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Post by axjetvv34 on Sept 6, 2011 22:29:46 GMT -5
So i recently just got another purple unique gear piece, after discarding my old on on accident, and i would like to know what other pieces of gear i could acquire to improve my stats. I want a soldier who does good damage with decent crits but doesn't die fast and i want my dex to AT LEAST hit 200 while my ego hits 300. If you can help me just tell me what i gotta do to get Bane in tip top shape. A link to the gear and stats is all in one place below this unnecessarily long post. On a final note i know one of the major things i could do to change my characters performance majorly is to change my primary offense gear piece well... I like it and I'm currently on a search for the same PR in blue so i won't be changing that, but besides that you can list anything else that will help me in the future img204.imageshack.us/img204/6359/banesgear1.jpg
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Post by supercollide on Sept 7, 2011 4:18:16 GMT -5
You have a lot of upgrades to stats you aren't really going to need (PRE & STR for example). [EDIT - I see about 100 points that could potentially use redistributing and you could get another 30 points extra when you get Elite drops to replace your Secondary Offense Items]
You best bet is farming for Elite Difficulty scaled blue upgrades from Freon (Bunker Bravo) in Serpent Lantern, keeping what you can use and Auction Housing those you can't to gain funds for buying gear slots which haven't dropped for you from the Auction House.
When I geared up Angie (based on MIND AT) I spent about a week farming (probably about 8 hours actual playtime on her with the logging in and out) and about 200G in globals as I must've bought about 4 items from the auction house as well. I only kept gear that pushed PRE, INT, END, REC & CON, if the upgrade had anything outside that I either kept it for alt toons or auction housed it.
I would imagine that DEX, EGO, REC, END & CON would be the stats that'd you'd want to boost for a soldier. Normally I'd recommend not pushing your superstats past about 230 as the damage boost hits a softcap but with EGO it'll still boost crit severity so keeping that at 300 of so should be well worth it.
I'd say that everything apart from your purple Secondary Defense item can be improved.
If you don't want to die fast then more CON should help as well.
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Post by axjetvv34 on Sept 7, 2011 5:45:33 GMT -5
Man, i hate fighting Freon; with my low CON and his chill i move so slowly he somehow always ends up knocking me into the generators. Usually i just go vamp and keep my char between the door and Freon that way if i get knocked it's only backwards towards an area with a little wiggle room, but i guess i can try farming him, even if it makes the fight even more unbearable but i really wanna get that dream gear and i can't unless i can dish out dps fast and in large bursts. Thanks for the help!
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Post by supercollide on Sept 7, 2011 6:39:49 GMT -5
Yeah - parts of aftershock should be farmable too (there's a thread here about part 5) so that might be worth a try as well.
In the meantime, I've got less HP than you and now I ace him in a little over 1 minute.
What devices do you have equipped? Blood Moon is coming up and if you haven't got some of the more useful devices there then farming them in the open missions would be useful. I can recommend Nimbus of Force (shield), Hacked Orbital Cannon Code (alpha strike attack), Archer's Memory (attack-lesss useful for Freon), Revenant of Firefight (90sec fire pet - great for freon!).
I open up with a Hacked Orbital Cannon Code, Revenant of Firefight then Archers Memory (provided he doesn't disappear - otherwise it's wasted) - usually that leaves him down to one bar health.
If you can get an upgrade that has elemental resistance that will help you a lot as well.
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Post by squirrelloid on Sept 7, 2011 6:51:09 GMT -5
More specifically: If you really like the U-MD rifle, there are versions up to level 40 blue. Try running UNITY 2, which should drop it eventually. Alterately, use your UNTIL tokens for a Primary Offense purple from the 1250 value ones should provide a good upgrade, or an elite-enhanced ('legendary') blue primary is also an option.
For secondaries you're looking for 29/8 Dex/Ego or Ego/Dex. None of your current secondaries are great (though your 29/8 Ego/Pre isn't terrible, but Pre just isn't very useful to you). 29/8 where the 8 is rec/end/con wouldn't be bad either, especially if you're concerned about diminishing returns, and even 20/8/8 with all useful stats are good.
For primaries other than the rifle, the purple is decent. Your primary defense is awful and should be easy to replace. I recommend 59/20 Con/Dex or Ego as a base, hopefully 68/29 after elite enhancement, but 59/29/8 Con/Dex/Ego (or swap Dex and Ego) would also work.
As an alternative, you might look into a dodge/avoidance primary defense with dex or ego as the minor prefix, but they're rare and expensive.
FWIW, you can crank critical rate up to ~40% without being totally crazy, and you should certainly look into picking up *at least* 16 more dex to hit 200 even if you aren't interested in cranking critical rate to obscene levels.
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Post by beldin on Sept 7, 2011 6:58:27 GMT -5
More specifically: If you really like the U-MD rifle, there are versions up to level 40 blue. I think the U-MD Rifle is dropped from Qularr .. so its Unity-1 and not 2 where you can get it axjetvv34 If you have problems farming Freon you could still simply farm CTP-mats, sell them and buy some nice blues from the AH
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Post by supercollide on Sept 7, 2011 7:09:27 GMT -5
Actually - farming Blood Moon should also net you several normal blues that usually go for 3-4G for secondaries and 10G for Primaries. I usually rake in about 100G that way each Blood Moon.
