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I barely completed the second last arena on PFUDOR today! (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) It wasn't very pleasant. I wanted to move up to IWBTH from Nintendo, but forgot to change my RE difficulty. It only took ~5 minutes longer than on Nintendo, but it was very stressful.

My health bar was playing the ping pong game the entire time, meaning I had to cure and/or chug potions several times a round. Is this experience normal for 1H heavy on PFUDOR? I have spark/protect/spirit shield on autocast and have all my abilities slotted correctly. Is this a gear thing?

If you can't kill fast enough and your gear isn't protective enough, yes, you can expect to pingpong.

Higher difficulties also get much more consistent with higher levels, stats, and gear, so don't sweat it at level 300.

Is there ever a point to salvaging equipment if you're a poor player? I'd imagine it'd only be worth to salvage equipment for phase/shade/power armor for possible energy cells, otherwise bazaar would be roughly equivalent (and no need to try and get large packs of mats together to sell).

Is there ever a point to salvaging equipment if you're a poor player? I'd imagine it'd only be worth to salvage equipment for phase/shade/power armor for possible energy cells, otherwise bazaar would be roughly equivalent (and no need to try and get large packs of mats together to sell).

For some items, the material price is higher than the equipment price. This is true for a lot of cloth armors. But not all, some cloth armors are very valuable. If you don't know what you're doing, ask before salvaging.

High-grade cloth is worth 14k, selling a magnificent cotton of protection will give you much less in bazaar.

Is there ever a point to salvaging equipment if you're a poor player? I'd imagine it'd only be worth to salvage equipment for phase/shade/power armor for possible energy cells, otherwise bazaar would be roughly equivalent (and no need to try and get large packs of mats together to sell).

HVUtils will calculate the expected return on the salvaging compared to selling at the bazaar; you can safely set the scraps you don't use to a much lower value (or 0) because they are not particularly easy to sell. The same goes for low-grades (may as well just set to 0, they have nearly no value and the fast credits are generally worth more).

If in doubt, you can preserve 99% of the value by salvaging only magnificent+ cloth armors, staffs or shields (though please be very sure you understand the prefix/suffix value on legendary before you accidentally salvage a radiant heimdall, I guess).

This post has been edited by lestion: Apr 10 2020, 12:59

Appreciate the responses! Mm, if only I had a legendary radiant phase * of heimdall... one can dream!

Appreciate the responses! Mm, if only I had a legendary radiant phase * of heimdall... one can dream!

Hold on. Don't go farming the game, expecting to get worthy equipment drops. That's a sure-fire way to get bitter.

someone ever testing elemental zebra mage?
does it make sense for Cold Mage to add T3 Fire spell to rotation?

someone ever testing elemental zebra mage?
does it make sense for Cold Mage to add T3 Fire spell to rotation?

No, zebra mage is really only likely to be a small gain for non-imperil dark because it gets both the value of the holy debuff's magic mitigation and also its dark mitigation reduction (since 1.0 is only -50).

Imperil mages will easily reach -75 with 0.79 prof (as elemental).

Non-imperil elemental could get the value of the specific mitigation reduction, but it would not have the magic mitigation reduction.

The explosion damage is basically meaningless; zebra mage operates entirely by making the dark T3 hit as hard as possible.

someone ever testing elemental zebra mage?
does it make sense for Cold Mage to add T3 Fire spell to rotation?

I did try cold with holy t3 mixed in. Works for SG - does not speed it up, but does not slow it down either. So, free holy proficieny

someone ever testing elemental zebra mage?
does it make sense for Cold Mage to add T3 Fire spell to rotation?

I'd say try it out and see for yourself. You already have a lot of elemental proficiency. If you're playing cold with a Redwood and not a Willow, you'll even have a bit of fire EDB as well.

What is the most efficient way to grind EXP for proficiency?

I did some quick calculations and it seems like the 80+ round arenas, excepting Eternal Darkness, give more EXP per round than a peerless staff or cloth IW (the only things I care to IW). Which would lead to the strategy of doing those arenas then a bunch of IWs.

Does this match peoples' experience? Is it ever better to do grindfests?

What is the most efficient way to grind EXP for proficiency?

I did some quick calculations and it seems like the 80+ round arenas, excepting Eternal Darkness, give more EXP per round than a peerless staff or cloth IW (the only things I care to IW). Which would lead to the strategy of doing those arenas then a bunch of IWs.

Does this match peoples' experience? Is it ever better to do grindfests?

for exp, 80+ arena's are best. of these, 1st is DWD, others are all equally good more or less. After that, you are better off doing IW with high PXP (I prefer peerless shade, just because I can) and don't forget to flee in round 100.

for exp, 80+ arena's are best. of these, 1st is DWD, others are all equally good more or less. After that, you are better off doing IW with high PXP (I prefer peerless shade, just because I can) and don't forget to flee in round 100.

It'd like to remind everyone that IW has that "spoolup" of 23 rounds before reaching the max monster count per round. And 23 rounds, even out of 100, is quite a lot and mitigates the real average XP per round.

Hello I'm a fire mage with 3+2 equipment set. I have 5P staff and my prof factor is 0.89. The wiki says 0.7 is good enough, should I switch to 4+1 soon? Thanks.

Hello I'm a fire mage with 3+2 equipment set. I have 5P staff and my prof factor is 0.89. The wiki says 0.7 is good enough, should I switch to 4+1 soon? Thanks.

0.79 is the target to hit for imperil. You can probably afford to switch to 4+1 using either robe or pants as your prof slot. Switching to one of the weaker prof slots requires more base prof to make up for it. For example: at 500, you need somewhere around 580 base prof to hit 0.79 with a decent pair of shoes.

Being slightly lower than 0.79 is not the end of the world, but hitting it definitely helps more than most other gains you can get.

This post has been edited by lestion: Apr 11 2020, 14:38

There is a script for enchantments that let you chse all the enchantments for all equipment pieces and apply them in a single go?

Normally i use HVUtils but sometime i misclick wasting infusions, so i'm searching for a better way.

I remember something similar but i am unable to find it now.

There is a script for enchantments that let you chse all the enchantments for all equipment pieces and apply them in a single go?

Normally i use HVUtils but sometime i misclick wasting infusions, so i'm searching for a better way.

I remember something similar but i am unable to find it now.

HV Utils is the best script available. There is no alternative for enchantments that I know of

Besides ensuring I enshrined one of each hoarded supply, is there much point in trying to balance what I collect?