73 Gear and Leveling

Why do you consider your attack be messed up? You can't expect a great attack at those levels. Your attribute points aren't messed up. The way for you to boost your damage is either refine and shard your weapon or change rings. I would have switched the rings if you want better damage. I used ☆Rage of Crixalis (http://www.pwdatabase.com/pwi/items/8383) until I switched to 2 Mistys. The second one are a bit more expensive though. Also you get a very nice ring from the Tideborn quest (http://www.pwdatabase.com/pwi/items/26904).

And well.. I would try find armor with better adds. The top and pants are fine for now, but boots, sleeves, cape, belt and hat I would have switched to something else that adds +hp and/or +pdef. Also I suggest you use a helmet instead of a arcane hat. Since sins don't have enough Str to wear helmets same level range as they, you'll have to use a lower level one. But it will give you hp instead of mp which is a lot more useful.

At later levels... Well, personally I dislike the adds on TT gear, so I skipped all TT70-80 armor myself. But if you gonna do that, you need to have gear (molds or 3*) that have good adds (like hp and defence). Also depends on how fast you level. If you can't find any such armor, I'd go by some TT pieces merely for the sake of defence if you are a slow leveller. After that TT90 is definitely worth getting.

To answer your question about levelling.. Well, bhs is your best option right now. If you can't find a squad yourself, then try form one. Get into a somewhat active faction where you can find people your level range to do BH with. There is also a World Quest (WQ). You didn't mention it, but I suppose you should know of it. Try do some quests maybe, though it's not that much exp. Then there is always FF, which will bring you hella lot exp with hypers. People do start doing FFs in their 7x but I see it more in the mid/late 70s so it might not be that easy to find a squad. However when you get to 75-77, then there shouldn't be a problem.

However, I suggest that you work some on your gear. Therefore questing is a good option (rather than hypering yourself through the levels under-geared), since it gives some exp but also coins and drops.

Probably because it's unrefined and lacks shards? Unless thats how your weapon looks like.

You need to wait more than an hour before you can start worrying about people not replying.

And I'm fairly sure the calculator is a user created tool, it is not completely correct and there are errors in the Tideborn gear for sure. It can only give an approximation and you can't rely on it, or get mad at it if its not correct.

You want the honest truth? -int gear is expensive. Very expensive. And you really do not want a bad reputation early on, because it won't help you later.

You need better gear, sorry but you do. According to your calc thing you are wearing arcane wristguards and helm, nothing is refined or sharded. You should (like Hekate_ said) be doing your quests and grinding for some coin. You can also start farming TT to get your gear that way. Stick to things that don't bind so you can sell them after. Look through the AH for 3* with decent stats cheap.

There is no way you could survive the serious leveling ways with your current HP.

Your pants and top are good, but the pants could use a few shards and try to get them to +2. Your boots, the stats listed in the calc are not whats in the database, so I'd suggest looking into the TT70 boots. You can farm them/buy the mats/buy a 'ready to wear' set. Looking for a set that is already sharded and refined is probably the most cost effective method at the moment. You can always farm TT, sell the mats and put the coin towards a set. And grinding coin isn't too difficult.

There are people who will buy DQ point items for more than an NPC will pay. You should be at/close to the level you can grind on Nightscream I think...there are good DQ drops there.

You can't aim too far ahead for gear, because you need to get there first. There are plenty of threads around for what to do past level 80 and how to start getting into -int gear.

But I can tell you right now even the low level stuff is usually well into the millions per piece.

If you just wanted someone to lie and say OMG YOUR GEAR IS AMAZING why did you come here?

More hp means less dying which means more exp (because you wont lose it).

There comes a time when people will not continue to squad with someone if they know they are going to pull aggro but can't take a few hits. You have to balance your gear.

So in a nutshell, yeah you need to grind a bit and be prepared to catch your gear up to your level at some point. If you plan to level quickly, save up and plan for level 80. Theres a really nice pair of mold bracers around high 7x. You already have a good top and bottom for a while. There are better (dirt cheap) drop items you can get if you look around and in the AH for your robe and boots even. There are some really nice helms you can get for the 5x area that are going to give you a nice HP boost.

If you can handle yourself you can a) build up a network of people to do BH with regularly and b) dominate PQ 60-80. Without a squad, or even buffs other than your own.

Maybe its different on your server, but back when I did PQ it was almost always an assassin in first place, either myself or one of the other regulars.

You can keep leveling and gathering all the +crit you want, but its only going to hurt you if you can't balance your damage output with your survivability.

This is what my Assassin currently looks like. It's really not much better off than yours in terms of the gear itself, but what makes the difference is it is sharded and refined. Being that you are on the same server as I am, I can tell you now that AH almost always has a good set of 3* light armor gears you can use. Honestly, until 80, I still had 3* legs and top, but they still worked well.

If you are going for -interval as end game, you are looking at A LOT of money. To get 4+ APS, you have to have full Ashura's armor, Lionheart necklace and belt (because Lionheart is better than the Ashura ornaments) Rank 8 Top, Barrier Thorn Daggers, an Energetic robe, and Love: Up and Down tome.

It is basically nothing but -interval gear on you, with the exception of rings and helm, and with demon spark it gives you 4.35 APS.

So, if you are confident in being able to get that much money to get all of that gear, go ahead. However, just be aware it will cost a lot of money.

LeiMai - Raging Tide wrote: »

According to your calc thing you are wearing arcane wristguards

technically, those are the correct wristguards with the correct stats. pwcalc just lists all "Light Wristguards" incorrectly as arcane.

Typhyse - Sanctuary wrote: »

Belt - Since you have Rank 5, why not use the Rank 4 belt?

I 2nd everything he said except that ^. PDef would be much more useful than Evasion.
With that being said, if you can't find yourself a TT squad, always check the Auction House for 3* gear with good adds. Good adds would be things like HP, +PDef, +Dex
Replace your Arcane headwear with a Helmet. HP is more important than MP.

Sorry to say but you HP is BAD at lvl 70 ill have about 3k+ HP. You should prolly save up for Shards but with rising of token prices flawless citrines in RT cost about 390k now wich is crazy.. honestly u should shard with anything avialble because like i said ur HP is BAD at lvl 67 i alone have about 2.8k HP with **** gear. At lvl 70 ill have 3.6k+ or maybe 4k so try shards and refines ;D