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Tesla Monkor
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Jaem- said:
Kill Guros and Sky Mages for it. None of the other mobs seem to drop it. (I got mine from a Sky Mage)
When I was farming for scholars 3.. I camped the area around 13, 33 meso for a couple of days killing guros and sky mage and no drop.. I then read about a different loc.. Its an area in meso where theres like a big skeleton.. big bones comeing out of the ocean floor on each side.. 2 guros pop and swim up and down the centre of the bones.. theres also a stationary guros pop next to one of the bones. These respawn very quick and are easy to farm. I came here and within 30 minutes I had 2 scholar 3s drop!
May wanna check toascrolls.com for the loc.
Seems to me that if an area already has ppl killing things there is less chance of a scroll drop.. that could be just my mind fooking with me though.
May wanna check toascrolls.com for the loc.
Seems to me that if an area already has ppl killing things there is less chance of a scroll drop.. that could be just my mind fooking with me though.
Skilgannon
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Got mine to 10 last night 
For me as a Reaver the summoned flex weapon is very nice. 3.5 spd 16.5 DPS 100% qual Flail (green with silver spikes) that does Elemental Energy damage. Never loses dur, as you just simply summon another one when con drops.
Not sure about RvR but this rocks for PvE, especially as I will be doing alot of PvE in the coming months. As the weapon only needs to be resummoned if you die or LD, the 15 min timer isn't much of a problem. Only time it is a bummer is if you die/LD at night.
With Snakecharmers now in my 2H slot (never losing con/dur either) I am now sorted weapon wise. My crafted 3.0 spd whip with haste proc is in the vault for when I return to RvR and I just need a reasonable weapon to use if I die/ld at night.
This artifact should be first on the list for any melee damage dealer.
For me as a Reaver the summoned flex weapon is very nice. 3.5 spd 16.5 DPS 100% qual Flail (green with silver spikes) that does Elemental Energy damage. Never loses dur, as you just simply summon another one when con drops.
Not sure about RvR but this rocks for PvE, especially as I will be doing alot of PvE in the coming months. As the weapon only needs to be resummoned if you die or LD, the 15 min timer isn't much of a problem. Only time it is a bummer is if you die/LD at night.
With Snakecharmers now in my 2H slot (never losing con/dur either) I am now sorted weapon wise. My crafted 3.0 spd whip with haste proc is in the vault for when I return to RvR and I just need a reasonable weapon to use if I die/ld at night.
This artifact should be first on the list for any melee damage dealer.
yaruar
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Beck said:Yes abosrb still works against em etc.
If you get a heat elemental dmg sword (like legendary) then like you say you get summat like 15% bonus against leather.. so if they have 26%heat resists.. attacking them with a heat leg weap will put their resists down to 11% straight away.. if your proc goes off (which it should cos its regular) their resists will be at -6% for at least 30seconds.. so you will be seeing +dmg rather than -dmg which makes a nice change.
But apparantly a leg weapon is very rarely made as a MP so you will have to make do with a 97-99%qual one. And only really usefull against leather.. so swap out to another sword for all other armour types.
AFAIR they patched a few versions ago to stop negative resists after casters were debuffing and causing uber damage. Resists should never go below 0 now. I think this was in the patch where they nerfed avoidence of magic by changing the formula.
civy
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Skilgannon said:Got mine to 10 last night
Not sure about RvR but this rocks for PvE, especially as I will be doing alot of PvE in the coming months. As the weapon only needs to be resummoned if you die or LD, the 15 min timer isn't much of a problem. Only time it is a bummer is if you die/LD at night.
Port to a zone it's daytime in.
I've had my belt of the sun at level 10 for quite a long while now (on US servers). I can tell you a few things about it, it's not that great an artifact IMO when you consider the following:
- The 10% resist buff lasts only 30secs and you have to switch out of combat to use it, it's not an absorb like AP, just resists so not as good as AP1 even
- It only summons one of each weapon, so if you want to weild one you have to wait 15mins, duel weild it and you need to wait 30mins for your weapons
- Infrequent procs when compared to legendary weapons which proc FAR more
- The weapons seem to critical hit MUCH less than crafted weapons
- The energy debuff doesn't work in PvE
I've been using them whilst levelling my Golden Spear on Gorgons and the difference in critical hit rates between the summoned weapons and my 99% crafted 16.5 peircers was definetely a noticeable one. The proc goes off fairly rarely, although can be somewhat sporadic, sometimes once a fight, sometimes 3 times in a row but more often than not it procs rarely. The energy debuff definetely makes no difference in PvE however the DD proc still lands.
