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Oddity about Ada Dot So in doing RLH so much these past weeks I noticed something odd. When fighting Busker (the Spirit of Rock rip-off) whenever he would use his Phys Guard I would see "1" pop up every so often. When he used Magic Guard I would see an occassional fairly large number. Sometimes it would just be 1 number but other times it would be two or even three lines. Long story short I think it is the DOT from ADA. I think it is registering as physical damage instead of magical like FB. I was hoping some of the stronger BaMs could test at other bosses (I don't fund my BaM so she can't even solo Zak and I don't feel like wasting an EoF just for this and most weaker bosses don't use those skills) and wanted to know if anyone el

General Battlemage

Important new finding about Bb So at the request of I've been testing if BB adds 2 or 3 total speed to your attack and the results of my tests seem to show that it actually adds 3 total. So the +2 in the description is actually in addition to the +1 from the base AYA. So basically once we can have BB on 100% of the time there isn't as much reason to use an Ele. With any other staff we will be attacking at Faster 3 which is only an 8% DPM difference which is actually not as hard to make up for with higher Matk. So yeah. After we get our Hyper Skills we can basically use any staff. Ele will still be nice but no longer the only option. The extremely high base matk of the 163 ones will still make those the weapon of choice for those who can get

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What should I upgrade? So I kind of hate and avoid these threads but I really want to upgrade my gear and I'm not sure what to get (aside from a few things I know need cubing). I'm not going to be buying NX anytime soon (either IRL or in game with meso) so I want to upgrade my other gear for now. Anyway. Here is what I have: Hat: 6atk Lionheart Helm. 3 Line Unique. No %str (so many cubes wasted on this....). Plan on cubing it next time I get NX. Eye: Kenta's Goggles. 6%all stat. Cape: Blackfist Cloak. 6% str. 4atk. Glove: So Gong glove. Or 12% str 19atk Lionheart Bracer. Top: 9%str Neos Top. Bottom: 6% str Neos Bottom. Pendant 1: 6% str HTP w/ 1atk. Pendant 2: 3%all RSP. Belt: 3%str 2atk Marx VL belt. Shoe: 5atk Lionheaert shoe. 3line rare.

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New Desktop advice So I'm not really much of a tech guy. I really don't know jack about what I need for a good computer. I want a desktop instead of a laptop this time. So I need some advice. I'm looking to purchase a new computer. I don't want to spend more than around $1000. I want it for gaming but I don't need anything too beastly as the highest end game I currently own (and I don't buy games often anymore) is D3. I just want something that can run games fast. I'll mostly be using it for D3 and Maple. I did try and google some advice on this but the problem was that pretty much 100% of the advice I found was to build your own and the only reason I can get this desktop is because my mother in law is letting me use her Dell Credit Card. S

General Warrior

P/c Lionheart Scimitar So I bought a lionheart Scimitar (the 2H sword) with the intention of scrolling it using the 20% scrolls and the Clean Slates from the renegade shop and reselling it for a profit. Well shortly after I bought it they nerfed Pzak, then Pzak ended, and now Jett farming doesn't work either. So it's a lot harder to get as many of the scrolls as I would need so I wanted to know how much it is worth now and how much it would be worth after if I were to finish it. So right now it has 4 slots used, 4 free, unhammered and 157 atk. If I finished it it would have 8 slots used, 0 free, unhammered and 177 atk. 2 line crap pot either way. Unfortunately.

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Price of a 32 attack Lionheart Bracer? So once I manage to sell my 10% dex Specs I am planning on upgrading my gear. I was thinking of either getting some more GM scrolls and finishing off my VL gloves or going for the gold and getting a fully scrolled 32 attack Lionheart Bracer. I have more than enough dex to equip it right now anyway. Then I realized I don't know how much one of those would cost and if I could even afford one. So yeah. I need a P/C on one of them. Preferably for Windia although any world's price is somewhat useful.

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P/c on 10 dex 3 line unique Specs So the seal on my specs finally expired and I was looking to sell them but I don't really know exactly how much they are worth anymore. Too bad they were sealed a few weeks ago when Mercedes hit but hopefully there is enough fervor for Mercedes to make them worth a good bit still lol. Anyway. They are 3 line unique with 6% Dex, 4% Dex, and 4% Str. Just looking for a P/C so I can have a good idea of what they are worth before I try to sell them.

General Battlemage

Post-Union Battle Mage Guide [header=top][b]Battle Mage Guide[/b][/header] Right so I've never written a formal guide before but I was bored and I figured since none of the Battle Mage guides on Basil are even updated for Chaos yet it doesn't seem likely they will update for Union either. Besides we are probably going to get SP resets and it would be nice to know how to allocate my SP and if I am going to go through the trouble of doing the research I might as well share my findings with the rest of the community. Hopefully they don't go ahead and change BaMs again the day after I post this. Anyway on to the actual guide. First off will be my recommendations for SP assignment. Okay it should be as up to date for Rise Against as it can be (g

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Warrior DPM comparisons post-Advance of the Union Okay so I did some number crunching for the 5 warriors (Not counting Dawn Warriors so sorry to any Dawn Warriors) although the Demon Slayer one is not accurate at all. It is just what Demon Impact would be if it could be spammed since I had trouble figuring out how often they would have to resort to recharging Demon Force. It still serves good enough since it demonstrates where they stand in DPM comparison anyway. Okay so some notes on what I did and did not do for these comparisons: 1) I didn't count the Demon Slayer's 10% boss damage skill since it is a linked skill and therefore any character could have it. 2) I also only did DPM% ignoring any extra attack from skills (although I did comp

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