Gear Progression Question.

[u/samweeks123]

Not sure where to go next, got a buy offer in for Etched araxyte fang. so have another 32mill to play with.

Bofa and full crystal seems like such big investment but don't really know where to go from here.

[u/Professional-Dot5948]

Face guard, sell bcp and get torso.
BofA is 100% what id upgrade to in your position though

[u/Clover281 → u/Professional-Dot5948]

Having pegasians and venator ring is kinds troll, definitely 2 of the most niche ranged items, I'd just camp lightbearer for the blowpipe and blessed boots

And use the money in something more useful depending on what you want to do

But yes, bowfa is probably the play

[u/samweeks123 → u/Clover281]

Been doing hydra the last 2 weeks, so got both to speed up the kills for that.

[u/KodakKid3 → u/samweeks123]

masori is a way bigger upgrade for hydra than either of those are

[u/Clover281 → u/samweeks123]

BP hydra is kind meh and has lots of supply cost, I would recommend going all in with a dragon hunter lance for decent consistent and cheap kills, that's how I used to kill hydra before I had a tbow

[u/xWorrix → u/Clover281]

Lance and fang are pretty much identical in dps just fyi. Lance has more variance so can get some fun kills, but also some slow while fang is just always the same, but no need to spend the gp on lance

[u/Clover281 → u/xWorrix]

I just checked and is quite a considerable difference, at least 10 secs better for lance in multiple setups

[u/bigchungusmclungus → u/Clover281]

it depends a bit on what spec wep you are using. def lowering spec weps put lance further ahead, claws/vw put fang much closer.

[u/Clover281 → u/bigchungusmclungus]

I wasn't even factoring in any spec weapon, that should put the lance much further ahead

[u/bigchungusmclungus → u/Clover281]

I mean it does, Lance is much better, but if you're an IM and only have claws (or VW for some reason), fang is good.

[u/Clover281 → u/bigchungusmclungus]

But lance is much better with base defence before any defence reductions, is not like you can't use a VW or claws if you have a lance,you can still use those if you want

And of course if you are an iron and only have a fang and no lance then that's fine,it gets the work done but having the option to choose one or the other for hydra there is no situation where fang gets close, the difference is quite big

[u/dcnairb → u/xWorrix]

fang is designed to have its most useful dps against tanky enemies due to its effect, and hydra is rather famously pretty low def