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Someone lent me some gear and asked for it back, but I can't find it in my inventory.
Anyone know what might be the problem?

Even if the gear was equipped or locked, it would still show in the Inventory. If you don't see it there, most likely you've sold/salvaged it.

And that'd be kind of bad.

Legendary Demonic Redwood Staff of Surtr
Magnificent Phase Cap of Surtr
Exquisite Phase Robe of Surtr
Exquisite Frugal Phase Gloves of Surtr
Exquisite Phase Pants of Surtr
Magnificent Mystic Phase Shoes of Surtr
It's time to admit that I have no idea what I'm doing. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif)
Before starting arena battles I cast Protection, Regen, Haste, Shadow Veil and then Arcane Focus (I try to get Arcane Focus on channelling) and then whack the enemies out with fire and/or spells.

These are my problems:

• I can't beat Random Encounter mobs in hell difficulty and keep getting murdered. Nightmare seems to be the absolute highest I can go.
• I can beat FSM at normal difficulty by the skin of my teeth
• Beating Longest Journey etc. in Hell difficulty seems nigh impossible. Nightmare seems to be the absolute highest I can go, and I usually do everything at Hard, but recently I might be imagining it/paranoid but the enemies seem to be doing more damage to me in hard then they used to..

I have started to use Spirit Shield which seems to decrease my casualties somewhat. I experimented with Spark of Life.

I'd prefer to stay as a mage as the thought of having regrind proficiency seems terrifying.

Your stats look okay. Maybe raise your AGI to the level of your END.

Boost Pack Rat (max it ASAP), being able to slot more pots is crazy useful for lasting longer in battle.
Boost Adept Learner too, to at least 100. You will reach lvl 310 faster that way.
Your drop trainings are fine for now.

Remove Staff Damage and max SP Tank. Staff Damage is a waste of slot/AP since you'll be using spells most of the time and not using melee attacks. SP Tank is important for Spark of Life and Spirit Shield.
Put some points in Better Spark and use both Spark of Life and Spirit Shield. Pack some Spirit Potions. And when you spark, don't forget that you need more than 1 HP for Spark of Life to work again, so don't recast it right away but heal with Cure or Full-Cure first instead. Always keep Full-Cure as an emergency button in case you spark, because otherwise having both Cure and Full-Cure on cooldown when sparking means death on the following turn.
Put some points in Faster Imperil and use Imperil against tough monsters (or even all). Imperil decreases both the elemental mitigation and the MMI, so it greatly increases magic damage. Use Better Imperil too if you can. It is often recommended to start maging at lvl 310 because you can max Faster Imperil and spam a 3-target, 0-cooldown Imperil on all monster, then blast them away quickly. You can mitigate the need for Imperil by using some prof gear (Fiery/Hallowed Redwood Staff of the Elementalist, Cotton of the Elementalist) (magic prof decreases monster elemental mitigation and spell cost, and increases Counter-Resist, see here).
Use Shock Spike Shield rather than Flame Shield, because its proc lowers Fire mitigation. More generally, elemental mages should use the spike shield that boosts their element (Flame for cold mages, Frost for wind mages, Storm for elec mages, Shock for fire mages, see here). Just use 1 or 2 levels of Spike Shield, the elemental mitigation isn't really worth it (the most useful elemental mitigations are Holy (Celestials), Dark (Daimons, Undeads) and Fire (Dragons, various)).
Maybe unslot Archmage, lower Conflagration to 3, and refrain from using the T3, because T3 spells have a long casting time (I'm not too sure about that advice...). Or at the very least, don't use it right after using Cure, or chances are you'll be near death with Cure on cooldown the following turn. Similarly, Arcane Focus has a long casting time.
Weaken is a good and cheap Deprecating Ability if you have spare slots/APs. You may use 1 or 2 levels of Better Spirit Pots too.

