So I am new to lockdown, and I want to get a good setup for it. I am in Tier 3 normally and use a Gran Faust + Silversix combo. I usually play Recon or Striker. I plan to get a 3rd weapon slot, but I am not sure what to get. Under the recommendation of others I have a Snarble Barb and I was going to get a Barbarous Thorn Blade. I discovered you could only UV roll on the Snarble Barb and ended up with one with High Charge Time Reduction. Should I try to trade this for one with Attack Speed Increase or continue rolling? Which is easier/faster? I also currently use full Fallen Angel set what should I switch out to? Keep in mind I do not pay to play so CE is not incredibly easy to come by.
Thanks for any and all answers
Need Lockdown Weapon Advice
How useful is the BTB's charge attack? If I get a consensus of it being more useful than an ASI I will keep it. My main questions now are how much is my Snarble Barb with CTR High worth? How much is a Snarble Barb with ASI High? How easy would it be to obtain either weapon? Any armor recommendations? I was thinking if I use the snarble barb i have full Vog Cub, and getting a full snarbolax set for the appearance (Snarbo Coat, Cap, Shield, Blade + Gran Faust).
The difference between vhigh asi and max asi on a striker with a FF/BTB is actually pretty big in lockdown.
That sword could fetch a lot as it can be very useful in PvE. Consider keeping it and getting another barb and rolling on that. The sword is very good for clockworks anyway, so you could regret it down the road.
Regardless, do NOT re-roll over it.
What is your armor you are wearing?
If you had a vog set, you'll have max asi w/ a striker. If you have a skolver set (or snarby), you'd have max damage.
You can use trinkets to fill in the gaps to get max asi/dmg. This means you could keep this sword and get trinkets to give you max asi while having good damage. Trinkets would be cheaper than rolling on another barb imo.
The gran faust will also benefit greatly from the higher attack speed. Does your GF have a uv on it? If it has a med asi, then you may want to try to get a med asi on your btb so you only require one asi trinket.
Edit: Well you apparently posted before I did. If you're going for a vog set, then don't re-roll, keep the thing. Focus on getting sword damage trinkets as they will buff the damage of both swords. It will also be very useful for PVE. As it sounds like you haven't arrived to the point where you are doing shadow lairs, I'm ignoring your intention to get snarby armor since your F2P method will mean it is much further down the road.
Edit 2: Prices, not sure. You'd have to do a search for the forums for the sword + "Ctr high" and look at what was recently sold. Unfortunately, a high sits in the middle. With a ctr med uv, you have a vhigh ctr at level 10, so you only require 1 focus trinket to get to max ctr. However, with a high, 1 focus trinket is too much, and 2 is too many, so it sits in this weird "not as desirable" state. However, it is still good as the difference between CTR levels is 0.25 of a second here.
ASI will be more expensive than CTR due to the advantage of ASI in lockdown.
Currently I am using the Fallen armor set I thought it would be fun with high curse weakness and faust. I want to change though to a Vog set, and I dont like trinkets simply because of it requiring energy to maintain but i will consider it. If I go full Vog ASI wont matter right? I dont intend to roll over the barb i was going to buy/grind for a new one. No Im not doing shadow lairs even though I have 5 star gear I havent made it past floor 1 of tier 3. Im kinda mad now because I only have 5 star items because I got lucky and crafted a Vog Cub cap with Maximum Fire and one with Maximum Normal Defense but I sold them for quite a bit less than I wouldve gotten if I had sold them here. So I am thinking of keeping my barb and just getting good vog armor to cover my ASI.
Edit: My other weps are Gran Faust, Avenger, and Silversix. No one wants to post their prices for ASI increase they just want serious offers. The Snarbo set is an after thought. It really depends on whether or not I can get a good maximum wolver item.
It's a good plan. eventually when you do start doing fsc, the vog set will help learn the ropes there. It's a fun place once you can handle it.
Shame on the Vog cap's being sold for less than you could have got =\
Trinkets aren't that expensive if you purchase them with an alt (paid account vs free, separate computer, etc.) then it will only cost you 50CE per trinket. They last a month, so the cost is actually not that bad. You can also do this for a 3rd weapon slot which is very useful, the 4th weapon slot is not as necessary.
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For lockdown, skolver is actually better than vog for a few reasons:
1) freeze immunity from shivermists
2) weapon asi UV's mean you don't need the asi trinkets and that means more flexibility (heart trinkets, for instance), but this can't be done for damage uv's for weapons
However, for clockworks, vog is generally prefered over skolver.
Given this, I would get do a hybrid of skolver/vog for all occasions. You can read more in the wiki.
I havent paid dont intend to but I might. Good point with the skolver with that I could just get trinkets to cover it. Darn this is going to take a long time
Edit: Anyone know a reasonable asking price for CTR High Snarble Barb? I dont particularly want to sell it now but people are interested. If someone is way overpaying I will take it but i dont want to get ripped.
Edit 2: Im probaly going to go hybrid since I want elemental defense + ASI but Freeze resist + damage is convenient
Edit 3: I wasnt considering it before but should I actually use the snarbolax coat for armor? Shadow defense seems more useful than piercing + the damage buff is the same, but I get medium freeze and poison resistance instead of high freeze
Ya, the paid amount can be the smallest amount. Be careful, once you pay, the mental hurdle to pay the second time is a lot smaller.
The hybrid freeze resist won't be a full immune to shiver, so you'd still have to be careful, but it's still a good balance imo.
Problem with the snarby is getting it. It's definitely something that's further down the road.
If you had it, yes it'd be better as an "all round set" than a hybrid with skolver, but until then, the skolver/vog hybrid will work fine. if one of them has a shadow def UV, it'd be useful (I say vog, since you could use it in fsc.)
Further, the skolver would be useful for doing the snarby shadow lair since there would be a lot of pierce damage there.
Generally:
Hybrid first, then complete the sets, either vog or skolver, depending on what you want. you would change the gear according to what you need. If you had a snarby piece or two, you'd rotate accordingly later on.
Thanks that sounds pretty good soooo any advice on how to do this quickly?
I assume you mean "what order should I make this?"
BTB
Vog
Skolver
DA --> Or move this up if you want to use the charge soon.
Or.. do you mean, how do I earn crowns quickly?
I meant is there a faster way to get crowns that was already going to be my order
High CTR on a BTB is pretty awesome. I'd suggest keeping it, I don't think ASI would benefit you much.