Runes of Magic US / AU

Juggler set from gchm or Aoth set from VN is still the best set. The raw damage bonus gained from either set makes if a far better option.
Some people would argue that Aoth set may give too little crit, but with the addition of the PoL gear crit isn't a problem...still sitting on 70% crit unbuffed....just need 75 warrior so I can finally throw away my old raksha >.<

Until mages get either another set with a raw damage set bonus or accessories that give farrrrr more ma that you could obtain from aoth or juggler then yeh...those two will stay at the top

aoth probably best bet. no one gonna go through the hellll of learning annelia now, and it takes forever to get the cape to drop to get the set bonus off the juggs.

vn is actually quite easy now if people are willing to learn the burn timing carefully. 6man pug can even do it with relatively less pain than people imagine. plus it's quite simply the most fun instance/fight in rom. ever and by far. :p even now i really enjoy doing it, ever reduced to like 5minutes for whole instance clear since we leveled so many time. :/

There is that thing Instance requirements, and until I don't get something transitional from current Vahtos' I don't think I could even try VN. Too low HP.

Quoted from "RoMage;573272"

There is that thing Instance requirements, and until I don't get something transitional from current Vahtos' I don't think I could even try VN. Too low HP.

Ok, I was in the same shoes myself once RoMage- I told Yoman we'd "get around to VN eventually." Lol. Little did I know how insanely easy VN really is. I dunno how the guilds on Reni manage access, but if you and yours holler at Raves (he knows everyone, the little bugger) he can prolly hook you up with whoever decides which guild runs it which day, and they'll prolly get your guild a practice day, where you can go in and die over and over til you get the incredibly simple strategy down.

VN is stupidly easy.

It is like DoD.

It's like DoD with strat.

Really really easy strat.

You need someone with 150k or so HP buffed to tank (we've used actual tanks and tanky rogues- you could even use a tanky mage- boss hits for a fixed amount [55k iirc] that doesn't get effected by pdef), and you need ok healers (bring two or three for the first try) and you need some dps that can buff to like 80-100k comfortably.

Look, with the new stats, I was able to take my twink d/w and go from 20k to 59k unbuffed just by statting 5 pieces of gear. My little druid buffs to 80k with grassland and hero pot. She'd prolly get to 90 or higher with a Unicorn. And all she has is 5 pieces of level 70 shell gear. It's insane. I used blues and the trash stats (hp/def and wis/def) from KDM easy. If you and your guys can't get to 100k with these new stats... I dunno what to tell you.

And if you want me to write a Fan's VN for Dummies guide, I will.

Now, all that said- it's still a real b... pain in the butt to get the Aoth mage set, cause the thing hardly ever drops. But it's amazingly good, and there's other good stuff in there. People need those capes, and the tanks need the jewelry. Even the shields are really good, still.

However- if you really truly honestly don't believe me, and don't want to try VN (DO EEEEEEEET!), then yeah, get the Kulech set, cause it looks like it's marginally better than the Heroic Whatever mem set.

JUST GO DO VN, SHEESH. You will be KICKING yourself when you realize how easy and fun it is.

I really am gonna go write the VN for Dummies guide. LOOK WHAT YOU DID NOW! Everyone blame RoMage. That silly scary long Euro guide is too long and too scary.

the euro guide is made for a 12 man-group with temple and tomb equipment on level62.
were level75 now and even openworld drops or crap from kulech easy is better

in fact, that big thing has been duo'd, thats how hard it is nowadays.

for those who still feel they couldnt burn the thing , its just a matter of "EVERYONE whos not main-heal/tank get your damn feet moving to cleanse the damn debuff with the extra skill"

Guide would be nice, Fan.

Same as for Water Dragon - told not to go, crazy DoTs. Just soloed it multiple times without any problems.

As atm I am in alt guild, no runs except staff I can solo, but soon planning to move into guild (as soon as I hit level cap)

Annelia is highly overrated. You only need some half-brained kiter drunk or not, and a group with little bit patience and ready to wipe couple times until kiter learns the basic, if it's his first time. I kite those minibears for my guild often and failure rate just goes lower and lower even when I'm not kiting. With current weapons and stats, Annelia will go down in no time leaving less and less time mostly for kiter or then something else to fail. Most hits there are also percentage based so buffing high hp is unnecessary. Fast healers to keep party hp up are really only thing you need when Annelia itself doesn't hit that hard either. Luckily many noobish overgeared people still fail to beat Annelia, so people can even nowadays sell overpriced ld juggler capes which drop now and then from already extremely easy and farmable walkover instance. I find AC last boss harder and more annoying than Annelia...

VN then again is a whole another thing depending from server to server with amount of guilds farming and competition between, it might take eternity to get those pieces and yet another eternity if you are looking for HD, not forgetting those other mages and warlocks...

I'd rank those sets in order something like:
-Aoth
-Juggler
-Meme
-Full crit
-Vahtos
-anything else
...Never tried or seen full matk pieces to compare. Each empty slot left after sets are filled with matk, crit or lower body itemset pieces.

For those who thing crit is not enough for those sets. It's fully possible to gain enough ub crit 60%+, even if you go highly matk-based gear. After those values crit-% lowers so much per each point that difference barely exists, while you have to sacrifice loads of matk to gain little extra crit. End bossed have so high crit resistance + level difference penalty if you play them with the level you are supposed to, your little bit more crit won't help that much more. If you want to pimp to outdated instances or some specific class skills, then crit is good.

Something similar goes to m/w vs. m/p, where critical rate difference simply won't be high enough for m/w to overdamage to one outburst ratio once both combos hit high enough matk to really be any better.

What Lavenderine said.

But I don't think Reni has crazy uber high competition for VN, since Heretic and Ragnaedhwhatevertheyarethisweekwork have been farming it forever.

Agreed on Annelia too, tho I can't kite bears drunk or sober for more than a few minutes. Cause I am Not Pro.

lol, lavenderine hit it like robin hood. that fight is more a scare tactic, trying to psych you out with insane dmg and too much crap happening all at once with typical rom's lack of lag. :p

annelia is a consistent kiter and being half awake to do the strat. almost all the hits are % based...so if you have 100hp and the 75% AOE hits, you aint dead. as we were farming some guys were thinking you could probably bot the damn thing except for the kiter. everything happens at a set time.

7 manning become routine quite easily. the only truly fail run was when i was the only dps left alive when grafu died. i think the kiter was the only person left awake it took me so long to dps her down. even the tank was making fun of me :/

QQ

For the raw damage go with aoth but you lose a ton of crit and its such a pain to farm aoth. Try using mem and proof of legend combination