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So there is nothing a player can do, except waiting, and waiting, and praying Snowflake it happens quickly.

if this can comfort users, admin said it'll be addressed soon™, last time i spoke with him about this matter

I'm like 99.9% sure this is salvage fodder since 2PAB Magnif, but I thought I'd check. https://hentaiverse.org/equip/165313845/34a45a2afe

I'm like 99.9% sure this is salvage fodder since 2PAB Magnif, but I thought I'd check. https://hentaiverse.org/equip/165313845/34a45a2afe

Insta salvage.

There goes the answer to your question. Your spirit shield has most likely eaten away enough SP to fall under the amount of SP needed to trigger SoL.

Don't play with fire by activating a spirit draught only once your spirit is close to the trigger. I'd suggest to keep at least 50% of your spirit bar at all times.

Nope. In fact this is not the truth.
Because if SP isn't enough, there should had a sentence "Your Spark of Life fails due to insufficient Spirit."
Ok, I'm going to try my best to explain the mechanism in my poor English.

you can check this too.

Maybe you can check this out...

There is a conclusion that when your HP became 1 after the last but one attack by chance, the next attack would'n trigger your SoL, but kill you. (It may be a bug or not)

It looks like a small probability event. But in my case, you can see that all the damages they made were 4298(20% of my HPmax) thanks to the Spirit Shield.
And as I had said, "never make the units digit of your HPmax be 1 or 6".
For example, your HPmax is 20001, so the 20% of it is 4000. Starting with 20001 HP, after receiving 5 attacks(if those 5 attacks are in one tick, you won't get regen from draught or spell. It is possible if your castspeed is high enough), your HP will just became 1 , so that you will kill by the 6th attack.
So a mage is very likely to be killed without triggering SoL in high level GF if his units digit of HPmax are 1 or 6. Actually, I had checked that my units digit of HPmax were 1 at that time.

It looks like a small probability event. But in my case, you can see that all the damages they made were 4298(20% of my HPmax) thanks to the Spirit Shield.
And as I had said, "never make the units digit of your HPmax be 1 or 6".

Ah yes I remember that one now.
This is one of the Legendary Nasty Feature of the Admin. Frankly, it could be very easy to redesign and take barely a few minutes, but I doubt he'll go through the trouble of doing it since why redesigning something that is already working as intended?

shoes with 72% EProf are good enough as the last step before the endgame equip?

Which option is better

- Soulfuse with this shield

- Replace it with this shield

Which option is better

- Soulfuse with this shield

- Replace it with this shield

*Personally* Never soulfuse a shield unless it's a Legendary Force Shield with 70%+ block. It's not worth to soulfuse temporary gear unless it's a main weapon.
And I'd chose the kite shield, because +50 points of DEX = +2% parry.

Which option is better

- Soulfuse with this shield

- Replace it with this shield

They are both not really good. But i would use the kite shield. It has Dex, higher PM, higher MM.

Which option is better

- Soulfuse with this shield

- Replace it with this shield

I say at your level you should start looking for Legendary force, even the cheap one should have better block chance than any other type of shield mmm...
Now the problem is to find the shield with your level, if you by any chance get a kinda good (let's say 50% block range) just soul fuse it until you find better one for end game (90+ will be awesome) mmm...

A long-winded set of questions relating to my build (1h):

Current stats and equipment:



Legendary Fiery Rapier of Balance
Legendary Mithril Kite Shield of Protection
Legendary Jade Power Helmet of Protection
Legendary Shielding Plate Cuirass of Protection
Legendary Savage Power Gauntlets of Warding
Magnificent Power Leggings of Balance
Legendary Jade Power Boots of Warding

Questions:

1) In terms of looking for better equipment vs. upgrading via forge, what would you recommend? Or is it better to just hold off on both until I'm at a higher level? How impactful is it to get IW 10 on armor?

2) I am currently IW-ing Legendary Tempestuous Rapier of Slaughter to replace my current weapon, once I get it to IW 10, how many levels of upgrades would make sense given the lackluster ADB?

3) Understand that kite shield is not ideal for 1h (or probably any build), but given the decent block would I be OK in keeping it? If I were to go 1h mage would the kite shield be usable in lieu of a buckler?

4) Would a legendary legging of protection/warding really be much of an improvement over my current magnificent legging of balance?

5) I like the tankiness the shielding cuirass provides (later levels of IW and even DwD are still a bit scary for me), but do have a Legendary Savage Power Armor of Warding, should I just switch to that for faster clear?

6) Are there any weird stat point allocations or other issues with my stats/build that you could point out in general?

7) I'm working towards demon duality I (currently have IA III), looking at the numbers that seems to be the most impactful given price (around 8-9 million in credits). Should I prioritize it over equipment?

Apologies for the flood of questions and many thanks in advance!

This post has been edited by magiclamp: Jul 4 2018, 06:10

1) In terms of looking for better equipment vs. upgrading via forge, what would you recommend? Or is it better to just hold off on both until I'm at a higher level? How impactful is it to get IW 10 on armor?

If i was you, i would look for a Leg Force Shield. Top priority. After that would be another rapier, what you allready have, so we skip that and come to change your Shielding for a power armor. And from my own experience i would say after those two left open, forge everything up to 5 at least. Well IW 10 depends on what you get, but it is in the end not even close to the impact of an IWed weapon. But at least a few jugg are helpfull.

