User blog comment:RaySchechter/Phantom of Shadow loadouts/@comment-29799174-20200122000914

Hello!

Legendary Chaos Gems can only be forged on Legendary Equipment, but not the other way around:

Legendary Equipment accepts all kinds of Gems (Common, Rare, Epic, Legendary).

As for how I've setup my loadout for the Phantom of Shadow... Well I haven't :P The requirements for the final alchemies (which are the only interesting ones as there are better Amulets and Gloves than the tier 2 alchemies) are just insane. And not only for the ingredients required, but also the "must own but not consumed" ones. You need 2 Astaroth Blades and 2 Astaroth Amulets to be able to alchemize the Chromus legendaries which you need to finally be able to alchemize the Phantoms legendaries...

Anyway, if I had to prepare, I'd have to give up on several of my Monster Hunting pieces of equipment so that I could get enough Pierce, I think the damage reduction is pretty significant. But I would probably lose lots of crit% in the process (from Dragonhunter gear + crit gems), as well as Aggressive General boosts from gems. My Pierce loadout currently gives me +561 Physical Pierce so I can fully get through, but I'm not sure it would be the most efficient though. I'd also lose some damage to the Divine armor, although not much as I have 1216 DP (with one gem giving +36 - I wouldn't get a gem specifically to increase my DP though). I don't think I'd hunt for more DP, the damage reduction would probably be around 2.5% I suppose which is really not that bad.

So I would do alright against him I think, but dealing 320m dmg so many times would definitely be a real pain nonetheless.