Okay, well I appreciate all the posts, and enjoy the rogue discussion (hehe). And thank you all for taking the time. I have made some changes recently, and been leveling like a madman. I am one blue from 49 and am beginning my epic quest. So I have a pretty good idea of at least what one of my two weapons will be for the next 13 or so seasons... just picked parchment from Founy Today :D
Changes - I went out and bought Defender's lightblade, that thing is awesome - I can hit up to around 90 points of damage with it when nicely buffed, and it was only 150pp, and its slow, so I think that helps with aggro issues. I also recently purchased a Legendary Dagger of Might recently for ratio and for backstab modifier. More on choice and configuration of these three weapons in a moment, but am enjoying my options at the moment.
Ok so I am taking all equipment advice under advisement, and now believe that Ratio is KING in offhand. But I am left with the following questions please, which i suspect may encourage some debate. I bought a
Fine Dark Cloak the other day and feel like that was a good upgrade. I also bought ravenscale shoulder pads and a necklace giving me both strength and dexterity.... in spite of your advice suggesting that I go with HPs.... (more on that later also).
Really, I have two mains points for discussion now:
1. Hit Points or ATK? I have always erred toward the side of agressiveness and not caution... Philosophically, I think that as a rogue, my job is to deal out damage, now I know, that if i cannot take a few hits, I am going to pay the price, and possibly cost my cleric some precious mana, and again when i get rezzed, more mana, and missing damage while I am gone (sorry about run on sentence). Recently, I have been focusing my attention on getting my ATK over 1000 and as high as I can go from there. Seems like in most groups these days (since about level 45) you are getting Temperance anyway, so you get the type of HP boost that no equipment will provide. And since I group with Taredoru the Shaman all the time, I will now be getting HOS a lot, so my attack goes up as well. But even with HOS I am not maxed on strength or dexterity, and I feel like I am letting my groups down by not hitting for as much damage as I could be. So I feel like I have to look for equipment to increase my strength and dex as much as possible, even if that means fewer HP and AC. Current stats are HP 1594, AC 788 (sux), ATK 950, STR 166, STA 126, AGI 149, DEX 147. Want to get so STR and DEX are maxed with HOS.
Okay, so that was not so much a question as a Mission Statement, but I post it here so that it may be criticized or applauded.
2. Weapon selection and configuration. So now I have
Stone Bladed Stilletto and
Defender's Lightblade and
Legendary Dagger of Might - Stone Bladed Stilleto offers nice high(ish) damage for the price, and +10 Dex and +10 Agi - both nice. Ratio 2 (not so good)
- Defender's Lighblade gives me big hits, with a few modifiers. Ratio 1.55 (pretty darn good)
- Legendary Dagger of Might (nice and cheap - 950 pp). Ratio 1.615 (pretty darn good) good str and dex mods. And VENGEANCE II adding 10 to my ATK rating.
Here is question part - (hehe) - I am still using Stone Bladed Stilletto in my Mainhand, and either of the other two in my offhand. People keep saying "Hey idiot, the LDOM has a way better ratio than that piece of crap SBS - wake up and ditch the SBS". To which I counter - "But I read somewhere that a rogue's mainhand weapon should concentrate entirely on ratio prior to level 50 or 55 (can't remember which) because up til then BS will account for only about 1/3 of your total dmg output. but after that, BS starts to count for more like 1/2 your damage, and that is the time when you need to get the highest damage weapon you can get your hands on" (hence SBS). Not to mention the fact that I like the eye candy... highest BS to date was 313 which comparing to other rogues i know is pretty good...
So... comments? Which one goes in Mainhand?
Then - what is all this talk about offhanding my ragebringer when i get it? I definitely intend to be weilding that bad-boy in my main hand.... I think that I will use it with LDOM (rage in main) so I can get the +10 ATK from Vengeance II and BS modifier.
Now - last (sorry this post is ridiculously long, and i fear, poorly written) - What about this for an idea. Get a
Razorsharp Piranha Fin and add to it the LDON aug from BB merchant which adds +3 dmg to weapons that are over 30 delay... Sure 15 / 31 sucks pretty bad (2.066) but 18 / 31 looks better (1.72). And an 18 piercer? Come on... I am drooling just thinking about it. Specially if that notion I have about importance of damage in mainhand is correct.
I recently got the parsing program EQwatcher, but cannot get it to work (damn) but I will figure it out, and eventually update my magelo.
In the meantime, apologies for length of post, but I think there are some interesting topics here, hopefully not just for me. I personally think that piranha fin idea is ingenious. fin goes for about 2k on Karana server.