What stats do you tend to look for in your equipment?

I've personally been prioritizing: high stance damage, evasion ki usage reduction, luck and item drop rate.

Curious what you guys are going for.

Depends on the weapon or armor type.

I usually look for stance specific damage on my weapons - low/mid for dual swords and kusarigma, high for axes, etc. Some form of elemental damage or lifesteal on a weapon is also nice to have. I have a kusarigama right now that gives me +100 life when I kill an enemy using a grapple, which is super nice.

For armor, I like items that reduce my dodge cost. Also anything that heals me in some way. The most common one is healing on Amrita gain. That helps you conserve herbs and also allows you to use those soul stones you pick you pick up as a poor mans herb since every time you pop one you'll get a little heal.

For charms, I usually keep several around with different resistances.

Dual Swords:

• Fire or Water damage
• Attack Change Magic
• Reduced Ki cost on Quick Attacks (or low attacks)
• Increased Grapple Damage
• Life Recovery on 'X'

Haven't made up my mind on armor yet. Still not worth purchasing any.

@lawgamer: Kusarigama high stance is so good though! It makes any fight against human enemies trivial.

@dezztroy said:

I've never seen the allure of it, outside of the strong attack counter-weight toss for the extreme range. I'm not running a Dex/Ninja build and it consumes a ridiculous amount of ki in high stance.

Life recovery and ki reduction, have yet to see an element damage weapon besides a poison spear i crafted. Increase drop rates are good too but not a priority.

@dezztroy: Doesn't medium stance have the longest range with Kusigarama?