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Post by KenpoJuJitsu3 on Sept 7, 2011 7:43:55 GMT -5
So i recently just got another purple unique gear piece, after discarding my old on on accident, and i would like to know what other pieces of gear i could acquire to improve my stats. I want a soldier who does good damage with decent crits but doesn't die fast and i want my dex to AT LEAST hit 200 while my ego hits 300. If you can help me just tell me what i gotta do to get Bane in tip top shape. A link to the gear and stats is all in one place below this unnecessarily long post. On a final note i know one of the major things i could do to change my characters performance majorly is to change my primary offense gear piece well... I like it and I'm currently on a search for the same PR in blue so i won't be changing that, but besides that you can list anything else that will help me in the future img204.imageshack.us/img204/6359/banesgear1.jpgI haven't read the thread yet so bear with me if I repeat something. Problem #1 - The Primary Offense piece you want to keep. You are giving up a massive amount of stat points (could have a +95 DEX item there) for a damage type that your soldier AT isn't even buffing. Problem #2 - A lot of your gear is not Elite blue gear which tends to make purple gear obsolete until they review purple gear. Those +20's could be +36's for example. Problem #3 - some of those stat points you have allocated you don't really need so much of (End, Int, Pre without an actual heal to use it, etc.) Long solution: Farm or buy better gear Quick solution. Hit me in-game and remind me to sift through my banks for some gear for you. I may have some pieces to get you closer to what you're trying to accomplish. I know I have Justice geared up similar to this. i162.photobucket.com/albums/t254/KenpoJuJitsu3/Champions%20Online/GameClient2011-08-2517-32-00-46.png
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Post by squirrelloid on Sept 7, 2011 7:50:05 GMT -5
More specifically: If you really like the U-MD rifle, there are versions up to level 40 blue. I think the U-MD Rifle is dropped from Qularr .. so its Unity-1 and not 2 where you can get it I was kind of sure it was dropped by Evil Spirits. Possibly reinforced by the 'ghostbuster' name. I'm willing to be wrong on this, although I'm reasonably certain its *not* the Qularr who drop it. (Developed by DEMON, etc..., and I'm pretty sure i've never seen one killing Qularr, though i have seen some and i'm pretty sure it was something in VB that dropped it).
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Post by KenpoJuJitsu3 on Sept 7, 2011 8:10:35 GMT -5
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Post by beldin on Sept 7, 2011 8:46:35 GMT -5
I think the U-MD Rifle is dropped from Qularr .. so its Unity-1 and not 2 where you can get it I was kind of sure it was dropped by Evil Spirits. Possibly reinforced by the 'ghostbuster' name. I'm willing to be wrong on this, although I'm reasonably certain its *not* the Qularr who drop it. (Developed by DEMON, etc..., and I'm pretty sure i've never seen one killing Qularr, though i have seen some and i'm pretty sure it was something in VB that dropped it). Sorry .. i thought about the Qularr Assault Rifle .. because i have a blue one of that, so my fault. Don't know why .. but i always mistake SMG and AR
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Post by axjetvv34 on Sept 7, 2011 16:56:46 GMT -5
Thanks everyone, all of your ideas are fantastic and i was so eager to see them upon reaching home today. I honestly believe i could take many of these ideas and put them to use on my other characters besides the Soldier. And to answer the question about what Bm items i have, I have "Fists of Compliance" and "Hacked Orbital Cannon codes" and for becomes i have "DJinn(classic)" "Vampire" and "Werewolf(black, i had arctic but i didn't see the use in frost breath so i gave it away") YES i did GIVE the BECOME WEREWOLF ARCTIC away, a friend wanted it so i gave it to em, and i bought him a become chaos demon red. Other than that i will try to look into everything you guys mentioned in this topic and again, thanks for the help.
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Post by axjetvv34 on Sept 7, 2011 17:09:03 GMT -5
More specifically: If you really like the U-MD rifle, there are versions up to level 40 blue. Try running UNITY 2, which should drop it eventually. Alterately, use your UNTIL tokens for a Primary Offense purple from the 1250 value ones should provide a good upgrade, or an elite-enhanced ('legendary') blue primary is also an option. For secondaries you're looking for 29/8 Dex/Ego or Ego/Dex. None of your current secondaries are great (though your 29/8 Ego/Pre isn't terrible, but Pre just isn't very useful to you). 29/8 where the 8 is rec/end/con wouldn't be bad either, especially if you're concerned about diminishing returns, and even 20/8/8 with all useful stats are good. For primaries other than the rifle, the purple is decent. Your primary defense is awful and should be easy to replace. I recommend 59/20 Con/Dex or Ego as a base, hopefully 68/29 after elite enhancement, but 59/29/8 Con/Dex/Ego (or swap Dex and Ego) would also work. As an alternative, you might look into a dodge/avoidance primary defense with dex or ego as the minor prefix, but they're rare and expensive. FWIW, you can crank critical rate up to ~40% without being totally crazy, and you should certainly look into picking up *at least* 16 more dex to hit 200 even if you aren't interested in cranking critical rate to obscene levels. What do you mean when you say "Enhanced gear?"
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