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How should I choose dual wield weapons?

main hand [Rapier]+ off hand[shortsword]
or
Main hand [Rapier]+off hand[wakizashi]

I don't know which is more important, attack speed or damage in off hand weapons,
I used Rapier + Ax before, but without parry it was easy to lose.

Can you tell me how to choose dual wielding weapons?

most offensive: (so fastest if your evade is high enough): club of slaughter + rapier of balance
more defensive: rapier of slaughter + wakizashi of the nimble
Other combinations work as well. I don't advise axe because it doesn't give parry

Shortsword of slaughter is good for damage, but then if you chose waki as off-hand you only get bleeding wound and no 2nd proc. So you could do a combi of shortsword of slaughter + rapier of balance or rapier of nimble. That would also work. Raipier main + shortsword, depends on the suffix. You want highest damage on the main hand, highest crit and/or parry on the off hand. Not the other way around. And as shortsword has higher damage ranges than rapier, this can only be done with rapier of slaughter + shortsword of balance. shortsword does not have nimble suffix

This post has been edited by Noni: Jun 27 2023, 13:56

Ah snap, first year where I remmembered to sell all my market stock so it doesnt get autoliquidated at season's end, RIP

Hope there's gonna be an infopost with the enddate so its not random at least.

At this point it might just be at whatever solstice it's done.

Where can I find the lottery logs?

Where can I find the lottery logs?

I'm not aware of any logs, but there's a bot on the unofficial discord server where you can search for items from previous lotteries and auctions

In the off-hand Wakizashi suffix,
Balance, Nimble, Swiftne, what is the difference between these three?

I currently use Rapier of Slaughter+Shortsword of Balance,
I want to change to Wakizashi later, but the funds are limited,
So I would like to ask how to choose Wakizashi?

In the off-hand Wakizashi suffix,
Balance, Nimble, Swiftne, what is the difference between these three?

I currently use Rapier of Slaughter+Shortsword of Balance,
I want to change to Wakizashi later, but the funds are limited,
So I would like to ask how to choose Wakizashi?

wakizashi needs to be of the nimble.
What's the difference? It's all explained in the wiki, and you can find the exact ranges there, but:
- swiftness gives you attack speed. Not nice enough to care about
- balance gives you extra crit, which is nice if you wan to do a lot of damage. And crit from offhand is very useful.
- nimble gives you extra parry. Waki already has high parry, but nimble waki has highest possible.

If you can survive right now, why switch to more defensive waki? Your current set-up is quite high on offense.

wakizashi needs to be of the nimble.
What's the difference? It's all explained in the wiki, and you can find the exact ranges there, but:
- swiftness gives you attack speed. Not nice enough to care about
- balance gives you extra crit, which is nice if you wan to do a lot of damage. And crit from offhand is very useful.
- nimble gives you extra parry. Waki already has high parry, but nimble waki has highest possible.

If you can survive right now, why switch to more defensive waki? Your current set-up is quite high on offense.

The problem I am currently facing is in the PFUDOR Challenge,
Normal monsters from Random Encounter deal too much damage to me,
The same happens in the item world,
"A Dance with Dragons" in the arena can be passed,
but "The Trio and the Tree" became difficult because of too many normal monsters,
Because the number is too large and the damage is too high, according to your previous suggestion,
I want to buy a wakizashi to deal with this situation.

Considering the price factor, so I consider not Swiftness's wakizashi,
Is it feasible?

The problem I am currently facing is in the PFUDOR Challenge,
Normal monsters from Random Encounter deal too much damage to me,
The same happens in the item world,
"A Dance with Dragons" in the arena can be passed,
but "The Trio and the Tree" became difficult because of too many normal monsters,
Because the number is too large and the damage is too high, according to your previous suggestion,
I want to buy a wakizashi to deal with this situation.

Considering the price factor, so I consider not Swiftness's wakizashi,
Is it feasible?

instead of going waki:
- forge your shades (get fleet or shadowdancer, magnificent or legendary). Forge evade, agi, dex, Pmit, Mmit
- forge your weapons. Forge as high as you can on ADB parry dex
- use spells: weaken on everyone in the beginning. Do this for big Randon Encounters, and in later rounds of IW.
- Weapons must both be IW to 10 and both have overpower5.

For IW: take special care of your overcharge pips. You need to have enough at end of a round, so you can start a round with Frenzied Blows. If needed, get more overcharge, so you can first switch on Spirit Stance. That should kill 3 monsters or so. If it doesn't: attack only the bottom most monster with FB so it only targets 3. If that's not enough still, first cast imperil on their ass, then Frenzied Blows. But generally that should not be needed.


This post has been edited by Noni: Jun 30 2023, 08:04

What's the maximum cap on Physical and Magical Mitigations?

What's the maximum cap on Physical and Magical Mitigations?

There is no hard cap, as each source is multiplied together - it can only ever approach, but not reach, 100%.

Realistically, a peerless mage set gives you about 70% in both.

whats this drain spell? how do you use it properly? to me its totally useless..
does using orbital friendship cannon lessen the drop rates?
1H play, how to protect yourself from elements, dark, holy and void spells? only through forging that's costly..
and the latter arena round has bosses that are too spongy, usually takes 20 30 (if you are lucky then 5, 10) hits, on nintendo, (not hard but too lengthy) does forging your equipment and IW makes the difference?

whats this drain spell? how do you use it properly? to me its totally useless..
does using orbital friendship cannon lessen the drop rates?
1H play, how to protect yourself from elements, dark, holy and void spells? only through forging that's costly..
and the latter arena round has bosses that are too spongy, usually takes 20 30 (if you are lucky then 5, 10) hits, on nintendo, (not hard but too lengthy) does forging your equipment and IW makes the difference?

