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I can't tell your gears, but from your burden stat, it makes think you're still on exquisites and plates. If so I'd recommend you to get a full magnificent power armor set and perhaps a magnificent force shield.

For extra collectibles that I get from drops, is it better to sell them to other players or should I shrine them for the potential bindings and materials?

For extra collectibles that I get from drops, is it better to sell them to other players or should I shrine them for the potential bindings and materials?

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by extra collectables but sell them to other players who are willing to pay with credits or trade stuff for them.

sell them to player

Hello experts!

I've been dabbling in maging a big more recently, and recently picked up two staves from auction. I've heard the two good imperil-less builds to be electric or holy. Which staff should I use if I was leaning to imperil-less electric? I'm thinking the one with higher prof, but I wanted to check to be sure. I also didn't know the elemental prof factor for a just electric build, I assume it is like holy and 1.0, but I wanted to check to be sure.

Staff 1: [alt.hentaiverse.org] http://alt.hentaiverse.org/equip/159392198/fc05c92560

Staff 2: [alt.hentaiverse.org] http://alt.hentaiverse.org/equip/143565760/584ded83ec

I know that Willow is probably still better (don't know if it is required for imperil-less- please say it is not), but I wanted some advice before I forge a decent amount into it.

My only goal is to equal my current trashy unforged wind set, so just IWBTH arenas, which I hope will be doable with one of these staves as a start.

I know there is one Very Strong electric mage, who can play efficiently without imperil. He has lot's of radiant, a peerless staff iirc, and lots of forging. My advice: Don't try to do this with normal gear...

Imperil play will be faster and easier for a long while. In the mean time, you can build up your fortune that you need for the non-imperil quality gear. For that, both staves are 'meh'. They lack willows counter resist, and MDB/EDB are lowish. At least the lv500 has high proficiency, but that's easy to come by. Not worth the soulfuse, I'd say.

Yes, both staves are good enough for beating your current trashy unforged wind set, for IWBTH arenas. But probably not without imperil.

No, you don't wanna try non-imperil style right now.
Without massive forging, good radiants, non-imperil would be slower and more fragile than imperil style. You spark in hell if you don't forge the evasion, mitigations. Also people using full radiants will need more scrolls and elixirs in PFDfest.
Willow staff gives you more counter-resist and deprecating profs. Try getting a cheap one.

works as described. absorbs the next magical attack. Physical holy - that's ... hmm, let me think, ... physical, perhaps?

Then who in their right mind would actually set the skill to magical if it gets absorbed?
What is the point of having two options when one of them is plain better?
You also have elementals who always deal magic damage, why don't their basic attacks proc absorb?

Hello.
My usual user ID is "akkr273".
I bought a Gold Star about 1~2 weeks ago, but a Few days later, a blank page and "Account Suspended" is displayed.

I sent PM to Tenboro, but I still haven't received a reply.
How can I get it back?
I thought that purchasing a Gold Star from other players was not an evil.

Then who in their right mind would actually set the skill to magical if it gets absorbed?
What is the point of having two options when one of them is plain better?
You also have elementals who always deal magic damage, why don't their basic attacks proc absorb?

Who in their mind? Everyone, because:
1) No one uses Absorb, it's a waste of mana
2) Absorb dispells once it's been activated
3) Most monster attacks are physical and player armor resists magic attacks less (especially when Protection suffix is favored instead of Warding), so they will deal more damage
4) Most of the monsters that are capable of magic attacks have way higher INT and WIS stats than physical stats, so the base power of magic attacks is way stronger than physical attacks for these monsters.
5) Is considered as a magical attack for Absorb to kick in any attack that is "casted". Or if you prefer, any MP/SP skill that is of magical type, which writes in the chat "XXX casts YYY".

So while it's technically possible for a celestial to perform physical holy attacks, or for a daimon to perform magical dark, it's not really recommended. But hey, players design their monsters the way they want, otherwise what would be the point of building up cuties?

This post has been edited by decondelite: May 13 2018, 10:18

Hello.
My usual user ID is "akkr273".
I bought a Gold Star about 1~2 weeks ago, but a Few days later, a blank page and "Account Suspended" is displayed.

I sent PM to Tenboro, but I still haven't received a reply.
How can I get it back?
I thought that purchasing a Gold Star from other players was not an evil.

If your account is suspended, that means that your account has been banned. Trust me, you don't get banned for buying a gold star. You get banned for cheating. Automatic play of HV is one sure way of getting this. So congrats, you're account is sent to the moon for a thousand years. You will not get it back.

Good bye.

No one uses Absorb, it's a waste of mana

Why is a useless skill even a thing then?

Hello.
My usual user ID is "akkr273".
I bought a Gold Star about 1~2 weeks ago, but a Few days later, a blank page and "Account Suspended" is displayed.

I sent PM to Tenboro, but I still haven't received a reply.
How can I get it back?
I thought that purchasing a Gold Star from other players was not an evil.

