After a few exp sessions, I reached 30M totals with my secondary character Tohelo. With the exp, I leveled up to level 51 and took another squire level.

While ago, I got +10 str a pair of cold black leggings from smoke+ eq pool. Inspired by that, I also bought +8 str a red silk cloak embroidered with flame symbols for 2M gold. After digging up some other stuff (like Black Reaver’s gauntlets) from my chests, I ended up with following eqset:

Your equipment [brief mode]:
Rig: Bandolier of the hellish warrior <purple glow> [35% full]
Head: Crown of Sorrows..  The Blood Crown <blue glow>
Neck: Amber necklace labeled as |infra|
Amulet: A bronze shirriff's star
Cloak: A red silk cloak embroidered with flame symbols <purple glow>
Torso: A crystite armour resembling a corset
Both arms: Crystite sleeves covered with a grey webbing <red glow>
Both hands: Black Reaver's gauntlets <white glow>
Bracelets: Shimmering bracelets of adaption labeled as |tohelo| <christmas glow>
Wielded in left hand: Black Reaver's Axe <purple glow>
Wielded in right hand: The Torso Maker sword <christmas glow> <red glow>
Finger: Magical Damage Ring [Made by: Thelo] labeled as [4dam1spr]
Finger: Damage Bonus Ring [Made by: Thelo] labeled as [4dam1spr]
Belt: Black spiked leather belt <green glow>
Both legs: A pair of cold black leggings <blue glow>

The leggings and the gauntlets were using same slots as SBS, so I gave up on using it. The removal freed also quite many other slots, which I filled up with crystite and other small stuff (like bronze shirriff’s star).

With these eqs, Tohelo has about 224 str and 121 dex as ogre ranger (full str, dex and super char boons taken). With SBS, the stats were 204 str and 147 dex.

Here is what I have paid from the eqset:

Bandolier of the hellish warrior: 200k
Crown of sorrows: from eq party
Amber necklace: solo eq
A bronze shirriff's star: solo eq
A red silk cloak embroidered with flame symbols: 2M
A crystite armour resembling a corset: solo eq from crystite mines
Crystite sleeves covered with a grey webbing: solo eq from crystite mines
Black Reaver's gauntlets: 500k (high wear time, so it was cheap)
Shimmering bracelets of adaption: from Santa
Black Reaver's Axe: 3.6M
The Torso Maker sword: from Santa
Magical Damage Ring [Made by: Thelo]: from my alch reinc
Damage Bonus Ring [Made by: Thelo]: from my alch reinc
Black spiked leather belt: from eq party
A pair of cold black leggings: from smoke+ eq pool, 150k credits

In total, 200k + 500k + 2M + 3.6M = 6.3M in gold and 150k in smoke+ credits.

Damage output change

So, how much my damage changed when I switched from SBS to other str and dam eqs?

Here is what kind of hits I was doing with SBS (204 str, 147 dex, +some dam):

incise               528 (6 %)
shred                3433 (39 %)
horribly_shred       3504 (39 %)
slash                988 (11 %)
incisively_cut       31 (0 %)
incisively_tear      20 (0 %)
slit                 15 (0 %)

And here with other str+dam stuff (245 str, 141 dex with eqs and salves, +more than some dam):

incise               27 (2 %)
shred                255 (23 %)
horribly_shred       475 (44 %)
slash                221 (20 %)
incisively_cut       23 (2 %)
incisively_tear      20 (1 %)
slit                 13 (1 %)

After eq change, I hit incise very rarely (6% -> 2%) and slash hits increased from 11% to 22%. I don’t know the damage ranges for each hit type, so I don’t know the raw damage increase, but at least the change was somewhat noticeable in terms of hit messages.