HA venos share your builds!

MageMERC - Harshlands wrote: »

Did you read the HA veno guide? It indicates that a HA veno must never add to Vit. Do you plan on restatting the vit? Whats your theory on this.

Sagira - Lothranis wrote: »

Mine with HA gear on http://pwcalc.com/9f650e2b5191b7b2
And with AA gear http://pwcalc.com/7ac7195a93a491da
I can also mix and match pretty freely at the moment depending on what I need. And yeah, I'm aware I probably shouldn't have sharded my gear yet at this point. Figured that with the rate I level I'll end up using that gear for a while.

I have Cuisses and Sleeves of Sea Captain waiting for when I can **** myself to level a bit. Magic damage is nowhere near what it could be with a pure build, but at least I can tank some bosses (with a healer) while pet debuffs. And clawing away at big bad mobs as a fox while taking little damage is fun! Not being able to have pet tank as much stuff is somewhat limiting, but I've gotten used to it.

As for your build, that vit is something you really shouldn't have, because of it you have to use subpar equipment. If you took that vit away (and got a good magic sword), you'd do way better damage in melee than you currently do. You'd also be able to wear a bit better armor, I think. To compare, your average melee DPS with the hammer is 1667, mine is 2826 in fox form with the sword. Melee Mastery easily makes up for the lower base damage of magic swords. They also have a way faster rate of attack than those hammers, making your DPS a lot better. Fox Form also gives you a lot more accuracy and defense, making your life a lot easier and don't forget all the skills you can't use with hammers, like amp.

When you get a few more levels, I'd pay more attention to your stats in general, to see how much exactly you need for your next level of equipment and how much stats your gear can give you then so you don't waste any stat points. In the end, though, if you're having fun with your build and aren't slowing your squads down too much it's all good.

Sagira - Lothranis wrote: »

Heh, it's not often you hear OP damage being mentioned when talking about venos these days. I wish venos could deal enough damage to be considered OP now.

Anyways, as I said, as long as you are having fun and aren't slowing others down it's all good. It's a game so fun should be had! Though I would argue those 10 points in vit (120hp) don't really do that much at higher levels compared to how much they would help in getting gear. I could be wrong, of course.

SashaGray - Heavens Tear wrote: »

there are many better ways of getting HP than through using your stat points on vit

Sakubatou - Sanctuary wrote: »

Fair enough, but add it to magic and you'll have much better magic defenses than 120 vit will give you. You'll take alot less damage, even if you have slightly less hp, and you'll kill faster. Besides, endgame, 100 vit is something like 10% of your total hp.

Here is my unbuffed veno in his HA gear. My stats aren't exactly like that but pretty close, to lazy to log in game and check exactly. Eventually I'll have a G16 magic sword to bonk mobbies with but have been too lazy to set that up. Fully buffed right now he's at 33.7k pdef and 7.5k mdef.

I'm working towards a full G16 AA set on swap for my casters but don't have it yet, just the wrist and boots. Its beautiful that G16 has so many +magic stats since I should be over 400 magic stat points with it on.

Debating with HA/AA when I swap to G16 AA pieces do I go for 5 piece +15 def level bonus and swap helm, or do I keep HA helm for the huge +hp difference. I'm inclined to just use my HA helm all the time since it gives more hp which is less I have to replace when swapping back and forth and my HA helm is already refined up.