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Nov 11 2017, 11:14
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Look A Moth
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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.
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Nov 11 2017, 11:35
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KitsuneAbby
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QUOTE(Look A Moth @ Nov 11 2017, 10:14)  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.
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Nov 11 2017, 11:47
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reality_marble
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QUOTE(Look A Moth @ Nov 11 2017, 07:14)  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 [̲̅$̲̅(̲̅´• ω •` ͡)̲̅$̲̅]
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Nov 11 2017, 15:12
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Darber1337
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Where better to farm credits?
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Nov 11 2017, 15:18
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Noni
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QUOTE(Darber1337 @ Nov 11 2017, 14:12)  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.
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Nov 11 2017, 16:13
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f4tal
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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.
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Nov 11 2017, 16:16
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Noni
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QUOTE(f4tal @ Nov 11 2017, 15:13)  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.
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Nov 11 2017, 16:22
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f4tal
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QUOTE 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. QUOTE I like stoneskin. Sounds tough. I like how "Demon-fiend" suffix sounds. So badass (IMG:[ invalid] style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)
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Nov 11 2017, 16:42
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Basara Nekki
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QUOTE(f4tal @ Nov 11 2017, 12:13)  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".
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Nov 11 2017, 17:03
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Sapo84
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QUOTE(f4tal @ Nov 11 2017, 15:13)  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
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Nov 11 2017, 17:45
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Doomstalker
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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
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Nov 11 2017, 17:46
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f4tal
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QUOTE(Basara Nekki @ Nov 11 2017, 17:42)  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) QUOTE(Sapo84 @ Nov 11 2017, 18:03)  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: 20,000,00002. 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: 455,00004. 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.
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Nov 11 2017, 17:50
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Scremaz
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QUOTE(Sapo84 @ Nov 11 2017, 16:03)  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. QUOTE(f4tal @ Nov 11 2017, 16:46)  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?
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Nov 11 2017, 17:57
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Sapo84
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QUOTE(f4tal @ Nov 11 2017, 16:46)  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. QUOTE(Scremaz @ Nov 11 2017, 16:50)  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.
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Nov 11 2017, 17:59
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f4tal
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QUOTE(Scremaz @ Nov 11 2017, 18:50)  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 - LINK02. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 436, MDB 20%, EDB 95% - last bid: 555,000 - LINK03. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 434, MDB 85%, EDB 57% - last bid: 455,000 - LINK04. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 484, MDB 42%, EDB 26% - last bid: 50,000 - LINKQUOTE 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
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Nov 11 2017, 18:56
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Noni
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QUOTE(f4tal @ Nov 11 2017, 16:59)  Here is links: 01. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 475, MDB 85%, EDB 51% - last bid: 20,000,000 - LINK02. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 436, MDB 20%, EDB 95% - last bid: 555,000 - LINK03. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 434, MDB 85%, EDB 57% - last bid: 455,000 - LINK04. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 484, MDB 42%, EDB 26% - last bid: 50,000 - LINKEven 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.
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Nov 11 2017, 19:02
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RoadShoe
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QUOTE(f4tal @ Nov 11 2017, 07:59)  Here is links: 01. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 475, MDB 85%, EDB 51% - last bid: 20,000,000 - LINK02. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 436, MDB 20%, EDB 95% - last bid: 555,000 - LINK03. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 434, MDB 85%, EDB 57% - last bid: 455,000 - LINK04. Legendary Demonic Katalox Staff of the Demon-fiend: 484, MDB 42%, EDB 26% - last bid: 50,000 - LINKEven 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)
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Nov 11 2017, 19:05
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Scremaz
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QUOTE(RoadShoe @ Nov 11 2017, 18:02)  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.
no mention about IW in auction list (IMG:[ invalid] style_emoticons/default/duck.gif) but yep, it could've been an option.
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Nov 11 2017, 19:10
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RoadShoe
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QUOTE(Scremaz @ Nov 11 2017, 09:05)  no mention about IW in auction list (IMG:[ invalid] style_emoticons/default/duck.gif) but yep, it could've been an option. Oh yeah... They do usually list things like that. OK... kills that idea. Maybe the guy is so game rich, he just guaranteed his win. He put a perfect IW on it, and we all know how disgustingly difficult that is. It is a curious thing... that's a truckload of credits for a katalox. Even for those stats. I hope the poor guy wasn't shilled.
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Nov 11 2017, 19:39
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issary
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QUOTE(SleepDealer @ Nov 11 2017, 03:19)  How much I need Evade and Physical Mitigation to complete Pfudorfest with my dark set? Is it even possible? (IMG:[ i.imgur.com] https://i.imgur.com/BfPLGkp.jpg) Thank you (IMG:[ invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) If you only want to achieve it I think you can complete it now,use scrolls of gods and avatar and life,lots of elixir,maybe weaken at last 100-200 rounds. QUOTE(f4tal @ Nov 11 2017, 23:46)  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.
Prof is hard to roll on all prof suffix staff.How many staff with prof more than 15.65(while max value is 16.24) have you ever seen?And how many of them has MD+EDB>52?That 01 has MD+EDB>52 with prof 15.74. And it's before the prof buff and hellfest nerf,at that time 15.7 prof staff can gives you 1.0 prof factor only with shoes,while with a lower prof staff you can only choose from less than 1.0 prof even with peerless shoes or use gloves. LDKDf is near good as LDWD at hellfest,and hellfest can gives you about 10% more income(include legendary drops) and 60% more chaos token at that time. A LDWD performs as good as that LDKDf will cost you more than 50m at that time(and you may need half a year waiting it appear). That's the best LDKDf(MD+EDB near 53,high prof) I've ever seen since I play this game.Even after character base prof be buffed to 1.2 that's still a pretty good staff with high MD+EDB. This post has been edited by issary: Nov 11 2017, 19:50
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