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Concerning artifact equipment, the Orb of Elemental Fire and the Elemental Fire Talismen  are great to begin with.  For  artifact powers you will want to unlock chilling cloud and chilling prescence for both.  Why?  Because chilling prescene with the fire talismen adds another .5 % damage per stack of chill which means that on a target with a full 6 stacks you are doing 3% more damage.  Combined with the 6% more damage from your class feature you are doing 9% more damage to targets with a full stack.

 

The twisted set is what you really want here because it means more power.  If you have leveled the orb and fire talismen you can use them as feeder artifacts on the new ones.  You keep 80% of the refinment on an artifact when you use it as a feeder.  This means it will take the level 1 green Twisted weapons to level 57.  Then during double rp you will 187 more lesser resonance stones to get it to level 60. 

 

The new underdark Twisted Skulls and twisted talismen combo are great.  To start off with,  the max ilevel is 140 whereas with the orb and fire talismen it is only 135.  This by itself isn't enough to warrent a change, but with the set of two you gain 160 power every time you strike an enemy and it stacks 24 times.  This means that we have the potential to gain 3840 power!

 

For your neck and waist pieces you will want the Lostmauth's Hoard Necklace and the Golden Belt of Puissance.  Why you ask?  To try and take over the world of course (queue pinky and the brain music for those of you old enough to remember).  Its simple these two artifacts items combined with the lostmauth's horn of blasting make a three piece set that allow you to DO AN ADDITIONAL WEAPON STRIKE ON CRITICAL HITS!!!  You saw that right.  What this translates to is more damage on crit hits and since crit is something we focus on in this build it only means a blissful sleep for your target.  In addition to that each piece gives a bonus to power, critical strike, and armor penatration, all of which are great for the DPS minded CW. 

 

It should be noted that you obviously want these at the maximum level which is orange.  That unlocks the full bonuses for your character as well as unlocking an additional gem slot for all of them which will again go towards raising your ilevel as well as whatever static bonuses the gem gives you. 

 

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