Staff of Battle Upgrade

[Psionide]

My warrior is starting to get high level and I want to move on to a bigger and better 2hander. I have a reasonable amount of plat to spend but I don't really know what is out there besides the 30k Narandi Lance. What are some of the popular options beyond the Staff of Battle?

[Jimjam]

Piercing caps at a lower skill. Less hits, less max hits and less 'super damage'.

[quack]

Reaver (http://wiki.project1999.com/Reaver) - Non-magic, make sure you know what you're getting into before you buy this.

Exquisite Velium Claidhmore (http://wiki.project1999.com/Exquisite_Velium_Claidhmore) - Also comes in battle axe flavor, and there are worse versions with worse ratios that are cheaper.

Argent Protector (http://wiki.project1999.com/Argent_Protector) - New in Chardok patch. Worse ratio than exquisite for more plat with some mostly irrelevant stats.

Herbalist's Spade (http://wiki.project1999.com/Herbalist%27s_Spade) - New in Chardok patch. Cool proc, great ratio, crazy price.

Those are the only droppable options besides Narandi's Lance that are better than Staff of Battle. If you're gonna buy one, I'd recommend an exquisite (or lesser version).

Before you buy anything you should consider why you're upgrading your 2hander. If you just want a sweet 2hander, then go for it. If you're expecting to tank with a 2hander, it's not gonna happen - get 1handers with procs.

If you're looking to maximize your dps in a situation where you're not tanking (group with 2 tanks or a raid situation), that's fine, but it's gonna be pretty marginal compared to the overall dps of the group/raid. Cool if you have the plat to burn, but far from necessary. You might also consider going to PoM and getting a Blam Stick (http://wiki.project1999.com/Blam_Stick) and another non-proc 1h for your OH. Not sure how the math works out on that vs 2handers, I'll leave that to someone else to figure out.

If you're planning on soloing 50+ on a warrior, you'll want Truncheon of Doom (http://wiki.project1999.com/Truncheon_of_Doom), probably 2 Blood Points (https://wiki.project1999.com/Blood_Point) and Silken Whip of Ensnaring (https://wiki.project1999.com/Silken_Whip_of_Ensnaring). Doubt you'll have much use for another 2hander.

[Snaggles]

If 55+ the Narandi is pretty ace even with a lower piercing cap.

[Snaggles]

Or I could try reading...:rolleyes:

Reaver and SoB would be a nice fairly affordable combo. 1/1 ratio is hard to beat.

[Psionide]

Yeah, since I won't be main tanking for a while I am looking for a better 2hander when I am on raids, whenever I join a guild. So pretty much I am looking at the lance or exquisite velium 2handers? I notice the exquisite velium 2hander is 32/36 as opposed to the 31/36 for the staff of battle. Is that a really big difference, worth the 6k price tag?

[Psionide]

Basically I am looking to increase my DPS so if there is a better 1h combo than 2hander, I would also be interested to know that.

[bigjeff100]

I don't really know if these are options for you, or if people like them or not.. I have used both the polished and toned down worn version of-
https://wiki.project1999.com/Polished_Shai%60din_Naginata

I've really enjoyed this weapon. First off, looks amazing.. And the stats seem good to me haha! Prices still sway all over the place on these since it's a new chardok item. but i've seen the polished be sold as cheap as 5k, and the worn under 2k!

[Snaggles]

I'm not sure what 1h dps droppable weapon combo a warrior would have to be using to out-damage a Reaver (assuming its a target you can hit). I expect a Zek blade/Priceless (or similar) would outshine it but frankly not sure. After the 2h upgrade patch, whenever that happens, it's only gonna get better.

It all comes down to cost vs performance. Staff of battle 400p, reaver about 12p, some crazy 1h combo 50k+. Regardless of your 1h combo I would always have a 2h in the bag even if its like an Oggok Cleaver. Jousting is a lost art.

[Wallicker]

I Bet you could buy loot rights to the dain or KT axe for not super bad.

[Legidias]

Reaver and don't look back.

[1asdfasdf1]

I Bet you could buy loot rights to the dain or KT axe for not super bad.

What have you seen it going for?

[Bardp1999]

What have you seen it going for?

Buying shit off raid mobs is literally one of the biggest wastes of platinum on the server I can imagine. Join a guild and get one for minimal DKP since Knight weapons go for beans these days in every guild.

[Legidias]

>warrior
>Knight weapons

[Snaggles]

The fact that a tank can buy a 40/40 for 12k or a 44/45 with stats and a 700 dmg dot proc for like 28k is astounding. There are other tanking weapons that are much cheaper and downright serviceable (WeSS / Fb).

Neither are particularly “liquid” in they take a long time to sell. As mentioned by another poster tho they are extremely liquid compared to buying no-drop raid stuff that would normally rot.

Now if you can line up a Twisted Steel Bastard Sword (or similar) for equivalent plat that’s a different situation completely.

[wagorf]

some options for 1h dps purpose, all below 10k

- crafted velium warsword
- exquisite velium warswood
- fist of zek

[Jimjam]

My iksar war bought a fist of zek for 40pp. It's astounding how low price people will go for CoM/KC/Seb gear. After being farmed for 9(?) years people are happy to just not vendor this kind of stuff.

On the Lanys raid schedule thread someone mentioned the sword of skyfire was going for 18kpp!

New melees are so lucky on this server to have such a cheap abundance of high level weaponry.