Equipment bonus stat choices

smallpoxx

I recently hit 40 and have begun to nose around other players equipment when I'm in town to see how they're built. I've seen a lot of other archers who favor things like phys resist+ in their armor, and the obvious phys attk+. However, I've also seen more than one sport a mag attk+ ring or str+, mag+ or even vit+ item here and there. Then there's a lot of people who stick on shards for +100hp, which is barely enough for 1 hit by a mob. I myself prefer to use bits of armor with mp regen+ which I feel allows me to spam skills more often, and therefore killing before anything before it reaches me, without going broke to feed a pot addiction. Do things like phys resist+ make that much of a difference, even if it totals up to something like +200 Pdef, when our def is so miserably low to begin with? Am I missing something with mag attk+? Is it because perhaps, these players just happen to be geared for pvp?

Raywall_ - Lost City

i think the only reason an archer would have a magic attack ring would be the crit add on..

Envy - Lost City

Light armor has lower base Physical def then Magic def. So use necklaces and belts with Physical def.

In armor put HP stones, only thing an archer needs.

IShoOtCatZ - Lost City

IMO, most people get phys def on archers because of the glow...HP is best to get. But for pve, i reckon evasion would be good too, a lot better than phys def vs non magical mobs. (magic hits 100%) Adding evasion, with wings of protection to me looks good...but overall HP is best because it's balanced for pvp/magic/melee and most archers go pure dex and need health bad.

So for sockets get +hp, for necklace either phys def or evasion, on gear try get +phys def, +evasion, +dex, or +speed stats...don't get +endurance etc.. For weapon, at low level its best to get accuracy...low level your dex aint high enough to have good accuracy. +phys dmg cant compete with a loss of 2k dmg from 2 misses.