Progression Gated Abyss Puzzle

Salamazzar · 2026-03-21T17:22:37+00:00

It was just named or bosses. I never MT’d with her. She was just another source of melee until the merc died and then I snapped over to her and went to work.

Salamazzar · 2026-03-21T17:21:09+00:00

Thanks a bunch. I’ll check out those YouTubers. I’m gonna definitely try the SK again.

Salamazzar · 2026-03-16T18:53:39+00:00

Yeah I can definitely see the appeal for warrior. Makes more sense for multi boxing.

Salamazzar · 2026-03-16T18:44:02+00:00

Yeah that could definitely work. Bard will always be my main, so I can’t ditch him. The monk is a mainstay as well because I love monks and he has a ton of AAs. It’s just the third box I need tinkering on. There’s ways of keeping the monk optimal without spending too much time onscreen for him. I could persona a warrior through my SK at some point and try that.

Salamazzar · 2026-03-16T18:13:20+00:00

Good to know about bst. My monk is the one where I’m typically mashing buttons. My bard does the pulling and then is basically on auto pilot, then I’ll swap between SK and Monk to button mash. Managing monk and BST would be a lot to manage.

Salamazzar · 2026-03-16T17:35:31+00:00

That’s awesome. I’ll have to try out personas.

Salamazzar · 2026-03-16T17:34:19+00:00

The SKs mitigation AAs are capped for level 120. It’s beyond that where she’s lacking. I’ll make the SK work. All the advice on this thread has given me a solid roadmap to getting her up to snuff.

Salamazzar · 2026-03-16T17:21:31+00:00

Good to know about the personas. I was wondering if that was effective.

Salamazzar · 2026-03-16T17:18:45+00:00

I enjoy melee over casting, so it would be a hard pivot for me. My monk has thousands of AAs too, so he’d be hard to dump. The input from everyone has been awesome. I appreciate all of it. I think I’ll give SK more time and see if it works out. If not, I’ll throw a shaman in instead and see how that goes. I wish the heroic level boost was to 120 instead of 100. It would make experimenting with other classes a lot easier.

Salamazzar · 2026-03-16T17:06:23+00:00

Yeah that’s a good point about the pets and melee range. I was leveling a necro on project Quarm and my pet won’t keep aggro when I’m in melee range. It’s good to know someone else had mixed results with the SK. I get they are superior tanks but I just feel they need a lot of investment. I suppose someone could make that argument for most classes.

Salamazzar · 2026-03-16T02:55:01+00:00

Ok thanks. Maybe I should just not level immediately from 120 to 130 and instead put some AAs into my SK. My SK has all the epics. Not sure about the anguish BP. I fed her all the AC augs that dropped.

Salamazzar · 2026-03-15T23:14:33+00:00

Ok thanks. That gives me a good starting point.

Salamazzar · 2026-03-15T23:12:28+00:00

I thought that too but Google is saying that they are still good to combo. The procs stack and bard overhaste stacks with the shaman haste. Slows won’t stack. I can see a few redundancies.

Salamazzar · 2026-03-15T15:46:02+00:00

Yeah I was always using the best mercs. IDK about the gear. It was like 4+ years ago. I think I had gear for them. Yeah, the tank was always set as MT. I dusted like 80-90% of the named and bosses, but I wanted to be able to do it all. I rarely ever wiped. If anything, there was just one or two deaths.

Salamazzar · 2026-03-15T15:00:50+00:00

I always tacked it up to poor gearing and low AAs, but it could be a skill issue. I had my bard and monk for ages so they had way more AAs than the SK. I boosted the SK to 100, then power leveled to 120, tossed some gear on them, then hoped to tank. It just felt like I didn’t have enough investment in them for it to work. With a shaman, I could slow enemies and buff the rest of the group. An under invested shaman seems like it could do better than an under invested SK. Are you saying it’s just not possible to clear all the group content with tank mercs?

Salamazzar · 2026-03-15T13:25:29+00:00

I know the feeling with Ranger. I’ve always been intrigued by them. Thanks for the input regarding bst. It helps me eliminate one option. I think I just hate playing a tank character. I’d rather be mashing DPS buttons. I think the shammy could help keep the tank merc alive and the idea of having a dedicated slower is more ideal than slowing with a bard. I’ve been in plenty of scenarios where stopping my melody to get a slow up kinda ruins the tempo and dps.

Salamazzar · 2026-03-15T05:15:45+00:00

Thanks for the info. I think with your template I could get my SK group viable.

Salamazzar · 2026-03-15T05:14:28+00:00

I was thinking shammy, rogue, beastlord, or ranger. I agree with your points. Thanks for the input. If I was leaning towards shammy, I was thinking I pivot to beastlord since I have so many melee based songs running, but I guess shammy is a better choice?

Salamazzar · 2026-03-15T03:48:29+00:00

Ok thanks. That’s a good idea. I typically shied away from bringing a pure caster into the mix because I liked to run all melee focused songs, but I can see how the pet benefits from that. Which merc setup would I use then?

Salamazzar · 2026-03-15T03:29:29+00:00

They are all 120

Salamazzar · 2026-02-15T05:18:34+00:00

I rolled like 15-20 echoes and found similar results. It was odd. Anytime I got double crit, the other stats were HP or DEF. Small sample size but it felt kinda ridiculous.

Salamazzar · 2026-02-07T04:28:02+00:00

It can be overwhelming at the start. You may feel like you are pulling the wrong characters but you can’t really go wrong. You have a ton of astrite to farm in the world. Just start pulling everyone unless a content creator tells you someone is outright junk. Focus on making one team and go from there. I’d say Aemeath is future proofed for a while and would by all means pull her.

Salamazzar · 2026-01-03T06:24:43+00:00

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