New equipment, thoughts?

[Doombringer]

my thinking has sorta been that if my att is high enough that adding more att wouldn't help, i'm probably going to destroy that mob anyway. so i've definitely valued att a little higher than is probably normal, if for no reason other than saving inventory and macro slots.

but i dunno, what's a good benchmark to be at for attack in ws? assuming normal mobs in the low it to high vt range? (since again, if it's weaker than that i'm not to concerned with building for it) i DID finish my str shamshir+3, combined with my AJ it's not unthinkable that i might have higher than normal or maybe even higher than needed att..

[saevel]

my thinking has sorta been that if my att is high enough that adding more att wouldn't help, i'm probably going to destroy that mob anyway. so i've definitely valued att a little higher than is probably normal, if for no reason other than saving inventory and macro slots.

but i dunno, what's a good benchmark to be at for attack in ws? assuming normal mobs in the low it to high vt range? (since again, if it's weaker than that i'm not to concerned with building for it) i DID finish my str shamshir+3, combined with my AJ it's not unthinkable that i might have higher than normal or maybe even higher than needed att..

Assuming acc isn't an issue (that is a big IF) then I'd go with meat for ~600~700 attack (gear and sub dependent). If acc's an issue then go with pizza+1.

On a side note, been killing VT~IT tigers down in Kuftal and they have defense higher then expected. Definitely around 500~ish. Will be back down there to figure it out and get a new benchmark for attack.

[saevel]

Ok back on topic.

@Doom
For the time being you should pack in as much attack as possible. At 95 most of the things we fought where level ~100 or so. But now that we've hit 99, there will be new content created meaning new T~VT ash & trash we'll have to plow through and new NMs. I'd start planning around fighting monsters 104~106. Thankfully our sword / dagger base skills have scaled better then they did back at 60~75 and the difference between A+ and B isn't very large. This means ultimately it comes down to gear, food and buffs. Gear we're just gonna have to suck it up, SE has pretty much left us in a position where we're gonna be married to Pizza+1 or Bison Steak for the foreseeable future. Get as much +enhancing magic as you can get your grubby hands on, Gain-STR is your friend and Temper has great scaling (until we hit the cap that we're not sure of yet). Enspells wont' scale much higher then ~30, but assuming you use the right element you can get solid accuracy on them, resists shouldn't be more then 5~10%. Also seeing as Req has pretty much failed us completely, CDC is a must. I would stick with the STR shamshir, we need that fSTR and attack more then anything. I'd like to see what SE's "enhances Dia III" effect is and what they do with Tier II merits. They could fix it and make it work with Sab or make it stronger, but the realist in me thinks they'll do nothing of importance.