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Anniversary Edition - General discussion / Back for the third time - but with NEW questions!
« on: 24 April 2021, 21:21:16 »
I've been sucked back into this game for the third time now in about 10 years. Happy to see some familiar faces still on this board. I have some new questions though as I've been playing through a brand new (primarily) casting druid using plague/lightning bolt. The idea is to get -recharge% equipment so I can have almost permanent uptime on both spells. I'll also be using pets later on, although right now all I have is the wisp. I am not playing Ragnarok or Atlantis (yet) FYI.
1. Is there a resource I can use to help me find all existing -recharge% equipment? AFAIK this is not a stat associated with yellow/green item prefixes/suffixes or Monster Infrequents, so I'm prepared to hunt down the appropriate legendary equipment that has it. I've been using tq-db.net as a starting point but I can't really filter on that one stat, so it's a little annoying. Are there any other resources that others like to use that may be helpful?
2. I'm trying to understand how the scaling on certain skills works. I understand that a lot of people leave skills like Envenom Weapon from the rogue tree at level 1 because all that changes is 34 poison dmg at level 1 to 230 dmg when maxed out, which is basically nothing on legendary. However, I know that maxing out Lightning Bolt from the storm tree is vital to maximize damage, or for petmancers adding flat pet damage on jewelry. Why do these flat increases "scale" better?
3. Back to tq-db.net, I was looking at some of the drop tables to get a sense of where I might farm items. Is it known that there are gaps in the information on the loot tables? I was farming on my old bow brigand in the formic caves for a Soldier's Unyielding Will and received an Ikon of Zeus arcane formula. I'm 99% sure it was from a normal Formic Soldier (not a hero, just a trash mob), yet that is not listed as a source on the drop table on tq-db.net.
4. Does Static Charge on the storm tree increase ALL of my lightning damage? Including from my basic ranged attacks from the staff I have equipped, Lightning Bolt, and things like Storm Surge proccing? The description for the skill is kind of poor.
5. Speaking of staff basic attacks, I can tell that something like increased attack speed as well as the flat damage from the staff I have equipped will increase my DPS, but how do things like increasing INT affect it? Or having flat elemental damage on my staff?
Think that's all for now, thanks for anyone who chimes in to help me understand some of the nuances on this great game. Happy to be back as well!
1. Is there a resource I can use to help me find all existing -recharge% equipment? AFAIK this is not a stat associated with yellow/green item prefixes/suffixes or Monster Infrequents, so I'm prepared to hunt down the appropriate legendary equipment that has it. I've been using tq-db.net as a starting point but I can't really filter on that one stat, so it's a little annoying. Are there any other resources that others like to use that may be helpful?
2. I'm trying to understand how the scaling on certain skills works. I understand that a lot of people leave skills like Envenom Weapon from the rogue tree at level 1 because all that changes is 34 poison dmg at level 1 to 230 dmg when maxed out, which is basically nothing on legendary. However, I know that maxing out Lightning Bolt from the storm tree is vital to maximize damage, or for petmancers adding flat pet damage on jewelry. Why do these flat increases "scale" better?
3. Back to tq-db.net, I was looking at some of the drop tables to get a sense of where I might farm items. Is it known that there are gaps in the information on the loot tables? I was farming on my old bow brigand in the formic caves for a Soldier's Unyielding Will and received an Ikon of Zeus arcane formula. I'm 99% sure it was from a normal Formic Soldier (not a hero, just a trash mob), yet that is not listed as a source on the drop table on tq-db.net.
4. Does Static Charge on the storm tree increase ALL of my lightning damage? Including from my basic ranged attacks from the staff I have equipped, Lightning Bolt, and things like Storm Surge proccing? The description for the skill is kind of poor.
5. Speaking of staff basic attacks, I can tell that something like increased attack speed as well as the flat damage from the staff I have equipped will increase my DPS, but how do things like increasing INT affect it? Or having flat elemental damage on my staff?
Think that's all for now, thanks for anyone who chimes in to help me understand some of the nuances on this great game. Happy to be back as well!
First off, it's great to see some of you all again. I was on the original tq forums with the same username circa 2012-2014, and after quite a long break, I got the itch to play again. I was able to import my old characters over into AE.