Let's start with the basic - raw damage or PATK (physical attack).
You can increase your raw physical attack by doing the following:
1. Max Dexterity - in case you didn't know, for stalkers, patk increases depending on the weapon you wield. If you put Dex and use a dagger, you'll notice that there isn't much increase in patk except for the patk from the dagger and from Dex. But if you equip a bow, your patk increases not only equivalent to the patk from your bow, but it is also multiplied by dex (somehow).
2. Enhancement - This is the second tab on the right of your inventory and this is where you can add more patk on your weapon and accessories using only zenny. The maximum level of enhancement is limited to your base level.
3. Refine - in Prontera, you can refine your weapon and accessories to increase patk. The safe limit is +4. Then, you will have the option to safe refine up to +15. Safe refine is where Hollgrehen asks for multiple copies of the equipment, more oridecons and more zenny. Some say it is better to do safe refine than spending a lot of money trying their chance to get it to at least +10. This may be true and if you are someone who prefer to spend their money's worth and don't like to take gambles, then loook into safe refine all the way to +15.
4. Guild Prayer - this is only applicable when you have a guild. When you are in the guild hall, from the portal immediately go to the left and you'll see an Angel at the end of the room. Talk to it and you'll see that she can increase certain attributes using zenny and/or Guild prayer (the golden item you get when doing board quests) and guild contribution. Not many has an understand of how the guild prayer works - you can either use the item and get 2k zenny or use it for the guild prayer angel. To put it simply, when you try to increase your attack using the angel, she accounts the guild prayer for 2k zenny of the total fee. So for example the fee for the next level is 4kz + 38 contributions; she will take away 1 guild prayer, 2k zenny and 38 contributions from you. Id like to also add that you can't level this up more than your base level. And, not only the angel increases atk, you can also choose to increase your max HP, max SP, DEF and M.def - these are kinda important in WOE so please keep it in mind.
5. Enchantment - This not only increases your physical attack but also gives you the chance to get a random 4th enchant. Now, it has always been a debate of which you should get between ignore def or physical attack increase but I say the ignore def is better since the end-game of ROM is WOE, you'll need something to melt down defense of tanks when they come in swarming the Emperium room. And yes, stripping is a choice but since we are talking about TS types here, you get what I mean.
Ps. I suggest you stop enchanting when your item gets atleast +25ATK, especially if you don't have zenny or mora coins to spend on the cat.
Next, Equipment.
The Triangle Shot build actually focuses on one main equipment - the Roguemaster's Bow. However, as you progress through the game, you will get to the third job which is the Shadow Chaser and it's main skill is the Mana Trap which uses the opponent's INT + your multiplied ATK as the damage calculation. When you reach this stage, you will need to switch your weapon to a high tier Mystical Bow. More on that on a separate article. For now, hHere are my suggested items for this build:
Weapon - Roguemaster's Bow.
You'd need to have this at tier 4. Tier 4 has the ability to increase Triangle shot damage by 3% for every refine. It is also advisable that your bow is atleast +10 to get 30% TS damage increase.
Accessories - Gloves or Luna Brooch
Gloves are the only accessories that gives you Dex. You only need them to be at tier 3 because the final form Dogtooth gloves (or canine gloves) only gives us 5% damage to demon - not unless you will only grind in GH until you max out your job levels, this upgrade is pointless (to me atleast).
The other option is the Luna brooch. This gives us more SP and SP recovery. It is suggested that you tier this up to 5 to get its maximum potential.
Off-hand - Nile Rose
It gives 15% ranged damage - nothing can beat that. But if you are a little bit short on the budget, I'd suggest get yourself a Rose Princess bracer for the man time - it gives 25% ignore def.
Armor - Bohemian Coat
the final tier of bohemian coat gives us 8% ranged attak and 5% ignore def - the only catch is you'd need it to be +10 to activate. So, if you can't have this yet, settle on a tier 3 Tights - it gives us 8% ATK.
Garment - Ancient cape
it gives 15% ignore def. Others use Blue Eves cape for flee or staunch garment for its' neutral damage reduction (if paired with staunch boots)
Footwear - Rune boots
aside from the high defense, it gives 3% ATk .It is NOT cheap so slotting it a bit hard. If you need the slot, you can stick with the Tier 3 rune shoes. but if you don't have a specific card to put into it, then you might want to get the boots. An alternative for this is the Geffen shoes (gives sp recovery +5), very useful for grinding (especially if you put an eggyra card in it).
For the headgears, there's a lot of options out there and they all depend on what you actually want to do - if you want to grind, pvp or boss hunt.
- Head - I can't think of anything other than Nut on Head. Gives 2% ignore def
- Mouth - Blow gun. Dex + 4. and if you are lucky enough, refining gives additional dex. max is +15, dex +3
- Ear/face - scar. ignore def 2%
- Back - devil wings. it has been proven and tested that if you have more attack, devil wings becomes more powerful than the quiver. The quest to unlock devil wings is hard - so if you are as lazy as me, then go for the quiver - gives 7% ranged attack
- tail - lots of tail choices, right now I'm using the beasts tail. you can use any tail that increases skill damage or directly increases ATK
RUNES
Here are the runes you should get, numbered in terms of their importance:- Triangle Shot (5x) - 8% TS damage per rune, 40% total
- Ranged Atk % (5x) - 1% ranged atk per rune, 5% total
- Atk % (5x) - 1% atk per rune, 5% total
- Dex (5x) - Dex+1 per rune, Dex+5 total
- Ignore def 1% (3x) - Ignore 1% def per rune, 3% total
- Agi (5x) - Agi+1 per rune, Agi+5 in total
Then you can either get the Gangster's paradise or the trap skill runes (remove trap) for versatility. When you crawl (yes, crawl) your way up to completing all these runes, you will accumulate more honor points than you need, be sure to put them on any nearby Atk or refined atk nodes to further increase your damage.
I'll be sure to update this once I get my hands on the Shadow Chaser runes. For now, I'll keep on grinding! Leggo!
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