GxB Drow Mechanic - Greensteel Equipment question

[LargoKeyWest]

I'm about ready to flag for Shroud, and am probably going to make a Rad-II GxB. I would like to know a good equipment load-out to have. Would like to get some suggestions for any/all wearable equipment, a sort of Rogue Mechanics GS wish-list... thanks!

[Saekee]

I suggest you could gain from posting your question about gear to threads like this one: https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/461714-Clever-amp-Smart-Agent-Pure-Drow-Harper-Mechanic in which someone has played a mechanic to cap. You could also PM them and ask them to post on your thread (if they do not see it). Sometimes threads get lost and I hope your request is answered.

It takes A LOT of runs to get the dual shards necessary for some green steel weapons (like the RadII) and gear. Key gear that everyone is wearing into epics is a smoke/displacement HP item, although where they put it depends on the desirability of competing epic stuff (this is why I suggest checking out where someone like Jiirix has gone with their shinies).

For the xbow, consider that the best thing about GS weapons is their re-use through heroics. A great xbow is only good for mechanics, really, unless an artificer swaps it in for endless fusilade. If you do a GS repeater, and plan to run as an artificer in the future, you will get more use out of it.
A general recommendation is to make an Ooze repeater since the pudding slimes are both fun and great aggro objects for rogues.

Personally I recommend that you do not go through the trouble of making a GS weapon since in time you will find heroics to be easy and the weapons to be lackluster in epics. They get quickly replaced by either TF or lootgen, and you could make the ToEE set for a boost to ranged power (or get Leverage which should now drop with a non-mythic version faster). It depends where you plan to pass your future playtime!

Congrats on flagging for the Shroud--it is one of the best raids in the game, still heavily run--if you can, do your first run with a heroic-only group to get the full flavor of how it used to cause people Hell. My toon is level 22 now and I ran it yesterday with an epic crowd--it was a cakewalk (I still managed to die once though in the corridor blade traps with the puzzles lol).

[Jiirix]

I'm about ready to flag for Shroud, and am probably going to make a Rad-II GxB. I would like to know a good equipment load-out to have. Would like to get some suggestions for any/all wearable equipment, a sort of Rogue Mechanics GS wish-list... thanks!

Hello LArgoKeyWest (awsome place, my uncle has a house on the keys, to bad the flight is 10 hours from here).

I am still tinkern' around with the gear on my mechanic and I guess others are too - so there aren't complete lists around atm I guess.

Greensteel specific: A Radiance great crossbow is a must and I wear a greensteel item with +150 SP and Dusk for 10 more Cocoons/Know the Angles. Didn't make a tirpple positive as I use the silver slinger for undead. The blunted ammunition is verry useful. If I would do heroic TRs on a mechanic I would make a MIN2 great crossbow too as a all purpose DR breaker.