Some updated gear stuff.
Just to go along with picking up Amano, I figured I'd do the gear update post. Not that enough people really read this enough anymore to warrant it, or that it's anything epic anyhow...but it somehow gives me some sort of gratification. So!
-- Ace's Helm is probably out as I won't do HNM camps anymore. Dusk+1 is probably out unless I can manage to have 'em crafted (which is possible, I've a friend working on leathercraft). Ring and possibly mantle will be upgraded to Toreador's and Cuchulain's as I can get around to 'em. They -are- really spendy. Black tathlum is a possibility too in the "costing way more than it's worth" category. Also, Usukane body if I can find another Salvage group; "just" need the 35 and then to sort out ingots somehow.
-- Physical damage down. I don't cart around a magic damage down set...I suppose I could, but I'm really just too stuffed on gear to do it at this point; maybe once I get some of the aforementioned items for my TP set worked out. (Blitzer legs are 3% haste and -4% physical damage taken, dual-tasking with my drg solo set).
-- The meat and taters of the subject, I suppose! Not a whole lot more to do here. The biggest thing would be Hachiryu legs if I can find a ZNM group; helmet needs an upgrade too. Maat's Cap will be along the way sometime in the next couple of months, and the Kupo helm might work too. Orchelm is a possibility if, similar to the Hachiryu, I can find a group for it. Cerb+1 is...just silly, but I suppose an "ideal" to shoot for.
-- The oldschool set! Similarly better +str items as listed above are the only changes that would be beneficial.
-- My Rana set is far, far from ideal. Kupo helm will go a long way toward helping this, I suppose, as would Cuchulain's and a Virtuoso belt. I dunno; Rana is a strange beast in and of itself that I don't use all that much anyhow, but none the less.
And that's my current appraisal of my stuff!
I probably missed something or other. And a part of me says it's too late in the game to press into some of the HNM sides of things trying to completely max out the goods. I think the two big things (three if you count Maat's Cap) I want to try for are Usukane body and Hachiryu legs. And then the AH accuracy upgrades after I finish Usu body.
Given that the majority of my time will now be spend on samurai, I very well may hawk the haub+1 for Usu body...that will get me 2/12 ingots at least. We'll burn that bridge when we come to it, though!
Again, if you actually read any/all of that and have any comments or suggestions, I welcome them. I realize this -- like biological acts of a similar impulse -- has mostly been done for my own gratification.
Edit: Speed/Velocious belt...also not likely, however, given my aversion to camping any more irritating 21+ hour NMs (or even 1+ hour NMs for that matter...NM system is fucked.)
Maybe they could stick KA in Nyzul? :x