gear question vet16

lazytaco · April 2016

Hi,

So I am playing my firts char, a magicka sorcerer, and just dinged vet 16. Now I soon found out that crafting costs are much higher then gear below that level.
I also noticed that the stats are only about 1% better so I thought why bother.
I read a bit here and there and heard that vet 16 gear improves the most if you make it legendary. Is that true and if so about how much?
Does that mean it is no use to craft legendaru gear for levels under vet 16?

I am playing the builds from deltiasgaming for both pve and pve. Gearwise I intend to go:

PVE (lightning staff, dual wield) precise and shock enchant on staff, magicka return on swords)
willpower jewelry with spell dmg enchant (cheap buy from guild trader but with robust instead of arcane)
5 x julianos
3x twilight embrace
all divines and magicka enchant

PVP (destro/resto staves) precise and maicka return enchant)
same jewelry
5 x seducer
3 x twilight embrace
all divines and health enchant

I usually go with the thief mundus stone.

I realise this is not full optimal but getting perfect willpower jewelry or monster set or so will take a lot of getting to know the game better.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Sunburnt_Penguin · April 2016

Not sure what platform/server you're on but on mine the prices of materials have significantly reduced due to the ease of which they're acquired since TGuild.

Firstly I'd look at what sets are coming in DB as creating one now may be suboptimal when they come. If there's not going to be anything better then I'd craft and upgrade pieces as you can afford it.

Focus on getting your v16 gold weapons first as they give the biggest benefit (purple -> gold adds around 200 WD on my 2H but I'm not sure on others, you can use google images though). Then simply add in purple v16 armour pieces before upgrading them to gold.

Do the "off-set" as your head and shoulders and do these pieces last in case you get Monster Sets.

DRXHarbinger · April 2016

The armor and set value isn't much but a full set with v16 gold glyphs is substantially better than a v15 set.