stormloadのEE攻略術

Everything! EE monsters hit on average for 150 damage in melee, or 50 damage with ranged. EE monsters have saves over 55 in every category, and strong saves in the high 60s and beyond, often rendering anything with a save useless (but there are some AMAZING things without saves, that I will teach you!). EE monsters have HP at 5,000+ for trash mobs, and boss HP at 50,000+. EE monsters also have to-hit bonuses equal to epic Lord of Blades, rendering most AC builds less useful (but not useless as I will show later). EH should be considered the solo training ground for EE. If you cant solo quests on EH hard with ease and you think your group mates will be able to carry you through EE then think again. When EH is epic easy for you solo, then you are ready for EE! But remember, EE requires a totally different strategy then EH!

Keep in mind the 2 quarterstaves with Life Stealing are only BARELY viable options when you are in the Legendary Drednaught Epic Destiny and have the tier 6 "Pulverizer" destiny enhancement (expands bludgeoning crit range by 1). Even then using these staves will not match a TWF'r or Wolf druid in level draining ability. A TWF'r with twin nightmares can kill EE mobs in literally seconds, about 6-8 in fact.

Also keep in mind for ranged toons the ONLY way you will get level drain on a weapon is through Eveningstar challenges and through Obscenity suffix weapons.

Weapons that do a level drain on 20s dont belong in EE, they just dont compare to weapons with a 20% chance to proc (30% with 8 fighter levels and Kensai ED!). Thats 6 times the procs, and 6 times the dps difference.

You too should actually open up the fight with a strong level drain spell, as it will do more damage than any other spell you have. Then blast away with your shiradi spam! I say Shiradi as with monster saves Draconic just wont offer the same dps as most mobs will be taking half damage from all your spells due to saves, and you wont have the amazing crowd control of Shiradi. Magister PMs CAN instant kill mobs, but you need an insanely high DC, and even then you will probably have to enervation every mob before even trying to insta-kill it.

Go buy/farm some sacrificial daggers. You can score them for less than 10k plat on the AH!

Nerevar! What if the monster is undead/construct and cant be level drained?

These are basically the only 2 categories of mobs (aside from red named bosses) that can not be level drained. They are to be treated similarly as Bosses and beaten down in a more organized manner. The very fact that they are immune to level drain will make them take much longer to kill, but since they are not Red named some crowd control works on them (such as no-save knockdowns from Primal Avatar twist or Fury of the Wild ED). But mobs like this (and bosses) are what your ranger was saving his Fury manyshot for with the NEW Arrow of Slaying (or better have).

Ok, after that long intro on level drain. Time to throw in some other tips and tricks I wanted the level drain section to be long as it really is that amazing. Any doubters can quickly check out my fighter/monk/ranger on Lammania with twin Nightmares with Masters Blitz running kill enemies as fast as Nerevar using Tree form on Live. tree form was nerfed to death on Lammania, so its time for a new strategy!

1. have a ton of HP
2. Max your dodge (can hit 40% dodge in xpack with halfling, fighter, monk, ranger)
A PM from Cordovan to me concerning dodge= "I asked one of our systems devs, and the response was that there is not a dodge bypass mechanism for raid bosses or any other monsters in the game. So, that's nice!"
3. Get some incorporeality (10% from item if non-monk, 25% if 6 monk)
Only incorporeal monsters bypass this, even raid bosses dont!
4. Have blur running at ALL times (beginner)
5. Have Displacement clickies running at ALL times (advanced)
All those juggernaught videos in EE have like 4 displacement clickies!
6. Have some serious healing amp (a 30% item and a 20% item minimum)
7. Saves need to be 50s+ for EE, 60s+ preferred

