Armor Sets and Speculation...

sandukutupu

Haven't been playing much lately. When I do get on I find myself shuffling inventory and looking at builds... yeah like we have a choice.

Name	Armor Penetration	Accuracy	Awarness	Critical Avoidance	Deflection	Combat Advantage	Critical Strike
Frenzy Mitts	980	2450	0	0	0	0	0
Bralliel's Planar Bidings	0	2450	980	0	0	0	0
Shielded Defender Vambrace	0	0	2450	980	0	0	0
Spiked Defender Vambrace	980	0	0	0	0	0	2450
Clingy Leather Coat	0	1225	0	1225	0	0	0
Dark Ritual Robe	0	0	0	0	1225	1225	0
Safety Harness of Protection	0	0	1225	0	1225	0	0
Poisoned Leathers of Rage	1225	1225	0	0	0	0	0
Barbed Cultist Greaves	0	1225	0	0	0	0	1225
Mighty Storm Slippers	0	0	0	0	0	1225	1225
Armando's Dueling Boots	1225	2450	0	0	0	0	1225
Rusted Iron Leggings	0	0	1225	1225	0	0	0
Veil of the Blinking Beast	0	0	1225	0	0	0	1225
Bone Harvester Hood	0	1225	0	1225	0	0	0
Fancy Duelist Mask of Cormyr	1225	0	0	0	0	1225	0
Infernal Offering Helm	1225	0	0	0	0	0	1225

With this table there is a very good Heavy Critical Strike/Armor Penetration build;
Infernal Offering Helm, Poisoned Leathers of Rage, Spiked Defender Vambrace, and Armando's Dueling Boots
This combo gives your character;
+4,900 (+4.9%) Critical Strike
+4,655 (+4.7%) Armor Penetration
+1,225 (+1.2%) Accuracy

Each of my characters at this point have 2 sets each, but I am not really doing that much swapping. Personally, I like using the Dark Ritual Robe, for it's healing properties. Does anyone see anything here they would like to point out?

zimxero

Infernal Forged Sallet/Helm: +1440 Critical, +960 Combat Advantage
Equip effect: +5,000 Power for 10 seconds with a 30 second cool down (about +1,225 Power over time)

sandukutupu

zimxero#8085 said:

Infernal Forged Sallet/Helm: +1440 Critical, +960 Combat Advantage
Equip effect: +5,000 Power for 10 seconds with a 30 second cool down (about +1,225 Power over time)

Problem is killing all the apes (giant barlgura demons) I need to get the seals. I had to kill 60 just to get the shirt and pants. Whereas I only need 2 to get a 30% chance on a Juma Bag. I was on late last night (or early this morning) with my rogue Goro Thay and opened 11 bags. I got the Armando's Dueling Boots, Bralliel's Planar Bidings, and Bone Harvester Hood.

Any time the Rusted Iron Leggings drop I sell those to the vendor. I wore them on my barbarian, until I found better. You need to offset the incoming healing far too much for those to be any good at all. Here are some of the armor builds I came up with;

Heavy Accuracy +7,350 (+7.4%)
Bone Harvester Hood
Clingy Leather Coat
Frenzy Mitts or Bralliel's Planar Bidings*
Armando's Dueling Boots

*I prefer the Frenzy Mitts power up effect and +980 Pen. The summoned demons vary too greatly, don't do a lot of damage, and will not fight or even distract a secondary mob.

Heavy Power (special use)
Infernal Offering Helm: Berserker's Might
For the first minute you are in combat, you will gain 400 Power every 5 seconds. (400 x 12, peaks at +4800)
If you stay in combat for longer than one minute, you will lose 450 Power every 5 seconds, to a total loss of 4200 Power. (I assume you end combat with +600 remaining?)
Poisoned Leathers of Rage: Reckless Brutality
Whenever you deal damage to an enemy gain a stack of Reckless Brutality, increasing your Power by 1000 but increasing your damage taken by 2% for 5 seconds. (Max 5 stacks) (peaks at +5000 power)
Frenzy Mitts: Death Defier's Might
Gain 300 Power for each enemy you are engaged in battle. (Max of 15 targets) (peaks at +4500 power*)
Mighty Storm Slippers: Charged Might
When Action Points are full, your Power is increased by 5000. (Good for wizards, assuming you don't teleport often.) oops! Yes, I confused stamina with action points, so yes, it would require you to hold off on your daily instead.

*This build should see maximum increase of 19,300 power in large battles with multiple targets. Realistically closer to 12K to 15K because of swell and ebb of these powers.