A Quick Guide to the Revamped Staff Evie

• RebeccaBlack wrote on 2011-05-07 23:27
  I've asked about half a dozen people and they all said that it either doesn't or they think it doesn't.
• shatteredromance wrote on 2011-05-08 08:52
  I don't think smash mastery would affect them much if at all, but I'm not sure and need someone to confirm.
  
  Also, for he Dark Knight staff evies, which spells/skills count as smashes? And so that Steal skill from the DK tree won't work on Magic Arrow because I heard it is not a smash?
  
  Thanks!
• xJac wrote on 2011-05-08 13:24
  Smash mastery does not affect staff's skills at all.
• foreignreign wrote on 2011-05-08 16:05

  Quote from shatteredromance;438247:

  Also, for he Dark Knight staff evies, which spells/skills count as smashes? And so that Steal skill from the DK tree won't work on Magic Arrow because I heard it is not a smash?
  
  Thanks!

  
  
  All of the attacking Focus spells will proc Steal. Magic Arrow doesn't work with Steal.
  
  "Smash kill" objectives are a different story when considering what spells are smashes.
• pyroblage wrote on 2011-05-09 00:35
  What do Staff Evies tend to go Paladin or Dark Knight, what are the ups and down to either choices
• foreignreign wrote on 2011-05-09 02:00

  Quote from pyroblage;438891:

  What do Staff Evies tend to go Paladin or Dark Knight, what are the ups and down to either choices

  
  
  Right now, mostly preference.
  
  Main reason to go Paladin over Dark Knight though, is that there's an ATT cap, so the DK's added ATT/MATT skills won't really help you all that much, not nearly as much as Paladin's DEF skill.
  
  Other than that, you can't really go wrong with either, especially later on when we get the stage 2 transformations since the stage 1 transformations get nerfed a bit.
• xJac wrote on 2011-05-10 03:59
  [video=youtube;QE90QIgIJcU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE90QIgIJcU&feature=player_embedded[/video]
  
  Pally SP aura resulted in a boss that barely land the ground. (Does it strike odd to anyone that, he has wings, why can't he just fly out of there?)
  
  Don't go rushing to pally though, because that aura effect doesn't stack, and having two pally trans'd at the same time would make the aura go waste. Best party choice is to have mixed. In the above video, they have only two pally.
• Jirennz wrote on 2011-05-12 04:42
  So question, which ES should i be putting on glove and skirt ? Rounded or Disciple.
• foreignreign wrote on 2011-05-12 19:17
  Disciple is just about the better choice since it's cheaper and adds more MATT. It does reduce AGI by a bit, but I don't think that 8 AGI (-5 from Disciple, +3 from Rounded) would make a big difference.
  
  It's just that you can't go wrong with either, and if you have one, there's not much of a difference of overwriting it with the other.
• Jirennz wrote on 2011-05-13 06:22

  Quote from foreignreign;442786:

  Disciple is just about the better choice since it's cheaper and adds more MATT. It does reduce AGI by a bit, but I don't think that 8 AGI (-5 from Disciple, +3 from Rounded) would make a big difference.
  
  It's just that you can't go wrong with either, and if you have one, there's not much of a difference of overwriting it with the other.

  
  
  Thanks for the prompt reply. Another question. Would you be adding more mix set guidelines once Ingkara comes in? i've been comparing it with vehemence and i can't really tell much if ingkara is worth replacing certain parts that is vehemence.
• foreignreign wrote on 2011-05-13 21:27
  I haven't actually looked into Ingkara too much since I don't like how it looks (shame on me, I know), but unless you absolutely have to have max stats, then Ingkara is just another side grade. If you're wearing Temptress/Vehemence still, you can switch up your mix to Broken Feather/Vehemence and get a very slight upgrade in INT (maybe DEF too, don't remember), but it's not really worth it unless you have nothing else to spend gold on.
  
  If you want max DEF though, generally you'll want some kind of 2/2/2 mix of Broken Feather (use the earrings for one of the pieces), Vehemence and either Ingkara or Midnight Wedding (I think it's MW). For INT, absolute max right now is a mix of Temptress/Queen's Light Glory all with 3 or 4 stars.
  
  If you want an actual set listing though, or a max INT set without crafting, I'd have to crunch some numbers.
• shatteredromance wrote on 2011-05-17 23:46
  Hey I'm back again, i'm now 61 and looking back I would say take out the Southern Winter set from your equipment list, the time spent on farming klaus and other bosses to get that in between southern set is NOT worth it at all.
  
  You level pretty quickly and just wear your rose drop all the way to temptress, the stats between rose drop and southern winter is negligible and tbh southern winter is also ugly as hell.
  
  It's just personal experience and I think you should take that part out so newbies don't spend so much gold or time trying to get something they're going to switch out so fast.
  
  Thanks again!
• RebeccaBlack wrote on 2011-05-18 05:03
  You aren't really supposed to farm things in the first place (you can, but you know what I mean). Just buy it. And if you're against that because it's inefficient in cost, buy the materials and craft it. It's relatively cheap (in the 50K per piece range I think) whereas Temptress is always hundreds of thousands, with three stars occasionally hitting a million for a single piece. Any random person with a several hundred thousand can pick up a full Southern Winter set.
  
  The only time I consider it worth farming things is when they first come out.
• foreignreign wrote on 2011-05-18 18:45
  I updated my guide to have Flying Sparrow, but right now I'm unsure of where to actually place it in terms of the separate tiers I have. Right now I have it at the top of Low Tier, but I could easily see it being towards the bottom of Medium Tier, or maybe in Solo Tier. It's hard to judge since it requires a lot of skill/timing to make it as good as it could be, as well as being able to read bosses better than you normally have to as a staff Evie.
  
  Any input would be welcome.
  
  

  Quote from shatteredromance;448048:

  Hey I'm back again, i'm now 61 and looking back I would say take out the Southern Winter set from your equipment list, the time spent on farming klaus and other bosses to get that in between southern set is NOT worth it at all.
  
  You level pretty quickly and just wear your rose drop all the way to temptress, the stats between rose drop and southern winter is negligible and tbh southern winter is also ugly as hell.
  
  It's just personal experience and I think you should take that part out so newbies don't spend so much gold or time trying to get something they're going to switch out so fast.
  
  Thanks again!

  
  
  You get Southern Winter when bosses finally start to get really hard though, so that 400 DEF can help you quite a bit.
  
  What I'm more curious about though is whether or not 250~300k is a lot of money for someone who just hit that level, since I've been hitting the level caps each time they've updated since like, January, so I've been keeping up with content and so I had a steady flow of income when we got boat 5. If people starting out have a problem raising that much money (although they'll be able to get most of it back, really), I would consider taking it out.
• RebeccaBlack wrote on 2011-05-19 03:50
  It might eat up a good bit of money at that level, but it's definitely buyable so long as people haven't wasted a lot of money dyeing things. Maybe not three star, but two star at least.