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Maces and clubs are on their way to become the next Sword Chucks~
It'd be interesting to see how this patch will affect their overall usage.

Tjeh well I'm gonna find that out.
I still say that ethereal estoc of slaughter is the best weapon eva, without testing.
Buuuutttt..
I'll post some info about maces somewhere. There's a chance I has the best there is since I use all my daily trophies in 2 handed weapons.
Or NOT !
Some fruitcake got a ethereal estoc of slaughter in combat, something I have never gotten, offering thousands of trophies to the faggot known as snowflake.

This post has been edited by Bunko: Sep 3 2011, 19:49

Some fruitcake got a ethereal estoc of slaughter in combat...

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I just invented a new element. The Wrath Of Jealousy.

Also..
I already know how to max Defense rating and Attack rating based on defense.
But I just figured out out to figure out Agility.
This is how:

Only works for people who don't level up all the time. Takes me a billion+ exp to level.
Step...
1) Max shield rating and Attack rating.
2) Fight in grindfest and mark down the credits made.
3) Reduce agility as much as possible.
4) Fight in grindfest again.
Did you get more/less creds ? There's the answer.

If your credit count was about the same, keep decreasing AGI.
Once you get noticeably less creds, stop reducing AGI, put it back where it was the last time....
Calculate it's ratio to other stats and make an excel sheet about it.
Values for defense/attack are already given by the man in patch notes.

While I wouldn't mind knowing your ratios, I only trust the ones I make.

Cred values flux.
To even thing out, you need Spark of Life - spell
Hold out in the fight as long as you can with 2 godly spirit potions.
Don't cheat, it will hurt you. Only die after both of godly spirit potions got your and you DID NOT MISS REACTIVATING spark of life.

Without spark of life, there's too much left to chance, to calculate the shit out.
You let Spark run out while still having a potion of spirit ? You has fukked up, do it again, no cheating.

This post has been edited by Bunko: Sep 3 2011, 21:12

Arenas on hard now are way harder than they used to be. It doesn't help when two monsters each use their special attacks which hit me for ~900 damage a piece.

Edit: But then if I toss on my Scythe rather than my Eth Estoc, I dominate through Normal so easily it's not really fun.

Partly because it seems like my Scythe gets WAY more multihits (or, at least, they seem to proc more often), with more enemies hit per multihit. Ex:
7 9 Replenishment restores 17 points of magic.
7 8 Ipocalypse hits you for 78 slashing damage.
7 7 You hit Ipocalypse for 775 slashing damage.
7 6 Redeye has been defeated.
7 5 You hit Redeye for 1135 slashing damage.
7 4 Mutant Peacock has been defeated.
7 3 You crit Mutant Peacock for 2255 slashing damage.
7 2 Naht has been defeated.
7 1 You crit Naht for 1551 slashing damage.

Whereas with my EthEst, usually I'll get about 2-3 monsters/multihit, with maybe one crit, at about 1600-1800 for the crit and 1100-1250 for the other damage. But with my Scythe, I'll get a 3-4 multihit almost every round of Arena (which usually lasts only a few rounds).

This post has been edited by Spartan0021: Sep 3 2011, 21:59

So I guess mace is a better 2H choice than estoc?

I'm not sure, but against your everyday mob with mid to low physical mitigations, I'd probably go for the mace. Just tested it and crap, it's devastating.

Against the mobs with really high physical mitigations, like the high power level mobs and the gods/legendaries/dragons, I think PA would still overall be more damaging than stun damage.

Two potential choices of weapons:

[L203] Superior Estoc of Slaughter
[L211] Superior Mace of Slaughter


Hmm...

This post has been edited by MidNightPass: Sep 4 2011, 01:23

[L203] Superior Estoc of Slaughter

Unless that Ebony Staff is actually concealing an Estoc inside of it, I think that's the wrong link.

Unless that Ebony Staff is actually concealing an Estoc inside of it, I think that's the wrong link.

