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oh, another hint by tenboro:

How hard is it really to make one half-hearted post every three days or so?

Its once every three days? Was that changed? I could swear it was once per day.

It caps at ten days with a post in the last 30 days.

if you really need to pick between these, i'd agree with aria:

Magnificent Ethereal Wakizashi of Swiftness
and
Magnificent Katana of Slaughter If you use power
or
Magnificent Ethereal Katana of Balance If shade

but they are not so good because either they lack prefixes or stats. if you only want to give a try i can lend you these ones:
Exquisite Ethereal Katana of Slaughter
Exquisite Ethereal Katana of Slaughter

Exquisite Hallowed Wakizashi of Balance
Magnificent Fiery Wakizashi of the Nimble
Magnificent Demonic Wakizashi of Balance

PM if interested

Magnificent Mithril Kite Shield of Stoneskin block chance is more priority

possibly with some END forging, since it's quite effective and cheap

Thanks Aria, Scremaz for your answers (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Well yes, why not borrowing some good gears for one weeks, and if I like Niten I'll buy my own.

And alright, for the kite shield, I'll give it a try.

Well yes, why not borrowing some good gears for one weeks, and if I like Niten I'll buy my own.

At your level, it'll probably be pretty difficult. You first would like good proficiency in both 2h and DW (maxing proficiency easier as higher level - more playing), as well as sufficient defense (need either high level or valuable armor). I'm doubtful about Niten's viability before 250-300 or so, and even then, it's probably tough compared to 1h or DW/club.

I've not really cared about it much in the past, but is it worth doing stuff with the Monsters Lab? I've got one pet which is Undead (which is apparently bad), should I be spending my Chaos Tokens on making multiple low level pets of a certain type? Making another pet and using all my tokens on it?

I've not really cared about it much in the past, but is it worth doing stuff with the Monsters Lab?

Not unless all your equipment is quite good. Probably not before level 350, maybe not even before level 400.

should I be spending my Chaos Tokens on making multiple low level pets

Yes.

Unless you get to PL 700+, gifts received will likely come much more from the 3-day automatic window than from battles won. And since it takes some millions of credits for that, better to stick to many 0-upgrade monsters below PL 100.

don't really know whether there actually was void mages

Nope, there was Soul, but never Void. Soul was like the next progression after holy and dark, but it included the awkward mechanic of needing to proc "Soul Fire" on monsters before casting a prohibitively expensive spell that only did moderate damage. It also had its own proficiency and bonus prefix (Astral.) And unlike Void where everything's resistance is 0, Soul also had its set of positive and negative resistances for everything. As you can imagine, almost no one used it.

And if you want to go further back in time, Soul used to be what Void is now. Bonus damage on ethereal melee weapons only.

oh, another hint by tenboro:

And whom you own this knowledge? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)

I miss my first rapier , exq astral rapier of battlecaster (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)


monster lab become very expensive when your mob surpass lvl 1000 (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif)

thank you!!

reported (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)
Hope there will not have too many ban post in this thread.

which set are you using? i can play REs with relative ease even with my DW shade set (rapier + waki - 10 mobs and

Using my first set still. I kill mobs in about 3-5 hits.

And whom you own this knowledge? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)

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Hello experts!
Any advice about what to salvage and what to sell (bazaar)? I don't have stuff that good but my actual philosophy is "Last time I sold, today I salvage" and vice versa so I believe there are better ways to do it. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Hello experts!
Any advice about what to salvage and what to sell (bazaar)? I don't have stuff that good but my actual philosophy is "Last time I sold, today I salvage" and vice versa so I believe there are better ways to do it. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

just keep your mag+ phase , power , shade with good stats (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

for weapon , keep your ethereal or elemental as long it mag+ rapier , estoc , katana , axe , club of slaughter (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

staff , make sure you have right prefix and suffix (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Hello experts!
Any advice about what to salvage and what to sell (bazaar)? I don't have stuff that good but my actual philosophy is "Last time I sold, today I salvage" and vice versa so I believe there are better ways to do it. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

At your level, you don't acquire enough scrap from salvaging to be worth selling, so you'd probably be better off salvaging only the type that you need, or think you'll need in the near future. Eg., if you're 1h/heavy, salvage only metal and wood. But repair costs are very low for you at the moment, so you don't have all that much of a need for scrap anyway.

