashura if you want spike damage (esp. if you are a vit arcane) or Grief's if you want defense in HP (esp. if you are pure arcane).

LloydAsplund - Sanctuary

Id go for Ashura's.

Sevas - Heavens Tear

I picked Sakyamuni's Light because it had a higher damage output than all the TT70 weapons. I did make both Grief's Breath and Ashura's Sign. I later made Endless Ambiguity which is currently on loan to a friend until they get their TT80 weapon. The only 2 things that interested me were 1. damage output and 2. -% channeling. The Glaive path settled that for me. I also like to carry two to three weapons on me anyway because I don't keep up with the repair on my weapon and if it gets too low before I can repair, I like to have a weapon to switch out just to keep my damage/heal decent.

Grayroses - Heavens Tear

As a lvl70 arcane veno I picked Sakyamuni's light, mostly for it's physical defense bonus and decent magic attack, but Grief's Breath is also a viable choice (cheap and increases survivability, 10-11 more vit) since you're light armor build.

_Dryad_ - Lost City

ok so Ashura's Sign seems a viable choice for meb:chuckle

But it seems no one is selling one at the moment at Lost City serverb:cry

Can any veno at this server help me get oneb:sad

Alphae - Lost City

The Mats are pretty easy to get. At your level, grab another veno, have people open up TT for you (squad mode of course) and go solo dimentora--not a difficult boss, just craptons of HP. Remember to lure him off the platform! The mysterious skulls are a joke, 1k each, and if you don't already have the ancient arbor souledge, you can buy a cheap one for like 200k.

Zetarana - Heavens Tear

I would assume this same line of thinking would/should apply to the other Arcane classes as well, Yes?

Just curious, so as to help decide what and how I should approch this to provide a weapon to my Wizard. I hand-down all the stuff from my Veno to my Wizard character.

THX

tweakz

Veno benefits more from the pdef and phys atk adds by using fox.

Sevas - Heavens Tear

I've still got most of my weapons and do plan to hand them down to the other squishy classes that I have leveling up. Mostly it's preference. We can tell you everything about all the weapons we used and how much better we believe them to be compared to other weapons, but it should all be based on what you're looking for to make your character even better in game.

tweakz

Sevas - Heavens Tear wrote: »

We can tell you everything about all the weapons we used and how much better we believe them to be compared to other weapons, but it should all be based on what you're looking for to make your character even better in game.

Not necessarily. At level 84, you might think you need to invest a lot into a water pet. Before you hit the magic arrays in OHT, you may feel a Scorpion is relatively useless, etc etc. Advice should just have a lot of 'if's in it.

Solandri - Heavens Tear

_Dryad_ - Lost City wrote: »

1. Sakyamuni's Light

As someone has pointed out, it starts with slightly higher stats. It also gains more per refine. The reason being it's a level 10 weapon. The others are level 9. I'd recommend it if you're planning to refine to +3 or higher.

2. Ashura's Sign
3. Grief's Breath

These are your vanilla level 70 magic swords. Pretty much the same, differ only in bonuses

4. Alacantha Wand
5. Fine Pataka of Bodhi +5 which has more or less similar attack to these 4

Seeing as you're a light veno, if you use fox form a lot, be aware that the physical DPS of the non-swords is slightly to significantly lower than for the magic swords.

http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=3934152#post3934152

Baalbak - Dreamweaver wrote: »

well... if you ever plan to get to using Sinrabansho (the TT 100 arcane weapon) youll have to make (or buy) 4 TT 60, TT 70, TT 80, and TT 99 weapons - 2 of which are listed in your list. If you plan to farm the mats yourself rather than buying them, I'd go with either Ashura's Sign or Griefs's Breath.

Sinrabansho requires a mat which has a 0.0056% chance to drop off a TT boss. That's once per 18,000 kills. Even if they do release the event items which yield it, it's a 0.01% - 0.03% from those packs. About as rare as a goldmane lion mount. I wouldn't make any plans based on getting that sword.

Sevas - Heavens Tear

tweakz, shut up. Pets are not equal to weapons. Pets were never part of this discussion. I don't own a water pet. I go without or I get a friend who needs the same quest to do it with me. Water pets are a waste of time. The pets you get in the low levels aren't worth it.

Back on track, I had all three L70 weapons at one point and cycled through them as needed. Either because the one I was using was breaking or because I needed more VIT to survive an AoE boss. I did enough TT runs to get the mats for all of them. If you have a herc, you can farm some of the TTs unsubbed to get mats you need.

tweakz

Sevas - Heavens Tear wrote: »

tweakz, shut up.

You first poopie breath. b:chuckle

JanusZeal - Heavens Tear

It really depends on what you're aiming for. Looks like you're an LA build and are aiming for survivability, so if that's the goal, then Grief's for the extra VIT. If you wanna dump far more into mag for mag attacks and get a decent attacking+channeling weap at 80 then keep Griefs for the 70s and turn it into Endless at 80. Personally I would NOT go with #'s 4 and 5.

Sevas - Heavens Tear

The wand is only good if you're going for the Gold and that's expensive if you're buying and people will only complain if you ask just for that mat.

_Dryad_ - Lost City

Thanks for all of your inputs. Now can we discuss this further? I have seen that there's a similar thing while one gets to level 80.

Which should be the best weapon to choose for a LA class?

I am inclined towards Alacantha Wand: Sunflame which has good added stats which makes up for its comparatively low attack. The thing I like is that it has a short, and stable high range of attack compared to, say, Patakas or even some swords.

Another option is Endless Ambiguity or Yaksha.

The Glaive at level 79, or the Glaive at 80.

Please feel free to post your advices and experiences with this one.


Btw, does anyone has a Mystro Caster?b:thanks Just askingb:chuckle

Sevas - Heavens Tear

It's a Warsoul weapon. Those are incredibly hard to get. Even if it is easier to acquire pieces now, it's going to cost a pretty penny.

I got the TT80 Glaive, Wheel of Life, because my end goal is Fate Denial: Godspeed.

I also have Endless Ambiguity, which I have loaned to a friend until they can get the TT80 weapon they want (the glaive). I'd like to get and try all of the TT90 weapons. I just need the mats for them. Endless is a good weapon, but I say that only because I like the -% channeling on it. Many people like its 90, Wraith Conquerer.

Yaksa I haven't made yet and probably won't for a while.

Patakas do seem to have the highest range, wands are more "stable," swords also provide that "stable" range too (but I think they run a little higher), and glaives don't look cool till the higher levels and I think their damage range is just under that of the pataka. Patakas look pretty cool though.

Solandri - Heavens Tear

Solandri - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Sinrabansho requires a mat which has a 0.0056% chance to drop off a TT boss. That's once per 18,000 kills. Even if they do release the event items which yield it, it's a 0.01% - 0.03% from those packs. About as rare as a goldmane lion mount. I wouldn't make any plans based on getting that sword.

Just wanted to correct myself. Apparently you can get the mat from the current event. It will cost you 60 best luck tokens though, which is the equivalent of 300 million coin. But if you have that much coin lying around, it's definitely within reach.