DoT or Garnet Shards

Moon_Hammer - Heavens Tear · November 2010

Hi, I just brought Pangu's giant axe and it is 2soc. I was wondering if its more beneficial to put 2 DoT or Perfect Garnets or Perfect Amber shards. Btw I am a barb xD, any help would be appreciated.

Kaste - Sanctuary · November 2010

Moon_Hammer - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Hi, I just brought Pangu's giant axe and it is 2soc. I was wondering if its more beneficial to put 2 DoT or Perfect Garnets or Perfect Amber shards. Btw I am a barb xD, any help would be appreciated.

DoT is useful when stacked, else it is better using garnets for the damage. As you being a barbarian, Bloodbath + double Misty (or similar ring) should give you enough accuracy, so amber isn't a choice.

>Garnet<

Moon_Hammer - Heavens Tear · November 2010

So socket it with 2 DoT's or 2 Garnets?? I currently have no DoT in my armor.

RoMMie$ - Heavens Tear · November 2010

2 Garnets

Angel_Mew - Raging Tide · November 2010

Do you feel you are low on HP? If not I would go for the extra offense, and leave the HP stuff to the armor. Maybe exchange the armor for DoT when you get something that will last long enough to be worth the cost.

Moon_Hammer - Heavens Tear · November 2010

I have currently got TT80 HA all 4soc immac citrines and am sitting on 8.5hp unbuffed. So Garnets are going to be more beneficial to me than DoT. Thanks guys xD

TheDan - Sanctuary · November 2010

DoT's should never go into weapons; the stacked effects of sparks, weapon masteries, and Str of Titan buffs from a garnet will always outdamage DoTs. For me, a Perfect Garnet gives about 200 Physical Attack.

xxxdsmer · November 2010

Moon_Hammer - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Hi, I just brought Pangu's giant axe and it is 2soc. I was wondering if its more beneficial to put 2 DoT or Perfect Garnets or Perfect Amber shards. Btw I am a barb xD, any help would be appreciated.

if you are a pure vit barb however, and intend to hit players at some point, then two big ambers would be the most beneficial.

Kaste - Sanctuary · November 2010

xxxdsmer wrote: »

if you are a pure vit barb however, and intend to hit players at some point, then two big ambers would be the most beneficial.

Two ambers wouldn't help. In order to hit people hard you need enough accuracy. And if you want to hit high dexterity folks, you need Bloodbath on, no way around it. Two big amber add like what? 500 accuracy? As high VIT you won't have enough accuracy to hit them.

Teny - Heavens Tear · November 2010

What Dan said.
DoT limits your damage to a 1% increase of what your attack is currently.
Garnet shards have no such limitation, so putting in a Perfect or higher shard will yield much higher results.

As for ambers, I don't think it's a good idea for you to be honest. Your weapon is the only place you can (effectively) increase your damage, I wouldn't put things like HP/Accuracy shards in it.

If you want accuracy, I'd say go for 50% rings and that should be enough for you, depending on your build.

tl;dr: become a clawbarian and save yourself the trouble. b:bye

Teppeii - Dreamweaver · November 2010

Honestly, DoTs/DoG's shouldn't be used over other shards. Attack/Defense lvl sounds like a good idea in theory, but as many have stated countless times before: These stats give diminishing returns, which makes them less than desirable.

Paramedic - Dreamweaver · November 2010

damage taken =  damage delivered * ( 1 + ( attack level  - defense level ) / 100 ) 

damage taken = damage delivered / ( 1 + (1.2 * ( defense level  -  attack level ) / 100 )

edit: they doest give diminishing returns, but just -like every other stat in game including pdef, mdef and hp- more you stack less you gain % survivability from another.

cant say it s bad just because of that

aside from fact that dots does suck in weapons

DoT or Garnet Shards

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