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The style specific bonuses are more misleading because they max out before level 300 or something, and don't really apply. Especially that DW offhand strike chance. Nearly everyone is better off not seeing that. It's better to rather just focus on offhand strike coming from offhand weapon accuracy.

Accuracy is also kind of useless, and while I tend to forget about parry, a lot of people will say defenses don't matter at high level. I do look to dexterity for parry benefit on weapon rolls, but for a body build I think parry could be ignored for the purposes of dexterity weighting.

What equipment should I salvage and what equipment should i sell it on the equipment bazaar?

I know I should be salvaging Magnificent or above cotton & staff, but don't know what to do with others.

Mag cotton and staff can be worth something at your level if the cotton is mag charged of elemental/demon/heaven. Staff if it has a good prefix/suffix for the staff. Cloth and Wood are worth salvaging for. All others are bazaar. Remember that useless mag/legendary shields also give wood though.

This post has been edited by Meight: May 14 2020, 05:40

Except Legendary Force Shield should rather be bazaared, instead of salvaged.

Returnee here, it's better to spread evenly my stats rather than focusing on a particular stat right? (Of course melee user don't use int, mage don't use str ...)

(Of course melee user don't use int, mage don't use str ...)

That is not the whole truth. While Str for mage is indeed completly useless, some cheap -and by cheap i mean really cheap- points in Int can be used to gain some additional SP and be usefull for 1H. And i can allready hear them typing. But Uncle SP dont mean anything because they are all the time used percentual. Yeah, no that is wrong, because that would ignore the fact, that SP are also used during Spirit Stance, something that 1H is usually in 99% of the time. So having some there dont hurt. But like i said, cheap Int points.

it's better to spread evenly my stats rather than focusing on a particular stat right?

I would say that depends. Personally i have in my 1H set a few more points in Dex as in Str. While Str is as high as End, Wis is lower as Str and End and Agi is lower as Wis. Tbh when you dont play as mage having your Wis as high as Str, Dex, or End is a mistake. And as 1H you dont really want as much Agi as you would as a DW as an example.

@Uncle Stu

Thanks. What would be the best use for blood token, hoard until I get 10 for the last arena? TIA

What would be the best use for blood token, hoard until I get 10 for the last arena? TIA

Do all ring of blood arenas once for first clear bonus credits, then fsm is best for credits. It works out more per blood token, due to how valuable the noodly appendage is.

This post has been edited by Ubershank: May 14 2020, 21:04

Additional to the post from Ubershank i want to mention that it is also not the worst idea to do the Konata RoB in the hope to trade one Blood Token for a Chaos Token to unlock more monsterstlot.

Might be value in doing that if you have a very small monsterlab, but once it takes tens and hundreds of tokens to create a new slot, it might get very difficult to recoup the costs of losing those noodlies back (even more so if you're not a gold star)

Not everyone get the five tokens for the FSM that fast. So it is imo a good alternative. Also someone who has allready such a big monsterlab that single token dont matter at all, should know for himself what to do with bloodtoken.

i have scavenger 50 and Tokenizer III, i clear all arenas daily and sometimes don't get 5 blood tokens for daily FSM. poor low-levels... HV is pain.

i have scavenger 50 and Tokenizer III, i clear all arenas daily and sometimes don't get 5 blood tokens for daily FSM. poor low-levels... HV is pain.

Well, tokenizer doesn't affect blood token drops, so they don't really have it that much worse than you (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

i'm planning to invest in Tokenizer II but it will cost me more than a half of my resources is it worth it?

i'm planning to invest in Tokenizer II but it will cost me more than a half of my resources is it worth it?

Generally yeah but it's a really long term investment - getting the monster lab slots unlocked ASAP is important, though.

I've been doing IW on normal difficulty, is it worth doing on higher difficulty?

For info, I'm using 2H build, superior tier estoc (I'm IWing a magnificent estoc) and legendary leather set. I have autocast set to Spark Life that has yet to trigger in my last 9 IW runs since replaying HV.

I've been doing IW on normal difficulty, is it worth doing on higher difficulty?

For info, I'm using 2H build, superior tier estoc (I'm IWing a magnificent estoc) and legendary leather set. I have autocast set to Spark Life that has yet to trigger in my last 9 IW runs since replaying HV.

If you don't get spark of life, try higher difficulty. That will speed up the IW process enormously. After you get IW 10, go back to doing arena's - they are much better for exp and income.

I discovered a bunch of different layered glitches with Haste and Swift Strike, beyond what I found last week. My testing is mostly done but I'm waiting to train Imperil to 3 targets for my upcoming Imperil tests, and also for bug combination with Swift Strike. I'll probably make lengthy posts in the Research thread for the next couple weeks.

Haste glitches are all positive and make it better than it should be. There is no drawback except that experimental Haste comparisons already unknowingly benefited from all such glitches, therefore Haste isn't going to improve, and Swift Strike is only going to look worse in comparison.

Swift Strike glitches will either make it worse or better. Although I have all the raw data I haven't yet calculated their overall impact on performance. But if you understand them you can make Swift Strike better, maybe just less bad, or perhaps surpassing Butcher. The glitches are basically:

1) Burden allows you to erase some of your unwanted Swift Strike defense while maintaining its offensive benefits at an unreduced level, within limitations.
2) You can cast Imperil and Paradise Lost to make the positive offensive benefits of Swift Strike several times stronger than they are supposed to be.

These glitches have fixed magnitude and can engage regardless of how much Swift Strike you have, therefore Swift Strike Lv.1 or Lv.2 are most likely to threaten Butcher for 1H supremacy. Higher levels may function more like Haste. You can also get these powers by raising Agility to get 0.5 action speed but the added evade will negate the benefit.

I discovered a bunch of different layered glitches with Haste and Swift Strike, beyond what I found last week. My testing is mostly done but I'm waiting to train Imperil to 3 targets for my upcoming Imperil tests, and also for bug combination with Swift Strike. I'll probably make lengthy posts in the Research thread for the next couple weeks.

Haste glitches are all positive and make it better than it should be. There is no drawback except that experimental Haste comparisons already unknowingly benefited from all such glitches, therefore Haste isn't going to improve, and Swift Strike is only going to look worse in comparison.

Swift Strike glitches will either make it worse or better. Although I have all the raw data I haven't yet calculated their overall impact on performance. But if you understand them you can make Swift Strike better, maybe just less bad, or perhaps surpassing Butcher. The glitches are basically:

1) Burden allows you to erase some of your unwanted Swift Strike defense while maintaining its offensive benefits at an unreduced level, within limitations.
2) You can cast Imperil and Paradise Lost to make the positive offensive benefits of Swift Strike several times stronger than they are supposed to be.

These glitches have fixed magnitude and can engage regardless of how much Swift Strike you have, therefore Swift Strike Lv.1 or Lv.2 are most likely to threaten Butcher for 1H supremacy. Higher levels may function more like Haste. You can also get these powers by raising Agility to get 0.5 action speed but the added evade will negate the benefit.

Please PM me with your discoveries here, because I've done a lot of research into action speed this year and either you've magically found the missing keys, or you've fallen into the same mistakes I did (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

Worth or not?