Drain is really only useful at very low levels (under 150). In earlier versions of the game, it may have been more useful, but not anymore

Drop rates are not affected by how the monsters are killed.

The best way to take less damage as 1H is to forge Block and Parry as much as possible. This is quite cheap compared to forging for damage/forging power armor.

Increasing your damage will make all battles faster, but there is a strategy for dealing with the schoolgirl arenas: Cast imperil on the schoolgirls then attack normally, then use Vital Strike once they're stunned. They will die much faster this way, and it should be faster than using OFC, most of the time.

Other general advice:

• Use a voidseeker shard on your weapon to temporarily increase your accuracy by 50% (you should try to get to at least 200%), and change your damage type to void (ignores slashing/crushing/piercing mitigation)
• Apply featherweight shards to your weapon, shield, and armor if you need some extra defense
• Apply an infusion to your weapon to give it an extra strike for 15 minutes
• Get your weapon to IW10 to permanently change its damage type to void and add void strike (or a random strike if the weapon is ethereal)

whats this drain spell? how do you use it properly? to me its totally useless..
does using orbital friendship cannon lessen the drop rates?
1H play, how to protect yourself from elements, dark, holy and void spells? only through forging that's costly..
and the latter arena round has bosses that are too spongy, usually takes 20 30 (if you are lucky then 5, 10) hits, on nintendo, (not hard but too lengthy) does forging your equipment and IW makes the difference?

Drain is generally not very good. Use your supportive spells, imperil bosses, and weaken enemies when you need help surviving.

Orbital friendship cannon does not impact drop rates. Use it as much as you like.

For 1H to defend against magical damage, forge the block on your shield as much as you can. It makes a big difference. Also forging damage and parry on your main hand weapon makes a big difference too (not vs magic though). IW your weapon to 10 to get void strike, or apply voidseeker shard enchant before battle. Also apply infusions before battle so that your weapon does void strike and two different element strikes.

Forging or IWing anything else is helpful too, but has a much more gradual effect.

whats this drain spell? how do you use it properly? to me its totally useless..

I'm going to disagree with the veterans. I use Drain regularly in Ring of Blood and later rounds of IW. It's a good bonus source of healing that stacks with Regen's heal. In RoB against FSM, I'll sometimes forgo Regen because Drain is enough.

I'm going to disagree with the veterans. I use Drain regularly in Ring of Blood and later rounds of IW. It's a good bonus source of healing that stacks with Regen's heal. In RoB against FSM, I'll sometimes forgo Regen because Drain is enough.

To be fair, I do use drain in the last round of SPL and PGC, and in later rounds of isekai's tower. I just think it's a small boost and not particularly crucial.

So I've been putting together a cold mage for arenas with (what I think is) a decent willow staff since I haven't seen any redwoods for a bit. I haven't seen any recent posts on this but was wondering what the experience is like running willow over redwood for arenas nowadays?

My most recent DwD took me ~30 minutes using 1H, so if using willow and charged phases could get that lower it'd be more preferable. I don't care to be the most optimal, but I'd like to reasonably cut down arena times.

So I've been putting together a cold mage for arenas with (what I think is) a decent willow staff since I haven't seen any redwoods for a bit. I haven't seen any recent posts on this but was wondering what the experience is like running willow over redwood for arenas nowadays?

My most recent DwD took me ~30 minutes using 1H, so if using willow and charged phases could get that lower it'd be more preferable. I don't care to be the most optimal, but I'd like to reasonably cut down arena times.

Willow has a big advantage that it has counter-resist. That makes it easier to land imperil, and improves avg. damage. So actually willow may be faster than redwood in practice. Keep the willow. 30m? Yeah you should be able to know at least 10 minutes off that.

im currently arround level 260 using 2H + light armor and im currently struggling with PFUDOR and IWBTH arenas.
Im using an ethereal longsword of slaughter (with all buffs, imperil and enchants as well) but it takes way too long to clear them and i have to constantly heal.

I was wondering if it would be better to switch to other 2h weapons like maces so i can use less heals and clear it faster or if at this point i should start looking for mage gear to transition because it feels like i have hit a wall with melee.

im currently arround level 260 using 2H + light armor and im currently struggling with PFUDOR and IWBTH arenas.
Im using an ethereal longsword of slaughter (with all buffs, imperil and enchants as well) but it takes way too long to clear them and i have to constantly heal.

I was wondering if it would be better to switch to other 2h weapons like maces so i can use less heals and clear it faster or if at this point i should start looking for mage gear to transition because it feels like i have hit a wall with melee.

That doesn't surprise me. I originally played 2H then switched to Niten around level 190, and hit the wall with Niten around 230.

Made the switch to 1H/Shade after that. It isn't the fastest with clears by any stretch, but I'm never really in any serious danger of failure unless I'm a massive idiot and attempt a PFest again.

Note: I also have 4 Innate Arcanas unlocked, and that makes it vastly easier to survive on PFUDOR.

Monster edible prices seem to have ballooned, is there a particular reason behind it, or is it just the price finally catching up to demand?