2) I am currently IW-ing Legendary Tempestuous Rapier of Slaughter to replace my current weapon, once I get it to IW 10, how many levels of upgrades would make sense given the lackluster ADB?

Fully upgrade parry. It is cheap and help you survive. Personally i like it also to upgrade crit chance. The damage of that weapon will allways be just average. 46% is 46%. But of course you can upgrade the damage of that rapier quite a bit, i mean if you salvage it later on, you would only loose 10% of the materials and bindigs.

3) Understand that kite shield is not ideal for 1h (or probably any build), but given the decent block would I be OK in keeping it? If I were to go 1h mage would the kite shield be usable in lieu of a buckler?

I suggest to search for a force shield. The difference will be huge.

4) Would a legendary legging of protection/warding really be much of an improvement over my current magnificent legging of balance?

Yeah, it would. Sorry i have missed that Mag piece when i did answer 1). Personally i like a mixup between protection and warding. Balance is imo quite useless, but of course still better as shielding plate.

5) I like the tankiness the shielding cuirass provides (later levels of IW and even DwD are still a bit scary for me), but do have a Legendary Savage Power Armor of Warding, should I just switch to that for faster clear?

I would switch. Right away. Without hesitation.

6) Are there any weird stat point allocations or other issues with my stats/build that you could point out in general?

Except the attack speed bonus i cant see anything. This is something when you actually want to optimice your build the speed bonus should be 0%. Except that everything looks good.

7) I'm working towards demon duality I (currently have IA III), looking at the numbers that seems to be the most impactful given price (around 8-9 million in credits). Should I prioritize it over equipment?

Are you sure you really want to go for those 2K Hath? And no i would not suggest to priotize it over equipment. Better equiment means, more damage. More Damage means those 10% Bonus from DDI has of course a bigger impact. So personaly i would say you should wait getting DDI until your damage is higher. I mean 5864. That would only 586 damage more for 8~9M. Sorry but that is something you could get cheaper with better equipment.

Apologies for the flood of questions

No need to apologize. That is what we are here for. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/happy.gif)

many thanks in advance!

You are welcome. I hope my answer does help you. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/happy.gif)

Wow, thank you so much, Uncle! Really appreciate your detailed responses - definitely makes my plan so much clearer. I had some general ideas of next steps but absolutely no clue on priorities, so your explanations are super helpful!

Edit:

Yeah, understand attack speed not ideal, partly suboptimal IW on rapier, and partly just too many agility PABs on equipment. Currently I need haste on later rounds of IW anyways, so probably not too much of a concern until I'm stronger.

Updated stats after swapping out body armor, big difference on attack damage! Accuracy a bit over 200%, but should be fine after I swap balance rapier for slaughter.





This post has been edited by magiclamp: Jul 4 2018, 07:03

Well, that is what an uncle is there for. Glad i could help. Btw if you are worry because of the loose of block chance from the shielding plate, a good force shield will compensate that without problem. And i would upgrade the block chance to the max that is possible for you. Block chance is allways worth the cost.

Yeah, understand attack speed not ideal, partly suboptimal IW on rapier, and partly just too many agility PABs on equipment. Currently I need haste on later rounds of IW anyways, so probably not too much of a concern until I'm stronger.

Updated stats after swapping out body armor, big difference on attack damage! Accuracy a bit over 200%, but should be fine after I swap balance rapier for slaughter.

Yeah, the IW of that fiery rapier is really not the best, but i didnt say something because you said that you are IWing that Tempestuous rapier. Best IW for 1H has only butcher and fatality, and if you want to know, optimimal IW for low damage like your damage would be Fat 5 But 4. But later on with high damage that would change to But 5 Fat 4. But in the end both are good. Ignore accuracy, i never did actually care about that stat since playing 1H.

This post has been edited by Uncle Stu: Jul 4 2018, 07:09

Well, that is what an uncle is there for. Glad i could help.

(IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif) 207% hit chance....

Hi, Uncle, does Uncle have some advices for me to reach 200% hit chance? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

shoes with 72% EProf are good enough as the last step before the endgame equip?

72% Eprof shoes are enough for end-game as well. But then you'd want charged, probably.

Use Scremaz' mage prof calculator excel, if you want the full details. It's in his sig.

(IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif) 207% hit chance....

Hi, Uncle, does Uncle have some advices for me to reach 200% hit chance? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

Why would you do that? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/huh.gif) But if you really want, upgrade accuracy of your equipent. Upgrade Dex. Increase your prof. Alltogether and it should help you to reach 200% quite soon.

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Btw.., why not getting Juggy 5 on each of your armor? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)

Why would you do that? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/huh.gif) But if you really want, upgrade accuracy of your equipent. Upgrade Dex. Increase your prof. Alltogether and it should help you to reach 200% quite soon.

Thank you Uncle (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Btw.., why not getting Juggy 5 on each of your armor? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)

Do you want him to have the same nightmare as i with my rapier in small but five times?

Hi, Uncle, does Uncle have some advices for me to reach 200% hit chance? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

I know that my own equipment is beyond norms (bunch of Peerless) but... I already have 197.6% hit chance with my slaughter 1H weapon thanks to the weapon forging and my armor forged DEX. So at your level it should be easy.