Rune here was best pve gear before 5.6 , the new version of apollon is better , as for narakali thats whole new grade and its much better
Rune hero was easy to get and +10 , but now getting it is not hard , however encahnting.. another story normal black stones have stupidly low success rate now QQ.
therefore if u are gonna waste apes/suppliments u may as well go for apollon, coz unless u plan to pay enormously huge price for narakali if any1 even sell it anytime soon u'll have to do it with some ally and to actually perform good there u need good gear with high stats.

Current possible to do Narakkalli loot: 1 armor part and 1 accessory part - for the whole alliance. That means you have to roll for it and pray to win.
Don't bother joining Narakkalli Alliance if you don't have good pve gear, the stat cap is very high. Having Holy Apollon Accessoires with skill boosts for your class are very good to have (they also give PvE damage %)
Holy Apollon set gives exactly the same stats 1:1 like 75 Abyss set, except pvp def is changed for pve def (and some minor difference like MP and ?physical Defence).
Furthermore the pieces are extremely cheap to get; 10-20kk per piece on broker, tops and wings a bit more cuz people don't seem to bother with Putin still, even after the hardcore nerf (well good for me, I can still sell those parts at a higher price :v ). Also... you can still make it +10 with lesser / normal supps and VR APES if you have any.

So my tl;dr opinion:
1. Narakkalli = best gear, hard/close to impossible/expensive to get. You can't 100% +15 it with Mighty supps and APES cuz it's a new grade item appearently, at least someone said it -> chance to break = even more frustrating to finish the set

2. Holy Apollon set = 2nd best gear, easy to obtain / cheap to buy, still ok to enchant

3. Prigga set = still quite expensive, but no conditioning cost at the expense of having no bonus stats like crit and accuracy for physical classes

4. Holy Maze and Runs Hero = I put them both on 4 - imo they are equal


I use Holy Apollon Cloth set on my bard, Holy Apollon Accessoires, Prigga Harp fused with 75 AP (Bygone fuse with atk speed too expensive xD) and I reach MB cap for Narakkalli with that without additional group buffs:
6.1k MB
3.1k MA
1+ k CS

Clic wrote:

2. Holy Apollon set = 2nd best gear, easy to obtain / cheap to buy, still ok to enchant

You mean that set from GoK bosses (I don´t mean boxes) and upgrade for goldwing ?

Jesus... and I idiot selling it at NPC, bcs I thought it´s useless

Clic wrote:

Prigga Harp fused with 75 AP

You mean THIS or THIS ? and it´s better fuse Bygone with Prigga or Prigga with Bygone, or doesen´t matter ?

Yes that Holy Apollon gear that drops (not from boxes) - it IS already upgraded end gear. The items from boxes you can upgrade with Goldwing Insignias to Holy Apollon gear that drops from the bosses (makes no sense to me, but hey, free and very good pve gear).

About harp:
Prigga Legion's Cutting Edge Instrument (your first link).
I would fuse Bygone Instrument under it (watch out that the fuse is lower level from level reduction or it won't work?). Prigga has better Base and Bonus stats, so always use it as main weapon.

Why you have power shards ?

mythical supplements wouldn't be working on it if it was a new grade. I know some ppl who enchanted them to +15 (I got a piece to +10) and none of them broke with apes+mighty

@Click

And for Bard it´s better set with Healling Boost, ir that set without ? or doesen´t matter

May i know what kinda manastones in each piece?

8 Knowledge 8 in weapon
3 Knowledge 8 in tunic
6 Knowledge 8 in leggings
3 Knowledge 8 in Shows
3 Knowledge 8 in shoulders
3 Knowledge 8 in gloves

XD

Rest MB/MP

MB/MP? lol

MP/MP used to be king when Mana Macros were a thing.

Yeah, they were the cheapest MB29 stones on broker so why not? No need to go for MB/HP or even MA cuz it wouldn't make a difference xD can aswell socket MB29/Crit strike

do you use supplement when socketing those manastone? whats the probability for socketing manastone with supplement at 5.6? higher chances or 100%?

TBH I was pretty lucky - especially leggings where 6/6 Knowledge 8 went in without fail. The other parts 50-50 and sometimes i use lesser / normal supps I have left from GoK quests before patch.
To get 3 stones in isn't that hard, the failing starts at 4-6th slot for me? Always...
Also atm knowledge 8 cost as much as atk5/crit8-9 back then (~50kk) xD best time to properly socket gear

had a 2/3 rate on my AP gear with supplements. It isnt that hard to socket manastones these days.

and there's me failing 15-17 stones per slot

I put on 5 pieces of armor... 90x + 6 stones and only 2 stones remain

I've used over 100 +5s and ~ 40 +6 socketed 14 +5 and 2 +6 , beat that
PS used suppliments for big part of those, the +6s are 100% w/o

I have around 30-40% successful rate with composite and ancient stones. Haven't done Daeva stones. Are you using supp?

What chance is with mighty supp? Could use +10 accuracy stones on weapon but hesitating to gamble on 150kk+ per stone