Influx of items, new shards & tomes. What to do ?

Amy_Nailo - Lost City
Amy_Nailo - Lost City Posts: 141 Arc User
edited September 2009 in Wizard
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Hello everyone.
Today I was reading the whole list of items available in the Aniversary Packs and I was thinking about the new options opening to us, wizards.

The first choice is option weapon socket. I think there is max 2 sockets for a weapon (someone confirm please ?). As I see it, there's 3 options
- 2x Primeval Stone (adds a whooping +4% crit total)
- 2x Stone of the Savant (adds a whooping -12% channeling speed)
- 2x Diamond of Tiger (+2 attack level, so +2% damage)

I personnaly tend to go with the crit bonus, but the channeling is also nice, being now able to get to -40% without too much troubles.

The second choice is the tome. I see 4 possible options
- Love: Up and Down (Str +13, Dex +13, Vit +12, Mag +13, Crit +1%, Channel Time -1%, Interval between hits -0.05 sec). I think it is a very good tome for both arcane and light armor. Arcane will most likely get +2% crit total (5 base dex + 13 + 2 you find elsewhere), and for light armor you can remove some stats in both str and dex and put them in mag. You also get +120HP.
- The Alms Bowl (awesome +45 mag, nothing much to say)
- Chant of the Water Dragon (+45 vit). Wiz get the lowest hp per vit bonus, so we get only 450 hp out of this. Good amount, but I think there's better option
- Divine Brotherhood (+25 dex, +2% crit). I think for light armor it is also a very viable solution, since you can spend more base stat in mag and get the rest of your dex from the tome. The +2% crit is pretty good also.


Lastly, the armor shards. The newly available Diamond of Dragon (+1 def level) looking pretty good, but I do not know in practice how really useful it is. Is the -1% damage more powerful then, say +125 phys res (G11 Garnet) or +115HP (G11 citrine) ??

I would like your opinions on these subject, but please keep it only to the wizard topic.

- Amy
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  • FireWizardEX - Dreamweaver
    FireWizardEX - Dreamweaver Posts: 463 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    chose beetwen crit and atk lv they are the both AWESOME, INCRIBLE....
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  • jonno
    jonno Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    I'd go with the magic one all the timeb:victory
  • Adroit - Lost City
    Adroit - Lost City Posts: 4,628 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    FireWizardEX - Dreamweaver wrote: »
    chose beetwen crit and atk lv they are the both AWESOME, INCRIBLE....

    mmm the atk level doesn't seem to be that great, 2% crit or 1% extra damage? The -channeling looks to be pretty nice as well :P
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  • Calliope - Heavens Tear
    Calliope - Heavens Tear Posts: 328 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    So hey, we're talking our ultimate setup here, right? Well, if you have 2 lunar rings and the lunar wand, that's 8% crit and 18% channeling right there. Bumping that to 12% crit or 30% channeling are both quite nice, but I think the -Channeling is actually better if you can stack enough of it.

    Throw in the -6% cape, ttgold wrists, and you have -42% channeling *with* pdef ornaments (which you can now get with +crit, unreal). Add in crit boots and that tome and you can get to like 15% crit, maybe more.

    So yeah, the main reason not to stack channeling is gone, because you can stack it while maintaining hp and def.

    The best of those tomes, btw, is the one with all the stats. Restat Str to Mag, set yourself up with an extra point or two in Dex, and you have +26 mag, +2% crit, +120 hp, and another -1% channel.
  • FireWizardEX - Dreamweaver
    FireWizardEX - Dreamweaver Posts: 463 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    i dont like -channel as i would love too...
    for some main reasons...
    skills have CT(sry but i oly use dps skills, like pyro/gush/wop)
    skills have cast time too wich means -10%channel is +5% dps on gush...
    channel is almost 0 in sutra so no matter of -chan gear...
    i would go for crit i think...+crit on all gear would end wiht a deadly sutra helping even more the bids to crit b:shocked
    now i understand when i saw a pro guy talking about 70% chance to crit wiht bids b:chuckle
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  • Ikens - Harshlands
    Ikens - Harshlands Posts: 25 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    Na, the point is that you don't sutra anymore because the difference isn't that big due to -50% channeling b:laugh You rather save the sparks for another ulti
  • FireWizardEX - Dreamweaver
    FireWizardEX - Dreamweaver Posts: 463 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    Ikens - Harshlands wrote: »
    Na, the point is that you don't sutra anymore because the difference isn't that big due to -50% channeling b:laugh You rather save the sparks for another ulti

    or u can go wiht loads of crit and crit wiht ults b:laugh
    the bad is wiht -50% chan u cant pyro-gush or gush-wop-gush-pyro-gush,,,so u will lose dps than crit
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  • Amy_Nailo - Lost City
    Amy_Nailo - Lost City Posts: 141 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    I dont know for you but my sutra is still working...

