What shards should a Vit-Arcane Veno use?

well I wouldn't bother with TT gear untill TT90 so 3 starts and legendary stuff will be oke
I'dd really recommend sleeves of the sea captain though ^^

for a vit/mag build garnets will work like a charm. You might wanna take in consideration though that gear will sell easier later with citrines in it

Also at higher lvl the vit might get in your way (I'm lvl 83 now with about 75 vit statted and have 101vit with gear)
The vit I statted in is getting in my way as in that I like to dish out some damage and the pet heal will be less.
I don't know if it'll get in your way or not. But you might wanna consider that too.

/NiKi - Lost City wrote: »

i keep my vit same as my lvl since i start this veno and didnt have issues with healing pet with my +4 weapons lol.

Then you haven't pushed your limits.

If you're wasting stats on vit, I wouldn't bother wasting coin on shards, especially pre 90. You lose coin on resale no matter what shard you use and that coin is better saved for restating.

Basically what tweaks said. Just focus on leveling to 90 and getting your TT90 gear. Save up as much coin as you can. Sell all shards less than flawless.

Start doing TT 2-3 and 3-1 runs in your 80's to get the needed mats for your TT90 gear. Buy the mats if you find them for cheap. Craft your gear before you hit 90. If it's got less than 3 sockets, sell it and recraft it (socket stones are expensive at that level gear).

As a Vit build you are lacking magic (offense and a bit of magic defense as well). You make up for it with survivability, you can usually take an extra hit because of your extra vitality padding. Your physical defense is not much better than a full magic build. If I were you, I'd shard the best garnets I could afford, refine up to +4 with mirages then to +5 with a dragon orb, wear the best channeling gear I could get my hands on, and use a weapon that only has attack bonuses (like +15 magic, -6% channel, +142 max damage).

Good luck b:pleasedb:bye

That's quite a lot of vit. Of course, hitpoints are good. I stopped at around 50.

Your equipment...

You have chosen an mdef belt. Why? +5 magic is ok, but you'll get better bonuses on any and everything.
I'd suggest a pdef belt for normal play, and try to find a -channel belt for when you need that.

The same logic applies to the necklace, but that necklace has a decent amount of pdef on it (1% counts for roughly 40 pdef) so that's not a bad necklace. Might go find one of those myself.

Hat - yeah, whatever hat you can find with decent bonuses (again - pdef uber alles, hp is good too.)
The TT drummers hat isn't bad - but is a pita to get hold of.

Shirt - I'd say find a Genesis Vestemet with decent bonuses. Or use the rank gear - miragemaster ( http://www.pwdatabase.com/pwi/items/12672 ) has 25 less pdef, but channel, +magic and a few hp.

Pants of hades are a solid choice.

Capes... again yeah, pick whatever has the best bonuses. Although the Cape of Tauran Chieftain isn't bad - a bit of regen is nice. Not exactly a must-have though.

Demon ring is a solid +matk. another choice there is the attendance ring - though +crit is often a very very bad thing to have.
Also keep your eye open for -channel rings. Those are lubberly.


Edit:
Shards.
Garnets and citrines. Mainly garnets, citrines really only if you don't have any HP at all - there's a few bosses that will just ignore your defences and hurt you, and you'll need HP to survive that.
The advice I was given was around 3k HP. There's a really good thread on what the breakeven point betwene HP and defence is here:
http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=5851002

Xetheras - Harshlands wrote: »

I was just looking around at all kind of gear, I suppose and forgot to look into the protection belts. I'll do some more research with the added information.

For belts, I chose a normal 3* purple belt with the best physical def I could find. I also have a channeling belt stashed in my inventory so I can use it whenever I need it.