Ellunia vs Lumel

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Following the beginner guide on my alt. Currently in the process of getting sr5 up and running when I saw that the beginner guide calls for Lumel b5 as the first dhole rune dungeon that you run, and I was curious as to why. Normally, if I run dhole for runes I farm Ellunia because Despair/Endure/Nem >>>>> Vamp/Destroy/Energy/Guard, even as someone in g3 siege. Is it because Lumel is easier than Ellunia? Is it because as a beginner you're pretty much exclusively farming giants, so the despair runes from Ellunia aren't as big of upgrades? Just curious because I think that the beginner guide calls for farming the almost objectively worse dungeon

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Dimension Hole Rune Farming: Lumel 5

At some point you will not have an immediate need for another 2A, so you'll want to spend your precious dhole energy on ancient rune farming. Currently there are 5 different dimension hole areas each with different ancient rune sets that can drop. The easiest (and arguably also most helpful for newer players) is Lumel. The biggest reason for Lumel is that it drops will runes which are super important for PvP, and at this point you are nearing the end of PvE progression and should start thinking about PvP. It also has destroy which is one of the best offsets for siege - the easiest and more rewarding PvP area to get into. Later on you can also choose to farm Karzhan, Ellunia, or Khalderun, but those are a bit harder. Sacreon just sucks right now, I don't see a reason for anyone to farm it given the current meta.

Regardless of which dhole you end up farming, I'd focus your efforts on just 1-2 at a time. You shouldn't try to farm all of them, as getting the ancient grinds and gems you need for your ancient runes can be even more difficult than getting runes themselves. Spreading out your energy across multiple different dholes only makes it harder for you to get the grinds you need.

To start farming Lumel you'll want to build a 2A Vigor. At this point any 2A dungeon should be fairly trivial, Loren Fran Raoq Vigor should be pretty fast.

Vigor is a bruiser/support that should be runed Spd/HP/HP. Swift or broken is fine for now, eventually you do need him on Vio for PvP. Dhole dungeons will want 35 acc. While attack and crit stats do help a bit for his damage, it's much more important to focus on his tankiness and speed. In other words you should be ignoring attack and crit on him.

The Lumel 5 team is Vero Fran Raoq Vigor and it should average around 2:00 at first. Go straight boss.

Req. by aceatall. Quote from · Nov 2, 2023, 6:07 PM

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first paragraph sums it up