Another Endgame Gear Thread <.>

You should restat the extra vitality to Dexterity.

Also, your current and "final" life is pretty low. Rather than going for +10 with 2 Garnet Gems on the weapon, you should aim for at least +7 on all of your armors with 4 sockets on every piece that is G12 or lower.

Looking at your setup, you're spending: 300m on the weapon, 250-300m on the tome, 250-300m on the ring and <50m on the armors.

You need to balance it out more, for example:
1. The second socket on your weapon costs about 160m, plus 30m for the shard, it's really not something you should be thinking of yet.
2. The Rank 9 ring alone costs about 250-300m for a rather insignificant boost, you should ignore it for now.
3. You should balance your refines so that your average refine keeps rising. In your current setup, your average refine is 3.9, whereas on your latter its 6.2. Getting only +2.3 after having spent about 1 billion coins is just downright sad.

Something like this. As you can see, you get about 1700 more life. The actual loss in DPS is ~6%, whereas your life is increasing by ~26%, that's a damn good tradeoff.

Tidestrike - Lost City wrote: »

Thanks, thats exactly the kind of advice I was looking for
Any advice on the order in which I should upgrade the gear? e.g should i restat now, or wait till next reset note sale, or prioritize weapon upgrade, or sockets first? etc

The restatting isn't a high priority, since it's only a small amount of damage, plus 1% crit.

As for others, I say your weapon is good as it is. You're 5 aps already, so you got plenty of damage. The only reason to prioritize your weapon would be to get into those 5 aps +10 nirvana squads, but since we just came off a month of 2x, there won't be any consistent Nirvanas in quite a while so that's low priority. Though, you might want to put enough money aside to get that +10 in the case that we do get a surprise 2x.

The sockets are pretty expensive for the return: sharding immaculates means you're paying 20m for 50 life. That's a lot considering that you a +6 refine on a G12 piece gives you 60 life at 4.5m. I'd put the sockets on the sidelines. With some luck, you'll get stones from BH and they will drop in price.

In short:
1. Refine armors to +6-7
2. Refine ornaments to +6-7
3. Add any missing sockets
4. Get the helmet

The Nirvana helm is rather low priority because it costs a lot for small gains: you get some damage for it and you end up losing life.

As for the weapon, it's a really expensive project. You're looking at 240m for the Raptures, at least 150m for the second socket, 90-100m for the refine and 60-70m for the shards. That's a total of at least 540m, which is much more than everything else put together. Also, you'll need the tome to keep 5 aps, which pushes that to 750-800m. Add the rerolls for SS and -0.05 interval and you're looking at about 1 billion total to prepare for the weapon.

If it was left to me I'd probably focus on the refines of my gear before recasting the weapon, then change the helm once the weapon is recasted, restat before farming the tome, then upgrade the sockets, and finally, farm the r9 ring.

Refines should indeed come first, because if you get a powerful weapon you end up squishy as damn. Trust me, I've watched a 4.0 R9 Sin die more than me at 3.33 BTN Sage. Recasting the weapon is a bit of a double-edged sword, since you'll lose the -0.1 interval, pushing you from 5.0 aps to 3.33. This would really hurt your farming, as people really love their 5.0-only squads.

I'd say:
1. Refine gear
2. Get the helmet
3. Restat (since you'll be restatting both the vita and the str from the helmet change)
4. Get the tome
5. Quench the weapon
6. R9 ring

The additional sockets to the G12 gear are pretty cheap in comparison so you can just do them whenever you feel like it.

Olbaze - Sanctuary wrote: »

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+7 is pretty much the best point to stop refining your gear for various reasons. For one, it's the last refine you'll be doing without Ocean Orbs, unless there happens to be another 4.5 silver 1* sale. It's also often the first refine you do with Orbs at all. And with +7, you end up with around 6500-7000 life depending on your shards, which is a pretty good number.

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And also, with 45 silver for 10 +1 D orb sale, +8 via +1 stars is actually cheaper. The amount of orbs is equal to 18.225 gold, which is cheaper than the bulk deal of Ocean Orbs, which are 20 gold each at the deal.

It's not a disease

And I was more focusing on the +8 orbs. It's just any amount saved is still worth it. In the end, you'll be refining 10 things up to +10, assuming it's one ring, two orns, cape, bracers, boots, legs, chest, helm, and weapon. Getting 10 +8 orbs at 18.225 gold and saving 1.775 each would amoutn to 17.75 gold saved in the long run.

I don't know, I see it as an investment in the long run. Or maybe I'm just that nick picky when it comes to savings lol.

I want your refining luck.

I can only get to +6 via tishas/tienkangs. I can never get past that without orbs. I do know now that if I ever want to refine anything, I'll just mirage/tisha/tienkang it to +6, then orb the rest. It's a helluva lot cheaper.

And yeah, your situation would be simple to decide which to get.