End game cape and rings?

_Belgarion_ - Dreamweaver
_Belgarion_ - Dreamweaver Posts: 171 Arc User
edited March 2012 in Barbarian
So I'm making a sage vit build barb, who will share most of his gear with my seeker. This means he will (eventually) be using lunar nirvana chest, legs, gloves and boots along with forest wisdom, cube neck and warsong belt.

However I'm not exactly sold on the cape and rings - I was thinking the lunar robe to go with the armour to get the set bonus, but is there anything better out there for a vit barb? Also with regard to the rings, what would be the best option? Obviously I am going to suffer on accuracy, and while not a massive thing since i'm more a puller/tanker, I don't want to be missing all the time. I was thinking about the 95 frost rings with the 50% accuracy and mdef, but again is there a better option?
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  • CrusherJam - Dreamweaver
    CrusherJam - Dreamweaver Posts: 550 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    I have the r8 ring ( went R8 barb ) and the Perfect attendance ring just because it was

    my first that i engraved with some extra vit

    i would also like to know what other barbs wear end game

    but around 100-101 as well whats good :-)
    19k Hp and rising my goal is 20k unbuffed (would love 25k )
  • _Belgarion_ - Dreamweaver
    _Belgarion_ - Dreamweaver Posts: 171 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    Yeah I should also add I'm not intending to go down the rank route as I have most of the lunar nirvana already, and I don't want to spend all that coin just for the R8 ring
  • Sakubatou - Sanctuary
    Sakubatou - Sanctuary Posts: 4,001 Arc User
    edited March 2012
    What I would consider for your cape as "best" would be either Lunar Cape with the 5 piece set bonus of 10 defense levels and Forrest's Helm for the hp, or Matchless Wings cape. Matchless Wings might favor you against physical damage but the defense bonus of 5 piece lunar vana would favor you against magic damage, too. Personally, I'm an aps barb so I went Lunar Mantle of Radiance which is a G13 -int cape that I'm going to shard with JoSDs so that was the best cape for my barb who is more PvE based than cata based.

    For rings, I use a CoA ring Seal of Eternal Solitude because it refines for magic defense which is very important to find where you can. It also gives vit, dex, crit, and a healthy phys attack bonus. My other ring is a Sky Cover because it refines for the most pdef of any rings (outside unattainable PWIC tourney rings). I'm working on my R9 ring which will replace the CoA ring because the defense levels would cover the mdef lose and also help with physical dmg. Fourth option would be the Frost Chaos ring. Good pdef refines and a bit of valuable mdef and accuracy. So for a cata barb I'd say order of preference is r9->CoA->Sky Cover->Frost Chaos.

    Edit: Saw your 3rd post. R8 ring is kind of... **** for barbs unless they're planning to dd. It doesn't refine and only offer 180 hp. Only thing I consider worth it for R8 for barbs is the belt and only as a swap for when they know they're fighting physical mobs (like aoe grinding on phys mobs). 99% of the time they should be using a magic belt and its sometimes hard to swap while running an instance because tiger form doesn't allow equipment changes so to swap equipment you need to go human, swap, go tiger again and now you've lost hp by going human which eliminates most the advantage gained by swaping belts... So I avoid the R8 belt. The r8 plate has nice pdef but refines the same as TT99 and worse than other level 100 vana equipment. Really, only thing I see as worth it in R8 is the weapon.
    Seven 100+ characters leveled the hard way. Free to play. Mystic, Psychic, and Wizard left to level. b:victory

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