1.7 expert dungeon question

[Smedbox]

Where do you get the focus and toughness? From the rep items or from some runes? I'm primarily getting the planar conqueror gear that has focus/toughness on them...

[crowdx]

My main 50s team tank is Divinelace, if you want to take a look I am doing my dailies in EI at present :P

[wyofiddler]

I am on Faeblight and have done parts of a lot of the dungeons before and after the 1.7 patch. Remember, even though the dungeons are all now T2, your gear also got buffed. Crafted gear is a good start to get yourself up to a decent level and if your tank is a warrior you should get the Stalwart 4 piece set which is a big stat increase.
Good luck

Crowdx, regarding this Stalwart set you speak of, is that the epic plate tanky crafted items?
http://rift.zam.com/en/recipelist.ht...gh=300&orderby=

If so, what’s the fourth piece? I found a Ring that is named “Signet of the Stalwart” with mat requirements high enough that it must be awesome, is that in fact the 4^th piece of the Stalwart set items?

[crowdx]

Yes, the ring is an Artificer crafted item and so does not show under armor search
http://rift.zam.com/en/recipelist.ht...gh=300&orderby=

[wyofiddler]

Focus came strictly from gear as I picked up more pieces, my limiting factor was toughness at first. I grabbed a few runes to make the 90 toughness minimum at first, but I've since picked up a few more pieces on the tank that give me enough by themselves and I have switched runes to end/str/block depending on what is avail in that slot.

I was talking with a friend who has run all the expert rifts and he said to try the earth and air events since he thought they have less mvmt needed and less crazy adds/untankable mobs or whatever. I grabbed an earth expert rift lure last night right before I had to leave for work and easily reached stage 4, wiped there so the timer ran out, and came back and closed the rift up before logging out. It was very straightforward so that was fun! I'll try the air expert rift today and see how that goes as well. Also found a page on Zam that runs through each expert rift stage by stage listing what mobs are there and the mechanics of the stage etc so that was super helpful to me as well, since I have not done any of them before (I haven't solo'ed much at all at 50 so trying to box it is also my first exposure to it at all - not the easiest path lol).

[Krago]

Focus came strictly from gear as I picked up more pieces, my limiting factor was toughness at first. I grabbed a few runes to make the 90 toughness minimum at first, but I've since picked up a few more pieces on the tank that give me enough by themselves and I have switched runes to end/str/block depending on what is avail in that slot.

I was talking with a friend who has run all the expert rifts and he said to try the earth and air events since he thought they have less mvmt needed and less crazy adds/untankable mobs or whatever. I grabbed an earth expert rift lure last night right before I had to leave for work and easily reached stage 4, wiped there so the timer ran out, and came back and closed the rift up before logging out. It was very straightforward so that was fun! I'll try the air expert rift today and see how that goes as well. Also found a page on Zam that runs through each expert rift stage by stage listing what mobs are there and the mechanics of the stage etc so that was super helpful to me as well, since I have not done any of them before (I haven't solo'ed much at all at 50 so trying to box it is also my first exposure to it at all - not the easiest path lol).

That is very good to hear!

I may try that tonight as well, also, since you didn't reach the end before the timer expired, I assume you did not receive the loot chest, correct?

[wyofiddler]

There was a loot chest with a so-so blue item after stage three, but no chest when the rift closed. My Internet has bee acting up and I haven't been able to box for several days, so trying the other expert rifts is still on my to-do list.