Weapon and Armors as you level

Grimlynz - Heavens Tear

What are the best weapons and armors as you level a Duskblade? I've noticed that, for the time being, there aren't a lot of Weapon Molds, and nothing low-mid level. suggestions for other gear would be nice too.

So far I'm in my 30's and I'm still using Minister Armor and Sabre.

CapnK - Sanctuary

At level 40 do the quest to kill Chin, that gets you a nice weapon. You won't get much in the way of armor for a while, but you won't need it either.

In your early 50s start doing Quicksand Maze for 55 gear. Do this again for level 70 gear and level 85 gear. This gear is very good and more than sufficient to get you to 100.

Sylvae - Sanctuary

I've been rather lazy, honestly. I did the final quests for the royal gear for the 4X armor and weapon chains, and kept that while soloing PVs under hyper with sage BP. Once I hit 60, I equipped a set of bracers of bloodmoon and TT60 weapon with genie shins. Everything but the saber is old gear. I also made use of the sale and got 2 100 stacks of badges, to get the 60 rank chest. I transferred two of the goshiki rings over, for their high stat adds.

I was thinking of upgrading the legging and chest with the sorrow molds, but as they are is still pretty good. Haven't needed an upgrade while soloing 60-74 PV, just upgraded the saber to TT70. Planning on getting the TT90 gold saber, then working on G15 afterwards (have a lot of mats been sitting around years). In fact, the last PV I did without even a blessing equipped, so that was a lot of damage left out.

Weapon I've been leaving unsharded, and unrefined. A good amount of skill add straight weapon damage, so might be worth some refinement if doing without bp.

For the most part, what you get or can get for cheap is good enough. QS is possible, and doing the daily runs in FBs can get you pieces easy. I've just been using the molds already available to bypass needing to play the character much, while saving as many quests as possible for rebirth. I tend to kill all but boss in about 13 mins on the 60-74 PV, and then run out hyper killing the minions of alucard until 68, then swapping to seaweed thieves after that. Gained around 2.5 levels early on, 190% at lvl 73 in that 1 hour of hyper time.

Buffs are honestly more important than the gear you can get. With cleric buffs and BP, you're pretty much set just using the free charms from leveling and the food you get. Haven't spent any on that, and just recently had to equip the gold charms from 65 or 70; before that I was staggering out the blue level rewards using one a day. I am transferring the auto-recovery stone over from my mains to use, but even before that I was doing fine. Just felt like being lazy.

Might want to search AH, though with the wave of new players it won't be as easy or as much a bargain as it used to be. People jacked the price up on all equipment that could be sold. But since there is a chip sale, getting a few packs to get the LA armor molds could be worth it. But manufacturing could be an issue, if you don't have someone with armorer skill leveled, or someone trustworthy to make it for you.

Nice part is, you can resell it to others if they decide to make DBs. Just make sure to get the free ones blessing, try to get some people for buffs, and the armor isn't as much an issue.

VoidsRequiem - Heavens Tear

I was also curious about this. Does anyone know where to get the lvl 30 Dukes saber. What quest is that?

Fail_BM - Raging Tide

VoidsRequiem - Heavens Tear wrote: »

I was also curious about this. Does anyone know where to get the lvl 30 Dukes saber. What quest is that?

Finish this quest chain: http://www.pwdatabase.com/pwi/quest/3436