Archer Armor Path

Usually people use the Legendary 78 LA top and keep the Legendary 69 LA leggings, along with the 78 LA bracers, as they provide pretty good magic defense and decent physical defense for lvls 78 to 90. This is the set up on my archer. At 90 of course every archer I have seen goes 90 level TT armor all around, top, leggings, bracers, boots, with rings of heavenly lord, and other legendary accessories.

nelanther wrote: »

If you are focusing on p.attack and crit% the HH80 Lunar Chase Chest and Braces, and the Gold HH Spirit Eaters Shins all trump any lvl 90 equipment.

It may be difficult to believe, but if you use the PW calculator (dont have the link, im on my cell phone) you can put on any combination of equipment and compare.

I was unable to find anything better than this combo til 95. The bonuses suck on most the HH90 stuff.

One thing to note when building your char... STR = DEX . and avoiding HH90 means less str requirements, more dex.

So...why doesn't everyone where the HH 80 Lunar armor? Oh wait b/c no one can get that equipment yet. That's right. How many ppl have that equipment on the LC server, or any server for that matter?

And why don't I see any archers wearing anything but HH 90 Twilight armor at level 90 well? It gives good Vitality bonuses and some strength I believe, which is good for TW, especially the vitality considering it's the archers weak point (one of them anyway).

Very few dedicated people on any server will have the best equipment, like HH 80, 90 Lunar Armor. The Frost armor is great too, but no one is wearing that either. "Almost" every archer you see between 78 and 90 will have the legendary 78 top, 69 leggings, and 78 bracers, and at 90 they use the HH 90 complete set.

the lunar chacer stuff is cheap (comparitivly). using HH80 will leave you slightly more vulnerable to attack but offensivly the bonus is great. It seems so counter intuitive to use HH80 instead of 90 but the numbers dont lie. As soon as pwcalc comes back up ill post some comparing strategies.

Personally I would not trust the majority when it comes to equipment. I've seen some scary stuff being worn by 80+ archers. And what do ppl see in the 78 chest? wait 2 lvls and get the Lunar Chase chest.

If you really want to use the lvl78 chest, sell it when you hit 80 and get the lunar chace chest.

here is what you want @ 80 (if you can afford it)

Lunar Chacer Armor
Lunar Chacer Braces
Lion Spirit Helm
Spirit Eaters Shins

use PWdatabase to get a list of the mats and start collecting. Start collecting for 80 when you hit 70 dont wait til 79 or youll pay a premium.

as far as boots go, if you are a crtiaholic like me you will want the lvl76 3star boots with as much dex as you can find.

when you hit 80 you will want 91 str and not 1 str more. Buy resets as needed. It's also a good excuse to get your base vit and mag down to 3 with a reset 25 to all.

green is lunar chaser gold is spirit eater? green top is great dex,metal resist, gold pants hp dex and gold boots hp hp speed
about wrists depends if you pve or pvp, pve dq60 mold ftw till 90 gold or 99gold,
pvp dex/str bonus is great on tt80green

i think 90 set is best :90 gold wrist+chest which gives yah the +10 dex bonus from set, and 80 gold pant/boot for hp/dex
keeping the rank 4 chest top handy for bosses and stuff is a goody too

nelanther wrote: »

Comparing HH80 green VS HH90 gold...

this is what you will gain with HH90 gold...

1 STR (unusable as dex)
86 p.def
130 m.def
-.1 intervals
342 water res
87 metal res
94 evasion
-1% p.damage

this is what you will lose with the HH90 gold...

16 DEX
6 VIT


keep in mind you will need 94 str to equip HH90 vs 91 to use HH80 (plus money saved is money useable for refining).

The strategy you use will determine which you choose. My view is to make peace with being squishy and go for offense. Get in, make the kill, and get out.

Is this full HH80 green vs full HH90 gold?

Because eh, I think you're missing out on highlighting the entire set benefit of [2] +10 dex [4] 3% phys reduction on HH90 gold.

In the case of just HH80 green wrist and armor vs HH90 gold wrist and armor, you have to add +10 dex aswell, meaning you really only lose 6dex and 6vit according to your previous conclusions.

I could be wrong though, but it just seemed like you did forget about the bonuses of the partial set at first glance.

I am a believer of DPS and so I am naturally dex and -interval inclined (PvE). My recommendation is DQ60 wrist and rank 4 armor for the PvE and grind inclined individual. @aer: at 76, I see no reason to invest "heavily" on half TT80 and gold legs. Of course this all boils down to playstyle and preference (btw hi aer ).

my comparison is with the lvl80 Lunar Chaser and the lvl90 General's chest and bracers.

Which lvl 90 piece of equipment gives 10 dex?

wow comparing the shins and chest with the dex bonus makes these 2 piecec 3 dex better with the 90 vs 80. That 10 dex changes everything. The only cost would be about 130HP. But lots better defence.

Can u plz answer my previous post. TY

NO lol
I want direct answer and reasons...
PLZ

u are going to be 1 squishy archer>.> unless u are godly rich and everything is like +6 with immac shards or something.
better pray the wiz doesnt find u because u will probably get 1 shotted if u get undined. i can only speak for tw of course but i find that for archers there reach a point where even with crazy crit u just cant kill someone before they hit u a few times. personally i would recommend balancing some things out besides maxing out on dmg.

if u are maxed out dps for PvE, roll a fist archer>.> u can kill urself using tt90 gold fist with zerk by using rank 4 top+ a -.1 interval bracer. start sparking and u get 2.5atk/sec for 15 sec(u can spark every 25-30sec once u start the chain), see how fast u can zerk and kill urselfXD even though ur dmg/hit will be lower than using xbow/bow the pure atk speed u can get with fist on archer will make sure u do more dmg on bosses and what not. grinding might become an issue though:-P

otherwise, it is a decent lineup for maxing out on dmg and crit.

ok, pwcalc is back up and ive (yet again) changed what i feel is best @ 90.

http://www.pwcalc.ru/pwi/?char=9778e627435e0544

compare this to your suggestions from above post...

http://www.pwcalc.ru/pwi/?char=0551bf29ec92e6ed

i can see pluses and minuses to both. perhaps ppl seeing these two builds can work off of them and give their suggestions.

to keep things consistant i would use similar refining and sharding as i think this best represents the average upper middle class archer (net worth ~200mil)

that line up nelanther is what we call a rich archer>.>
grade 11 items have cost 1000 socket stones to get the 4th socket, 300 for the 3rd not something people can afford most of the time for upper class. same with wpn, 1000 stones for the 2nd socket. seriously though, unless u are buying alot of zen 200mil networth is NOT upper middles, thats up there on the rich side. not the same as those insanely rich, but more than rich enough with +6 and 4 socket grade 11 equips