by joks » Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:09 pm
When Brohg says Ward Click, he means the clickies on
Prismatic Ring of Resistance (Eternal Ward)
Necklace of the Steadfast Spirit (Chaotic Ward)
Doomstone Band of Seeing/Ali-ani, the Eyes of Mayong (Unliving Ward)
My plan:
Dawnseeker arms (superior combination of shielding, spellshield and dotshielding)
Fallen saint bp (mana pres and haste, free accuracy!)
Fallen saint legs (60% healing focus and nice mods, free accuracy!)
Vermilion Batfur Cape (Imp Parry IV)
Band of Shattered Stone (detr extended range)
Last blood for the rest: Imp Dodge III, Fero V, Extended Buffs (good enough, better than Qvic boots), Magic focus (only needs to work on our level 68 spell, and I'm banking Tacvi gloves), and finally Detr mana pres (just to add flavour, really)
On top of that I already got beneficial haste from Vish quest shoulders and Cleave V from Vish mask. I think it's impossible to boil it down to a discussion of only one versus the other, because of effects. I really find that a decision for one slot has a chain of effects to the other slots, but that's because I wanna max everything. It's easy enough to max shielding and avoidance, but after that is done, you'd want to add other things like spellshield and dotshielding to decrease the amount of damage you're taking, stun resist to help you on those annoying stuns like hanvar (prolly not the last encounter in the game with long stuns), some combat effects (especially for the DA hammer people) and a bit of accuracy if possible (if you got 150+ avoidance on your gear, it's definitely worth looking for items that add less of this and maybe bring other things).
Our two main focii (beneficial preservation and improved healing) is located on bp and legs, which both come with amazing mods. Our secondary focii, like extended buffs and magic damage come on gloves and boots, which don't have that nice mods (altho the 20acc on gloves look nice), and in the case of the helm, we can get Imp Parry IV on a cloak that, if you take away the parry, is about as hot as it gets with 13% mods (spell+dot 4 and stun 5) and nice hp/ac. A case could even be made for considering the helm from Shyra due to a hard-to-get focus (heck, I'm still using Cragbeast Queen ear for extended range).
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