Beastlord gear advice and VD map questions

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gandalf205

Dalayan Beginner
Hello all-

The forums have been a great resource but many of the threads about beastlord gear are outdated and of limited use to me because they were created before the advent of ikisith gear. Here is my fomelo.

http://www.shardsofdalaya.com/fomelo/fomelo.php?char=Solcon

Lately I've been having a hard time progressing my characters, which is very frustrating. I mainly 2 box a beastlord (Solcon) and druid (Euriath). I am wondering if anyone could give me some ideas about ways to improve my gear or my character with my druid box or just a few friends (1 groupable). Especially ikisith related, because I don't know much about it yet and information is scarce in comparison to old world stuff. Here is my list of goals atm.

Mantle of the Forest (so expensive)
Taskmaster's Knuckles (killed him once but no drop, tough to find a good tank for it tho)
Ostensibly some of the other cmal beastlord loot, no one has updated on the wiki so I have no idea what its stats are.
Almost done w/ my Antiques quest, just need the D map piece now.
Finish my CoI quests/aug.
Start my deity aug.

I've thought about buying a diggin' claw but I'm not sure it would outparse what I have at the moment. 3 dmg gloves seem to be about the top you can get.

Also in regard to weapons, is there any advantage to be had in buying a Truncheon of Blight or something like that? My instinct is that ambidexterity will help my gloves pull ahead.

I've got some mediocre resist augs t2-3 PuGs when they rarely happen, but I've been turned down from a bunch of t4-t5 raids because of my gear. I'm trying to get up over the gear barrier so I can access these raids but the things that I pointed out above do not seem like they will improve my character very much. I feel like I'm kind of in a catch-22 situation as I can't access good xp/raids and I can't duo or farm very efficiently because I don't have good enough gear. I loved treasure hunting from level 55 onward and picked up almost every upgrade along the way, but now D maps and below are not producing upgrades for me.

One option I've considered is buying VD maps and not claiming any relics that drop. People seem to always need relics for their alts. What kind of a tank would I need to tank these for me and how many tanks? I've only been on 1 VD map run and we steamrolled it with 18 people. Is it doable with a strong group of 12? or 11 + me? :)

Thanks for any advice. I've asked a few beastlords in /tells but many have been high tier for years now and forgotten their gear path, etc.
 
Your more than capable of helping on a VD map and not drag the raid down, and honestly people who lead pugs 3-6ish look first at XP then gear, after that its a combo of both, get abunch of xp and you will find it will be alot easyer to get into these pugs.

More on the VD maps, you can easyly fill it with 2-3 on tier tanks and plow it with no issues, and if you have even 1 ringer tank you could 12 man it without thinking twice.

As for XP, Try Sorc's, DN Rats, the Front of elds before the castle, EW orcs, These are all places a Druid/Bst combo that just turned 65 could duo without any issues
 
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There's such a huge range of skill, gearing, etc. etc. for different classes and characters it makes the question kinda vague. It all depends on who you get to go. There are some out there that could 6-man a vd easily, if not 2, 3, or 4-man them. Personally I'm not really a tank expert, so I couldn't give you a very accurate description of what to shoot for in a tank, but even that would depend on so many things, healers, amount of dps (if stuff dies fast the tank won't have to tank for long), etc. Amount of tanks again, it depends on a lot of stuff. You'll have to have multiple mobs tanked, so it depends on whether whatever tank(s) you get can grab/hold agro and handle damage from multiple mobs. Basically your question is more complex than just a simple answer.

What exactly are you telling people that makes them turn you down for pugs? (I've seen some awful people in lower-end pugs (no offense to them) so I almost wonder if you're tanking your way out of them) I don't think the vd map thing is a bad idea at all, but just keep working at the stuff you have been. Are you not able to join a raiding guild?
 
You could try using AA's to increase your resists, there are a few that will help and maybe that will help you get in on some of the higher lvl raids for the gear you desire.
 
Not enough people do resist aa's early on.. especially the fire/magic ones. Also, buy resist augs, and aug your gear for it, the biggest source of damage to a bst on a raid is ae's.
 
I vaguely remember one of the more insane (probably top 5) paladins on the server with a Druid box running some VD maps (you donate maps, he'll form group and be the ringer tank) in exchange for letting an alt loot all the gear they wanted (wound up costing me a Relic spell because he and I had different definitions for the word "gear" and spells fell under his). Basically anyone 60+ could come, he was probably able to duo it but low dps made it take forever. On the other hand I was in a small guild that typically raided tier 3, 4 and occasionally 5 targets around the same time, and we struggled 12manning them because our weak link was our tanks. Sorry I can't tell you the exact specs on our tanks, but we usually had two that I want to say were mostly tier 3ish/Dmap geared and 150ish AA.

If you do wind up doing PUG VD's and not claiming relics, you'll have no shortage of casters. The Tank will probably be the only hard spot to fill.
 
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As others have said, tank depends on healers and dps, but id say a minimum of 5000 hp on a vd tank. (and you need multiple tanks at that level) A single 8000+ hp tank could do everything on a vd map.

Pugs are pretty hit or miss. What happens a lot of the time is that anyone who is leading a pug will know exactly what their target drops. Then they will fomelo everyone who wants to come on the raid and deny anyone who would roll on the item that they or their alt or their friends want. This doesnt really help you unless you want to start leading PUG raids (and there is no reason not to do this, its actually a very good way to gear up if you dont have a guild and will give you lots of friends and connections on the server providing you have the skills neccesary to lead a sucessful raid). The main things you can easily do to make your toons better for raids is get more exp and continue to aug FR and MR on BST and mana on the DRU.

Someone suggested duoing for exp, and this is always a good alst resort as you make more $, but you should be joining/forming groups whenever possible. Because of the way group exp works on this server it is almost always better than soloing or duoing.

Groups in cmal and the deep are good ways to get some decent t1-3ish gear.

The best way to get gear in this game is a raid guild, so ask around or check the forums for guilds that match your playtime and style.
 
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