    I agree with Calliope for the tome, Love: Up and Down is clearly the best one for us.

    For the weapon I think the +4% is better than +2% attacks. You double your damage 1 time out of 25, so technicaly you do 4% more damage in the long run. Unless I don't understand how the Atk Lvl works, crit is clearly better. (Also because of the spike damage of a crit its easier to kill people).

    - Amy
  • _makina_ - Sanctuary
    _makina_ - Sanctuary Posts: 747 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    If pwidatabase is correct in what you get from anniversary packs i'd want Wings of Cloudcharger cape, lunar glade magic ring, heavenrage boots (arcane version), and lunar glade weapon. Personally i'd want the cape first, ring, weapon, then boots in importance to me xD. I dont even care about those shards since i still only want either the 20 vit gems, citrine gem, or saphire gem. Pdef will mostly come from belt, necklace, and that awesome cape lol.
  • Ty - Heavens Tear
    Ty - Heavens Tear Posts: 604 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    That wings of cloudcharger description is a little bit off. Basically one of those addons is possible along with +6/7 str/dex/mag/vit, i.e. +6/7 all stats and +0.2m/s. I managed to pick up one of those for 5mil in arch o.O
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  • _makina_ - Sanctuary
    _makina_ - Sanctuary Posts: 747 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    Aww that sucks then lol, nvm about the cape then. I'd want ring, weapon, and boots.
  • Amy_Nailo - Lost City
    Amy_Nailo - Lost City Posts: 141 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    wings of cloudcharger can be pretty good depending on the mod you grab, but there is also the cape you get with Wing Trophy - Lunar Glade that gives -6% chan. I think its the only cape with -chan bonus, right ? It's a pretty good bonus

    - Amy
  • Ty - Heavens Tear
    Ty - Heavens Tear Posts: 604 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    Sorry wings of cloudcharger does exist.
    5fq6ow.jpg

    Now how much should I sell it for...
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  • _makina_ - Sanctuary
    _makina_ - Sanctuary Posts: 747 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    Ty - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    Sorry wings of cloudcharger does exist.
    5fq6ow.jpg

    Now how much should I sell it for...

    b:victory Yay it real! I dont know how much u could sell for on HT.
  • Mumintroll - Heavens Tear
    Mumintroll - Heavens Tear Posts: 3,393 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    Be carefull
    The primeral(i dont know name) it give you JUST!!! 1% of critical NOT!!! 2%. And also channeling is JUST -3% NOT -6%. GM made mistake with text they will repair it soon. So be careful.
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  • Amy_Nailo - Lost City
    Amy_Nailo - Lost City Posts: 141 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    Mumintroll - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    Be carefull
    The primeral(i dont know name) it give you JUST!!! 1% of critical NOT!!! 2%. And also channeling is JUST -3% NOT -6%. GM made mistake with text they will repair it soon. So be careful.

    Yeah I just saw the post in general forum. I'm so mad. It's unbelivable that they made such a mistake.

    Now I wonder if it's worth it to stick 2 of these in the weapon. An added -6% chan is nice, but not awesomly good as the -12% was b:cry

    - Amy
  • Trawne - Lost City
    Trawne - Lost City Posts: 966 Arc User
    edited September 2009
    Amy_Nailo - Lost City wrote: »
    Yeah I just saw the post in general forum. I'm so mad. It's unbelivable that they made such a mistake.

    Now I wonder if it's worth it to stick 2 of these in the weapon. An added -6% chan is nice, but not awesomly good as the -12% was b:cry

    - Amy

    imo 2 sapphire gems (+150 matt total) would be better than the channeling or crit from those stones...now if they gave what they said sure....
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