lvl90 gear options

Magicgabe - Lost City

As i've been farming HH mats for my lvl90 gear, I came to whether the HH90 set was all that good.

So far I've decided:

HH90 pants - +191phy def,+70HP,7 vit.........very good
HH90 top - +70HP, +7vit, +130 MP....HP good,MP not that useful, top is fairly expensive
HH90 boots - +7 vit, +MPregen, +5HP regen..... HP is ok, regens are rather useless
HH90 wrists - +6mag, +7vit, +2phy resists... not bad

So far I have in inventory/usage

lvl90 3* top grade 11

+94phy deff
+1%phy resists
all elemental resists
+60evasion
cost: 95k
assesment: way cheaper, and rather decent

lvl76 3* boots grade 9

+70HP
+5vit
all resists
cost:in usage/400k
assesment: cheaper to keep, 4socket easier to obtain, decent


I was considering replacing the HH90 top and boots with the mentioned 3* gears(at least temporarily). I understand that I need HH90 gears to get HH99. However it seems that there are also other options besides HH99.

rank 8 gear - good HP, +mag, slightly easier to obtain 4th socket(?), slightly better crit
dancing sparkle boots - crit, +150vit, +8 mag... very good for a cleric
cape underwater slayerr - +118phy resist, +1%phy resist, +8 mag. not bad but not that much better; probably not worth the cost.

I understand that HH99 leads to nirivana, but really is a casual player like me going to get a full set of +12 nirvana gear? Probably not. yes I know there are complected stats in HH99, but really none of them seem all that worthwhile or have some problems built in.

So I was wondering, what other good options I have. I'm personally aiming for a mix of vit, phy def, and crit.

I'm probably aiming for the 3* top(if I can find a better one I'll take it), HH90 pants, HH90 bracers, 3*boots(to be replaced with dancing sparkle). And call it good.

If you have any inputs or suggestions plz respond.

Bagoly_ - Sanctuary

My personal opinion:

Wrists: TT90 is ok, but it has one useless addon (% reduced physical damage taken is calculated after the reduction caused by your pdef as far as I know) -> There's a lot of OHT wrists out there that is better than the TT90. (hp, pdef, channeling addons)

Pants: TT90.

Boots: TT90 boots are mediocre, but you cannot really find better ones@lvl90 (get TT80 gold if you can afford that). @92 you will have a fair chance to find a good OHT boot.

Top: TT90 top is decent but as you said it's expensive. If you want a cheaper alternative, there's Devil's Cape of Aries or the Rank top. The second one is better imo.

Balthier - Dreamweaver

I disagree somewhat.

Top: TT90 green top is kinda cheap these days. GBAs go for 350-450k depending on server. So, I dont see a reason not to get this piece. It refines better than 3star gear, and gives a nice HP boost.

Wrists: TT90 Gold, no question. 6% chan and 142 phy def is made for clerics. More expensive yes, but very much worth it.

Hat and boots = lvl 95 event gear, if you can get it for a reasonable price.

Cape = Lvl 96 Cape of Elite Leather, or lvl 90 regular event cape or Wings of Cloudcharger (depends on budget and availability).

You can consider the lvl95 Gold Lunar Glade top, if you really dont want the TT90 green. The lunar gold can be made into nirvana too, if you get to that later.

threepointone

Balthier - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Wrists: TT90 Gold, no question. 6% chan and 142 phy def is made for clerics. More expensive yes, but very much worth it.

I personally hate the TT90 Gold wrists. The TT90 Green is much cheaper, and unless you heavily stack -chan, the TT90 Gold isn't worth it. The TT90 Green has 7 VIT, 7 MAG and 2% physical damage reduction. The TT90 Gold has 142 P.Def, -6% chan, and some-number of +water defense, which is useless.

The 7 VIT and 2% physical damage reduction > 142 P.Def.
The 7 MAG > -6% chan unless you heavily stack chanelling, which is fine if you like PvE.

And putting +Water defense is just mean. >.>

Saidi - Raging Tide

If you wanne go for a full TT99 set, you gotta have the TT90 set. Why talk about the price of the mats, when you can farm them yourself? You're a cleric can't be that hard. It's not like you're low on the 'pick the mat chain'. You don't even need a full squad. Get a nice veno with a herc and farm the GBA boss.

Stat wise, yes the TT90 is pretty rubbish. You might wanne look into a Lunar set. But I don't know much about the diffrences when they are Nirvana'd.

Nrgy - Dreamweaver

cheaperst path:
OHT sleeves, 3 pdef add-on
Pants are a must.
Top- again, I've seen OHT one with 3 pdef or 3 105 HP.

You're a cleric so farming TT for coins for Hat/boots shouldn't be too hard. Just takes time.
Cape - either the lvl 95 mold or the 2x216pdef one from event. I would say go for this first, because you gain Pdef and a lot of HP.

Deceptistar - Sanctuary

how much rank do you have to start out with, if your including rank 8 of all ranks in your options.....? i understand if you farmed the ranks but if your spending it, then you could probably easily go green lunar> gold lunar> nirvana and have some left over for refining....

Lylfo - Dreamweaver

TT90 gears are cheap enough with the exception of the tt90 green armor. I am still using my TT80 gold armorb:surrender because better armor are so hard to find. The mold armor at like lvl 97(?) isn't even that good.

TT90 gold sleeves can be end game sleeves but if you don't want channeling, I would recommend OHT sleeves with good refine grade.

TT90 green pants are good, I suggest you do that.

TT90 green boots is bad and I would suggest making them only until level 92(unless you get a 4 socket tt90 green boots) and start trying to make OHT boots from the tears of heaven OHT daily quest.

As for cape, the mold cape is a very nice cape with HP and PDEF add ons but it is very rare and expensive at the same time.(Someone was selling the mold for 8mil in DW at some point)

These can be your end game gears depends on how muhc money/time you want to invest in this game. Ideally, nirvana gears should be your end game gears but like what someone suggest : to farm lunar gold armor, if you don't think it is worth the 30-40mil to farm a lunar gold armor, I would suggest you start using your money into refining (+5 would be ok on temporary gears) and sharding better gems . . . this gives a better upgrade over changing gears at lvl 90+. And try not to think about rank gears for now, every rank 8 cleric i know(Magiere, RedsRose) are like level 100, you can definitely start early but don't think about getting the gears soon. Better to make worthwhile "temporary" gears while farming for your real end game gears especially the easy shortcuts(heavenrage boots and holy helm of punishment) are not really that cheap anymore(only available via OHT quest/best luck tokens).

ps: if you are not that close to lvl 90, I would suggest making tt80 gold set and using them until lvl 99/100 and at that point, you can take your time farming the next gears. TT80 gold is a very underrated set that gives tons of survivalbility but has no resale value =/. (It is also very useful when you want to make an arcane alt =P)