I'm a level 34 Valk and have been looking in to different armor choices. My question is about Grunil and the lesser options. I see a lot of people recommending using Taritas and Agerian to level up. Is it worth it to mix those 2? Or would it be better to start working towards getting a full set of Grunil and upgrading it now?
As per a weapon, I'm assuming the go-to is Liverto or Yuria? Can someone explain to me why that is?
Posted Apr 12, 2016, 8:59 PM UTC
Semi-related, is there a way to get the look of an armor piece without the stats, as a costume essentially? I like the Grundil look but don't necessarily want the Grundil stats.
Personally I would just go for your end game option at the start. I personally use Head and Gloves Grunil and Armor and Boots Tartitas with Yuria and Vangretz. This gives you 5AP and 120MP/SP from the set bonuses and 6 gem slots to achieve your +5 cast speed etc.
If I had the funds to do something similar I would. I like this layout.
A full set of taritas/agerian will run you about 80k from the market. A full set of grunil around 400k from the amity game. The biggest bonus of grunil is the extra gem slots, but until you hit 50 theres more you can spend your money on than gems. Since you can get armor to +5 without any rng and can get all those stones back later, i would just take the cheaper set for now and worry about switching when you are ready to go beyond +5 armor. But either way, there's no wrong choice.
Liverto won't be obtainable until you are 50 unless you have 9 mil and can snipe the market, so just go yuria. +human damage on yuria makes it viable in pvp and only a small downgrade to liverto.
Thanks for the input. This is kinda what I was figuring. I've got a set of Agerian sitting in my inventory, I just hadn't taken the plunge to upgrade it to +5 yet.
Edit: I ended up going 3 piece Agerian and Taritas shoes for the evasion increase
I think the best choice is 3 piece taritas with agerian gloves. I started with 3 piece agerian and talis boots, which worked okay for leveling, but i should have gone taritas from the get go. The reason taritas + agerian gloves is good is because you get +120 dp/mana which is hard to get and allows you to cast more while grinding while also increasing damage of SOJ (our biggest damage dealing skill in pvp), +5 accuracy which is great and kind of translates to AP in a way as without it you'd probably want to have an accuracy accessory here or there, agerian gloves for the cast speed, but at some point you'll want the boss gloves when they come into the game as they scale with accuracy and then you'd still be okay to run your 3 piece taritas and you have the option of using a shield other than vangertz, but with grunil the set would be broken. Get Yuria to start with and switch over to liverto or better yet kzarka longsword when you've got your armour really high as DP is one of our most important stats. Yuria is the cheaper option and deals good damage to humans, not as much as liverto but it's close (to humans), liverto is much better for everything else. If you upgrade your +15 yuria to ultimate as well you can get +2 cast speed on it, then you can get +2 cast speed in helmet and have 5 cast speed because of the gloves.
what about gearing for strictly pve, I have no interest in pvp, im lvl 40 using yuria weapon with 3 pieces Agerian an 1 Taritas glove atm +5 for set +8 on weapon, an don't know if i should be switching to grunil.
If anything Grunil is more PvP focused and if you die in PvE you have a high chance of losing gems. I'd probably still recommend taritas 3 piece with agerian gloves, or even agerian 3 piece (including gloves) with a 4th piece of your choice as you don't need to worry as much about getting cast speed gems then. You may want to use an axion shield for increased AP as accuracy isn't as important in PvE (vangertz is a must for PvP). You'll want a Liverto or Kzarka weapon at some point (i'd get armour to +13 or higher first and get your Yuria to +15)
alright sounds good thanks for the info!
Do you have a set of enchanted gear from another character? Use that even if it absolutely sucks. You could go take a crap and come back 15 minutes later and you wouldn't be dead yet.