End game gear oppinions

Rice_hero - Lost City

Hey guys, just wanted some opinions as I'm kinda lost on what I want to do now investing $ in gears. I originally wanted to go the full rank 9 route (r9r3 later) after a 1.5 year long quit/break from the game. But at the start of Nation Wars, I rerolled my Sacrificial Strike, Range +1.00, Interval -.05 into GOF, -.05 interval, & Dex +18 after around 5-7 rerolls. b:pleased (FINALLY!!)

To get to the point, should I build around having a 4.0 windshield zerk+crits w/ my G.15 Dagg, or go the full rank 9 route. Only thing I'd hate is leaving such a rare bound dagger in the dust, having spent around 500-700m for this dagger alone makes me sad although I could've gotten rank 9 back when I was farming like mad, I got convinced to go the gof interval route by a full r9 sage sin as I was a Demon sin back when I still played. R9R3 didn't exist back then so g.15 GOF interval it was!, although I never got it until I came back.

Current Build:
http://pwcalc.com/2ce0cf3b5839808e

Improved pvp based build:
http://pwcalc.com/ad972b7cf5e6ca1a

R8R 5.0 Full Josd build:
http://pwcalc.com/5bdc9b97a3e8a6f2

Mini-Accomplishments to convince myself to stay w/ my GOF 5.0 dagg:
- Out DD 4.0 R9+12 sin in COA for trying to steal my boss b:chuckle
- Similar Contribution points in Tiger Events against R9 +12 demon sins while only being +10
-NW 1vs1 against full r9 +10-12 EA, balanced fight no one died, but I would've lost if more time went by
-Still killing full r9 bms/sins quick if I can strike first


R8R 5.0 Full Josd Build VS full R9:
-Sacrifice shard spot for expensive josd instead of dot or vit. stones
-R8R has 500 phys. def more while, Full R9 has 900 more mag def
-R9 Has more DPH, But Gof -.05 daggs will hit around the same amount in make up of it's DPS ( Keep in mind GOF zerk crit w/ options of an atk charm +230 or def. charm) still going to hit really hard DPH style
-R9 will also have 2k more hp (mainly from having a cube neck.)
-Defense levels will be more unless the R9 is full Josd sharded too
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- If I do the full JOSD build $ isn't really a problem, i'll estimate around 6 months + to fully shard the gears, +10'ing will take a while also.

Only Thing Convincing me to go Full R9 is that I'll get to rank9 recast 3 pretty quick since I don't have to worry about transferring +10~12 sharded gears like most people do. Which is another reason why I don't want to go the full g.16 NV 3rd cast route. I've also thought of Rank 9'ing another char like an EA and keep sin the same.

What are your thoughts? Let me know if something doesn't look right.

Rice_hero - Lost City

Also, would you rather shard full DOT on an already tanky build? Assassins, after all are meant to kill quick, and if I go full josd on aps gear, It would hold back the dmg potential a bit. when fighting future full r9r3 toons.

opkossy

Go full R9 third cast. Typical APS setup is squishy in today's PvP and the standard G15 daggers will tickle those who are well geared not to mention be counterproductive due to purify spell and all the anti-APS buffs/debuffs the various classes now have.

As for shards, sins tend to kill what they're designed to kill well enough as is with R9. Jades helps the survivability factor by a ton and you can always use chill as an alternative to DoTs anyway.

Rice_hero - Lost City

OPKossy wrote: »

Go full R9 third cast. Typical APS setup is squishy in today's PvP and the standard G15 daggers will tickle those who are well geared not to mention be counterproductive due to purify spell and all the anti-APS buffs/debuffs the various classes now have.

As for shards, sins tend to kill what they're designed to kill well enough as is with R9. Jades helps the survivability factor by a ton and you can always use chill as an alternative to DoTs anyway.

Thanks for your input, I was leaning more towards full r9 anyways but didn't want to put all my hard work (gears & demon skills) maybe 1.5-2billion worth to waste by having to start a whole new set of gear over so I thought about an op 5.0 build or r9'ing another char but I wouldn't have been as skilled at. Oh, by the way, I don't think a 2nd best stat combination g.15 dagg would be considered standard pvp wise, but I will admit they are lacking in spike damage when compared to rank 9 or r9 recasts. I was damage testing on a bm with 16k phy def w/ 0 def. level, I did 7.2k dps w/ a combo basically killing him in 1 second, more if the bm had more hp. As for squishy~ness, Magic still hurts, and unless I get zerk+crit or stun first, it's still a pretty even chance for me to win against a phy. class. The only thing that would concern me is when more and more people do reach the r9r3. b:shocked

I will admit that because high end gears are becoming more obtainable, I should get the best of the best gear while I'm actually still interested in the game.

skaitavia

What Kossy said. The APS setup only works if you have a single target and an impeccable stunlock. Other than that, with today's gears going around, the APS G12/basic G15 gears are outgeared by a longshot. And since most PvP is done nowadays in TW and NW, you can bet that most targets have Bramble on them, which is an instant suicide for APS sins if the target is decently geared.

I've killed too many APS sins stunning to APSing me because if their stunlock isn't completely perfect, any 1 skill I dish out means they're dead. Or two if they have Deaden on.

Rice_hero - Lost City

b:surrender seems I should've gone rank9 ring+ weapon when I could a year ago, :<

who knew pwi would make a r9r3 .__. , pvp wise I still do okay killing most classes, surviving was the only concern since I didn't have much phy. def from ornaments/ rings yet and endgame shards. If all goes well, i'm expecting another r9 half sale so I'll just keep saving and making general summer tokens while they are cheap w/ this sale.

- thanks for your input Skai