Gear Troubles

Nurfed_You - Harshlands

So, I can get the weapon first or the gear. Purify is pretty awesome for tw/group pvp and i usually only die due to genie/apoth on cooldown and then getting pinned down by 2-3 people. So would purify benefit me more in the short term then the added hp/pdef/set bonus of the gear.

http://pwcalc.com/fad3db1f794a5e54 Just gear

http://pwcalc.com/0ae6f66249c69208
Just weap

I'm leaning more towards gear at this point, but the weapon proc is just so tempting. What would you guys do first?

Fissile - Archosaur

I went weapon first. It makes the necessary 23 skabillion warsong runs 100 times easier. (Finished run #116 yesterday and STILL no sleeve mold.)

I do full pulls of the fire, earth, and water paths (metal is too much sealing and wood has too much extreme poison and mag def debuff). Just walk down the path at normal speed til weapon procs... zoom to the next corner and wait for mobs to catch up and just keep going to the end. Spark, cloud eruption, wait for HF from BM, BIDS (sage for super crit rate boost), hailstorm, phoenix. 2/3 of the mobs die instantly, then just help DD the rest. Make sure you have a white tea on the water path because the mobs will steal all of your chi.

Adroit - Lost City

Well stats wise the armor looks to be the better choice, but purify is pretty amazing. I went wep first just to aid in farming (I like that I'm able to pull easily), and because I figured it'd be cheaper getting the wep first (less to refine, one less token etc). I'd imagine the extra matk, pdef, mdef, hp, etc would be more useful than purify proc in pvp though.. purify proc becomes more and more useful (or reliable) as your gear improves.. and looking at your 3rd wep calc you actually have fairly similar stats to mine right now http://pwcalc.com/5da649759d3cd5f1 (trying to recast my wep again.. been like 10 tries so far >.>) Anyway, I think the armor would be better in pvp, and the weapon would be better for farming badges faster.

MageFizban - Lost City

Adroit - Lost City wrote: »

Well stats wise the armor looks to be the better choice, but purify is pretty amazing. I went wep first just to aid in farming (I like that I'm able to pull easily), and because I figured it'd be cheaper getting the wep first (less to refine, one less token etc). I'd imagine the extra matk, pdef, mdef, hp, etc would be more useful than purify proc in pvp though.. purify proc becomes more and more useful (or reliable) as your gear improves.. and looking at your 3rd wep calc you actually have fairly similar stats to mine right now http://pwcalc.com/5da649759d3cd5f1 (trying to recast my wep again.. been like 10 tries so far >.>) Anyway, I think the armor would be better in pvp, and the weapon would be better for farming badges faster.

Don't listen to Adroit. We don't let him pull anymore. b:chuckle

I'd say go for the armor first because numbers don't lie. The matk, mdef, pdef, hp, and def lvl increases more than justify not having the purify proc. And also, who uses PvE to justify a proc that's godly in PvP *when* you have good defenses?

Mooooooooo - Lost City

yar the proc is not that useful when you can die in 2 hits. And as long as you don't get hate targetted by multiple bm archers, armor probably better to get first.

Facerolled - Raging Tide

Armour first.

Increases survivability and offensive capabilities. With a decent reroll on the R9r2 weapon you're increasing survivability and barely increasing damage.

RebeI - Harshlands

Nurfed_You - Harshlands wrote: »

So, I can get the weapon first or the gear. Purify is pretty awesome for tw/group pvp and i usually only die due to genie/apoth on cooldown and then getting pinned down by 2-3 people. So would purify benefit me more in the short term then the added hp/pdef/set bonus of the gear.

http://pwcalc.com/fad3db1f794a5e54 Just gear

http://pwcalc.com/0ae6f66249c69208
Just weap

I'm leaning more towards gear at this point, but the weapon proc is just so tempting. What would you guys do first?

Armor first imo, that's what I did, and the increase in def/hp/damage is always going to help you, whereas the purify proc is a chance based bonus.

I can solo pull full fire and metal, half earth etc etc without purify proc

Link to my gear - http://pwcalc.com/3f51ac330f376847

Working on wep now, orbs ready for +11!

Nurfed_You - Harshlands

I forgot to add, i have the 600 chienkuns to save my +10's on my armor and i have the orbs to rerefine the weapon to 10 possibly 11 depending on how long i have to wait to get it.

And I do get hate targeted by almost everyone who isn't in my guild. My gear is feeling pretty outdated now but I'm still wondering if the weap proc would allow me to not use my genie as much which would allow me to stay alive longer. Still leaning towards gear but we'll see

O and i'm closing in on 400 badges for weap rerolls >.>

ArmaniEx - Harshlands

What moo said, I tell everyone the same exact thing. There's no point in puri proc you can't outrun arrows or a range dd, and the survival with the armor is awesome. On top of that there are times when you'll be waiting for the weapon to proc and it won't which means your in trouble, with the armor you'll be able to eat more dmge and serve more dmge because the 100 magic add on is epic

As for rerolls It seems that it's not so hard to get good stats or maybe I was extremely lucky but it took me the first forge, then two rerolls and I recall I'm 1 atk Lvl and 1 magic away from max stats.

ArmaniEx - Harshlands

Yeah the proc will surely help with the genie but if your getting ganked and can't pop an IG youll need the genie because the anti stun is very short

FaceRolI - Sanctuary

weapon !! all will burn!!



if is slow getting ur r999's will be even harder to refine after/transfer for all armors vs 1 weapon (though xfer/ref for wep more expensive).

Facerolled - Raging Tide

FaceRolI - Sanctuary wrote: »

if is slow getting ur r999's will be even harder to refine after/transfer for all armors vs 1 weapon (though xfer/ref for wep more expensive).

wtf is up with your sharding

FaceRolI - Sanctuary

Facerolled - Raging Tide wrote: »

wtf is up with your sharding

~4x xclusive garnets

Adroit - Lost City

FaceRolI - Sanctuary wrote: »

~4x xclusive garnets

please don't tell me you mixed shards in your armor.. b:sad

FaceRolI - Sanctuary

Adroit - Lost City wrote: »

please don't tell me you mixed shards in your armor.. b:sad

hell yes

1 amber
1 saphire
1 turquoise
1 ruby

rainbow setbonus +50% chance on hit to **** butterflys.

back to thread weapon !!! b:angry