2012-09-02, 09:15 PM
KarStealer Wrote:Agreed about leveling, it somehow became ridiculously easy. Just got my swordsman from 35-40 in a few hours today.
EDIT: I'm guessing double posting isn't allowed here, so... I was wondering, now that i'm level 40 on my main. What should I do to get gear and what stats should I focus on? I see tons of screenshots with people having 3-5k physical damage/magical damage as swordsman, but I only have 1.5k physical and around 1.2k magical so far. I understand that having epic set items makes a huge difference, but what exactly should I focus on for now? I also see people with like 50-70k hp and I have only like 27k so far.
Yeah, there's a massive downside to this ridiculously fast leveling - you won't be able to gather enough Average Onyx to enhance all your Level 40 rare/blue gear to a decent level (9+) unless you have ridiculous luck. My level 40 Mercenary is the poorest geared of all of my level 40 characters (which is all classes except for Swordsman and Paladin by now, I had too much free time) because of this. He's stuck with level 24/32 gear and can't even go through Apocalypse/Manticore Nest.
On top of that, the recent hit to no-PWR drop rate makes it very difficult to farm for the Onyx (or anything, really) to enhance your gear after hitting Level 40, since you can only run like 4 Master mode solos before running out of PWR and getting everything reduced to 20% of original drop rate (compared to something like 30+ solos before hitting Level 40).
My advice? Try running Level 32+ dungeons on Master to gather up as much Average Onyx as you can for enhancing and gifts for people in the Royal Court faction, or Level 24-32 dungeons on Abyss.
If gathering gifts on Master, the reason why you want to gift only to people in the Royal Court faction is so that you can use the Royal Court faction points to purchase Epic Average Spark pouches from Honest Ed, which can sell for quite a bit (or you can use them for yourself) if you manage to unbind them. Obviously Epic Average Diamond Sparks are the most valuable.
If Abyss, hope that you find a Royal Chest (a jeweled chest that has about 10% chance of appearing in any dungeon, in a set location depending on the dungeon, that usually spits out a lot of gold and some rare-rank equipment. However, if you find one in Abyss mode, it also spits out TONS of lustre and an epic spark if you're lucky). If not, hope that the dungeon boss drops an epic spark, and also hope that you get a Golden Dimensional Rabbit at the end that drops a useful plate.
The reason why you want to run 24-32 dungeons on Abyss instead of 32-40 dungeons is because with your current stats, you probably can't handle 32+ Abyss dungeons, and the plates that Golden Dimension Rabbits spit out in 32+ dungeons aren't anywhere near as valuable or useful as those in the 24-32 dungeons. In fact, the market's oversaturated with 32+ epic plates because of all the people grinding at Desolation Point, and you probably only see a specific 24-32 epic skill plate on the market like three times a week, at least here in West.
For example, you'd probably want a Halfmoon Slash or Line Drive epic plate, right? They only drop from gold rabbits in 24-32 Abyss dungeons, and you've probably noticed how much they cost, if there are any in the market...
Oh, a good place to start working on your stats is to find Brutal (physical)/Wise (magic) Silver earrings or necklaces, preferably two-statted instead of three. You'll know what I mean once you look at the stats of each piece on the market. As for rings, you'd probably want Destructive (physical), Mystical (magical), or Fatal (critical hit rate, some physical, vitality for slightly higher HP).
I'd normally suggest Windswept earrings or necklaces too, except T4 nerfed Critical hits (formerly 1.25x damage while ignoring all enemy defense, now 2x damage while still accounting for enemy defense, which makes the new change weaker against enemies that have more than 45% damage reduction, which is almost every boss in the Level 40 nests). Windswept accessories are also rather overpriced thanks to all of the Engineers + the new Archer bandwagon thanks to T4, since they all use agility as their main stat.