Hi,
To start off, I am an swordie and I actually haven't tried any bomb yet.
I am slowly working my way to 4 star gear and after that to 5 star gear.
I already had an thread in the new recruits subforum but it had an misleading name because it got an bit offtopic :)
Big thanks to slayzz and bluescreenofdeath for helping me in that topic.
I would like to get some more advice so here it goes, I will name the 5 star gear that I want to get:
DA - Elemental damage
GF - Shadow damage
BTB - Piercing dmg
Polaris - elemental damage
Owlite shield - elemental defense
Barbarous thorn shield - piercing defense
Vog cub cap
Vog cub coat
Now I have heard some bad things about vog cub, is this the most preferable vana gear or are there other options, I currently have dusker so I still have my time to change if needed.
I want to start vanaduke runs asap, so which gear from the list I gave will get me there the soonest?
Also about the pulsar, will it be decent to use on an vana run or should I get an blitz needle as well?
Are there any recommendations for other gear, maybe bombs or an nifty brandish line?
Also, I want to get to vana runs the fastest way so could you give an order of crafting the gear?
How I want to craft at this moment is:
4 star:
Faust (already have it)
Dark thorn blade (already have it)
Avenger (next gear I am going to craft)
Wise owlite shield
Gigawatt pulsar
Ash tail coat
Ash tail cap
Dark thorn shield
Ascended calibur??? (I like the charge but it doesnt seem usefull for anything else than that.
5 star
Divine avenger
Barbarous thorn blade
Gran faust
Grey owlite shield
Polaris
Vog cub coat
Voc cub cap
Barbarous thorn shield
Leviathan blade???
Any recommendations/switches I need to make?
I am open for everything, I just want to have an balance end game set :)
My general advice for people like you can be found in my Sword Guide, but you're already well on your way: piercing sword, elemental sword, shadow sword, maybe with an elemental gun on the side. Great. There is no reason for you to get Leviathan Blade.
Vog Cub is great armor for FSC. Since that is your main goal, stick with it. For the rest of the Clockworks, consider getting one or two pieces of Skolver, and eventually one or two pieces of Snarbolax, to round out your defenses. Vog Cub is not general-purpose. You're in danger of becoming one of these people who complains whenever there is a fiend stratum just before FSC, because fiends are "harder" than the "end-game".
For most of FSC an elemental gun is the most useful kind of gun. But in the Vanaduke fight, a piercing gun is the most useful. The way most people fight Vanaduke Phases 1, 3, 5 is to have three jobs: freeze (Shivermist Buster), damage (piercing guns, particularly Blitz Needle), and cleanup (fend off zombies and slags, and put out fires). Right now you're stuck on cleanup duty. Get Shivermist Buster or Blitz Needle, to be more useful to FSC parties.