Probably avoid salvaging Superior gear, since there is very little demand for low-grade materials and it's difficult to sell. Better to Bazaar them. Also, always bazaar the rare equips (eg Katalox, Wakizashi, Force Shield etc).

There is a formula that can be worked out to determine exactly what should be salvaged and what should be bazaared for maximum profit, given the market prices of scrap/low/med/high grade materials, but it's not worth the time it takes to figure it out for each piece of gear, and there's no script for it yet.

Scrap cloth/wood is worth a little bit more (~90 cred) than scrap metal/leather (~70 cred). I usually salvage all non-Phase, non-Superior cloth, and staves and shields that aren't Katalox/Force Shield/Superior, and then bazaar everything else. If you won't get enough materials to be worth selling, just bazaar everything.

Well yes, why not borrowing some good gears for one weeks, and if I like Niten I'll buy my own.

yes, but which ones exactly? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/heh.gif)

Alright so basically sell everything, nothing is good enough to salvage, thank you both, fortunately I don't need materials yet D:

This post has been edited by Vanz/452: Apr 14 2015, 21:52

Hmm, more confusion seems to have crept in while I wasn't looking (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

The Protection Spell, while it it up the player gains a bonus according to his invested AP - But the more I read the more confusing the wording appears to me (English is not my native language so I can hopefully blame that) - is it protecting all ranks invested in as long as the spell is up(fire,wind,cold,elec), or just the spike shield that is currently selected?

If it's just the spike shield then I can hopefully free up a bunch of AP in supportive 2.

Hmm, more confusion seems to have crept in while I wasn't looking (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

The Protection Spell, while it it up the player gains a bonus according to his invested AP - But the more I read the more confusing the wording appears to me (English is not my native language so I can hopefully blame that) - is it protecting all ranks invested in as long as the spell is up(fire,wind,cold,elec), or just the spike shield that is currently selected?

If it's just the spike shield then I can hopefully free up a bunch of AP in supportive 2.

protection as itself reduces incoming damage by 25~30% (which means all your mitigations are raised by 33~43%)
spike shield is a subsequent effect that may inflict an elemental damage/status on certain targets and optionally further raises another elemental resistance of your choice - but only one, and only if you invest enough APs

however spike is nice to have, and first level of elemental protection is really cheap for what it offers

This post has been edited by Scremaz: Apr 14 2015, 22:54

protection as itself reduces incoming damage by 25~30% (which means all your mitigations are raised by 33~43%)
spike shield is a subsequent effect that may inflict an elemental damage/status on certain targets and optionally further raises another elemental resistance of your choice - but only one, and only if you invest enough APs

however spike is nice to have, and first level of elemental protection is really cheap for what it offers

Hmm, so would it pay off then to go with a spike shield which is opposite of my weapon damage, and then just remove the ranks (except one?) for those dmg types I don't have in spike shield? (considering I do need AP's)

Hmm, so would it pay off then to go with a spike shield which is opposite of my weapon damage, and then just remove the ranks (except one?) for those dmg types I don't have in spike shield? (considering I do need AP's)

usually spike shields are chosen exactly to boost your elemental damage - acquired either via prefix or via IW10. remember that spike shield go first and can proc an elemental status - thus lowering a certain mitigation, so choose it by judging what yor weapon is strong against.
ie: if you have a fiery weapon, then choose elec spike shield; arctic weapon, then fire spike...

other common choices are fire for 1H (since it's the only useful one for this style) and wind for shade users

[edit]: oh, fire is often chosen also to grant a bit more mitigation against dragonkins' fire attacks

This post has been edited by Scremaz: Apr 14 2015, 23:16