Mod Advice

"Mobewan;c-1485969" wrote:
@Zerfius
I was answering your thread question.

Sadly, from my experience getting top reward in arena, speed sets work better for most characters and teams than what crouching rancor or whatever other sites advise.

There are many great threads that show the math for extra damage from cc/cd sets and it is much less than some people think, because they forget to factor in the crit chance and that after you have crit damage triangle the 30% from the set is only 16% of the 180% crit damage you already have. So ifyour crit chance is 50%, the crit damage set is only 8% damage increase from just having the crit damage triangle. If you have a godly set with +120 speed, by all means, put it on your highest damage character.

For secondaries, the priority should be speed above all else. Of course, if one mod has 15 speed + 4% crit chance, and another mod has 16 speed and no crit chance, you can sacrifice 1 speed.
Other than speed, you have to understand the characters you are using and see if they need damage or potency, but 1% potency wont be more important than 15 speed.

Even tanks need speed to get their abilities off. I am not telling you this in theory, i am telling you this from experience.

What I'm saying also applies to raids, where i get double the score of my guildmates who focus on cc/cd and i focus on speed sets and speed secondaries

In the oldest shards, you need +120 to +140 speed on every character. Focus on that.

@Zerfius This advice is pretty much correct. You won't have great speed sets for every character, but you might end up with 2-3 sets with good secondaries. Regardless of the primary stats, you want these sets on your best team. It's just a bonus if the primaries match up. This is, of course, only valid for your top one or two teams. For the others...

Here are some good general rules (talking about primaries, not the mod type):

SLOTS
1. Arrow: Speed arrow always (except in very rare circumstances). Use the arrow slot to complete mod sets beneficial to a character (if only one of your best speed secondaries is a Potency-type mod, use a +30 speed potency here...a mod set bonus will always be more beneficial than any secondary FOR THIS SLOT ONLY)
2. Triangle: For DPS characters, Offense/Crit Dmg on Triangle. Crit Chance is a close second. For utility characters and support, Protection. Defense/Health NEVER unless the mod has an insane speed secondary and it is a tank (i.e. I have a defense triangle on my GK just because it has +15 speed)
3. Cross: For DPS, Offense/Potency. Protection useful on all characters. Tenacity crosses CAN be useful on tanks and cleansers (my preference). Defense/Health NEVER (same rule as triangle)

SETS
My personal preference is that +1 speed is equal to about +2% for another stat. So when I have to decide if I want to ditch that +5 speed to make a mod set work, I have a rule at least. As @Mobewan said, for your top teams, speed is king and will trump other specific decisions.

I hope that helps some!