Daevic Flux

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New level, new goals

A week ago tomorrow, I dinged 51. Last night, I dinged 55. I happily skipped to Panda to grab my skills, update my stigmas, put on my new wings and PVP set, and started my 55 advanced stigma quest.

What’s next?

I think I’m keeping my Tahabata staff for now. I have the Crucible PVP Level 2 staff, but need to combine it to something … just not sure what yet. I’ve also started grinding out plat medal dailies and will likely continue to work on those so that I can upgrade to the 55 eternal PVP accessories. NOM NOM!

And since my PVP set is full MR, I’ve started thinking about getting a PVE set. (not sure yet if I’ll go full parry, or a crit/parry mix). I’m thinking I need to level up my Armorsmithing on my sorc to make these:

Shiny! ^_^

I have maxed out Harley’s crafting, and still have her aethertapping and essencetapping to work on. I’m also still doing crucible every day to save up for the 60 PVP set, and want to start on the 60 Daevanion set once I hit that as well. And then there’s the Beshmundir eternal set, which is pretty sweet as well. And Padmarashka. And then there’s the stuff in Sarpan. GAH! There’s just SO many things I want to do! :D

What the Arena can do for you

I was talking with a friend recently who’d just dinged 46 and while naming some suggestions for daily tasks, the subject of the Crucible Arena came up. He felt that because he was “low level” that doing the arena was pointless because he “couldn’t beat anyone.” I told him I thought that was bullnyerk and he doesn’t HAVE to win every match, but at least do it every day to get even the minimal amount of insignias. He then asks, “What good does that do me?”

So I linked him my latest investment for Harley:

That took me a about 4 months. I’ll most likely combine it with the Tac Officer’s Shakujo or something along those lines. Hehe, I think his eyes about popped out of his skull.

“WTF? How many did you win to get that?!!?”

I explained that I didn’t win them all, and even now I still get beat … a LOT. I suck at PVP and need the practice. :) The thing is to keep running it! I ran the crucible arena every day if I could, or saved up my tickets and ran several on one day. I told him 1v1 or Free-for-All, it doesn’t matter. Just pick one and do it, every day. If you’re under-geared or don’t have the time, fine! Just enter once the queue pops, and go make a sandwich. The rewards are worth it.

You earn Abyss Points, Crucible Insignias, and Courage Insignias for every match, win or lose!

If you’re level 46 or higher, be sure to get your Arena tickets every day and run either of them. AFK if you must, but get your rewards! The gear and weapons aren’t half bad, and great for those who can’t acquire a set by other methods. ^_^

Progress check!

Harley’s got her full Fenris set as of this past Saturday. I finished her shoulders grind, turned in the quest to get my quest to craft my Heart of Magic, and happily skipped to the warehouse to gather the materials I’d been saving for the last couple of months. It took two tries, but I proc’d my heart and received the Fenris legs. It took me not quite 3 days to gather the Lights of Luck for her chest piece. I opted for the “regular gathering” route and was able to sell off most of what I’d gathered. (Yay, money!) I’m now working on the Fenris weapon quest and am happy to say I’ve accomplished many of the things I had set on my “to do” list for Harley just a month or so back:

• Complete all Campaign quests — still working on this one, I guess I should get around to it one of these days!
• Start and finish Fenris quests
• Complete 40e PVP set — got my 3rd piece, saving up AP for the other two and saving up $$$ for enchantment stones!
• Upgrade PVP accessories — still need to do this one
• Finish Expert Cooking
• Start Master Cooking
• Start Expert Alchemy (at 360 now)
• Start Expert Essencetapping (at 399 now, can’t do until 50)
• Level Aethertapping (been slacking here!) — still slacking on this one, LOL!
• Change out stigmas to full DPS spec (most likely after 50) — um, yeah, not going to do until after I level … keeping a hybrid build for running with my b-dreg static

A a few other things I’ve added to this list:

• Do the Crucible PVP Arena — I try to do this every day, or save up my tickets for once a week or so and run them all at once. I can’t really use the insignias now, but when I finally hit 55 I will need them!
• Expert Handicrafting, then Master it — this is in progress and is pretty close :)
• Master Tailoring — I can’t remember the exact day I experted this, but mastering is going to be much harder!
• Attend more Balaurea sieges — with my dreg static, I haven’t been able to do this much, but will try to participate more in order to earn and save up plat medals, which I will definitely need later!

I love love LOVE my chanter. I’m playing my SM on the weekends, or whenever I see Fire Temple groups in LFG. I have a couple other alts, but they might be crafters only … or, I may change my mind in a few months. I’m allowed to do that. ^_^

For the most part, the Zikel community has been very warm and welcoming. As with any community, there’s the occasional asshat or complete douchebag, but that’s to be expected. And I still have my loved ones on Israphel. I still hang out every few days or so on Royal Flush vent and have logged onto my Elyos to AP dump and hand out mats to whoever needs them. Sadly, a handful of people are still resentful to me for rerolling. That, too, is to be expected I guess. But like I’ve said before, most everyone has been supportive of me. I love my friends, they’re awesome. :)

I’ll most likely keep grinding on my weapon quest until I finish that out. I took some time and updated my Alchemy and Cooking pages last night. It will most likely be a few more days until I finish Handicrafting and Tailoring. I experted Tailoring, so it has a ton of recipes and will be quite lengthy. I haven’t yet experted Handicrafting … and is another thing for me “to do” hopefully fairly soon. ^_^

Month 27 Veteran Rewards delayed

If you’re like I am and have been subscribed for 27 months, and are due to receive a veteran reward on or after December 22, you may have noticed that they were not showing up in your NCsoft account yesterday as they should have been. I had submitted a ticket to customer service yesterday morning and late last night I received a reply pointing to this thread on the Aion forums by CC Nyx.

It seems there’s been some sort of oversight and the rewards will be available on January 11th. I’m a little disappointed, but at least we’ve been given a list of what we’ll be receiving in a little over 2 weeks:

• 5x Morati’s Secret Remedy
• 3x Major Ancient Crown
• 5x Platinum Medal
• 4x Revival Stones
• 3x Felicitous Socketing (Eternal)
• 3x Felicitous Socketing (Fabled)
• 1x Arena Ticket Box (5 Arena Tickets)

Not the best situation, I know, but at least the rewards are better than the usual stones/remedies/medal we’ve been getting.

PVP Eternal Cloth Sets Analysis

I’ve had my 50e PVP set for a little while, but haven’t put a whole lot of effort into enchanting it because I knew I’d be upgrading sooner or later and its purpose was to get me through until I acquire an eternal set. I now have my Stormwing eternal set, and with 2.7 hitting the live servers earlier this week, I’ve been checking out the new PVP armor available via the new Crucible arena the last couple of days.

There’s 4 eternal sets in total and the variances are slight … in fact, it took me several times looking at each piece to see the differences. To better decide which set to get, I started recording the stats of each piece of each set for comparison in a spreadsheet.

I’ve also included the Guardian Brigade General series for comparison. (I believe the Asmodian equivalent should be the same?)

There are advantages to each set, whether it’s stats, cost, or what-have-you. There’s no set bonus like there are with the gold 30e/40e/50e sets, but I’m hearing that a 60e set is due in version 3.0 so I will be interested to see what kind of stats it will hold. Until then, my new goal is to acquire one of these eternal PVP sets! ^_^