Malevolent Dirk of Deception  

 

Why does it say in the description damage bonus 26 whereas the picture of it shows damage bonus 11 ?

I'm playing a rogue on prog servers (Fippy) and I am NOT a raider. My guild does some epic raiding and whatnot, but nothing that would let me touch anything anywhere close to this.

My planned set up will be:
This dagger in prim (1200ish points) with:
+2dmg aug from Takish (1200ish points)
+7str +7dex +7agi aug from EF (1200ish points)
150pt cold based DMG proc from EF (around 800 points)

Ragebringer (have it, of course) in secondary with:
125pt poison based DMG proc from Ruj (around 550 points)

I figure that's going to cost me right around 5,000 points, most from EF but I will have to do several in tak and a few in Ruj to round out some of the augs.

My questions would be: does anyone understand how haste and attack bonuses work intimately enough to recommend at what point I should switch out my Rage for one of the various weaps in LDoN with a 15/20 or 15/21 ratio? Obviously taking into account the +40 atk from the rage, it wouldnt be worth it to switch out if all I had was a 30%ish haste item to fall back on. The dps output would decrease in that case, I'm sure. However, I saw a 36% haste cloak that I could slap on, and I know there are 3 atk augs from LDoN, a 20, a 15, and a 10, of which I intend on getting all three. So: post LDoN I could end up with this dagger in prim, auged to 16/19 with 7str 17dex and comparable HP to rage, a 15/20 (club from EF or sword from Deepest Guk) in secondary with similar stats (think i could aug it to 17/20 with the 125pt proc, as well as some pretty decent stats to go with), a 36% haste cloak, and I slap on 45atk (about 4000 points) of augs. That has GOT to be better than lugging around my ragey right?

If anyone has stuck with me through this ramble, I applaud you, and will recap here.

What's better?

This dagger + 150dd + 7str/dex/agi + 2dmg aug and
Ragebringer 15/25,(40% haste 40atk with 20str 10dex and 100hp) + 125dd
+45 atk in augs

OR

This dagger + 150dd + 7str/dex/agi + 2dmg aug (16/19)
15/20 1hs or 1bh + 125dd + 10str/10whatever + 2dmg (17/20)
+45atk in augs
+36% haste cloak (dropped from mob in deepest guk hard lvl 65 mission)

Certainly the easier route would be to go with the ragebringer. I guess I'm trading out 4% haste and 40atk for 2 more dmg and 5 less dly in offhand, that would cost me roughly 4.5k LDoN points (around 45 missions iirc).

Any input? I know this is probably a dead post but maybe someone will find it and give me a hand.

Just curious what you guys think. i have a 65 rogue with the Fennin dagger primary, epic secondary. im looking the replace the Rager with a better off hand as i now have a 41% haste item elsewhere. Just wondering if you would offhand the Dirk or the Club, as thet are from the same theme and cost the same points. thanks

Malevolent Dirk of Deception
Dmg 14, Dly 19.
sta: +10 dex: +10 cha: +10
hp: +75 mana: +50
1: Obsidian Fragment of Durability
sta: +8 agi: +8
4: Silver Flecked Crystal of Agony
Effect:Rujarkian Bile (Combat)125 damage
6: Pristine Emerald of Harm
Dmg 2, Dly 0.
End result Dmg 16 Dly 19 Damage bonus 12
Sta 18 Dex10 Agi 8 CHA 10 HP 75 mana 50
Effect Raharkian Bile..

Edited, Thu Feb 26 06:28:33 2004

Anyone know what it looks like equipped?

you have to have enough points to be able o purchase the items from that merchant then you can buy those items whenever you have that many points regardless of where you got them so points only transfer after you have enough to get em (hope that makes sense cos im tired while writing this) =)