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Oh that's awesome! Thanks for the tip. By the way, is it okay for me to soulfuse my exquisite rapier or is it waste of money? If I were to get IW service for this weapon, I think I might as use it for a while, but since the level of my weapon is 170, I don't know how long will it stay competent.

Okay, IW stands for Item World. There is an Item World option under battle. Completing an Item World run gives your weapon or armor weapon exp. The maximum level is 10. Item World sellers level your weapon to 10 for you if you cannot do it yourself or don't really want to spend the time doing so.

In this case, you can get your weapon to level 10 to get Hollowforged, which converts your weapon to Void damage, and adds Void Strike. Void bypasses Crushing, Piercing and Slashing defenses.

Power or shielding can be found at FreeShop if any are there. You can also try shops specifying they are for low level players.

As for price? I can't say. But I'll be nice.

Thank you so much for your kind donation and helpful comments.
In comparing the quality of the equipment you sent vs the ones I own, is there a user script that makes it easier, or should I calculate it by myself?

For instance, I guess I could compare the defense by (1-mitigation)*(1-block), but it's a little bit cumbersome. When evaluating armors, should I take the primary attributes bonus into account as well? Thank you!!

I'd suggest you to look into how equipment scaling work. In principle you find a good piece of equipment with good base stats (with pre/post fix and stat rolls) that fit your style, and soul bind it.

Thus, the equipment range is meaningless if it's not something soul bind worthy. In this case, whatever have better numbers work, so a gear of lower quality but closer to you in level could be much better than your 50+ levels below gear.

Honestly soul bind is for convenience, nothing around sub 300 is usable in the long run from what I've seen. You want at least legendary, and rare (for level) drop is better off used and resell.

Oh that's awesome! Thanks for the tip. By the way, is it okay for me to soulfuse my exquisite rapier or is it waste of money? If I were to get IW service for this weapon, I think I might as use it for a while, but since the level of my weapon is 170, I don't know how long will it stay competent.

No problem.

My recommendation to you is not soulfusing that exquisite rapier.

I'm not sure either but most likely when it gets really hard to fight monsters or bosses with that rapier then purchase or if you're lucky switch to a better weapon if dropped from a monster.

Thank you for your reply.

I looked into equipment scaling, and my rapier has ADB of 62% and Parrying of 59%. I think I read somewhere I can live with it if it's higher than 50%. What are the most important factors for quality of armors? I think the equipment range for armor is not well established since I see something like -87 percentiles of physical mitigation, which makes no sense. Is it safe to think mitigation, block >>>>>>> attributes?

I think what you have read is something along the line of both stats being higher than 50% in the legendary range, and the one you have is not legendary I suppose?

No problem.

My recommendation to you is not soulfusing that exquisite rapier.

I'm not sure either but most likely when it gets really hard to fight monsters or bosses with that rapier then purchase or if you're lucky switch to a better weapon if dropped from a monster.

Thank you! I sent my rapier for free simple IW10 upgrade. I hope I get to use it for while haha. Now my concern is getting my armor setup - better quality plate vs lower quality shielding plate/power is giving me headache lol

I think what you have read is something along the line of both stats being higher than 50% in the legendary range, and the one you have is not legendary I suppose?

Oh yes I think that's what I read, but nevertheless ADB kinda tells you where your equipment stands in comparison to others in the same quality pool, so it's pretty useful, right?

I think the equipment range for armor is not well established since I see something like -87 percentiles of physical mitigation

It may be because your equipment is old (at some point equipment stats were increased)...

This post has been edited by tox01: Jan 26 2019, 07:45

The old equip sent is unassigned old equipmwnt. The main purpose is to provide Block stat as defensive power and replace mitigation. As for soulfusing the Exquisite, do it if you can't find a suitable replacement by 250. I myself used an Exquisite until 368, but I had a Legendary Power of Slaughter to compensate for attack loss.

