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Hybrid gunner, swordie loadout

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Sun, 11/11/2012 - 04:00
Bzzts

OK, well I am trying to figure out a loadout with the best bonuses for both swords and guns.

I generally play with 1 weapon slot, 1 trinket slot and at least an else sword + alchemer

Bonuses I prefer would be sword damage VH at least. And CTR or asi med

The two sets I was thinking of are:
Shadow sun piece,
Skolver piece,
swift strike buckler,
And a damage sword trinket.

A different set would be :
Skolver piece,
snarby piece,
BTS,
and sword as I increase trinket.
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I play lock down so the ask trinket would be most useful so I could have better defence than vog.

Any load outs you have put together? I'm not P2P so don't have seerus.

Any sets that include CTR?

Sun, 11/11/2012 - 06:10
#1
Fradow's picture
Fradow
Confused

I'm a little bit confused about what you are looking for and what you have. While you properly describes the armor, you don't say much about the weapons you have, which can influence very heavily your shield/trinkets choices.

First thing, both loadout you propose are good, with the first one being more gunner than swordsman, and the second being a full swordsman set (which is also a perfect set for LD, it has immunity against Shiver, some piercing and some shadow).

Why do I want to know about your weapons ? According the weapon, CTR can be advised (Brandishs, Alchemers) or ASI can be (Sealed Swords, Antiguas).

Also you said you play Lockdown : do you play only lockdown and almost never CW ? (in that case take Heart Trinkets and don't look back) Or do you play both and want a loadout that can do both ? (in that case you are probably going to need lots of parts to be able to mix and match according the situation).

CTR is mainly acquired through trinkets, weapons UV and getting weapons to lvl 10. The only good CTR set, apart from Seerus and bombs sets, is the Chaos set, which also comes with heavy status debuff, which can be hard to use if you are not already experienced. Incidentally, it's also perfet for hybrids, as it is not specific to any weapon. The whole set have CTR : Med and DMG : Med. Would be perfect for a brandish/alchemer user that don't fear status.

Sun, 11/11/2012 - 07:29
#2
Darkbrady's picture
Darkbrady
For LD, Shadowsun, Skolver,

For LD, Shadowsun, Skolver, Recon, dmg trinky for whichever weapon you use more.
Having only one trinky slot limits you quite a lot in LD; it'd be worth the 100me 50ce investment to open up anther slot and increase your options. Other than that, I'd probably say to go recon to get the CTR/gun ASI bonuses to stack up your weapons and hope you have good UVs.

For CW, a Skolver/Snarb, Gun Damage trinkies (Or Shadowsun+sword damage, depending on def/res needs) and a Swifty should solve all your problems.

Mon, 11/12/2012 - 09:27
#3
Fehzor's picture
Fehzor

Certain weapons need ASI and certain weapons need CTR. Get the weapons, then look and find the armor that will benefit ASI/CTR the most. Damage is good for both, although typically needed more for ASI styled weapons.

For instance:

If using:
Hail Driver
Umbra driver
Acheron
Voltedge

You'll want CTR for guns and CTR for swords... ASI will benefit you less, but still. Thus, you would likely want something like-

-Chaos set
-Defensive shield (or swiftstrike if you crazy)

Although you'll eventually want to get more armor types so that you can be optimal. Such is the goal of hybridization.

Mon, 11/12/2012 - 12:01
#4
Tenkii's picture
Tenkii
Hybrid sets:

The two main hybrid sets I use are:
Chaos cloak (CTR+ damage medium for guns and swords)
Fallen set (ASI medium for guns and swords)

I run recon, so heart trinkets are USELESS, freeing me from that silly line of trinkets. This lets me swap between being an effective gunner or swordsman easily by just changing out which damage trinkets I'm using.

With Chaos set, 1 gun damage and 1 sword damage trinket, you can have a respectable VH damage with both weapon types.

As stated before, think about what guns you're using too.
I find hail to be my preferred swordy sidearm :v

Thu, 11/15/2012 - 20:06
#5
Trapzter's picture
Trapzter
get chaos.

get chaos. gets you both, dmg and ctr on swords and guns. and a swift for asi high.

then you´ll walk around having:

dmg med
asi high
ctr vh

on every weapon as a base.
just don´t get hit ;P

@ #4
chaos affects dmg and ctr of bombs aswell

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