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by Kevinsaurus » Wed Nov 14, 2012 3:22 pm
Not really a great big fan of the new binding system, or at least the way the number of binds you can have works (but I suppose this is coming from a 120 standpoint, which would make it obvious why).
As for the 10 binds, I'm still debating this. I'm planning on going to the beta sometime within the next couple of days to try out a few weapons and see what I need exactly. But as of now, here are my current 10 binds and my loudouts:
1. Blood Necklace
2. Primal 2h sword
3. Hexhunter Bow
4. Primal Platebody
5. Celestial Robe Top
6. Celestial Robe Bottom
7. Sagittarian Chaps
8. Primal Platelegs
9. Shadow Silk Hood
10. Sagittarian Body
My loadouts at the moment (Keep in mind, the order you put your weapons in the loadout matters; the one that appears first in the list will be equipped automatically when you choose the loadout):
Loadout 1: Blood necklace, Primal 2h sword, Hexhunter Bow, Primal Platebody, Shadow Silk Hood
Loadout 2: Hexhunter Bow, Primal 2h sword, Sagittarian Chaps, Sagittarian Body, Shadow Silk Hood
Loadout 3: Primal 2h sword, Primal Platebody, Primal Platelegs, Blood Necklace, Hexhunter Bow
My logic for my binds at the moment:
The Primal 2h and Hexhunter Bow and Blood Necklace are pretty self-explanatory.
For the logic behind the hood, I'm keeping the shadow silk hood to see how it works in the beta. I'm going to swap around between loadouts 1 and 3 first to see if the hood is really necessary. With deflection prayers dealing only 50% protection against NPCs currently, I think the hood has more use than ever. However, I still feel that, like now, an armor bind will probably be more useful and helpful than a hood. I'm going to test this out though and see what happens. After I finish my testing and do a little research with some experienced DGers, I'm either going to keep the hood or break it, thus rendering either loadout 1 or 3 useless. If I end up destroying the hood, I will probably replace it with the blood necklace for loadout 2.
The Primal Platebody and platelegs are there for the melee and ranged defence. After testing with the hood I'll see what to do about the platelegs, although I really do like having them, it helps quite a bit actually.
As for the sagittarian body and chaps, it's just to give me a nice range bonus for my ranged loadout. Keep in mind I still keep a primal 2h sword in the ranged loadout. You always want to have two attack styles in your loadouts because you don't want to run into a GD at some point and have the completely wrong type of style to use to clear an entire room.
The celestial robe top and bottom... I don't have either in a loadout at the moment because I simply sort of don't see the point for me personally being 120. It'd be nice for mage I suppose, and if it's really necessary, I could edit my loadouts quickly in a floor and swap to a mage loadout, though I don't have any room for a staff at the moment, which is an issue too. I'm really considering destroying both of these and replacing them with something more useful. If I get rid of the shadow silk hood, I'll consider getting a Seeker's Charm to add to the ranged loadout (loadout 2). I'm also thinking of replacing them with other melee weapons if necessary, such as a primal spear. It's possible I could use the second open slot for a celestial catalytic staff as well, but just have no mage-boosting armor, which would be fine because I'd still be able to use the combat style. I'm under the assumption that most people are going to try to get mage gear, so I think I'll be fine with mainly just melee and range and I can buff those up and rely on other people to supply the mage gear.
It's definitely important to follow the combat triangle after EOC, but they've made it so you can use the incorrect style and still deal a decent amount of damage. I need to try this out a bit more as well, but I feel like with abilities and at least thresholds, you could probably take down monsters faster with the wrong style or type of weapon than you probably could in the live game now anyways. I'm still going to see if I can test out a Primal Spear and Primal Maul though (I advise against the Primal Battleaxe as the Berserker Ring only applies to two-handed weapons).
Just my two cents on what binds and loadouts to get.
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