Quote from Alice;449400:
Thanks for the response, so you'd recommend I rank life skills first before combat skills? I guess that works since I'm ranking potion making\herbalism right now. I'm kind of excited about trying everything again with the lightened requirements\destinies\homesteads.
To clarify some things, I'd rather not spend 50m\100k nx even though I have that much to use if needed, but since both my characters are really low maint, it's just something that's built up over a long period of time and I think that this might be worth it to spend on. In the end my elf will probably be very mid-end at best when I'm done.
Also my elf is already an established mage right now with a strong foundation in magic, it's just that after hailstorm I'll have finished up all the magic skills I was interested in ranking. It's not that I'm giving up magic to go ranged but that I've always wanted to play a ranged elf since they came out and see this as a nice segue into elf archery from magic.
Gear-wise I've got about half of that stuff I think, though I can't activate some of the effects and some stuff is half-done.
Current elf's equips:
[spoiler]Precise & Light Lily Acc. \ Fearless Thief Acc. x2
Vine Dexterity BBF
Glorious Fancy HLB (X-grade and upgraded for max; artisan ready if I choose, but cold feet after a friend spent $40~50 on artisans and failed)
Unstable Thief & Victorious Glass Frag. Magic School Uniforms
WN Elegant Cannon (I can't activate the damage from WN yet)
Polished Thief Karis Shoes (has Virtuous\Elegant\Raven available but wanted mana reduction without serious durability loss)
(Low HP build atm)[/spoiler]
I was trying for Restored\Elementalist for a bit but those probably aren't going to happen and I'd prefer to be able to hit 100% crit without needing them.
Been trying for Expansive for a very long time too but just too rare a drop from too rare a pass, got so many SS passes from looking for it that I got enough Dex enchant for both my chars and to give to friends.
Yes Vast is pretty rare...I've done 5 runs and no luck. I know it's not much, but I've heard that it is pretty rare. It looks like you have high-end gears already, and since you said you've ranked a lot of magic (hence the +mp), it would be a good idea to get a good stock of mana pots (100's to tank dmg with mana shield...homesteads should REALLY help with this). It may sound stupid, but if there's pot poison for DK humans, there's pot poison for elves...after all, all you need is dex, right? :) With a proper use of FS glitch, you should be able to get out of any situation to save yourself.
Work on getting another lilly accessory. your hat is looking very good already, you can always switch to oblivion if u feel the need for damage. if you can handle the repair feels on the HLB, go ahead and use that for now. you'll hit a point when you don't need anymore crit though, and you'll have to switch to ego.
for clothing, really, restored is as good as you can get. just keep trying for that. I'm also constantly spamming lingering darkness for the elite passes, and it really isn't a hard mission to do. once you get restored, you can really focus on ur damage. but if vict/glass frag will do, stick to it.
for artisan...some people have luck with them, and some don't. I suggest using ~5 kits and see if any of them turns out to be good. if not, use another kit and just get the regular upgr (if you plan on doing more in the future, keep it that way). you'll eventually have to do that 5/5 since you'll be S/R upgrading (I'd suggest R) anyway.