Questions about Standard Equipment and Stats

I'm planning various characters out on Coryn to start working towards and I'm trying to get a sense of standard "best" equipment practices. Could someone correct the following things if they're wrong.

1. For Magic Users INT and MATK are the most important stats.
2. Best equipment is +S and 2 socket, except 2nd weapon/shield doesn't benefit from sockets, just +S.
3. 2nd weapon doesn't benefit from stats other than ATK, but shield does benefit from the stats it has? I've always been confused on that point.
4. Physical damage users most important stats are Critical, AMPR and ATK (and their respective damage linked stat). Critical up to 100%?, ATK as high as possible. How much AMPR is needed?
5. Best Player made weapons are generally 4th anniv weapons. (Except knuckles and magic device it seems)
6. Best player made armor is anniversary festive garb, but it's not very common. Heaven feather garb is 2nd best and easier to find on consignment board.
7. A general best special equip are the dark talisman items. Particularly magic and power. For Magic and physical users respectively.
8. I can't seem to find standard additional equips, maybe the tyrant items? Shaved ice Hat seems to be popular for physical users. Tyrant grievance for magic. What does everyone recommend for additional and special +S 2 socket equips?

 

All you need to know about how the damage system works in toram:
https://toramonline.com/index.php?threads/thexiiithguys-tome-of-offense.50196/#post-515847

How every stats works respective to the weapons:
https://toramonline.com/index.php?threads/character-stats-impact.45626/

If you read those, you'll know what makes a combination of gears, stats and skills work. The meta is based on optimization of these basics.

 

Sub-weapon effect:
Dagger
- No penalty
- All stats apply, unless they are restricted (some daggers have special stats for bowgun only)
- Dagger ATK only applies to dagger skills and evasion attack, not assassin skills

Arrow
- DEF/MDEF -25%
- ATK and Stability applies fully to bow and half to bowgun

Shield
- ASPD -50%
- DEF adds to DEF/MDEF like armor

Knuckle
- MATK -15%
- All stats are ineffective
- Skill bonus for knuckles (if main weapon doesn't get bonus) but not for martial mastery and the other passive skills

Magic Device
- ATK -15%
- All stats are ineffective (with exceptions)
- Element and Refinement value apply to certain magic blade skills
- Skill bonus for MD, only if main weapon is not staff, but not for magic mastery

One-Hand sword
- DW penalty (don't remember, something with aspd and critical rate?)
- Skill bonus for DW
- ATK, Element, Stability and Refinement value apply to auto-attacks and DW skills, but stability and refinement value is halfed

Katana
- No penalty, but only available for bow
- All stats are ineffective
- Skill bonus for katana skills except mononofu mastery

Thanks to people in the forum (I forgot who the one that sent this to forum, I think its red fox? idk but thanks)

Yep 100% critical rate should be enough, but some bosses have crit resist these day around 15-30, so its best if you have conditional/situational gear to keep your crit at 100%. ATK is important but you also need some dmg multiplier (cdmg, unsheathe atk, short/long range damage), but stacking 1 multiplier is also not good, it reduces the effectiveness. AMPR is depends on your preference, with decoy or without decoy, short-long combo or just short combo with high mp cost, you gonna know how much ampr you need as you keep playing your character.

I'm not sure what you mean by best for armor, if its based on DEF yeah Festive is the highest DEF for player made armor. Well, In my opinion its gonna be Heaven Feather Garb because the recipe is always available and now we have lvl 4 crafting skill which boost the maximum potential you can get when you craft equipment, meanwhile Anniv festive garb recipe is no more here and released before lvl 4 craft skill. Having more potential on armor make stating easier.

 

As I mentioned before if these day you need more situational/conditional gear. Lets say you're DW, you can use SOTH but when your opponent is tumble-reactive you have to change ur SOTH to Heaven Feather Headband or york pendant (similar stat but with tumble unavailable), maybe if you need crit against crit resist bosses you can use Bear Hat (ATK5% crit15), or have to all out atk against high def bosses you can use Ice cape (atk5% physical pierce10%) or any ATK6% additional.
That kind of thing also applied to Special gear. There's no way to find the best overall gear, its gonna be handier if you have so many options to play with.

 

Thoughts on additional equips and special equips? Those are the two things I'm having trouble deciding what to spend millions on. They all cost so much.

 

You’re basically asking ppl to give you their build without asking them directly, honestly playstyle matters and two players with a similar build will use some different variants because of play style ..... so it’s either power , survivability or adaptability , your pick tbh , there are so many combinations so telling you just one may not do you justice . I have seen ppl make expensive builds and are disappointed with the results . So it’s better to gradually make your build, adding or adapting to it as the need arises as you level. That’s what I did and it worked for me.

 

I'll be completely honest here, I think someone here bought spani.

Machina Ring best special gear, comes default 2 slotted.

 

You are correct
But I disagree since I refuse to use it

 

I wasn't being totally serious about it being the best lol

 

It's the best for cost performance ratio.

Personally, i like dark talisman resist.
I prefer 10% resist than 3% m/atk

 

I have like 4 of those lol, it’s the best for budget builds though ...... I always wanted to farm the dark talisman but I wanna capmy halb so I can farm for it , plus it’s not always easy to get a pt there T_T

 

Same, but for 2s, both are around the same expensive price of 40m ish, and I don't think either 10% resist or 3% atk is worth the extra 40m you spend. So yes, I'd rather use Machina Ring.