My (realistic) goal for my Wizard

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  • Dratini - Lost City
    Dratini - Lost City Posts: 40 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    Zanryu - Dreamweaver wrote: »
    Using garnets will benefit my wizard more than using citrines. I plan on PvPing and the physical defense I gain with garnets will give me more survivablity, especially when combined with Stone Barrier.

    have u tried calculating EHP using garnets and thn citrines is your equip?

    you will be surprised
  • Mizuoni - Dreamweaver
    Mizuoni - Dreamweaver Posts: 3,533 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    Dratini - Lost City wrote: »
    have u tried calculating EHP using garnets and thn citrines is your equip?

    you will be surprised

    The best sharding combination is pdef/HP. I used pwcalc and changed garnets to citrines and only my HP went up while my pdef went down. I'm not seeing how your defense goes up by just sharding citrines....or am i misunderstanding??????
    Sins are Scissors. Psychics are Rocks.
    Archers, Venos, Barbs, Wizards, BMs, Mystics, Seekers are Paper.
    ...and Clerics are Mushrooms.
    Paper beats Rock. Scissors beats Paper. Scissors also happens to beat Rock...until Rock gets 50k+ soulforce at which point Rock becomes an unstoppable killing machine that beats Paper... and would beat Scissors but it can't find Scissors, because Scissors are invisible.
    So Scissors beat Paper and avoids Rock, and that is called BALANCE. -cheze
  • Zanryu - Dreamweaver
    Zanryu - Dreamweaver Posts: 7,261 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    Adroit - Lost City wrote: »
    i dont think you get it... you do the same MINIMUM dmg with glaive... with a chance at higher damage... you make it sound like there is some downside.. I fail to see how extra dmg is a problem.

    Yeah that's my bad, I was thinking about something else when I posted. My mistake.
    Dratini - Lost City wrote: »
    have u tried calculating EHP using garnets and thn citrines is your equip?

    you will be surprised

    I have calculated both, I have also tested the benefits of both in PvP. I'm not going on just calculations, I'm also basing my decision on how well the gems have performed for me. Citrines, while giving more hp, just won't cut it for me. I need the physical defense gained from Garnets. We can debate whether to use Citrines or Garnets forever, there are some that go with Citrines and others that go for Garnets. I happen to be one to go with Garnets, the physical defense gained with them is more useful than the HP from Citrines.
  • Kannone - Heavens Tear
    Kannone - Heavens Tear Posts: 907 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    Mizuoni - Dreamweaver wrote: »
    The best sharding combination is pdef/HP. I used pwcalc and changed garnets to citrines and only my HP went up while my pdef went down. I'm not seeing how your defense goes up by just sharding citrines....or am i misunderstanding??????

    It's all about percentages, Miz. If you can sacrifice 2% damage reduction for 6% more HP, that is imho, (and all really matters is your own opinion here), a very fair trade. In the end, garnets are simply useless because you get p.def from tt90 gold sleeves, tt90 pants, (imho) oht top with 105hp & 94 p.def > tt90 top, oht hat, and refined ornaments.

    http://pwcalc.ru/pwi/?char=54d6e8741d33af04

    play around with that^ it's a very affordable late-game build (I know 'cause it's mine :cute) ruby shards are placeholders for garnets & amber are for citrines. When I drop two g8 garnets into my boots I get 5k p.def self-buffed and a +1% p.def reduction gain. Sharding these two spots with citrines would give me +3% more HP...
  • Mizuoni - Dreamweaver
    Mizuoni - Dreamweaver Posts: 3,533 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    Kannone - Heavens Tear wrote: »

    It's all about percentages, Miz. If you can sacrifice 2% damage reduction for 6% more HP, that is imho, (and all really matters is your own opinion here), a very fair trade. In the end, garnets are simply useless because you get p.def from tt90 gold sleeves, tt90 pants, (imho) oht top with 105hp & 94 p.def > tt90 top, oht hat, and refined ornaments.

    http://pwcalc.ru/pwi/?char=54d6e8741d33af04

    play around with that^ it's a very affordable late-game build (I know 'cause it's mine :cute) ruby shards are placeholders for garnets & amber are for citrines. When I drop two g8 garnets into my boots I get 5k p.def self-buffed and a +1% p.def reduction gain. Sharding these two spots with citrines would give me +3% more HP...

    BUT, not everyone has that type of gear. Its nice to see you were able to craft/buy all that but not everyone can get EXACTLY that.(besides, you want to have all g8 garnets in armor so you can be a giant flame ballb:chuckle)
    Sins are Scissors. Psychics are Rocks.
    Archers, Venos, Barbs, Wizards, BMs, Mystics, Seekers are Paper.
    ...and Clerics are Mushrooms.
    Paper beats Rock. Scissors beats Paper. Scissors also happens to beat Rock...until Rock gets 50k+ soulforce at which point Rock becomes an unstoppable killing machine that beats Paper... and would beat Scissors but it can't find Scissors, because Scissors are invisible.
    So Scissors beat Paper and avoids Rock, and that is called BALANCE. -cheze
  • Ursa - Dreamweaver
    Ursa - Dreamweaver Posts: 2,634 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    investing in TT80 boots make sense for me since you will use them until 95. At 95 I can't see the point using anything else but the OHT reward ones for both Hat and Boots.
    As top the 89 mold is quite decent and u don't need to farm OHT mats to get one with good stats, since neither will be your endgame stuff.
    On the other hand, TT90 gold sleeves and TT90 pants can be engame, same for 95 reward hat and boots.
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  • Adroit - Lost City
    Adroit - Lost City Posts: 4,628 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    Kannone - Heavens Tear wrote: »

    It's all about percentages, Miz. If you can sacrifice 2% damage reduction for 6% more HP, that is imho, (and all really matters is your own opinion here), a very fair trade. In the end, garnets are simply useless because you get p.def from tt90 gold sleeves, tt90 pants, (imho) oht top with 105hp & 94 p.def > tt90 top, oht hat, and refined ornaments.

    http://pwcalc.ru/pwi/?char=54d6e8741d33af04

    play around with that^ it's a very affordable late-game build (I know 'cause it's mine :cute) ruby shards are placeholders for garnets & amber are for citrines. When I drop two g8 garnets into my boots I get 5k p.def self-buffed and a +1% p.def reduction gain. Sharding these two spots with citrines would give me +3% more HP...

    what I dont understand is that you get that just because it is from TT it isn't good... so you swapped out the pretty decent HH 90 top for OHT with decent mods.. but then you use HH 90 **** boots? Whats up with that?
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  • Kannone - Heavens Tear
    Kannone - Heavens Tear Posts: 907 Arc User
    edited November 2009
    Adroit - Lost City wrote: »
    what I dont understand is that you get that just because it is from TT it isn't good... so you swapped out the pretty decent HH 90 top for OHT with decent mods.. but then you use HH 90 **** boots? Whats up with that?

    well when I'm at level 92 I'll equip oht boots, but for now tt90 is very affordable (I farmed the first set & have been recycling at 0 loss until I get 4 sockets).

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