help with gear setup

[punisher360]

im rank 16 mrd any tips what gear i should use from 16 to 30

[Zarvlad]

Optimal Rank gear with High defense + Optimal rank weapon

[Lienn]

Optimal Rank gear with High defense + Optimal rank weapon

This. Until r27 the best defensively talking is harness set. But if you want a more evasive armor (assuming you don't feel like tanking) then you can seek tarpper tunic set or mixing trapper tunic and harness sets.

From 27 on you're supposed to stick with haubergeons.

[Scape]

At about 30 I would work on the 35 NM gear. very good stats on these and they can carry you on to your "end game" gear for the most part as well:

Weapon: Boar's Bane
Body: Kokoroon's Darkshell Mail
Legs: Paladin's Trousers
Feet: Engineer's Leggings
Head: Conquistador Elmo

[Ferth]

Honestly... Depending on what you are doing... Just make sure your weapon is optimal rank, then for everything else... find stuff in the mid-low 20 range.

Yeah optimal rank gear will be "best" because you'll get the full value for every stat... but there are so many pieces of gear out there that you could be carrying a bunch of crap just to rank from 16 to 21 (which can be done in one sitting depending on how much you like grinding.)

The stat differences from the level 16 thing you are optimal for and the 22 thing you aren't optimal for are pretty small. and the convenience of not having to buy and carry a bunch of gear that you will use for a short period of time more than makes up for the few stats you are missing out on.

Unfortunately, a lot of this game is amorphous right now.

Between the changes we can't see and the changes that are so small as to barely have an effect... just go with stuff that looks good until about 25... then start looking for the optimal rank gear upgrades.

[Lienn]

At about 30 I would work on the 35 NM gear. very good stats on these and they can carry you on to your "end game" gear for the most part as well:

Weapon: Boar's Bane
Body: Kokoroon's Darkshell Mail
Legs: Paladin's Trousers
Feet: Engineer's Leggings
Head: Conquistador Elmo

Well, seeing she is LNC these armors might be familiar to her already so i guess they would end being used even if no one said a thing. But indeed gear-wise this set might be considered optimal for DDing until 50, unless she feel like giving tanking a try.

[Jabo]

This. Until r27 the best defensively talking is harness set. But if you want a more evasive armor (assuming you don't feel like tanking) then you can seek tarpper tunic set or mixing trapper tunic and harness sets.

From 27 on you're supposed to stick with haubergeons.

The Haubergons are also the best defensiv gear in the game. The cuirass stats are missleading and far inferior to the haubergeon stats.

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You can use the Haubergeon way before optimal rank, because it is so much better than the usual rank 20-27 gear. Dosn't hurt to use it at Rank 20. Pre 20, i would suggest the Tabarts (Rank 15)
The best gear would be the scale males, but they are very costly for the rank (Rank 14, Rank 21).
Weapons should always be optimal rank, because they lose durability way faster.

I wouldn't recommend the NM weapons. The stats are useless and the +1 versions of your usual weapon are way batter. Also they go for only 150k-250k. So you don't have to spend a fortune.

[Scape]

Well, seeing she is LNC these armors might be familiar to her already so i guess they would end being used even if no one said a thing. But indeed gear-wise this set might be considered optimal for DDing until 50, unless she feel like giving tanking a try.

It depends, if they are like myself, they could have had LNC leveled up before this gear was introduced and not have it yet still.

I wouldn't recommend the NM weapons. The stats are useless and the +1 versions of your usual weapon are way batter. Also they go for only 150k-250k. So you don't have to spend a fortune.

Those NM weapons are free, and very good. You can't say stats are useless but then go on to say the +1s are better... implying that stats are not useless.

[KumaAkuma]

The Haubergons are also the best defensiv gear in the game. The cuirass stats are missleading and far inferior to the haubergeon stats.

Missleading in what way?

[Lienn]

Missleading in what way?

Not really sure what he meant either ^^: Defensively speaking cuirass beats hauby due not only greater def but also by the damage cut effect. Even tho damage cut effect goes down as the armor start wearing out, only the HP bonus from cuirass is already enough for it to be used IMO. Hauby is even to cuirass for GLA only since STR increase damage cut from blocked attacks...but even as GLA i still prefer just sticking with cuirass set (because its also very beautiful on my miqo'te =P Can't wait to see a cuirass with shoulderguards!).

But as people say here..."taste is like ass...everyone has their own.". Its up to the player to decide which one to use...if the player has allotment already directed to VIT then hauby might be more appealing to him than cuirass due STR bonus...if the player has an allotment like mine (balanced with STR spike) then cuirass is much more interesting than hauby for tanking purposes.