Depends on your wizard of course and what you want to do with it. I’m the kind of player that has like 10 of them and no real main, so the +11 t8 savi stuff with decent fixed ichors is enough for me. This allows me to finish the main story and participate into moderate party content like CM, but nothing more. Especially, this puts me out of everything else that the game provided recently, because it’s a real step-up in difficulty:
- Misrus
- Dimension Collapse
- Weekly Boss
- Legend Raids (Skiaclipse is fine if you get carried, Lepidopera is out of question)
All those endgame challenges are aimed at the “top gear” players. I should include everything else that requires DPS (Moringponia WB, Bernice, Boruta…), because bringing Savinose equipment now makes your contribution to those negligible.
If you want a capable wizard, you will need:
- switch rod/shield to staff/trinket (unless you’re playing alt with bonus to rod)
- full Varna set, enchanted to +16 and transcended to +10 (+11 is probably fine, but top DPS have +16 and even +21 on the weapon)
- full fixed ichors on the Varna set, and if you’re lucky a Vaivora for your staff
- farm CM/market for Dysnai parts, reroll with Sandras and powder until you get all of them with high int/spr/con/critical rate and equip the resulting random ichors on your Varna set
- 5-piece set effect for the resulting Varna set, Ataka or at least Smugis (Ataka if you have high crit rate, Smugis otherwise)
Accessories have always been underwhelming. My wizards have Drakonas Lynkki or Carnas Majiya even Solmiki with +60 or so int/con are fine), but I’m sure the top DPS already have Legend Moringponia accessories by now.
Just check top wizards on your server: they probably have 1800 int and over 1000 con, matk of 25-30k and can clear Bernice stage 120 and deal 2 billion damage on the weekly boss while you with your Savinose equipment you clear stage 60 and struggle to do 60 million on the boss because you get oneshotted with less than 90k hps.
Now the bothering part… Getting a competitive set takes time and resources. It’s easy to get a Varna item… but a +21 t10 Varna weapon with level 9 gems, a +200 int/spr/con +700 crit rate random ichor and a Vaivora ichor will take a long time to acquire. I’m still wondering how my guildmates show every five minutes the perfect ichors they get while it takes me forever to get one because my resources are limited and there’s so much RNG involved. Sometimes when I play the game a couple hours in the evening I have the sensation I’ve accomplished nothing, because I spent too much time connecting chars, checking stuff, browsing market, sorting stuff in storage… If you want a competitive set of equipment, there’s nothing else to do than focusing 100% on it: do the raids for raw mats, farm for silver and basic resources, try RNG, repeat if the outcome isn’t successful. Nothing else.
Now there’s the problem of the future of the game. Planned is the release of Legend Dysnai 430 equipment. Basically these will be the Savinose casual stuff of episode 12. For now they’re not even released in kToS, which means there won’t be any for months at least, and we don’t even know what will the random stats look on them. Will they be competitive vs Varna? Better? Worse? Is it worth waiting for those with Savinose equipment? Many unanswered questions. So up to you to see how far you want to invest in Varna equipment now.
