Rigging a Krusty Pale Master @ lvl 19 (getting ready for EPIC)

[Zaal]

Hey all,

Seems the threads I read generally seem to focus on END GAME.
But END GAME is a lot of grinding, to be sure.

Anyway, I have a Drow I pulled out of mothball state and he's woefully under geared.
To do EPICS , he certainly needs to be prepared.

And when I say mothballed... I think I started this toon in 2006 to replace my main castor , perhaps got him to lvl 13 or so , then fall back in love with my primary castor...

Every now in then when a new enhancment line came out, I'd respect him to give it a whirl and I suppose finally I've landed on a PM... Main to take away from that is from the beginnning, there was no thought with respect to a PM build so one might say that I'm starting from scratch - and at lvl 19 !

Would like him to have something to bring to the table before I take him into more serious guild runs as it seems right now, his rep is a tad tarnished

So how would you go about equiping him?



Equipment thus far:

• Goggles:
  
  • Green Steel Existential Stalemate, tier II
• Helm
  
  • Minos
  • Darkstorm Helm (backup)
• Necklace
  
  • um... please don't ask?
  • Twisted Talisman (backup / spell points, etc)
• Trinket
  
  • um... please don't ask?
• Cloak
  
  • Stormreaver’s Napkin
• Belt
  
  • Mechanic's Belt
• Rings
  
  • um... please don't ask?
• Boots
  
  • Striders
  • Kundarak Delving Boots (can't of course cast FOM)
• Bracers
  
  • um... please don't ask?
• Gloves
  
  • Gloves of Titan's Grip

Noteable Weapons:

• Dreamspitter
• Belashyrra's Scepter
• Lore / Potency for each of the schools

Please don't get me wrong... Pretty sure i DO know how to run a castor... just that this one has been neglected for literally years... 5+ perhaps! And I can strive to match his gear to my 2nd life WF ARCHMAGE but seems naive to think both to be built the same.

Finally, in addition to Necro spec (per Pale Master), he's enhanced for cold (which Belashyrra's Scepter of course helps with).

Please feel free to be brutal!

[Zaal]

Hmm no responses... maybe i'm just too needy!

Anyway, I'll be looking for:

• Gloves of the Glacier
• Bracers of the Glacier
• Torc of Prince Raiyum-de II
• Litany of the Dead
• TOD combo's Sanura's Band / Eerie Belt
• TOD combo's Kormor's Ring / Kormor's Belt

Anything else? Should I be looking for other stuff?

Again, this is pre-EPIC that I'm interested in talking about.

thx for reading!

[domandi]

You have all the right ideas.

Are your con opp goggles hp or sp? You could go min2 on the hands(for example) so you can keep the darkstorm helm equipped. I would also suggest a cannith crafted necro focus item since that is +2 instead of the +1 from the napkin.

You should be fine on hp, so i wouldn't worry about an equipped toughness. You can easily slot it when you start doing your epics. I hope you did the cove and got a lvl 16 upgraded dagger, that thing is sweet. You can also try to grind out a skiver/greenblade/other "normal" caster stuffs. When mabar event comes back around, you can get yourself a robe of night.

Umm... until you get your litany, you can get an archmagi ion stone trinket. Those aren't hard to get anymore.

That is about all I can think about atm, so I hope that helps a little.

[Zaal]

Thx Domandi.

On a higher note, what makes a Pale Master, a good / Pale Master, with respect to assisting the group?
I suppose being self sufficient helps with respect to healing.
Doesn't see thus far from the Necro Perspective that a Pal Master does a lot of damage.
Nor do CC spells really seem to shine here either.

Seems only that the high DC for Wail and Finger really shine the brightest.
But when you're doing EPIC, I suspect this aspect loses its luster.
How does a PM truly contribute in EPIC then?

Don't get me wrong, even my WF Castor, with a starting INT 2 points lower , can still manage mobs on EPIC... Then again as a 2nd life, he also benefits from Spell Pen Past Life feat, freeing up a Feat for something else (assuming you go that route).