Episode 123: I’m Awesome with Ketani

This week we talk a lot more about the store armor, point to some articles on the big gaming sites, talk about Update 5.1 and more!

Goldenstar made it to level 72! Woo! And then promptly left Isengard to return to the Yule Festival.  The Dum group is working on epics some more and picked up a sixth to run some skirmishes.

Merric ran some instances with Ara and Bryandt and talks about his experiences with the instance finder tool. He then ran some more quests in Nan Curunir for faction.

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Official News

• Game Front talks to Turbine about Store Armour
• Massively Article: Convenience, Not Advantage
• Ten Ton Hammer Looks back at 2011
• Update 5.1 is out!
• Known Issues
• New Yule Cosmetics
• New Yule Steed
• Featured Player: Tollers

Store News

• Weekly Store Sale

CSTM News

• Store Armour Comparison
• Never ending beta

Raise Your Glass

BorisdBlade

Hello Merric and Goldenstar,

My player achievement is that I can now craft wooden kegs of ale! I’ve already made 20 and given them to kin members as celebration gifts. The screenshot is one of my kegs standing tall in the kin house. No one will have to be teleported by the Inn League Keg again! Now we can sit and drink in the comfort of the house. How many kegs do you have in your house? Did you know you could craft those Goldenstar?

BorisdBlade
-Thaladus, 23 Minstrel, Guardians of Middle Earth, Brandywine (alt going to main)

Sadorhael

Hi, Goldenstar and Merric!

I have some questions regarding stats, and I wondered if you maybe would like to do a round table on character stats around level 75? How much Finesse, Physical mitigation and Crit avoidance does an Elf hunter lvl 75 need for open world play, instances, raiding, the Ettenmoors, etc. I’m having a hard time choosing the best gear and my vault, house chests, shared storage and wardrobe is getting full…

Any good tips?

Sincerely,
Sadorhael of Lothlorien,
on Silverlode

Elborigorn’s Response:

Finesse: 4500-5000 Finesse is ample for any class in any situation. That amount of finesse reduces the Block, Parry, Evade and Resist of most mobs to nil (or so my experiences on combat analysis would have me believe.) a few mobs will still retain a litte bit of BPE and resist but it’s fairly minimal.

Physical Mitigation: In general, this should be a non-focus for a hunter. In PvP and possibly some of the tougher Raid encounters where taking damage is unavoidable you might wish to stack a bit of this, but even still, as a non-tanking, non-melee class this should generally be far from your mind.

Critical Avoidance: Same deal as Physical Mitigation. This should be far from your mind and even in situations where you might pay it a little mind it should still be taking a backseat to other stats more primary to hunters, this is another tanking stat.

As a hunter you really want to focus on Agility (damage, parry and evade) and vitality (morale as well as small amounts of both tactical and physical mitigation) while maintaining finesse of around 4500-5000 (more is not a bad thing if you don’t need to sacrifice anything major for it, but beyond this suggested mark the benefits are considerably less).
As for your space issues, in order to truly optimize for different scenarios, the hard fact is that you’ll want to keep several sets of things. but if you’re going for a decent middle of the road kind of build: shoot for 7000-7500 morale before any buffs and then pack as much agility into that build as is possible.

-Elb

Kazren

Hi, Goldenstar,

Thank you for the notice about the new horse at the Yule festival. When you go up to the farm, he’s still not on display, you just have to speak to the man who will barter and he shows up in the list. My Guardian had been saving up festival tokens and horse tokens for next year, but he went and spent some on the lovely new horse, so now he has all three.

I’m working on the Ale Assoc. Goat for him next. I didn’t realize, until I read your pages, that there were other ways to get rep and to get those Ale Assoc badges, other than doing the Bree pub crawl! I’ll try the whole run tonight. I figure with the bonus to rep, he can earn about 12,600 Rep points per day if he accomplishes all the daily quests (not including all the ride around forever delivering ale ones).

I’m also listening to the roundtable on Lore-Masters and I was inspired to start one of those, which I did this morning. If I can level him quick enough, he’ll get a festival mount, too!

Thanks to you and Merric for all the wonderful and much-needed information CSTM provides,

Kazren

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