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vikingv · Site Admin Joined: 13 Dec 2010 Posts: 227

I want to cover several topics with you.
We need to review the basics, so you know what is critical and what is nice.
We need to determine what potions you should be buying.
We need to determine what buffs you should be buying.
We need to count the cost of using the CA buff.

Regarding the basics, I need to ask the following questions
Do you know how much you should profit each hunt, in terms of levels and in terms of gold gain?
Do you know how much gold you actually gained last hunt?
Have you put the vast majority of level up points in damage? If not, where?
Do you have a free buff reset available?

Regarding the buffs you already have (based on your bio)
It is only beneficial to you to have the Berserk, Last Ditch and Dark Curse buffs if you intend to use them as assist for guildmates under attack in a GvG. If not, I recommend you consider resetting your skills and not relearning these (provided, of course, that you have a free reset available – buying a reset is not cost effective, IMO).
Rage is just bad (unless you have put a lot of level up points in Attack).
The rest are good – you can rely on your own Adept Learner (despite my prior message – of course, AL175 is better than AL165 – your call there).

Regarding the potions you should be buying
The sludge brew (DC 200), Berserker potion (BER300) and Wise (LIB 200) potions are all better that buffs you could give yourself and extremely affordable. I find no good reason for you not to use them (or even better potions for these buffs, at your discretion).
See below for a discussion on Doubler.

Regarding the buffs you should be buying
You are killing yourself by even thinking of hunting without a high level TH and MER (which you do not have, according to your bio). You can increase your gold gain by nearly 50% with these two buffs.
If you are going to be a one hit hunter, you need SSI (shield imp) and DD every hunt. By hunting under a Doubler165, I estimate you have on average 33 attacks into a critter that are not one hit resolutions (provided that your damage is otherwise sufficient. I did not calculate that. Let me know if you need assistance with this issue). That means you might have to buy SSI six times in a hunt. This will substantially cut into your profit per hunt. I suggest you consider buying a Doubler potion off the AH (Doubler500 is probably about right, given your max stam).
Hunting under Doubler500, your hunt will be finished after about 400 attacks (instead of the over 1100 I estimate you are engaging in now). You will probably not one hit about 12 times, which would mean you can possibly only need to buy the Imp twice.

Regarding the costs of using CA
As you know, the CA buff makes you use more stam in exchange for increased damage. Hunting under a Doubler165, with a CA165, means you are using six stam each attack but only getting four stam worth of gold. As you can see, that means you are only getting 66% of the gold that your hunt would otherwise net you. Since you should be getting approximately 300 gold per stam (closer to 450 with TH and MER), it costs you over 600,000 gold to use your CA. If you need a damage boost over that which DD provides you, I recommend you instead consider buying SH (shattering hammer). Wearing two full sets in your hunt, this will provide another 17% damage increase (and, since you can easily buy it for only one FSP, it is more cost effective).

Advice for the future
You need to prioritize getting SSI (using only 125 skill points – if you don’t understand why it is not helpful to place additional points in there please ask). It is a stam intensive buff and one of the most costly low level buffs. After that, your option – either keep buying TH and MER or use your own skill points to learn those buffs also.

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