Help for a Sorta Newbie?

• Elmeryn wrote on 2013-11-11 21:24
  I'm reaching ttl 500 soon and I just learned I don't need an enchanter for ~R5 enchants (shhh, I can be smart). So I decided to come and ask for advice on what I should put on my stuff and what skills to rank next. My skill ranks are:
  
  R1 Smash
  R1 Windmill
  R1 Assault Slash
  R1 Sword Mastery
  R3 Critical Hit (It's taking a while)
  R2 Metallurgy
  R1 Refining
  R1 Production Mastery
  R9 Combat Mastery
  
  I don't even know what swords to use or what title to wear right now. Help please?
• Cyrene wrote on 2013-11-11 21:45
  Oblivion enchants on everything.
  
  If you can manage the gameplay, I would grab a knight lance and ditch the swords.
• Elmeryn wrote on 2013-11-12 00:34
  Uh, just Oblivion? I can't really afford that.
• Yuuki Asuna wrote on 2013-11-12 00:41
  Given the somewhat common nature of focused beam swords in the Eweca Orb Gachapon, you could strive to buy a set of those or purchase them from the Seal Merchant using adventure seals if you can find the time each day.
  
  In terms of enchantments, special/extraordinary both give a reasonable amount of damage nor are they that excessively expensive either. Deserted is a good helm enchant and compliments dexterity well once you can get it. River raven admiral gloves are a nice piece of equipment too. Ambush can be something to strive for if you hunt bandits for leveling. And when in doubt for a cheap prefix/suffix, there's always fox hunter's and wild boar! Eventually, you'll want to aspire for oblivion but I wouldn't worry too much about that until like 2k total. (If someone tells you otherwise, they're probably a shmo)
  
  Head: Deserted Dexterity
  Body: Special Ambush
  Gloves: River Raven
  Boots: Strider Wild Boar
  Accessories: Stout Earthquake or Fox Hunter's Wild Boar
• ironwoman wrote on 2013-11-12 03:10

  Quote from Yuuki Asuna;1168539:

  Given the somewhat common nature of focused beam swords in the Eweca Orb Gachapon, you could strive to buy a set of those or purchase them from the Seal Merchant using adventure seals if you can find the time each day.
  
  In terms of enchantments, special/extraordinary both give a reasonable amount of damage nor are they that excessively expensive either. Deserted is a good helm enchant and compliments dexterity well once you can get it. River raven admiral gloves are a nice piece of equipment too. Ambush can be something to strive for if you hunt bandits for leveling. And when in doubt for a cheap prefix/suffix, there's always fox hunter's and wild boar! Eventually, you'll want to aspire for oblivion but I wouldn't worry too much about that until like 2k total. (If someone tells you otherwise, they're probably a shmo)
  
  Head: Deserted Dexterity
  Body: Special Ambush
  Gloves: River Raven
  Boots: Strider Wild Boar
  Accessories: Stout Earthquake or Fox Hunter's Wild Boar

  
  
  Pretty much what this person said, but I'll add/edit more things.
  For swords either use these two: battle swords or focused beams. Battle swords are for longer time investment while focused is for insta max, but falls off pretty quickly. Battle swords drop from some missions with spike enchant, so you could look into that, and have wolf/lion hunter's as the prefix. Otherwise, more expensive option would be Goddess Caliburn Battles, and I really don't recommend this if you don't have 2 mil+. For battles, you should always go red upgrade. One might ask "What about demonics?". Yes, they do have slight high damage overall, but the cost efficiency is terrible, not to mention those things don't come with nice enchants. But you should really branch into Knight Lance at some point, as they beat both battles and beams. Or just melee weapons in general. Knight lance has no point if you don't have secret penetrating and elemental reforge (doesn't have to be high, level2-3 is enough).
  
  Try to slap on Corundum on head and the raven gloves, since those are easy to come by. Also, viscount for suffix for boots, since those are cheap nowadays. As for accessories, I'd go the same option, or get corundum sonnet. You should get the magic craft accessories if you plan to use them for long time, otherwise, burn the enchanted accs, then put them on another acc.
  
  This is your ideal pre-2k set up:
  Corundum dexterity headgear
  Special Ambush body wear
  Corundum/Sun Raven Gloves
  Strider/Fleet Viscount
  Acc: Stout EQ or Corundum sonnet
  
  Now if you're past 2-4k and wanna advance your gear…:
  Oblivion Dexterity headgear
  Restored/Encore Ambush/Champion body wear
  Expansive/Steel Needle Elegant/difficult gloves
  Oblivion/Solo Viscount/Butterfly shoes
  Oblivion sonnet accs. At this point, if you're rich enough, try to get oblivion accs.
• Elmeryn wrote on 2013-11-12 03:38
  Thanks for the super detailed answers. They helped a lot.
• Elmeryn wrote on 2013-11-12 13:27
  One more question: Where can you get said battle sword pre-enchanted with Spike?
• Yuuki Asuna wrote on 2013-11-12 14:03
  You can get the fomor variant from the ducat shop in the limited tab. Sadly you can't special upgrade it but they are reasonable surrogates until you can make your own. Stamp is the easiest bridge if you want to enchant spike.
• ironwoman wrote on 2013-11-12 18:19

  Quote from Elmeryn;1168686:

  One more question: Where can you get said battle sword pre-enchanted with Spike?

  
  
  You can get them from Protect Corrib Valley for 3 extra dura ones, or the ones with knight enchanted from the same mission. Knight itself isn't a bad enchant, provided you don't care about HP like me. Otherwise, you can just enchant spike right over them. Another way is to get them from Offering, for shop base spike battle sword. For both of these missions, you have to run them on HM.
• Howhurl wrote on 2013-11-12 18:46
  if you were on alexina, i'd just give you the spike battle sword i have to you >.>
  
  And yes, it was from offering. I was surprised to see it o.o
• Elmeryn wrote on 2013-11-13 06:51

  Quote from Howhurl;1168749:

  if you were on alexina, i'd just give you the spike battle sword i have to you >.>
  
  And yes, it was from offering. I was surprised to see it o.o

  
  
  I appreciate it, but I'm on Tarlach. Thank you though.
  
  Thanks for answering my questions, everyone.