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I finally finished both of these Legendary Hallowed Rapier Of The Nimble & Legendary Arctic Axe Of Slaughter

4 Butchers & 5 SS on the rapier, vice verse on the axe. A very nice DW pair. I'm pleased.

so swift stirke +9 for the dw pair. Jelly.

I finally finished both of these Legendary Hallowed Rapier Of The Nimble & Legendary Arctic Axe Of Slaughter

4 Butchers & 5 SS on the rapier, vice verse on the axe. A very nice DW pair. I'm pleased.

Amazing. Did it take long? I've long wanted to IW the crap out of my stuff but I suck at life and it takes me forever to do it.

so swift stirke +9 for the dw pair. Jelly.

They do play very well together, I must say. I could switch to them if I needed to do so and not miss 2H too much. ^_~

Amazing. Did it take long? I've long wanted to IW the crap out of my stuff but I suck at life and it takes me forever to do it.

That sounds like me doing these in IW. Life and other projects intervened, and what should have been days was spaced out over several months.

every effing time, favoring existing ones pfft!
Exquisite Ethereal Scythe of Slaughter
butcher -> end -> swift -> butcher 2 -> butcher 3 ->swift 2 ->end 2 -> end3

http://hentaiverse.org/pages/showequip.php...;key=189a963b09

A reset? Maybe.

being limited to just 2 endurances is actually pretty good (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/dry.gif), but if you're up to it, since it's elemental and you don't have to worry about lvl 10 dice roll, go for it.

16 9 Unlocked innate potential: Capacitor Level 3
16 8 The equipment's potential has increased by 985 points!
44 8 Unlocked innate potential: Elecproof Level 1
44 7 Unlocked innate potential: Windproof Level 2
44 6 The equipment's potential has increased by 1970 points!

Legendary Kevlar Boots of Protection

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16 9 Unlocked innate potential: Capacitor Level 3
16 8 The equipment's potential has increased by 985 points!
44 8 Unlocked innate potential: Elecproof Level 1
44 7 Unlocked innate potential: Windproof Level 2
44 6 The equipment's potential has increased by 1970 points!

Legendary Kevlar Boots of Protection

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that isn't so bad, if you can get a few levels of jug/cap on each piece the full set will be worth it. You may not want to max all your gear now but the elemental resistance should play a bigger part when/if ML part II comes out. The resistance you get from your gear is going to help people that aren't able to fill in their ability tree. If you can get +50% on all those elemental Damage Mitigations it should make things easier after that patch.

Superior Ethereal Rapier of Slaughter

Only 1 Butcher and 1 Strength, and 4 Endurance, but I had a suspicion that I was going to get Holy Strike and so I went for it. I guess I'll see if it was really worth it.

- JC

Exquisite Ethereal Scythe of Slaughter
+1 butcher. Now time to sacrifice some hay to snowflake for a good strike.

Exquisite Demonic Katalox Staff of Fenrir
lv0->lv3 Economizer Lv.3
lv3->lv5 Archmage Lv.1 Economizer Lv.4

Exquisite Ethereal Scythe of Slaughter
elec strike . . . which is kinda annoying since i just picked up that legendary shocking scythe (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

This post has been edited by etothex: Jan 8 2013, 22:39

There's a lot of estocs hangning around in my inventory just in case I decide to switch from the one I'm using.
However, I did some calculations regarding the probability of getting certain outcomes regarding upgrades.

I'm lousy at math so I may be wrong but it seems to me that my main weapon; the Magnificent Shocking Estoc of the Illithid,
which has 5 swift strikes and 4 butchers had a probability of 0,64% of getting that outcome. I did the calculation by using
(among other things) variations of this query; [www.wolframalpha.com] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=9+dice+3+faces

It went something like this;
starting from 0 upgrades on the estoc:
0,1024333333333333333... (10,24333...%) chance to get 5x swift strikes
after that there's 0,0625 (6,25%) chance to get 4 butchers
In other words, there's 0,1024333333333333333 * 0,0625 = 0,006402083333333 = 0,64% chance to get 5x swift strikes + 4x butchers

If it's true the probability is that low, I wouldn't even bother upgrading the rest of the estocs I've got
since most likely none of them would get 5 swift strikes. Here's a list of the estocs I've got;

Exquisite Ethereal Estoc of the Banshee
Exquisite Ethereal Estoc of the Battlecaster
Exquisite Demonic Estoc of the Illithid
Exquisite Ethereal Estoc of Slaughter
Magnificent Hallowed Estoc of the Vampire


btw anyone else here notice some funny similarities between these two?;
Exquisite Demonic Estoc of the Illithid
Legendary Demonic Estoc of the Illithid (not mine)


& here's some brain farts for the one's who don't know a lot about swift strikes.
The obvious question of course is why I would need swift strikes so badly?
First of all, I've got a light armor build which explains a lot. But there's more;
by using skillchip's writings on the subject matter as reference, I did some calculations.

My actions speed is 400 (actually its ~266,6 x haste ) which makes my action time reach the floor of 100.
The 5x swift strikes (+10,96%) makes my action time go down even further to become ~79,94. , breaking the action time floor.

And since slow, magnet, (poison?) and freezing limbs become less effective as the monster reach higher power levels,
having faster action times becomes more relevant if one's using those spells. Monsters with action speed at ~400 and beyond
have action times at 100 (the minimum) but since my action time is at ~79,94, I'll always be faster than the monsters no matter how high the monster's power levels are.

There's an other benefit to having a lot of swift strikes that I've noticed; all status effects that proc on monsters "last longer";
(this includes penetrated armor, bleeding wound, stunned, all deprecating spells, all status effects from spells etc.).
However, supportive spells such as regen etc. won't "last longer" no matter how many swift strikes one has got.

FUCKING B!
finally got some motivation to attempt my estoc again.
Magnificent Ethereal Estoc of Slaughter
just can't get the +3 IWBTH 4ever. (had someone else do a couple runs on it first).
1 butch, 1 swift, 1 end =>
+1 swift, let's continue
+1 swift, looking good
+1 end, ffffffffftttttttttt. Don't even know if i should bother or just reset already.

Fair Phase Shoes

Just messing around raising proficiencies...almost exactly what I wanted but no fireproof.

Still, me likey (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

- JC

Looks like my Legendary Katana needs a reset already. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

@jcullinane: I think getting so many different potencies is actually harder than getting 4 or 5 levels of the same one. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

@jcullinane: I think getting so many different potencies is actually harder than getting 4 or 5 levels of the same one. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

Yeah I thought so...I reset after 3 levels the first time because I had Level 3 Elec proof...I was actually going for at least one of each stat and I think I did pretty well...I think fire proof was the only one I didn't get at all.

- JC

15 10 You gain 133288 EXP!
15 9 Unlocked innate potential: Soul Strike
15 8 The equipment's potential has increased by 910 points!

Legendary Ethereal Scythe of Slaughter

Whew... Thank God, I doubt I'd have enough patience to redo it from the start. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/happy.gif)

Lucky~

(Well, not at first try, but with less than 20 amnesia shards spend on it to get Capacitor 5, not bad)

5 end in a row (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif)
Exquisite Ethereal Estoc of Slaughter