My question is what is a "good" reforge?
The 2 reforge that I want to get first is the:
1. Mana Shield Damage Reduction Rate on my vampire hunter gloves
2. Charge Able to charge without shields on my Twin Horn Cap (Does it consider a hat? If not I will
put on Idol Plaid Hat)
And what are other good refoeges?
One more question is why elemental (lightning/fire/ice) reforge is good ?
Because elemental reforges literally can tack on 11%-55% damage with just one elemental. Considering it applies to mobs that are elementless (90% of the game) AND EVEN MORE if they're weak to that specific ele, you will be doing obscene amounts of damage just from this one aspect of the weapon.
Reforges depend on the weapon/class your going to be using.
If your using most weapons (except guns, staffs/wands and controls bars i believe). Elemental is your best pick. Elemental adds dmg based on the level and based on what elemental if any the monster you are fighting is.
I won't go into elemental because I'm simply not the best person for it. Others have a lot better information regarding the formula and etc.
Archers might want Crash Shot Max Fragment Range (Hat) , Crash Shot Fragment Damage (Gloves) or maybe Magnum Shot Damage (Gloves).
Staff reforges tend to be aimed towards either HS Max Dmg or Magic Attack Max Dmg. All in all it depends on what your using when it comes to overall.
Mana Shield Reduction, Charge w.o Shield, Max Attack Power.
I am human dual wield, so if I get fire +2 on both weapon, will they add up to fire +4 when I dual wielding ?
Here's how eles work, first level doesnt count towards damage unless its against a mob the ele is strong against. Ex: fire 1 will only give 11% more damage to an ice elemental mob. so if you have a fire ele 2, generally it will be giving 11% solid damage increase to non ele mobs and 22% to ice mobs. So for all intent and purposes; the two swords should equal out to ele 3. Since you get 11% damage from each sword, and ele 3= 22% more damage increase.
Another thing: from my experience, ele's on one handed swords aren't all that hard to get, but you will probably be going through about 50 swords before you find some with ele 2 on them. Just go buy some battleswords from an NPC shop and spam normal reforges on them. However, if you're still early game.. I'd consider just saving up for some focused beamswords.
A bit off topic, I got 2 focused rainbow beams, they seem so strong to me, 180 max dmg 50 crit 20 dura and is not that hard to get, only 180 seals. Why not much people using it?
Back to reforge, I am thinking to do the reforge on Muramasa. So I first get it to r1 3 lines, then try to get as many eles as possible, right ? Btw, is Muramasa good without ego? Not thinking to ego it in anytime soon.
Most people favor lances later on for their piercing level, which can deal much more damage to monsters with high protection/ defense compared to beamswords. Beam swords are good for early/mid game, but once you start getting into content where everything is built with the defense of a brick wall, you'll see why lances are important. To answer your question, I think a muramasa would only be good as an ego, but would never outshine a focused rainbow beam.
Lance's really powerful if you use it right...
Most of the youtube video that I watched, people use bow, control bar, knuckle and cylinder to solo dun. Will have a look how lance work.
I will tell you that while control bar is definitely good for solonogi, you won't be able to solo with just puppets alone. Or cylinder, or knuckles, or bow, or lances for that matter. You'll need a secondary set, and that's up to you.
Anyways, as for reforges, I want to ask a question first. Why are you trying to reforge the said equips? The gloves and hat you mentioned seems to have no enchants. If you're going to reforge something, you'd want to do it on something that already has high stats, like oblivion dexterity hat, or expansive gauntlets. That being said, get enchanted items first.
I do not recommend mana shield reduction reforge, since it will fall off fairly quick. As for shieldless charge, I don't think you should get it on hat, because you can always replace charge with lance charge, and get something like cs fragment range, crisis range, or flame burst duration reforge, which give you lot more utility and damage for the flame burst part. Besides, if you really want shieldless charge, you can always get it on accs.
As for other notable reforges, there is Magnum shot damage/crash shot damage, lance charge damage for gloves, crash shot max fragment number for clothes, smash reforge for lances.
Other reforges that other people recommend but I personally don't think is worth are drop kick reforge on boots, focused fist damage on clothes, charge minimum range on boots, and movement speed on boots. The fighter reforges I think are not worth in general since they have high multiplier already, and the chain skills have long cooldown. Charge minimum range used to be hoarded by pvpers before genesis, but other than pvp (which I don't recommend you do it seriously), there's not many applicable situations. Movement speed is overrated, and can be replaced easily with a wavesweeper.