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What is better to train?

What is better to train?

Everything and nothing.

If something seems cheap and interesting, train it. None of it is important really. If it seems expensive, don't train it.

Later on, when you're much higher level, some things might grow in importance.

What is better to train?

Hi Darber, welcome to this forum. You can find training advice for new players on the wiki advice.

Adept learner is useful for low level players, as is ability boost. But don't spend too much.

Other than the Hath perk is there any way to boost the amount of soul fragments you can acquire? Just over extended and bought some armor 60 levels above me that took a bite out of 1/3 of my wallet, and then discovered I need 600 more fragments before I can soulfuse it.

Other than the Hath perk is there any way to boost the amount of soul fragments you can acquire? Just over extended and bought some armor 60 levels above me that took a bite out of 1/3 of my wallet, and then discovered I need 600 more fragments before I can soulfuse it.

Other than turning your life in a nightmare with a thing that will ring every 30 minutes to warn you that there's a RE available, no.

Other than the Hath perk is there any way to boost the amount of soul fragments you can acquire? Just over extended and bought some armor 60 levels above me that took a bite out of 1/3 of my wallet, and then discovered I need 600 more fragments before I can soulfuse it.

(´• ω •`)
can always buy them at 1k/piece
fork over the price of anotehr 2-3 armor to equip this one
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Where better to farm credits?

Where better to farm credits?

Play Random Encounters and Arena's. Those are good for credits. Play as high difficulty as you can. If you need to cure every round, then you are playing at too high difficulty. Do not play Grindfest.

Is it true or false that in certain condition, in certain build or in certain situation any of these three suffixes: Dampening, Deflection, Stoneskin may be preferred over other one?

In other word, if we have three shields with same stats but various defensive suffixes - will they cost alike or one of them will be slightly more expensive/cheaper than other two? Same for other equipment.

Is it true or false that in certain condition, in certain build or in certain situation any of these three suffixes: Dampening, Deflection, Stoneskin may be preferred over other one?

In other word, if we have three shields with same stats but various defensive suffixes - will they cost alike or one of them will be slightly more expensive/cheaper than other two? Same for other equipment.

I can't imagine that the price of such an item is influenced by the defensive suffix. Valuation doesn't work like that.

I like stoneskin. Sounds tough.

I can't imagine that the price of such an item is influenced by the defensive suffix.

This is what I wanted to hear (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
If one can imagine such situation - tell, please, you will help me a lot.

I like stoneskin. Sounds tough.

I like how "Demon-fiend" suffix sounds. So badass (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)

Is it true or false that in certain condition, in certain build or in certain situation any of these three suffixes: Dampening, Deflection, Stoneskin may be preferred over other one?

In other word, if we have three shields with same stats but various defensive suffixes - will they cost alike or one of them will be slightly more expensive/cheaper than other two? Same for other equipment.

Assuming they were all of the Peerless SDE type, I'd say: Protection >>> Dampening > Warding = Deflection = Stoneskin.

But overall, everyone just looks at the block and the PABs. The suffix serves only as a "tiebreaker".

In other word, if we have three shields with same stats but various defensive suffixes - will they cost alike or one of them will be slightly more expensive/cheaper than other two? Same for other equipment.

Yeah, the difference for top quality shield could be pretty striking.
A Protection one may fetch two times the credits of a warding/stone-skin one.

This is also kind of surprising since it doesn't really reflect how good they are.
If we use your data from here we have:

Total Damage: 10054678
Physical damage: 8041821
Magical damage: 2012857
Crushing damage: 3400483
Piercing damage: 2750360
Slashing damage: 1212872

And for peerless shield
Protection: 2.1 PMI more than other suffixes
Warding: 4.62 MMI more than other suffixes
Dampening/Deflection/Stoneskin: 7.14 specific mitigation

With those numbers we can calculate how much damage would each suffix prevent and calculate a percentage of total damage

Protection: 168878 (1.68%)
Warding: 92993 (0.92%)
Dampening: 242794 (2.41%)
Deflection: 196375 (1.95%)
Stoneskin: 86599 (0.86%)

So conclusions:
- from best suffix (Dampening) to worse suffix (Stoneskin) there is a clear difference of 1.5% incoming damage, suffix on shield is all but irrelevant
- Stoneskin sucks
- Warding kinda sucks too
- Protection is overrated

Is Ethereal Club, instead of rapier, okay to use for 1H?

Also, when is 2H better than 1H and vise-versa?

This post has been edited by Doomstalker: Nov 12 2017, 03:09

Assuming they were all of the Peerless SDE type, I'd say: Protection >>> Dampening > Warding = Deflection = Stoneskin.

