Comes down to how many pugs you run with, really.

Radiance gets you SA, but can mess with groups. Earthgrab (cheap as crap, since it's one element) gets you shorter bursts of 1.5x SA.
Lit2 ignores the SA component entirely in favor of front-loading the damage, so youre not as worried about agro-control (and I know just how nasty agro control gets on a mech).

Probably favor earth->lit2-rad, unless you're running with a heavy hitter crowd controller all the time (that scenario, IPSing mass held mobs is nasty), at which point go for the lit2 since they'll be lining things up for you, or radiance if you're soloing alot.

If you're trying the style before you buy/grind arty, I'd also skip earthgrab, since the benefits there aren't as nice, what with the extra damage per hit front-loaded instead of conditional.

That'd be that thing you get every other level that adds to your dps just for being a rogue as long as you're not charging ahead and agroing everything like a retard, or most 'dps assassins' I keep running across.

Gotcha. Thank you and durrrrrrr.... lol

Very good input from you all. I'll have it figured out by the time my suspension is lifted. She does end up soloing a lot, but I'm also at the point where she needs to start travelling with a group.

I do have artis as well. Its kinda funny, but she ended up very arti-like, including taking the defender enhancements, but she pre-dates that class by a couple of years. If those defenders were not so great at pulling aggro, I'd dump them already. However, I'm worried about how their effectiveness will drop as she continues to level. She may have to reset her enhancements soon. That would also allow her to go to Fred and swap out Augment Summon since she wouldn't need to boost defenders anymore. Thank god I just take my excess Sibrys Dragonshards to a Stone of Change to make the bigger stones for cases such as this.

Your first Greensteel should be an HP item.  Especially on that character.  205 at level 15 is worrisome.  You ought to have 300 at least before entering Shroud.

After that, RadII.  Then LitII.

MinIIs are only for those that have LDSes to waste.  It's trivial to make superior Cannith Crafted weapons for the bosses MinIIs are useful for.

Epoch wrote on Jan 8^th, 2012 at 8:16am:


I was gonna keep her a mechanic, I would just basically swap out the defenders for some of the other useful rogue enhancements. One nice thing about Mechanic II is that she's already maxed it out and she's been picking more enhancements to make her a little more flexible as a rogue. I don't remember if she has toughness, but swapping augment summon for toughness could help her HP a bit.

I'm agreeing on the opinion that the first GS item a rogue does should usually be a HP item. I like triple air for their clickie, guard and generall cheapness.

Second most important item (and this will actually improve your self-sufficientivity greatly) should be a RadII. Repeater if ranged, mainly, Rapier if meleeing mainly. On a piercing specced char, that is.

I was thinking a human artificer that wields a bastard sword.  I hear it is OP in WW.

My GS suggestion for a Mechanic is to make a Rad2 and a Lit2 rapier, and then TR into an Assassin.
Or make a Lit2 heavy repeater and then TR into an Artificer.
Either way, TR into something else immediately.

Epoch wrote on Jan 10^th, 2012 at 6:21am:

Can confirm.

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Haven't you heard? All "sanctioned" builds, especially the ones that are "named" by their creators are now outré and mark you as an unimaginative n00b.

You need to study the mechanics from the ground up by reading every pen and paper book ever published from 1st edition to 4th and learn to construct your own.

Or you could construct a bed out of them and try to learn osmotically.

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I would let you in. And when the rest of the party said otherwise I would just yell out SISSY!