[tup]

I have searched around for the best manastone setup but since they are all posts in 2009 and I guess some calculations of them posts have now been changed? What should I be using? Thanks

[Surfass]

Depends you can have multiple sets, magic resist, block, acc / attack / crit. Depends on what you want to do.

[tup]

Surfass, on 16 March 2012 - 05:08 AM, said:

Depends you can have multiple sets, magic resist, block, acc / attack / crit. Depends on what you want to do.

I'm just wondering what's the best setup for PvP and PvE

[SpiritOfChaos]

i opened a debate at gameforge forums

Depend ur purposes , want be a meatshield or be a Dpser ?

[reflexion]

stack mana manastones, break power's damage depends on your mana pool, the higher mana you have, the stronger you hit, that's why you see ppl hitting for 5k with it in pvp

[Mikuni]

I started with full crit except 10 slots ATK5 for testing, bad choice. Now I'm 25 x crit 10 x mres. Base stats with +10 TAC/EC + EC armor + food/scroll = 738 atk, 2189 acc, 913 crit, 1686 mres. With both atk buffs it goes up to 1103.

Got also sw full mres and Triro +10 combined with 30 abyss full crit, which I switch sometimes for clerics/kiters (though chasing kiter on triro rarely works on 200-300 ping).

[tup]

I'm looking for the recommended setup for tanking and for pvp to be honest

[Mikuni]

I use that set for both, don't really need a special set for pve tanking tbh. Maybe a full hp or some block if you'd plan on doing EC 10.5 or AS full HM, but then I'd still rather contribute some dmg instead.

[tup]

Thanks for your help, I am level 35 but I want to be educated. So noob question tac/ec is a merje gs or sword and board sorry

[Mikuni]

What you mean board? shield? EC is a 55 set you get from doing arenas and Crucible instances.

[tup]

So what would you recommend sword and shield or gs for end game?

[reflexion]

sword and shield indeed

[tup]

reflexion, on 17 March 2012 - 06:53 PM, said:

sword and shield indeed

Was speaking to a temp ingame and this is what I got told.
Crit 440-460
Atk or hp for others on greatsword.

Sword and shield crit 440-460
Block all on shield
Rest hp or attack?

What are your opinions on this?
They also said mainly use gs although for hard instances / bosses use sword and shield.???

In my opinion hp can be healed? A set up I personally think of is.
Crit 440-460
Block all on shield
The rest all mres? Or maybe a combination of mres and hp? But at what ratio?

This post has been edited by tup: 18 March 2012 - 12:15 AM

[Mikuni]

sword/shield barely ever needed cept maybe Taros boss in BT and EC past stage 7. With greatsword set you should have at least 700 crit unbuffed if you plan to pvp.

[tup]

Mikuni, on 18 March 2012 - 03:05 AM, said:

sword/shield barely ever needed cept maybe Taros boss in BT and EC past stage 7. With greatsword set you should have at least 700 crit unbuffed if you plan to pvp.

So basically its as you say, crit > mres and on a shield just put block on it?

[tup]

One last thing, can you guide me with what stigmas I should be equiping please?

This post has been edited by tup: 18 March 2012 - 04:51 AM

[Xathiann]

2400+ block (depending if people on your server are geared you'll want more)
2000-2200 accuracy
500+crit

[tup]

Shield sword better than gs?

[Eurlin]

tup, on 19 March 2012 - 06:18 AM, said:

Shield sword better than gs?

depends on your gear/playstyle/enemy

Everything varies, if you're on a castor heavy server vs a ranger heavy server gear changes from player to player. I know back in the day we spent hours on here trying to find the universal end all be all set, but it's server dependent for the most part.

Those threads are still extremely accurate I'd think, as I may not be playing anymore.. the numbers are still the same.

[No,you.]

But now you need like 3k block to be effective against big non extend glads.

I just used all my kinah on my gladi to try a parry set, I end with 701 crit ( food + scroll ) 2 714 parry and 2 566 acc with a master carved greatsword + EC pvp GS

With a proper pvp fusion I could have like 2.7 acc, also, I don't even have the ET pvp necklace, so I could gain like 15 crit and 30 acc.


Imo real block set will have to wait for the 3.0 and the crazy acc + atk + crit buff the templar has when he blocks
You'll be able to sacrifice a lot of manastones to slot moarrrr block and reach 3k without destroying your crit / acc too much

There is still a stupid thing about block temps, well two, the first is that they can't die against melees, the other is that you MUST make a +15 shield every new update