Something went wrong with the equipment shop helper.
Weapon in hand doesn't seem to generate the correct link by pressing "k".

yep. i addressed that in the equip helper thread a while ago. still not fixed. it won't accurately display *any* gear on hand

So... Rapier + Axe isn't working out for me very well anymore. I suppose Club + Rapier would work better since Stunned appears better than PA at this point, and having the Rapier on the offhand gives me that parry boost, right?

So, I just picked up some staves that contain some well-known suffixes/prefixes, and I have no idea what values are for them.

They're currently low level, but does anyone have an idea what these staves could be worth if leveled up?

Ethereal Redwood
Ebony Mjolnir (Doubt this'll be worth anything)

Thanks guys.

So, I just picked up some staves that contain some well-known suffixes/prefixes, and I have no idea what values are for them.

They're currently low level, but does anyone have an idea what these staves could be worth if leveled up?

Ethereal Redwood
Ebony Mjolnir (Doubt this'll be worth anything)

Thanks guys.

That Ethereal Redwood staff looks pretty exceptional.

Unfortunately as of now, there are no calculators to determine what these will become.

If you've got a good parry rate on your rapier, then yes. However, if you're going to be dual wielding through arenas, it's going to be a hell of a painful run.

I barely finished Longest Journey with an Average Mace of Slaughter, and I found that even with decently high stun procs across entire groups of mobs, I couldn't take much advantage of it because I was missing so much. Still, I'd like to think that if I was using my scythe as usual, I probably wouldn't have made it to the end at all, as in the later sessions, I'm literally taking 600-1000 damage in total from mobs, even with a kevlar set + shield. I had to use twice the mana potions I usually do to clear it, and even then I probably would've been in big trouble had I run out of mana against that legendary.

I was also very near death at least 3 times in that run, from around 80-90% HP, no less. It's a very risky situation to be doing Arenas without a very healthy supply of mana potions or Spirit shield.

Ethereal Redwood
Ebony Mjolnir (Doubt this'll be worth anything)

The Mjolnir stick has max EDB and almost max Elem Prof.
Probably.

There are some strange shenanigans going on with the new stats that I can't quite put my finger on. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/duck.gif)

Did rapiers always have a chance to stun?
According to the wiki it's only for crushing weapons. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

27 3 You are Victorious!
27 2 Guanliyuan has been defeated.
27 1 You crit Guanliyuan for 4379 void damage.
26 6 Guanliyuan is agitated!
26 5 Guanliyuan gains the effect Stunned.
26 4 You counter Guanliyuan for 1434 points of void damage.
26 3 You parry the attack from Guanliyuan.
26 2 Guanliyuan gains the effect Penetrated Armor .
26 1 You hit Guanliyuan for 1057 void damage.

This post has been edited by roadgray: Sep 4 2011, 02:59

You can stun off of counters from a few patchs ago

You can stun off of counters from a few patchs ago

Hmmm I see.
Any idea on how this is calculated?

Thanks.

- When countering an enemy, there is now a chance to briefly stun the monster you countered.
-- This chance is equal to the chance of countering the monster in the first place.
-- Wielding a weapon with a stun proc will add the stun probability for the weapon to the counter probability for this roll.
-- Triggering the stun will consume one counter, but can always trigger on the first counter. In other words, below 100 prof you can counter or counter/stun, at 100-200 you can counter+counter or counter/stun, and at 200+ you can counter+counter+counter or counter+counter/stun.

0.5.1

- When countering an enemy, there is now a chance to briefly stun the monster you countered.
-- This chance is equal to the chance of countering the monster in the first place.
-- Wielding a weapon with a stun proc will add the stun probability for the weapon to the counter probability for this roll.
-- Triggering the stun will consume one counter, but can always trigger on the first counter. In other words, below 100 prof you can counter or counter/stun, at 100-200 you can counter+counter or counter/stun, and at 200+ you can counter+counter+counter or counter+counter/stun.

0.5.1

That's pretty cool. Thank you.