Raeshalgoul Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 How much is too much expertise? i currently have 9.9 % i could have if i change out some stuff at 11.8% im trying to maximize my power stat. what do you guys suggest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridisi Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 How much is too much expertise? i currently have 9.9 % i could have if i change out some stuff at 11.8% im trying to maximize my power stat. what do you guys suggest? waiting until 1.2 when your soft caps change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustinxDuff Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Pre-1.2 hovering at about 10% is perfect. Fill the rest with PvE. The same applies for 1.2 depending upon whatever the soft cap is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasymodeX Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Do not trade BM for Rakata armor slots at 550 exp or below. There is no "10%" magic number. There is no "fill out with PvE" slots. Good PvP -> PvE trades are crit Columi implants, orange bracers, orange belt, matrix cube, crit Rakata synthweave / relic. If you're whoring an obscene amount of BIS and actually have all those, stop here. You don't want to lose more expertise. "Meh" PvP -> PvE trades are basically the sabers -- sabers are what you want to trade if you have none of the other crit or orange PvE trade options mentioned above. Poor PvP -> PvE trades are the primary armor slots. You generally want to avoid this and go get sabers and your Matrix Cube instead, and use BM gear. If you're juggling Champ/Columi, no one cares: get better gear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerain Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 waiting until 1.2 when your soft caps change. i think 1.2 with the buff to expertise the pvp gear will be worth using all the time for pvp... thus pve gear becomes pretty useless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridisi Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Do not trade BM for Rakata armor slots at 550 exp or below. There is no "10%" magic number. There is no "fill out with PvE" slots. Good PvP -> PvE trades are crit Columi implants, orange bracers, orange belt, matrix cube, crit Rakata synthweave / relic. If you're whoring an obscene amount of BIS and actually have all those, stop here. You don't want to lose more expertise. "Meh" PvP -> PvE trades are basically the sabers -- sabers are what you want to trade if you have none of the other crit or orange PvE trade options mentioned above. Poor PvP -> PvE trades are the primary armor slots. You generally want to avoid this and go get sabers and your Matrix Cube instead, and use BM gear. If you're juggling Champ/Columi, no one cares: get better gear. You must not understand how the soft caps in this game work. Stuff starts scaling as soon as you get a point into the stat. That means that after a certain point, the gain is ridiculous compared to the effective HP and offensive gains of raw stats from the PVE gear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxcolt Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 (edited) You must not understand how the soft caps in this game work. Stuff starts scaling as soon as you get a point into the stat. That means that after a certain point, the gain is ridiculous compared to the effective HP and offensive gains of raw stats from the PVE gear. Which is between 500-600 expertise depending on the stuff you switch out and the stats you gain from it... Not sure why you are confused about guy's post :/ I sit at 553 expterise with 1 crit columi implant, rakata helm and matrix cube...seems to work well enough for me. Edited April 4, 2012 by Foxcolt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drewhat Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Are you talking about 10% of secondary stat points or 10% of all stat points or what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bklynfinest Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 Would you not consider Rakata belt/bracers a good trade *IF* you don't have orange belt/bracers or crit implants. You're right at ~550exp with remaining BM pieces. Proc relic down to ~500exp when hungover and forgetting to hit burst relic w/ adrenal @_@ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasymodeX Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 Rakata synthweave crit augmented belt/bracers are good (e.g. significantly better tradeoff than a primary armor slot). Proc relic is typically bad for PvP because the proc is low damage sustained RNG. The clicky +power relic is vastly superior so you can control when you burst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bklynfinest Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 Rakata synthweave crit augmented belt/bracers are good (e.g. significantly better tradeoff than a primary armor slot). Proc relic is typically bad for PvP because the proc is low damage sustained RNG. The clicky +power relic is vastly superior so you can control when you burst. Agreed. However, I'm talking about regular drop Rakata belt/bracers -- still the best trade off I've been able to find IMO if you're not actively farming/going out of your way to get the BIS pieces Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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