General

Mage

Is it worth gettng a bossing shield n training shield?

I've been think about getting a 2nd shield; one for bossing and one for training. Worth it?

Current shield is 18m.att; 30%bossing, 12%m.att, 12%str and 4%m.att neb

April 28, 2014

14 Comments • Newest first

mvietp09

@natty2: That makes sense, so they're considered mini-bosses then. Ironic, Jett's headshot move won't work to ko mobs, but pally's HH will lol. I guess it's fair considering HH is really slow.

Reply May 6, 2014
natty2

[quote=mvietp09]@natty2: I see. It's just odd the way heavens hammer affects them cause usually only bosses can be ko's by hh while mobs stay at 1hp[/quote]

What?
that doesn't make any sense...
But yea, attack that act differently against bosses triger their bossing effect when done against a mob with a mini-boss flag (all HoH monsters, and all future perion golem type monsters).
Same goes, for example, for Jett's skill "Brain Scrambler" - that 1HKO every monster, except bosses, where it does extremely high damage, 4 lines.
If you use Brain Scrambler on mobs in HoH - it does 4 lines of damage instead of OHKO.

That is to prevent the auto-kill from preforming on end-game mobs, because then a level 160 jett could walk into HoH, and solo all monsters, and reach level 190 in a matter of a few hours.

Reply May 6, 2014
mvietp09

@natty2: I see. It's just odd the way heavens hammer affects them cause usually only bosses can be ko's by hh while mobs stay at 1hp

Reply May 6, 2014
natty2

[quote=mvietp09]Hoh monsters count as "boss monsters". Whenever I use heaven's hammer, it deals damage to the monsters as if they were bosses not regular monsters (can knock out instead of leaving at 1 hp). If boss damage applies to these monsters, stick with one boss damage shield.[/quote]
I can 100000% gurantee you, that boss damage doesn't apply to HoH monsters, and Warrior Grounds.

Reply May 5, 2014
mvietp09

Hoh monsters count as "boss monsters". Whenever I use heaven's hammer, it deals damage to the monsters as if they were bosses not regular monsters (can knock out instead of leaving at 1 hp). If boss damage applies to these monsters, stick with one boss damage shield.

Reply May 2, 2014
natty2

[quote=Mjamie]I used to have a training shield (even though I stopped training) with 18%mg.att and a bossing shield with 50%boss, 6%total damage and 6%int.
I then decided to invest all into my bossing shield and worked on bonus pot. Now it's 62%boss, 6% total, 15%int, 12%mg.att and gives me more range than my training shield.

The time and effort going into making another shield might be equal to what I did to improve my boss shield, and that might be one way of doing things for yourself.[/quote]

how could is be 62% boss?
I've never heard of a boss line that isn't a multple of 5...

Reply May 1, 2014
Mjamie

I used to have a training shield (even though I stopped training) with 18%mg.att and a bossing shield with 50%boss, 6%total damage and 6%int.
I then decided to invest all into my bossing shield and worked on bonus pot. Now it's 62%boss, 6% total, 15%int, 12%mg.att and gives me more range than my training shield.

The time and effort going into making another shield might be equal to what I did to improve my boss shield, and that might be one way of doing things for yourself.

Reply April 30, 2014
xProHeal

[quote=lilnarutoboy]@xProHeal : I'm not as strong as you are....

@natty2 : Thanks for the tips [/quote]

Lies! I be a weak nib compared to you.

Reply April 29, 2014
xProHeal

Just cube a secondary for grinding and then leach me to 250. <3

Reply April 29, 2014 - edited
natty2

I have both shields... in reality, I don't have a true use for both.
Although, as a bishop, I need as much jump as I can get for grinding.
Naturally I have 117% jump from other equips;

So I have 2 shields:

1) Bossing Shield: 60% boss damage + 6% magic attack + 21% PDR
2) Training Shield: 30% total damage + 9% magic attack + 3 jump.

So yea, while I wear my "grinding" shield, I get more range, and my jump reaches 120%, which means I can train more easily (Bishops need to jump high in order to complete Big Bang's animation before landing) Although I am perfectly able to grind with my bossing shield.
Unless you're a bishop, I suggest one shield, with the most Boss damage / magic attack / PDR / Total Damage - as possible.

Edit: I heard rumours about some powerful players who have 2 weapons perfected - one for bossing, and the other for training. Though in reality, I am 100% sure that if they have enough money to afford 2 perfected weapons, then they are perfectly fit to grind with their bossing weapon as well. No grinding monster in the game requires more than 1 hit to be beaten by a single attack of a decently funded player.

Reply April 29, 2014 - edited
nc4228

Nah. If u can afford a truly DECENT bossing shield, ur probably gonna one hit any monsters u train on anyways.

Reply April 28, 2014 - edited
lilnarutoboy

I 3 hit hoh monster (doing almost 2mil per line w/ ar and 2.8 with bb). Should I cube this shield for %m.att, then buy another shield for %bossing and cube it for bossing?

Reply April 28, 2014 - edited