Christening Blades raises our base crit damage for Judgement Blade to 400% at max, right?
That would be 543 (before BFO) breakpoint for lances to stay red, so we keep them that way?
What really IS the prot in HM/VHM? Is the piercing lance warranted over forcing a higher damage range and higher combined red cdmg with dual swords for humans?
1. 462% with R6, which you should have for Judgement Blade anyway.
2. Sure, but if you're trying to do VHM, you're going to have a lot higher max than that. You should be looking at 900s max without cater and over 1k at 1.5k str.
3. There's the general damage reduction (which can be cut by Breaking Lies) on top usual protection that you see (the one that gets sheered by Lances). The protection that Girg will have is 25 with a 9 piercing lance (basically a requirement for Lances) and 70 with 0 piercing weapons. Which honestly do you think will function better?
Bone chips are obviously not counted.
Look, I don't know what kind of bad gear you're using, but clearly you gotta raise your standards. And frankly, it's not very hard to reach those standards either. I'm not going to give you what I have for my gear since my gear is pretty unrealistic for you attain at the moment (because you probably don't have Avenger accs as well as multiple Backbreakings), but here's a set up that should be reasonably attainable and will get you past 1k max at cap str.
Head: Oblivion Dexterity
Body: Encore Ambush (Max roll Encore easily obtainable from WD raids, Ambush easily obtainable from gacha. Don't make the excuse of "No one does WD", you can solo that shit)
Shoes: Solo Viscount (easy enchants from gacha)
Gloves: Solo Camo (maybe even Backbreaking because Gacha)
Accs: Oblivion Wild Boar x2
Lance: Secret 67th floor's D Lance (there's just no way around it. Either get 67th or don't bother making a lance at all)
15-20 max from glove reforges (Combat Mastery Max 20)
30-40 max from Max Attack Power reforge on lance
With all listed you're getting from 176 max to 216 max (min rolls to max roll from listed above). 18 max from Combat Master R1, 25 max from Lance Mastery R1, 90 max from the lance, 15 from Master of Shock title (Blood Master works but considering that Shock title is easy to get, no excuse), 8th anniversary title (free title with 20 max), at least 24 max from totem because they're not hard to get either, and if you had time to do squire event, or just an avid Alban runner, you should have at least a 15 max totem. 216 + 18 + 25 + 90 + 15 + 20 + 24 + 15 + 1490*(4/10) = 1,019. You don't have to have 1k max, but you should at least be having mid 900's max at cap str for your Judgement Blade to actually matter.
I don't think what I listed is unreasonable, as almost all of the enchants I listed are reasonably attainable, except for 67th floor's, which you'll simply just have to find someone with it. Also most of this information you can find it yourself.
The VHM thing is just theoretical. Nobody actually does it. I don't think I've ever seen a single name on the leaderboard.
I have an R6 knight lance waiting for enchant, so ~20 under the demonic. Not wasting all that AP in lance counter just to have to build up another r6 from scratch, and this at least hits the piercing cap. I'll grab a fresh lance once I can eventually get a divine toothpick, but the knight is my best bet for now (actually if I somehow pull a 67 out of my server's ass it might be best to save it for that toothpick.)
I use armor, so what I have there is extraordinary/avenger. I could push it up a bit with conceptual, but it's not worth the risk for that little. 19 isn't that far off from what you suggest. There are better for heavy armor, but not worth the risk on the rank of those enchants.
Boot+glove sound ok, I just haven't farmed those yet. Hat ok except I might replace oblivion on that and accs with nostalgic or something. I'm not fond of how much luck oblivion cuts off, and I'd prefer it have uses outside of just girg, considering in normal content I'm trying to crit through 70+ protection with my normal swords.
Reforge probably not happening, but I'll throw everything from any chest events at it, or at least after my hat goes final hit duration.
No idea what kind of god luck you expect waving 24 around. 15 is the highest basic totem I've ever had, plus 15 alban for 30 total.
Blood Master/Merlin for now. Aiming for limit breaker, just need a heroic stone to drop from somewhere and I can get guild to run the majority of rooms and abandon at boss once I have it locked into a good rain/hydra/kunai pattern or whatever.
And again, I'm doubting 67 even exists anymore. If it does it has to be impossibly expensive. They need to clone that enchant under a new name and re-release it that way, because a one-time event does not supply nearly enough.
The VHM thing is just theoretical. Nobody actually does it. I don't think I've ever seen a single name on the leaderboard.
I can grab a secondary blade-only outfit, I'm just trying to think in terms of normal content where I would want real ping armor and optimize around filling out the gaps in that first before I start making substitutions all over the place. I have a decent enchant on that already so it's much lower priority than the slots I have nothing on.
When I say 70 prot I mean 70 effective prot, not actual 70 stat. You know that. You know how high mob prot gets and the crit needed to bypass it.
I'm not made of gold. When totem events come up of course I try to get a higher damage one, but there's zero chance I could afford whatever people are charging for a maxed out one right now. Same goes for 67. Maybe one exists, but it's a relic at this point and I'm not even scratching the price.
Ok I looked it up. Limit breaker apparently sucks anyway. I don't see any information claiming you need to enter solo tho. And again, no. 450 AP for 3 max damage. I could spend that AP making a ton more progress towards cap str instead. Once again, you fail to understand priorities. I'm not ttl 20k with everything r1. I can get around to that eventually once I'm out of better options for pushing my range, but right now that is a pure waste of AP.
The lance will come with time. The droprate is shit, but the boxes will eventually get me the crystals etc I need. Meanwhile time won't restore 67s to the market unless Nexon re-releases them under a new name.
As much as I don't like ironwoman in general for being harsh and stuff, he's objectively right this time
VHM Girg is literally end-game content, and if you want to do it, you need to damn well prepare for it, and this means spending days to months hunting for that Oblivion or painfully gathering money to buy a 67th burn. I have roughly 600 max with none of those enchants and 1000 max isn't too farfetched (though reforges are definitely something I can agree is a bit too much). I wouldn't say that 67 is absolute due to its ridiculous rarity, but it'll definitely make a huge difference and required to be "one of the best bladers" who gets all the fame and awe if that's what you're aiming for. Otherwise, I really think a Cartel/Penetrating is good enough. Don't be a wimp like me and stick with Siege Penetrating. That does shitty damage xD
Basically, VHM is only for those who are "go all out or go home". Otherwise, you should really stick with daily parties until you can grind for that level of
"gameplay" (in quotations because it's has nothing to do with skill).
You can't expect to climb Everest with pitiful hiking gear, and when people tell you to get various expensive supples/tools before joining their expedition team, you'd do well to listen to said advice because there's a reason why they say that. I don't know how much damage you do with a crit blade, but even my 30k crit blades isn't enough to join a VHM team (though to be fair, I only have like level 24 smiting).
If you hate those expectations, you are more than welcome to form your own VHM team.
Ok, new question time so I can work on splitting or consolidating these sets. What is the value of damage vs matk enchants for LR vs CC firebolt? How much max do I need to outdo each point of matk for each?