Armor Enchants. Are there any REALLY worth it?

jeffmwillson · October 2013

For CW. I can kind of understand Barkshield to help a little with survivability. Granted not much. I see soulforged as PVP exclusive really as in PVE once a CW is below 25%. in my experience, one more hit usually kills it and prevents the effect from triggering. Briartwine - seems possible. ran MC full run and ended up with 300k dmg total. ok. perfect. 4% = 12k dmg. My encounters rotation clears this easily in one run without crits. All the other enchants have internal cool downs. Guess my main question is, Bloodtheft , deals 600 dmg heal 1200 dmg below 50%.. worth it? bark seems more reliable if u can go 8 seconds in a fight without damage. (not unheard of but unlikely) fireburst.. how much damage does the fireball really do? with ICD 60 seconds.. it might out dps briart in a dung run. but. with the price of coals and armor enchants. Is there really an enchant worth it for CW? please correct me if I am wrong with any of this information or if there is an armor enchant really worth investing in.

degraafination · October 2013

Soulforged has saved my butt more times than I can count in PVP and PVE. It is a bit unreliable, but that seems a running them for most armor enchants.

hidahayabusa · October 2013

It really depends if you PvP or PvE more. Since Armor enchants are usually helping you when you receive damage and your PvE role requires you NOT to receive damage, there isn't something that would really help. Probably Barkskin just to get ready for that moment that an angry mob comes towards your way?

realbo · October 2013

I can't count the times wherein soulforge saved me from dying and prevented my team from wiping on a boss.

cribstaxxx · October 2013

For a CW I would take Barkshield over Soulforged, you can go from 26% -> 15% -> dead without soulforged proccing, but Barkshield gives you immediate damage reduction, including blocking Tene's. It allows you to live through big initial burst, which is what usually brings down a CW in the first place.

Edit: Ah I see you're talking about PvE... just don't use an armor enchant lol

fondlez · October 2013

Armor Enhancement is a must in PvP.

In PvE, not so much, if you already rarely die. Most things that can kill you as a squishy, will do so regardless of enhancement. That said, yes, no matter how good you are at avoiding damage, you WILL occasionally feel the lack of an armor enhancement even in PvE.

drscone · October 2013

Barkshield. It's essentially a load of free extra hit points that regenerate on their own. What's not to like?

petpet2 · October 2013

I'm all for Negation.

My reason?

Purely costmetics

vorphied · October 2013

I'm still on the fence with Barkshield. I love the idea, but it's also easy to defeat if you expect it. Many powers and feat combinations inflict incidental DoT, which will constantly eat Bolstered Bark charges by inflicting tiny hits.

I don't doubt that it's amazing sometimes, and it is a great start-of-encounter answer to Tene burst, but I'm not ready to go all out and slot a Perfect just yet. SF isn't the perfect defense, but it has allowed me to get away with some ridiculous shenanigans on both of my mains.

kozi001 · October 2013

Even a lesser soulforged is very good at CN/MC fights.

drscone · October 2013

Barkshield is easier to get than soulforged since the shards drop pretty regularly from Master of the Hunt. I'm surprised that they're going for >40k on the auction house though. Looks like a farming opportunity to me!

rollingonit · October 2013

People are using them as tene absorbers. Theres builds to somewhat counter tene builds.

slayorian · October 2013

drscone wrote: »

Barkshield. It's essentially a load of free extra hit points that regenerate on their own. What's not to like?

Ding! Ding! We have a winner.

nevets6169 · October 2013

in PVE, even with perfect SF or bark, u can still die easily, if u don't dodge properly
but as for pvp, soulforge had save me many many times,
tat 2-3 second, i can either run away, my teammate save me, or my control skill finish cd, and i can rotate my encounter again
im not sure about barkshield, but i had kill plenty of barkshield user
im using plague fire, 3 hit from magic missile/ray of frost with the DOT from plague fire? do u think u have any shield left?
maybe bark will be good to counter TR's lashing, cause if you have 3 shield, and they arent aware of it, bark can absorb 2430 damage if u r using perfect bark ^^

i would think elven battle is a good choice if its not bug

jayseelee · November 2013

im using Elven Battle > i think this armor enchantment is feasible given that slows or immobolize are reduced. This is what mainly gets you killed if you are being cc'ed

dhuras1 · November 2013

I've heard that Barkshield is only effective at the higher ranks. Do you believe this is true? I have a lesser now, but I'm not using it yet.

kemi1984 · November 2013

Imo Barkshield is a trash enchant...take a look here -> http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?507191-GF-Guard-Barkshield&highlight=barkshield

hidahayabusa · November 2013

The hype around Barkshield was due to its absorbing Tenebrous damage. Otherwise it's only good against people that use their highest damaging ability the second they see you, or the ones that don't know that just ticking it with 3 daggers or 3 pings of any sort will completely remove it.

And yes, seeing the numbers...the only Barkshield that is actually worth getting is Perfect.

CW-wise, I can't think of any other enchant than Soulforged...given how quickly they are going down and how quickly they kill things. A 2-5 seconds of immunity means that you are able to nuke something down before it kills you...or teleport to safety etc.

grimah · November 2013

when my CW equipped greater barkshield. It felt godly.

Its like having a new passive class feature, very awesome.

cribstaxxx · November 2013

Outside of PvP it's not worth upgrading past R7's honestly. I have R7's GPF and a lesser soulforged only because I used to pvp on my CW, Plague fire is bugged so that lesser with stacks is just as good as greater so you can get it super cheap.

I am quite often top damage and always fill my role fine in PvE, sure I might get out damaged by someone with Perfect Lightning, but spending 9 mil AD to do 1 mil more damage than me just doesn't seem worth it in PvE. That shaves off what, 30 seconds to a minute from the run tops.

PvP is the only real reason to invest in good gear IMO.

Armor Enchants. Are there any REALLY worth it?

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