You may want to use a Fiery Oak Staff of Focus/Heimdall for the bonus Counter-Resist and the Holy EDB (which boosts the effect of the Cure spell). Personally, I tried such a staff yesterday, and being able to recover from near death to full HP in a single Cure is really great for survivability. You can also use some phase of Heimdall instead for the same effect.
Your gear isn't too bad for your level, I would say. A Fiery Staff would be better though (or Hallowed for the Holy EDB).

At some point, buy the first level of Innate Arcana (hath perk) for 50 hath, and slot Haste in it.

Use scripts:
http://ehwiki.org/wiki/HentaiVerse_Scripts_%26_Tools
I recommend Mousemelee (Hover over monsters to attack) or SpellSpam (if you are a mage), Show Gems (directly show gems you get without having to open the item menu), NoPopup (skips the "You are victorious" popup), Random Encounter Notification (track the time to the next RE, click on Ready when the cooldown expires), Riddle Limiter (answer more easily to the pony captchas), Equipment Comparison (Q/W/E/R/F/B in an equipment popup for various functions)...

This post has been edited by Dan31: Dec 31 2014, 13:24

Greetings

Is the Yuletide lottery enter phrase "Case sensitive" ---> in context of exact phrase ?!!

P.S. A happy new year in advance to all the community and HV sub community.

Greetings

Is the Yuletide lottery enter phrase "Case sensitive" ---> in context of exact phrase ?!!

P.S. A happy new year in advance to all the community and HV sub community.

Why do you ask?

Legendary Demonic Redwood Staff of Surtr
Magnificent Phase Cap of Surtr
Exquisite Phase Robe of Surtr
Exquisite Frugal Phase Gloves of Surtr
Exquisite Phase Pants of Surtr
Magnificent Mystic Phase Shoes of Surtr

If my dark mage had the dark version of this I'd be able to Main DARK.... (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif)

Edit: OMG I just realised I had the heartseeker perk slotted instead of Arcane Focus......WOW.....How did i miss that

This post has been edited by Cinnac: Dec 31 2014, 15:44

In battle, what does the monster LV refer to? Surely that's not the power level?

0 4 Spawned Monster C: MID=79964 (Jenga215) LV=258 HP=11332

In battle, what does the monster LV refer to? Surely that's not the power level?

Just look at your own level, maybe you notice something.

Greetings

Is the Yuletide lottery enter phrase "Case sensitive" ---> in context of exact phrase ?!!

P.S. A happy new year in advance to all the community and HV sub community.

No idea, but you should treat it like it is, just in case.

If my dark mage had the dark version of this I'd be able to Main DARK.... (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif) (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif)

Edit: OMG I just realised I had the heartseeker perk slotted instead of Arcane Focus......WOW.....How did i miss that

Melee crit staff for best style 2015. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

In battle, what does the monster LV refer to? Surely that's not the power level?

No. It's the level of the monster, and it is distinct from the PL. Monster level automatically scales with your level (you can only encounter monsters with a level ranging from your level to your level minus 5 or something like that). PL is a better indication of how strong the monster actually is, and the PL of monsters you encounter is based on both your level and the difficulty. Note that the chaos level isn't included in the PL, so there can be great variations of strength between monsters with the same PL and stats.

No. It's the level of the monster, and it is distinct from the PL. Monster level automatically scales with your level (you can only encounter monsters with a level ranging from your level to your level minus 5 or something like that). PL is a better indication of how strong the monster actually is, and the PL of monsters you encounter is based on both your level and the difficulty. Note that the chaos level isn't included in the PL, so there can be great variations of strength between monsters with the same PL and stats.

I suppose the best chance of winning should come from having high PL and low monster level.

How is the Monster Level determined? I can't even see the Monster Level for the monsters in my lab.

I suppose the best chance of winning should come from having high PL and low monster level.

How is the Monster Level determined? I can't even see the Monster Level for the monsters in my lab.

