Best way to get Hakkon and to get the points prestige up

As someone who has been grinding away for awhile, I can share what I know and then the pros can chime in.

1. As far as I know, defeating Nightmare dragons gives you the highest percentage chance of a Hakkon drop regardless of prestige/gold accumulated. But the percentage goes down with every Hakkon you get. 15% chance for the first, 7% chance for the second, 5% chance for the third, 2% chance for the fourth, 1% chance for the fifth. Keep in mind, these are not guaranteed drops. 15% chance of a Hakkon means 85% chance you WON'T get a Hakkon on each run. I know some people who have done hundreds of Nightmare runs without a Hakkon drop. I am one of them.

2. I believe there is a 1% chance of a Hakkon drop by beating the commander on wave 5 of Nightmare (a non-dragon run).

3. Once you have accumulated enough gold and bought enough chests (I think you need to reach 1.7 million in gold spent), you gain a 1% chance of getting a Hakkon or other higher tier weapon from a chest (either bought from the store or in a treasure room).  But again, 1% chance of success means 99% chance of failure. So it's not so much about prestige points as much as gold accumulated/spent.

4. Good ways to accumulate gold and prestige? Get a solid group together, with at least one mage, one rogue and one warrior, who are willing to open every chest and smash every pot. Then keep running through the Orlesian Chateau on perilous (best gold/experience combo for speed runs in my experience). And ALWAYS promote your characters once they reach level 20. I think this is the main way to get that prestige score up.

5. Try not to get hung up on getting the best weapon. Hakkon's are among the most damaging weapons, but there are others that are very powerful and have fun effects. Keep playing, keep collecting gold, keep promoting, keep having fun and some sort of higher tier weapon will drop eventually. And your damage output is going to go up as you continue to promote regardless of weapon used, particularly promoting rogues for increased cunning and mages for increased willpower.

Check out this thread from people who know a lot more about it than me  :-)

bsn.boards.net/post/163554/thread

All true.

As far as I know there's no secrets or tricks to get any specific weapons. 'Full class team + proper difficulty + COINS + fun' is the fastest way. I was one of five-members of hakkon searching rookies until quite recently. We all got our first hakkon around 60/60/60 stats, and we were all about to achieve first star of the 'banker' challenge. And three of us got their first hakkon from store chest not from dragon. Only 2 people (including me) got it from NM dragon. So, really, no need to care too much about NM dragons. Play enjoyable difficulty games. NM without enough level and stats is too stressful experience. Like teethalmighty and 3y3vr3 said, gears and promotions will come along eventually.

I wish you good luck! 

Play.

A LOT.

It's as straight forward as that.

It's more randomly random
Some would say: give all the best Players the best weapons (like me )
Some would say: give all the worst Players the best weapons (like me )
The very best Player (and that's not me) would say: it's more randomly random
It sounds so nice, I have to tell it twice:
It's more randomly random

Aside from some very good procs and upgrade slot(s), it's mainly the 100% critical damage bonus of hakkons that makes them the most powerful weapons in the game. You'll see the difference once your critical chance goes up. But I always use Heart of Pride on saarebas for faster cast speed. Tried hakkon staff on her a few times. Don't like it. Still feels too slow even with rings.

There is no Heart of rage in MP. It would be nice if there were though.

New player alert. (just messing)

That Hakkon staff is permanetly strapped to my Saarebas and Arcane Warrior. (maybe I should rephrase...)

You get used to the slower casting times until you dont even notice anymore. Totally worth it.

The Hakkon Bow is awesome. One of the best weapons in the game.

True. As a support I like that HoP + rings enables me to do one or two AB finisher between barriers. For pure DPS I enjoy wearing inferno pact belt on Sarrebas now. Not really a big difference whether I'm using hakkon or HoP on NM and below. Nothing is left alive after a combination of Leap finisher and AB opener.(except the ones immune to fire ) Maybe I should try inferno belt + hakkon in HB when I have the chance.

No, the multiplayer versions of the weapons are different.

I swear the Saarebas throws her arms in the air and just sits there for a second or two before actually doing the cast without HoP.[/quote]


Well, she can't talk so she's just trying to get a little attention, poor thing...

Speed ring, every 6th button press

Typical rotations for me;

Barrage Ring Barrage Barrage Barrage Barrage

Athlok Ring Barrier Athlok Barrage Barrage

Barrage Ring Barrage Barrage Ring Barrage

Barrage Ring Barrier Barrage Ring Barrier

Leap Ring Leap Leap Barrage Leap

You get the idea....

Really depends on team setup of course but you only really 'need' to cast ring every second rotation unless you are being interupted

That's the exact reason I took hakkon off her after giving it a few tries.  I had rings then but still AB finisher felt unbearably slow...Leap finisher was not too slow to cast though. That's why I'm planning to try Inferno belt + hakkon and mostly do the Leap finisher + AB opener combo.