Attack lvl / Def lvl / Vit Stones ?

If youre going R9 you dont want a lot of HP. GoF will just hurt you more. I'd go def levels honestly. R9 damage is already absurdly high. Just get josd's to help tank and stuff =3

First of all, what do you want to do, which culti are you, and what budget do you have?

Some situations (all disregarding budget):
If you are sage (you did put on sage spark): best would be to go att lvl everywhere. With that gear you will be able to solo pretty much all bosses, like TT3-3. Maybe if you really plan on soloing the though wb on regular basis, put JoSD in the vana hat + leggings. Togather with having both blessings, you can get a good def lvl + sage spark.

If you are demon, wether you want to solo or not would probably influence your sharding more (I'm sage myself btw, so this is not 100% accurate). If you always have a cleric, maybe going full DoT will be worth it. Besides, you can always get that 15 def lvl/15 att lvl blessing if needed. However, I think JoSD in hat + leggings (the rest is not high grade enough), and vit stones in 1 to 3 other armor parts, would be more reasonable.

On a side note : plz get rid of those DoT in weapon (put garnets) and that crit arrow. Also, I think only self-buffs is a more objective look on things. You won't always be running around with all buffs, and even then you can get purged.

Ashivas - Dreamweaver wrote: »

If youre going R9 you dont want a lot of HP. GoF will just hurt you more. I'd go def levels honestly. R9 damage is already absurdly high. Just get josd's to help tank and stuff =3

Lol, so you should avoid adding hp because for every 100 hp added you'll lose 5 hp on a zerk proc, despite vit stones adding to defense also? I don't disagree with your conclusion that JoSD are better, but the reasoning...

Also, I want to punch a kitten in the back of the head everytime someone shards DoT's in a weapon. Pretty sure average garnets give about the same damage increase for 30k.

This looks like a fantasy build being posted by a lvl 82 wizard but anyway, I think the split DoT/other shards is the best way to go. As stated JoSD will give you the best survivability AFTER you have a good base defense and good base hp as well as survivability not being effected by GoF proc as much. Also, the difference between reducing dmg 2% (20 hp/1000dmg) means that's 20% less paint has to heal to return your health.

Vit stones I think are slightly underestimated because of sins low LA defenses. Vit stones would add defenses as well as hp. I'd use if you are looking at under 10k hp or feel your defenses are weak. Vit stones would add 130 hp and 1/15th your base defense. If you have JoSD and 10k hp thats "like" 200 hp.

DoT has its benefits because for a sin dmg output=survivability. The only drawback is most sins use the Jones blessing for 30 attack levels and if using the R9 weapon thats 60 attack levels. Not to mention 2 piece Nirvana +5 attack level bonus, so 65 attack levels there. Any +1 attack level shards would be reduced too much (imo) to really be useful. DoTs have more of a use when not paired with R9.

Honestly, G12 cape and G12 TT99 can take vit stones/garnets, G15 can take JoSDs would be the best for pve and pvp if using R9.