Oh dang that's probably it as they are from like four years ago when I played back in 2014 lol.

EDIT: Yep. They were level unassigned so they actually have garbage stats compared to even average class armors being dropped right now, despite being of exquisite quality lol.

This post has been edited by Saioux: Jan 26 2019, 07:51

Oh yes I think that's what I read, but nevertheless ADB kinda tells you where your equipment stands in comparison to others in the same quality pool, so it's pretty useful, right?

Yes and no. ADB is useful if you're soul binding, raw value if you're not.

The old equip sent is unassigned old equipmwnt. The main purpose is to provide Block stat as defensive power and replace mitigation. As for soulfusing the Exquisite, do it if you can't find a suitable replacement by 250. I myself used an Exquisite until 368, but I had a Legendary Power of Slaughter to compensate for attack loss.

Thank you! At the same time, because my original equipment are also unassigned, it's not a huge drop in mitigation either. So it seems it is generally preferable to have higher block chance vs higher mitigation?

Anyways, thank you so much for your kind donation.

EDIT: Wow, them being the superior armor makes it so much easier to upgrade them! I tried to see how it is like for upgrading my exquisite armors and it requires much more ingredients lol

This post has been edited by Saioux: Jan 26 2019, 08:15

Spirit regenerates if you can successfully attack or counterattack a monster. Harder difficulties mean more attacks are required to kill one.

that's overcharge, not spirit.

that's overcharge, not spirit.

Yesterday you did call it stamina. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/duck.gif)

Thank you! At the same time, because my original equipment are also unassigned, it's not a huge drop in mitigation either. So it seems it is generally preferable to have higher block chance vs higher mitigation?

Anyways, thank you so much for your kind donation.

EDIT: Wow, them being the superior armor makes it so much easier to upgrade them! I tried to see how it is like for upgrading my exquisite armors and it requires much more ingredients lol

Unassigned equipment assigns itself on equip if I recall correctly.

You'll also outgrow your gears really soon, don't upgrade anything that you don't plan on soul bonding.

I came back recently myself, less than a week ago I was ~100. Pacing is slowing down, but I still get ~10 levels a day, down from 20+

Yesterday you did call it stamina. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/duck.gif)

you must have confused me with someone else...

you must have confused me with someone else...

Nope, just checked, i am talking about post 7452 in your first sentence. "need to spend 50 overcharge for proc-ing the PA" This overcharge was at first stamina, what did confuse me for a moment, but than i did realize that of course you did mean overcharge and you did correct it later. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

I'd suggest you to look into how equipment scaling work. In principle you find a good piece of equipment with good base stats (with pre/post fix and stat rolls) that fit your style, and soul bind it.

Thus, the equipment range is meaningless if it's not something soul bind worthy. In this case, whatever have better numbers work, so a gear of lower quality but closer to you in level could be much better than your 50+ levels below gear.

Honestly soul bind is for convenience, nothing around sub 300 is usable in the long run from what I've seen. You want at least legendary, and rare (for level) drop is better off used and resell.

Soulfusing is not recommended neither for him nor for you. Not even for convenience. You'll be wasting soul fragments and your equipments. Soulfusing is meaningful for later on, when you need top notch (Legendary/Peerless) equipment that is levels higher than yours. And believe me you'll need a lot of soul fragments when doing that.

I can only suggest that you change your equipment for something of a higher level from time to time, even with the same quality level, and that you sell back those that you were using before. That way you stay afloat in terms of efficiency and you don't waste soul fragments, and you get to sell the equipment that you were using. Who knows: perhaps you'll be very lucky with your basic IW and end up having very nice potencies that will skyrocket the value of your not-so-basic-anymore weapon?

That being said, if you really, really want to soulfuse something, do so only for your weapon: that's the only thing that is impacted significantly by level scaling. The armor level scaling is way, way weaker and you can easily keep going with something that is 50 levels behind you without having serious penalties.