If your account is suspended, that means that your account has been banned. Trust me, you don't get banned for buying a gold star. You get banned for cheating. Automatic play of HV is one sure way of getting this. So congrats, you're account is sent to the moon for a thousand years. You will not get it back.

as above.
akkr, i can see your name in the list of the recently banned users, and this usually happens because of botting (including but not limited to automatic play). i haven't heard of anyone having ever retrieved his account back after something like this, quite unlikely you'll have yours.
if you can really, really prove it happened by mistake, it's worth a try. otherwise, uh...

Why is a useless skill even a thing then?

the mere fact it's useless now doesn't say anything about its eventual past utility. btw, it's just another safety layer to use in desperate situations when every tiny little bit helps.

now, what are we up to? do we want to debunk all the meta with one different topic per day, or are you actually asking something you ignore and would like an answer? you know, first attitude may be seen as quite annoying...

This post has been edited by Scremaz: May 13 2018, 11:41

What are you on about?
If absorb is as useless as he says, it's a noob trap that should be noted in the wiki if we assume it exists to make the game easier for the players.
If it's not useless then why does he say that it is?
Not to mention that there's absolutely nothing about Absorb blocking MP/SP spells instead of just magic attacks in the wiki just like there's nothing about physical elemental attacks being affected by physical mitigation and scaling with DEX rather than INT, hence my aforementioned questions.
I must be in the wrong thread because asking people here only gets them aggravated.

i used it back then (mostly via scrolls), it wasn't very effective but it did something. i wouldn't use it now since i'm tanky enough anyways. not sure what's the condition for noobs.


and, uh, if you allow me... we assume people can do 2 + 2, so they can pick infos from a couple pages and assume simple conclusions like: magical attack = spell. or also (alright, this is a bit trickier, but still...): physical attack -> physical mitigation ( = PMI, for acronyms page), magical attack ( = spell, let's not forget it!) -> magical mitigation ( = MMI, still for acronyms page)

if we're assuming too many things, you're welcomed to point it out. we'll gladly lower wiki's average level (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)



tl;dr: sarcasm apart, you're part of a community, willingly or not. do a bit of research work, before coming here rambling because you cannot find infos that are just a couple clicks away from you.

When i just buffed myself, don't have to heal, and my channeling buff is about to run out, i'm happy that i have absorb to cast for some protection and to leech some mana for a later heal.
But that's the only time i actually cast the thing, since spirit shield exist.

In fact, it's probably useful before you get spirit shield, if you fancy playing at higher difficulties before level 200 ( don't really know, never played harder than hell before 300-320 )

This post has been edited by Enatcon: May 13 2018, 13:31

What are you on about?
If absorb is as useless as he says, it's a noob trap that should be noted in the wiki if we assume it exists to make the game easier for the players.
If it's not useless then why does he say that it is?
Not to mention that there's absolutely nothing about Absorb blocking MP/SP spells instead of just magic attacks in the wiki just like there's nothing about physical elemental attacks being affected by physical mitigation and scaling with DEX rather than INT, hence my aforementioned questions.
I must be in the wrong thread because asking people here only gets them aggravated.

It could be that writing stuff like "what are you on about?" is perceived as a little bit aggressive. And, if you get the feeling that people get aggravated, you might want to consider changing your behavior?

Absorb, and many other features in this game: not a noob trap, it's a feature that's useful for the highest difficulty possible: last half of PFFEST or last 20 rounds of peerless IW. Like Aether shards. Or scrolls. Or using infusion in battle. Or Defend even. Only thing that I know is completely useless in this version of HV, is Focus. (Although some say its purpose is to display a pornographic image of female genitalia.)

When we refer to the wiki, for new players and noobs, it's usually this page: Read the wiki

If you follow this page's instruction, you won't be using absorb. Or Aether shards. Or Focus.

When i just buffed myself, don't have to heal, and my channeling buff is about to run out, i'm happy that i have absorb to cast for some protection and to leech some mana for a later heal.
But that's the only time i actually cast the thing, since spirit shield exist.

In fact, it's probably useful before you get spirit shield, if you fancy playing at higher difficulties before level 200 ( don't really know, never played harder than hell before 300-320 )

just to be sure, would you consider it "just another safety layer to use in desperate situations when every tiny little bit helps" then?

just to be sure, would you consider it "just another safety layer to use in desperate situations when every tiny little bit helps" then?

Mmmh, well during the desperate situation per say, no, i prioritise sleep, confuse and weaken ( and LOT of heals ), but i can easily predict said desperate situation since it means i don't have 100 overcharge at the start of the round to use FUS RO DAH and be cozy behind the lovely permastunlock.

But said desperate situation is easily predictable, and i can cast absorb before entering the new round.
... And i never thought about it. Thanks for that !


TL;DR yes

When upgrading weapons and armor, is there a stage where you need to use low-tier materials like "low-tier metals"?

I used Absorb quite a bit before level 300. Now it's just something to use Channeling on when I have all other desired buffs. It's also decent to cast to try to create Channeling for Heartseeker and perhaps Regen (you could argue just casting Cure over and over is better).

I have very very rarely used Focus successfully to get me out of a pinch, but it was better back when HP/MP didn't regenerate instantly out of battle. I didn't get much use out of Focus in those days though because I didn't realize it until near the end.