Well, that depends on what you're offering me, but I was planning to talk about hit point return ornaments today.

I've been running around with an ultranoob spear for a while now. It's an LM6 Hermit spear with 4 slots and I had 26/1k HP return just on the spear. That was a pair of the 7/1k promotional ornaments and another pair of 6/1k ornaments from the black market in the Cave of the Conqueror. I also have an HP trinket and while I was running SRS I often used the [Unsealed] Silver Spirit epithet that also gives HP return. That combination is about the only thing that kept me alive while I was killing Hiyamis.

I finished that job though and I now have the [Unsealed] Conqueror of North Sea epithet. Let me tell you, for a warrior this is a nice epithet. It gives a 10% critical hit chance and increases critical damage by 7%, and best of all, it also has HP return. The description says it gives 4/1k HP return but many will tell you it's only 3/1k return. I don't know, I haven't done any science on it yet.

I was comparing notes with another high level warrior and he gave me a few ideas on how I can get more damage from the equipment. For normal grind I simply don't need 32/1k HP return. I mean, that's really noobish. You could even add a couple of "reallys" to that.

I spent some time shopping in Hefei and picked up a couple of perfect critical hit rate ornaments, and a Brotherhood of Thieves Wild Tower jacket. You know, the one that makes you look like a Peking Duck? I'm certain that clothing set alone is the reason there are permanent decos in the game. Anyway, that jacket does at least give you an extra 5% damage on critical hits.

I took out the two 6/1k ornaments and replaced them with the critical hit rate ornaments. I put on the jacket, reloaded the relics and went out to grind. So that's a 30% critical hit rate and 12% critical damage. I can't say the grind is a lot faster now, but I can see that I do more damage and I get a lot more critical hits. It's nice when an idea works out.

What are you doing to get maximum damage, and a faster grind?

- SpearDriver