Blademaster almost lvl 100

Vallentyne - Archosaur

hey guys, right now i am a lvl 99 blademaster with 75% exp, i already have 3 TT99 lionheart armor pieces including vambraces, i have 3.33 aps sparked with Diecide, lionheart and energetic cape: hallucination.
i already have my Windpour-Nirvana but i've hit somewhat of a snag.....

my Diecides are 2 socket +6 and are 700-800+
Windpour's are around 650-770+ish
but only have 1 socket and +0, so im thinking should i sell my Diecides and refine my windpours (with d'orbs) or should i hold onto my Diecides for a while and try to get nirvy armor?

or should i get G16 armor? <---this kid confuzzled haha.

right now i have absolutly no money but here in the next month i will be grabbing around 500m or so

i'm just wondering what you guys think i should do NOW cause i already know what im doing when i get my money.

so any ideas? throw them my way thanks guys!

Maelael - Heavens Tear

Vallentyne - Archosaur wrote: »

hey guys, right now i am a lvl 99 blademaster with 75% exp, i already have 3 TT99 lionheart armor pieces including vambraces, i have 3.33 aps sparked with Diecide, lionheart and energetic cape: hallucination.
i already have my Windpour-Nirvana but i've hit somewhat of a snag.....

my Diecides are 2 socket +6 and are 700-800+
Windpour's are around 650-770+ish
but only have 1 socket and +0, so im thinking should i sell my Diecides and refine my windpours (with d'orbs) or should i hold onto my Diecides for a while and try to get nirvy armor?

or should i get G16 armor? <---this kid confuzzled haha.

right now i have absolutly no money but here in the next month i will be grabbing around 500m or so

i'm just wondering what you guys think i should do NOW cause i already know what im doing when i get my money.

so any ideas? throw them my way thanks guys!

Okay I read this like 6 times and Im totally not sure what you're getting at save what you should do at 100.

You should explore the following options:

3rd Stage Nirvana (Aka, G16 [bad term, lots of stuff is G16, aka N3) Armor plus axes for PvP and AoE, with a decent APS setup leading into N3 fists.

R9 Armor and axes leading into R9rr for PvP and AoE, with a decent APS setup leading into N3 fists.

That's it, 2 options. Some people go pure axe now, but I think its a waste unless you've completed your R9rr and don't mind the lesser accuracy and crit.



But...

Post a pwcalc of your current gear. If you have 500m to spend when you hit 100, its gonna come down to what you want to do in the game, and what you feel you can handle in nation wars. I'd honestly suggest a good 5.0 aps setup with some good axes. This would be multi-purpose that allows you to still PvE and do decent in PvP.

Really, I would get the APS setup first then farm for N3 or R9. NW is 4 hours a week, and I know people in +5 aps setups that score 100+ (one of them, near 300) in NW each time. You just need to be smart about your choices and what you're doing in the field. Rest of the week is PvE, which APS is needed/wanted for it.

_Nottunyx_ - Heavens Tear

i'm too lazy to read it so i'll just hurr durr derp and put this link right here. hope it helps kthxbai

http://pwcalc.com/d5650af724bfa8cb

WnbTank - Archosaur

Aps is bit overrated, with anti-aps buffs everywhere, PK is shifting more into DPH and axes. For PvE you can always keep pieces in your inventory that are marginally refined/sharded(+3-5, flawless/immaculate shards) to get yourself to 5aps. With the ability to go 5aps when needed, Id focus on full N3 set with axes if R9 is too expensive for you. R9 last recast is massively better than N3 but original R9 is pretty much the same as N3, discounting GoF proc.

There is kinda 2 paths nowdays, cheapish N3, ~500-600m to full set with +7 refines, +10 wep. Bout 3 times that for clean R9 set, after which it`s bout 500m and lot of farming to upgrade into last R9 recast. So if you feel like you can spend ~2b before even really starting on working refines/shards, go for R9 and if it`s too much, just pick N3 instead.

You can always start with N3 and change to R9 when you can afford it but in that case I would suggest on making your N3 with lunar path so gear wont get bound and you can sell it when you get R9.

Sakubatou - Sanctuary

I just made a thread where I was trying to find a good balance of endgame gear, between the high defenses and skill spam of G16 pieces (r9 or vana) and a high dps aps set. While you can make aps sets that have similar defenses to r9, you can't make aps sets with near the def of N3 or r9t3.

Deicides and Windpours refine the same. Windpours just have a +91 higher base damage to start with. Neither is worth heavily investing in because the dps of Deicides at +10 is around 120k, the dps of Windpours is around 135, but the dps of G16 is around 200k. It will take you +4 refines for your windpours to out dd your deicides, but then just use them as a base to make your G15 and G16s and sell off your Deicides.

As for how to spend 500m, that depends on your goals. If interested in pvp then r9 axes would be a good investment. If you farm all your coin like me, then focusing on claw refines and gear defenses for farming would be a good investment.