Guide for Dead City Expansion
This is coming in a little late but I've been really busy at work and church with the holidays we've had.
Equips:
If you have plat then buy the bundle package. You'll get a decent weapon and stormrunner gear. If you don't have plat you can get stormrunner gear in the auction house for really cheap. Prices flucuate but the last I checked you could get both the hood and the cloak for aroun 3000 each.
We have several choices now when it comes to weapons. The weapon that comes in the plat pack is ok but there are better ones available in the auction house for less than 20k gold. ***IMPORTANT CHANGE*** in my original post I said your skill damage does not seem to be directly related to your damage. This has changed in the dead city expansion. What was formerly called "damage" has now been changed to "dps" and a new damage stat has been added. AS YOUR DAMAGE (NOT YOUR DPS) INCREASES, YOUR SKILL DAMAGE WILL INCREASE!!! If you equip a bow you will see your damage go up but your dps will go down. If you check your skill stats you will notice your skill damage has also increased. It is my advice to PAY NO ATTENTION TO DPS WHATSOEVER. The main thing we are concerned with is DAMAGE. Most of our total damage output will come from our skill usage instead of our autoattack, that's why skill damage should be given a priority.
I currently use 2 separate weapons: Level 21 Bane Knives of potency and the level 21 frozen bow of brutality. The damage and skill damage on these are really similar (within 1-2 skill point damage). The agile lifethief of potency is better, of course, but it will run you 10x what the bane knives will. Most prefer using the knives but I prefer the bow because of it's added range. I'm not a fan of spamming pots all the time so I'll use the bow up until the boss and then switch to the knives. Like I said, they both have roughly the same damage but the knives do attack faster (hence the higher dps) so bosses do die a little faster when you're using them.
skills:
The new expansion has brought us a new skill, shadow storm shot. It's an aoe skill but with very low damage. I tried it when respecs were free but didn't like it. Once you reach 20 (or 21) and gear up the mobs are really easy. If you have a bow a charged autoattack will kill some of the weaker mobs and a second will finish off the others. My playstyle changes depending on the group but if theres a good tank I'll use a bow and autoattack and charge nox bolt. If the group is decent you won't even have to slow down any. If there isn't a tank or he's slow I'll use my knives, run around to group mobs, charge smoke, charge razer and spam nox, auto attack and aimed shot. They die pretty fast this way but you'll use a lot more pots.
***pro tip*** all the bosses (except Anne) will show a red "cone" right before a heavy attack. If you have a good warrior the red area should always appear in the direction he is. STAY OUT OF THE RED DANGER ZONE! There's no reason to hold back on any of ur skills when at the boss. Charge smoke, charge razer, tap nox, and alternate between autoattack and aimed shot. If you use the equips I have listed above you're going to have low int and low mana so be sure to have plenty of pots with you. Flap jack, horton and granites high mana regen will get you through the mobs but you will need some mana pots when at the boss. DO NOT NEGLECT SPAMMING AIMED SHOT! Aim shot will stack your crit and you can do crazy damage at the boss so don't forget to keep your mana level up and spam it like crazy! Unless your tank is ultra pro or you have a rogue with better equips at some point during the boss fight you will get aggro. This means the boss will focus on you and ignore the others. That's ok tho. When you see the red cone appear in the area u are standing in just run around to the backside of the boss and continue as you were.
Quests:
The quests in dead city are pretty confusing. Check out gluttony's pro guide for tips
http://www.spacetimestudios.com/show...Legends-quests
After you finish them all be sure to talk to demetrius in kragg tavern everyday to get his 500 gold daily quest and Noxxar to get his 250 gold daily quest (you have to finish all the "letter to karin" quests before noxxar will give u his daily). Between krybox (either 250 gold or 500g), donatello (300 g), demetrius (500 g), Noxxar (250 g) and the story token quests you can earn 1600-1850 gold a day in a short period of time. It's not a lot but will pay for your potions.
Passive skills:
with this expansion we now have passive skills available. You simply add available skill points to the appropriate passive skill and gain the assigned bonus. For rogues the only real choices we have are the one that grants +5 dex per skill point or the one that grants +1 crit per skill point. Don't add any to the one that gives +1 damage. Added one in the +5 dex will give you 1.5 damage and 3 dps plus a little in crit and dodge. I decided to put 5 skill points in the +5 dex passive. That gives me 25 extra dex which equals around 7.5 damage and 15 dps. You could go with 5 crit tho. Either one will work fine.
Pets:
3 new pets are available: wrathjaw, snaggletooth, and snowball. I wouldn't spend any plat on snowball unless you just absolutely have to have all the pets. Snaggletooth looks like he would be ok because he comes with mana regen. I have wrathjaw and he's ok but not as good as granite, horton, flap jack or malison.
I just got the nexxus pet and he's really good too. His arcane ability replenishes ur mana. At first it's not that much but it brings it up a lot once u level him up. The only downside is he costs plat but if you have some plat it's well worth the investment.
Also, meep moop is a really good choice also. He's just a little less powerful than horton (same dex, 2 less crit, 1 less mana regen) but he is FREE! That's right, FREE! You get him by gaining 100 story tokens (you have been doing the story tokens like we talked about before, right?).
Making gold:
One good thing about dead city is you no longer have to unlock the elite levels. Selling elite pinks is the fastest way to make tons of gold. By far the two most popular places to farm elites is brackenridge and the tower. There are several good guides floating around that detail the common procedure used for each of these areas so check those out.
Good luck and see you in game!
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