Splashing 1 Druid is amazing! Beguile is a new enhancement that costs a total of 4 APs to get with 4 ranks in the caster druid tree. beguile gives you a 50% with ranged/melee/spells to proc 0-3 stacks of beguile on a mob that reduces their spellpower by 2% and ATTACK SPEED by 2%, stacks 25 times. WORKS ON RED NAMED CURRENTLY! 25 stacks makes EE mobs attack SO SLOW, cuts their damage output by 75% or more! Currently the BEST way to survive EE until nerfed against red names, and even then will still ROCK against trash mobs as it works on Undead/Constructs who are immune to most other EE tips and tricks. [#y55ab9a9]

Paladin/Cleric Divine Might enhancement (Cleric protector tree tier 2, Paladin Knight of Chalice tier 2) for 120 seconds gives you your charisma bonus to strength using 1 turn undead. Easy to make a paladin with 50+ charisma now and also have 60+ strength. Huge saves and high strength? Yes please! [#m99b5a8b]

Arcane Archer NEW Arrow of Slaying does +250 base damage with a 20 second cooldown. In this order (with auto attack OFF) hit= Adrenaline, Manyshot, [#o6cb5ef5]
then Arrow of Slaying. Each arrow will crit for over 5,000+ damage for 20,000+ damage! If undead/construct you MUST have precision feat/black dragon armor/grim precision twisted. If the Adrenaline arrows dont crit, your better off in Shiradi. This makes Arcane Archers in Fury the ULTIMATE Red Named/Raid boss killers, no one else comes close (I miss my tree form... sniffle). Since EE is NOT about XP, a ranged toon can go Shiradi, then recall out and switch to Fury for bosses. A Fury arcane archer for Red named and level draining melee for trash mobs is all you need!

1. Legendary Dreadnaught Masters Blitz Epic Moment stacks 10 times, and increases your damage by 25% per stack, and gives you +25% dodge. At 10 stacks this is +250% damage per swing, and its easy to keep this at 10 stacks the ENTIRE quest. No other melee ED comes even CLOSE to the dps from this ED. You must work with your party members to get killing blows in order to keep your stacks up. 2 LD's per party max, any more than that and it will be too hard for 3+ people to keep their stacks up.

Fury of the Wildis a weaker dps ED, but shines with TWFs more than THFs (believe it or not) do to the fact that TWFs build adrenaline charges faster. This ED will not bring the same dps as LD, but will bring crowd control against trash mobs as Overwhelming Force will let you knock down enemies for 10 seconds and make them helpless (take +50% damage, +80% with Sense Weakness, +110% if also Ninja Spy/Acrobat in xpack). This works BETTER than stunning fist in EE as there is no save, and saves are crazy high in EE. Monks with a stunning fist of 66 will only see it work 1/2 the time against most mobs! Sadly handwraps are not very viable in EE, and believe me, unarmed is my favorite thing in the world, I am not biased here. This is bugged with handwraps and only knocks down enemies for 2 seconds even with 3 points. Bummer! Also Knockdowns work on undead, stuns do not! Combine this with below for an amazing TWF CC toon! [#l6b49757]
3. If TWF twist "Balance Attacks" with 3 points in it from Primal Avatar. This will make you knockdown enemies on a 20, with NO save! they wont be helpless like Fury of the Wild knockdowns, but still a enemy on his butt is not attacking you! This is AMAZING if TWF and Fury of the Wild, it gives your TWFer alot of crowd control in EE! [#f268a6b2]

4. Shiradi is amazing for casters, it simply is! By casters I mean Wizards/Sorcs using magic missle/chain missle/ etc. spam. Little known fact= if magic missle is cast with Maximize and Empower on, the Shiradi procs will be Maximized and Empowered! Verified by me and forums. Only really applicable to Wizard archmage using the magic missle and chain missle SLAs, not mana-efficient to have these on all the time with regular magic missle. Shiradi 7% on spell effects have a 7% chance PER missile of magic missile (for total of 5!) to proc effects! Shiradi procs from spells are effected by spellpower= Proccing "Magma Surge" or the like with spellpower+maximize+empower hits for over 1,000 damage. Nerve Venom makes enemies "helpless" and take +50% damage, even from spells, and with 5 missiles per MM thats a 35% chance to make an enemy helpless. [#q58aca2b]