Okay dokay, I need a little criticism and a tip or 3 on what I'm facing/heading up against in the next bunch of levelling. I spent my time sorta not around playing, (damned mmos suck all the life and time right out of you, but ah well...)
Anyways, am I heading in the right direction with all of this ? ~points~
1: Not really having a problem surviving much of anything, except when I'll be in IW on normal/hard and Mithra spanks the hell out of me a fair bit. IW on normal/hard, or random encounters on hard isnt a huge difference. And I can fly thru arenas (up to my level), fairly easy.
2: Can grind IW on superior grade items 40~ rounds with no major problems, sure I eat pots and spend alot of time healing my arse.
3: I usually split my time doing cakefest to jack up weapon profs, but have been slacking... I'll usually spend time working on 2h and DW, should I worry about others or just focus here for now?
4: Found the joys of a decent katana+wakizashi, and can really mix it up with some baddies...
now the really big questions..
Am I missing out on anything more fun and stuff? I get happy when I see that Katana proc 3-4 baddies and smack em hard in the process.
Should I keep my first 4 stats near my level and is it okay to leave int/wis 5~ below my level?
Should I start investing in newer/better gear? I have a small pile of credits set aside should that be necessary.
Seeing that training up ability points is rather freakin expensive now (33,930c) for one point ... When I "stop" having those extra points (ie: stop training to keep things maxed for each tier), should I forget the exp boosts and stick with hp/mp/spirit/oc strictly as much as the points permit?
With my daily beatings, err beat downs, I've started to actually NEED shield/weaken, anything I really need to watch out for and aside from repeatedly having to use it now, any other easy way to raise profs? (I've more or less montaged a bunch but the gains are negligible...)
and sorry for the absolutely huge image, i didnt feel like actually cutting up half a dozen screenies for nothing (IMG:[
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Pre-thanks for any tips the long term folks can provide, and many thanks to the experts (who i got a buncha my gear from anyways, lol)
One last question, flip a coin, or something, but please qualify your reply if you can. Is it better to work on raising profs in cakefest, or IW on a crude @ cake difficulty? I noticed I can fly thru 40~ rounds in a cakefest without doing much of anything aside from smacking things with a good 2hander or my katana (can still make it much farther though but I start having to use cure/shield a bit now and then any higher) I can make it much farther though smacking stuff around in IW on a high level crude. Any perks to either of these?
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Self note ... Tried doing cakefest vs IW (crude/cake and crude/normal), crude/normal IW seems to be MUCH faster, with most things dying relatively quick while trying to raise profs... Guess that works for me (IMG:[
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style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I just figured I would put that note here in case anyone is interested. As for the drops, I'll clear my HVstat thing and give it a whirl each way again to see? Unless someone can tell me for sure which nets better proficiencies and drops.
This post has been edited by Fury216: Nov 13 2010, 08:03