Also yes, they hit against energy resists not peirce resists.
My advice if you want elemental weapons is buy a pair of legendary weapons, heat legendary weaps are nice with a 15% bonus against ALL leather (Not to mention the debuff which is another 15% afaik), as a ranger with 10% bonus defence against heat legendary weapons I'll be quite chuffed when assassins start using heat based legendary weapons to shred up other assassins whilst I'll have a 25% damage difference upperhand on them
- The 10% resist buff lasts only 30secs and you have to switch out of combat to use it, it's not an absorb like AP, just resists so not as good as AP1 even
- It only summons one of each weapon, so if you want to weild one you have to wait 15mins, duel weild it and you need to wait 30mins for your weapons
- Infrequent procs when compared to legendary weapons which proc FAR more
- The weapons seem to critical hit MUCH less than crafted weapons
- The energy debuff doesn't work in PvE
I've been using them whilst levelling my Golden Spear on Gorgons and the difference in critical hit rates between the summoned weapons and my 99% crafted 16.5 peircers was definetely a noticeable one. The proc goes off fairly rarely, although can be somewhat sporadic, sometimes once a fight, sometimes 3 times in a row but more often than not it procs rarely. The energy debuff definetely makes no difference in PvE however the DD proc still lands.
Also yes, they hit against energy resists not peirce resists.
My advice if you want elemental weapons is buy a pair of legendary weapons, heat legendary weaps are nice with a 15% bonus against ALL leather (Not to mention the debuff which is another 15% afaik), as a ranger with 10% bonus defence against heat legendary weapons I'll be quite chuffed when assassins start using heat based legendary weapons to shred up other assassins whilst I'll have a 25% damage difference upperhand on them
Yussef
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Vulnerabilities
Leather: 15% Vulnerable to locational Heat
Chain: 10% Vulnerable to Energy
Studded/Reinforced: 5% Vulnerable to Energy, Spirit*, Cold
Plate and Scale: 10% Vulnerable to Cold, Energy
Cloth: Neutral
Resistances
Leather: 10% Resistant to Cold
Chain: 10% Resistant to Heat
Studded/Reinforced: 10% Resistant to Heat
Plate/Scale: 10% Resistant to Heat
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Also the debuffs semi work in PvE, it will not debuff for your base melee damage but it will debuff for Leviathane/dd procs/spells I assume, the first is confirmed anyway.
Leather: 15% Vulnerable to locational Heat
Chain: 10% Vulnerable to Energy
Studded/Reinforced: 5% Vulnerable to Energy, Spirit*, Cold
Plate and Scale: 10% Vulnerable to Cold, Energy
Cloth: Neutral
Resistances
Leather: 10% Resistant to Cold
Chain: 10% Resistant to Heat
Studded/Reinforced: 10% Resistant to Heat
Plate/Scale: 10% Resistant to Heat
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Also the debuffs semi work in PvE, it will not debuff for your base melee damage but it will debuff for Leviathane/dd procs/spells I assume, the first is confirmed anyway.
I'd have thought it just outright debuffed the energy resists on the target (as it does in RvR) then as you're still hitting vs. energy resists with the weapons in melee it should hit as with those resists not just the DD. The DD only ever lands for around 60dmg even if it's after a previous DD+Debuff so I'm not even sure the debuff is working there. Ranger damage add is energy based and it doesn't effect that although afaik damage adds aren't touched by resists in the slightest. I just don't think the debuff does anything whatsoever in PvE that I can tell, I guess I could get a chanter/eld to come PBAE for me and see if they notice a damage changed after the debuff to confirm if it is working in PvE or not. It's somewhat noticeable in RvR though at least.
