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Thread: Regular lance or combat reinforced staff is the own
Well, for debuffing it is. LVA will kill you if your not on DR. Buffs, but what do you do if you don't have access to such buffs...
Try setting up a hot key to switch over to a combat reinforced staff or a regular lance. The HAM costs are very low. You can debuff your MoB then switch over to the heavy hitter for real damage. This works great and maybe it will work for you too. Lances are very quick. Even if you miss your can try again nearly instantly and since the HAM cost is low you can go right into dealing damage and not have to heal yourself right away, if soloing.
Threesuggestions:
1) Use the VL. It's fast and easier on the HAM than the LVA. Also, there are lots of things that are vuln to electricity - hunt them. The miss rate with the LVA makes it useless unless you've hit Master Pikeman.
2) Buy neutron pixie by the crate and use it when soloing.
3) Use melee weapon power ups with 30% redux to health cost and 15% increase to speed (for LVA) - these are even good for the VL if you use the higher level moves because even though the action HAM stat is higher on the VL, the MULTIPLIER for the HEALTH ham mean the higher level moves will still thwap your health. If you use lower level moves (like me) then get a powerup with 30% redux to action. If you're on Starsider, I make them by the crate and can sell you some.
Excellent suggestion! TKA/Unarmed do this currently, unequipping their Vibro-Knuckles whenever they want to debuff; but it's a bit easier for them since they can simply unqeuip, rather than having to equip s separate weapon.
Hunter_Takamatsu wrote:
Well, for debuffing it is. LVA will kill you if your not on DR. Buffs, but what do you do if you don't have access to such buffs...
Try setting up a hot key to switch over to a combat reinforced staff or a regular lance. The HAM costs are very low. You can debuff your MoB then switch over to the heavy hitter for real damage. This works great and maybe it will work for you too. Lances are very quick. Even if you miss your can try again nearly instantly and since the HAM cost is low you can go right into dealing damage and not have to heal yourself right away, if soloing.