It scales automatically with the level of the player fighting it. Your best chances of winning are to fight monsters with a low PL (low difficulty, crude IW for example). But for the best drop chance and exp, you should on the contrary fight high PL monsters.

It's been around 5 years since I last played. Are all my items pretty much obsolete? They're almost all in the sub 300k range. Also I'm seeing rarities above Exquisite, which was extremely hard to come by and new types of armor like shade? How many more types are there?

Also any suggestions which route to take. I used to play a mage type(cloth armor with a rapier and dagger/high parry rapier)

(IMG:[i.imgur.com] http://i.imgur.com/hzHL311.jpg)

Thanks in advance.

It scales automatically with the level of the player fighting it. Your best chances of winning are to fight monsters with a low PL (low difficulty, crude IW for example). But for the best drop chance and exp, you should on the contrary fight high PL monsters.

Yup, but monsters bring gifts in accordance to battles won and killing blows, so is it possible to raise them to have high PL and low monster level?

This post has been edited by mozilla browser: Jan 1 2015, 03:17

It's been around 5 years since I last played. Are all my items pretty much obsolete? They're almost all in the sub 300k range. Also I'm seeing rarities above Exquisite, which was extremely hard to come by and new types of armor like shade? How many more types are there?

Also any suggestions which route to take. I used to play a mage type(cloth armor with a rapier and dagger/high parry rapier)

(IMG:[i.imgur.com] http://i.imgur.com/hzHL311.jpg)

Thanks in advance.

Wooh boy..you've got a LOT to catch up on but as for the advice requested:

Melees usually have an easier time leveling from low level but the closer to peek level mages 'apparently' dominate.

To post an in-depth guide would be too tedious and it's Old Yrs Day so... Melee: balance all 3 styles but focus on 1h[god stance]after 250.. then after 280 slowly train mage

OR

Just mage..

In any case your equipment quality will determine which style you'd use.

Are you equipping or locking them?

Nope, neither.
I can't find them anywhere.
I know I didn't sell them.

Nope, neither.
I can't find them anywhere.
I know I didn't sell them.

If you didn't lock nor equip the gears, I guess you have sold them by the sell all button. Or salvaged by script.

Yup, but monsters bring gifts in accordance to battles won and killing blows, so is it possible to raise them to have high PL and low monster level?

The monster level is generated based on the player's level. But if you really want to go there, Get a Anthropod/Giant, and upgrade only STR/DEX/END up to 23ish (note: very expensive). You'll kill all the newbies.

The monster level is generated based on the player's level. But if you really want to go there, Get a Anthropod/Giant, and upgrade only STR/DEX/END up to 23ish (note: very expensive). You'll kill all the newbies.

With STR/DEX/END up to 23 no newbie will see these monsters, at least not until there not longer be newbies. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

So i got this rapier temporarily few days ago.
http://hentaiverse.org/pages/showequip.php...;key=c60998f672

Only 2 pabs with quite low parry (14.25 base), but it has 40 base for damage and 4,09 for crits (from 4,51 max for Egrade). I saw few more with balance or elemental strike, but dont wanna deal with burden (already have 65,1).

but dont wanna deal with burden (already have 65,1).

So? I have burden 72.8 and dont really care about that.

It's been around 5 years since I last played. Are all my items pretty much obsolete? They're almost all in the sub 300k range. Also I'm seeing rarities above Exquisite, which was extremely hard to come by and new types of armor like shade? How many more types are there?

Also any suggestions which route to take. I used to play a mage type(cloth armor with a rapier and dagger/high parry rapier)

Thanks in advance.

I've sent you some gear. Don't forget to slot your abilities.

Yup, but monsters bring gifts in accordance to battles won and killing blows, so is it possible to raise them to have high PL and low monster level?

How many times do I have to say this? You don't control the level of the monster (it scales with the level of the player it fights), you only control the PL and Chaos Level. So your question doesn't make sense.

Nope, neither.
I can't find them anywhere.
I know I didn't sell them.

Maybe you equipped them on another set?