yeah it is lol

had afew close calls throughout my whole climb got down to 2 life once
but managed to punch my first mq out ok
the best part it was a grind, shoulda started with a fighter not barb haha

Congrats Rew and good job Mike

you sure about that? I made a little discovery. By accident. I think the other one may have done better. It has double the defense and 5 ls. I averaged 3 more kills per. I killed faster with that one, but the other one kept me alive longer.

For those of you that missed it:




Gratz Drew on the attempt and a big gratz for staying alive that long....


This post was edited by xoazeus on Sep 16 2008 03:43am

very nice, congratulations


life steal is a very powerful mod especially in the medium and higher levels.

as higher your damage output is, the more life you steal. if you then have big defence as well and can collect some zero or low hits,
your life bar even recovers on certain monsters.

i just tried this on my fighter yesterday, i went 1-35 in about 5 or 6 hours nearly without regening.

i tried several setups, including a 33dex charm and a strength armor, and in the life steal setup a charm with 8 life steal and critical flux and a heavy armor with 7 life steal, eis and some extra experience.

result: i had like 10-15 monsters in a row with the stat setup and 20++ ( many levels without regening, even when i did wells ) with the life steal setup.
on several monsters, my life bar was going to the right ( recovery ) instead of loosing life, even with several wells.

the hybrid solution was rather in between. the kill speed was higher with the stat setup, as i had more consistent damage ( strength ) and more critical hits ( dex ),
but i certainly lost that time again when i would have had to regen, but i usually found enough stuff to shrine.

imho as a melee character you should always try to get 5-10 life steal especially in the higher levels.
you can go for e.g. a big stat charm or armor and big life steal on the other part or try to find hybrid solution, like 3-5 life steal on each of them in connection
to some stat points. but usually this stuff is quite expensive.

i think you can get a 8+ life steal charm quite cheap and it will help a lot, you should give it a try for sure

This post was edited by NaRa on Sep 16 2008 04:28am

You said that much better than I did. . I checked the mp for a ls charm ( I sold mine on the mp I think_-Cant find it) Plain 5% for 10 fg. Mine had 8. I dont remember selling it though......Sigh.....

i could always kick my as for selling a 13 or 14 life steal ice with very nice adds a couple of months ago.
i sold it for 15 or 20 fg as mutable, today this one would be sooo nice

but well. one cant predict the development of ladder slasher, maybe vita will get a powerful mod some time in the future, i still have my 60+ vita stuff^^

On my next climb, I was thinking of running just 1 char to save some time. Then I started thinking about doing a test. 1 char str, 1 dex and 1 combined, to see which does the best. Ive heard some people say go pure str on fighter. I dunno, but I think Ill find out.

hmmmmm. All of a sudden I went from 10 kills per to 3. I just got an amazing 14 kills @ lvl 44. Laugh. Go ahead. Im impressed because I usualy suck a lot more than that...

Id really like to up my axe. Lvl 45 w/ 78 ee. Only thing on mp is 82% for 120. Not really looking to spend 120 fg for 4%. ( there is another one same ee for 350.....lol)

Ill be hard pressed to up my armor:
Rare tempered diamond chain mail
Level Req: 45
Defense: 34 to 87

+22 Strength
+25 Dexterity

22 str charm

I have a 34 dex, but I think I would rather have good steady damage rather than a chance to hit crit and the rest just fair. Id love to have a dex/str/ls charm. Like I can afford that.......

I hope this guy pms me for the lvl 55 regen axe. 17 regen.

@ 55 I have a 17 regen charm, and an 18 regen robe so that 17 regen axe would be just lovely....


If anyone wants to donate 25k fg so I can upgrade my entire set up.......

Anyway sup guys, just got back from college. I have some good news and some bad news.
The good news, I'll be heading for another MQ asap
The bad news, the sword I wanted to buy is sold and unfortunately the one selling didn't PM me or what so ever
So i'll have to find another upgrade for my recent MQ sword.

Hey everyone.

Hows everyones slashing going today:P