Thanks (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

So conclusions:
- from best suffix (Dampening) to worse suffix (Stoneskin) there is a clear difference of 1.5% incoming damage, suffix on shield is all but irrelevant
- Stoneskin sucks
- Warding kinda sucks too
- Protection is overrated

That was unexpected, yet pretty logical, thanks (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

One more question. How this can be that prices in auction are so vary here?
01. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 475, MDB 85%, EDB 51% - last bid: 20,000,000
02. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 436, MDB 20%, EDB 95% - last bid: 555,000
03. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 434, MDB 85%, EDB 57% - last bid: 455,000
04. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 484, MDB 42%, EDB 26% - last bid: 50,000

No links, sorry - I haven't thought about copying them.
I saw lots of weird bids here and there in past auctions, but that "jump" between first place and third is outstanding.

So conclusions:
- from best suffix (Dampening) to worse suffix (Stoneskin) there is a clear difference of 1.5% incoming damage, suffix on shield is all but irrelevant
- Stoneskin sucks
- Warding kinda sucks too
- Protection is overrated

did you consider a bit the effect suffix has on the overall build? i mean, i too think suffix on a shield is not that big of a deal, but afaik Protection has those prices because being PMI quite high on a build, the percentage drop effect is higher.

One more question. How this can be that prices in auction are so vary here?
01. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 475, MDB 85%, EDB 51% - last bid: 20,000,000
02. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 436, MDB 20%, EDB 95% - last bid: 555,000
03. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 434, MDB 85%, EDB 57% - last bid: 455,000
04. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 484, MDB 42%, EDB 26% - last bid: 50,000

well, 02 is better than 04 for sure, so no big surprise. not sure whether it's better than 03 or not, but whatever. and yep, 01 is quite an oddity. when did these happen? and who were the bidders involved?

One more question. How this can be that prices in auction are so vary here?
01. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 475, MDB 85%, EDB 51% - last bid: 20,000,000
02. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 436, MDB 20%, EDB 95% - last bid: 555,000
03. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 434, MDB 85%, EDB 57% - last bid: 455,000
04. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 484, MDB 42%, EDB 26% - last bid: 50,000

No links, sorry - I haven't thought about copying them.
I saw lots of weird bids here and there in past auctions, but that "jump" between first place and third is outstanding.

Sounds pretty strange but maybe the first staff had all the other rolls nearly peerless?
Don't know, it's not even the best dark staff type available.

did you consider a bit the effect suffix has on the overall build? i mean, i too think suffix on a shield is not that big of a deal, but afaik Protection has those prices because being PMI quite high on a build, the percentage drop effect is higher.

Since it's multiplicative it shoulnd't make a difference, right?
5% more PMI is always 5% less damage received.
Example:
100 damage
from 0 PMI (100 damage) to 5 PMI (95 damage) the reduction is 5%.

100 damage
from 80 PMI (20) damage to 81 PMI (19) damage the reduction is 5%.
And you need 5% PMI from equipments to go from 80 to 81.

Obviously the damage recorded by f4tal are influenced by his build, but I doubt that they may change that much even with different loadouts.

when did these happen? and who were the bidders involved?

Here is links:
01. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 475, MDB 85%, EDB 51% - last bid: 20,000,000 - LINK
02. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 436, MDB 20%, EDB 95% - last bid: 555,000 - LINK
03. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 434, MDB 85%, EDB 57% - last bid: 455,000 - LINK
04. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 484, MDB 42%, EDB 26% - last bid: 50,000 - LINK

Sounds pretty strange but maybe the first staff had all the other rolls nearly peerless?

Even if it has - the prefix/suffix/type match is not the best around. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)

This post has been edited by f4tal: Nov 11 2017, 18:02

Here is links:
01. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 475, MDB 85%, EDB 51% - last bid: 20,000,000 - LINK
02. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 436, MDB 20%, EDB 95% - last bid: 555,000 - LINK
03. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 434, MDB 85%, EDB 57% - last bid: 455,000 - LINK
04. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 484, MDB 42%, EDB 26% - last bid: 50,000 - LINK
Even if it has - the prefix/suffix/type match is not the best around. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)

It was a long time ago. Water under the bridge.

Here is links:
01. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 475, MDB 85%, EDB 51% - last bid: 20,000,000 - LINK
02. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 436, MDB 20%, EDB 95% - last bid: 555,000 - LINK
03. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 434, MDB 85%, EDB 57% - last bid: 455,000 - LINK
04. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 484, MDB 42%, EDB 26% - last bid: 50,000 - LINK
Even if it has - the prefix/suffix/type match is not the best around. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)

The first guy has been around for 7 years, pays 20 million, has a perfect IW on the staff, but is still at 50 for max forging.

Maybe he bought it with a perfect IW.

Just a casual walk by observation. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/lurk.gif)