What to craft?

[sephiroth1084]

Trying to figure out what greensteel item I should be aiming to make for my Drow Wizard. I figure a scepter with +3 exceptional Int would be the way to go, but not sure what bonuses I should try to get, nor am I certain that this is the best route anyway.

I think to carry a weapon set for fire (Superior Potency VI/Superior Fire Lore), ice (" "/" Ice Lore), and Acid. Napkin takes care of everything else, along with that necklace with Spell Pen. VI. My questions are:

-Is there an item I can look for to replace either the potency or lore scepters I'm carrying around?
-Is the Greater Arcane Lore on the Blue Dragonscale Robe worth having (because it saves a slot) vs. the Superior Lore on the scepters?
-Should I instead make SP Goggles as my first item?
-What bonus effects should I be aiming for?

[Mistinarperadnacles]

Blue Dragon Armour gives you a lot. Greater Arcane Lore (this is all your lore scepters in one shot) and Spell Penetration VII are worth getting it for alone. Electric resist and potency is just gravy.

Greensteel wise, I'd go for the Tier 3 Spell Point goggles first - usually triple positive for a Resurrection clickie bonus.

Then I'd look to craft a weapon for the tier 2/3 +3 exceptional int and most likely +6 Int on tier 1 and free up another item slot.
Then you've got Superior Potency VI and Greensteel +9 Int in your hands and max spell points to boot.

For pure luxury, if you get a cleansing item (20th Shroud reward) I favour a 3 tier hit point greensteel item too - with such low base class hitpoints an extra 45 makes a big difference.

[sephiroth1084]

Thanks for the reply. I guess my concern had been with whether it was good to go from Sup. Lore for the 3 elements I use to Greater Lore. Not a huge difference, but that was my concern.

Out of curiosity, why go SP item before +Int? The latter will grant +1 or +2 to all my DCs and some extra SP. Is the 300 SP better than that?

Ultimately, yeah, the SP item, weapon, and HP item are probably what I'll end up doing on this character as well as my tank. oh! Which brings up another question. Would it be better, do you think, to replace Minos Legens with an HP+ Mineral II helm (also replacing a Prot. +5 necklace), this on the tank, or better to make it a necklace, replacing the Prot. item, but adding HP on top of Minos?

[Mistinarperadnacles]

Personally, I find I prefer the SP first, especially on Wizards and Clerics. Sorcerers don't have quite as much shortage. With Wizards tending to have maxed Int anyway, I found the DC boost from the greensteel item was less of an immediate concern.

For Mineral II items - I tend to use cloaks on melees as I have very few cloaks (other than Prot +5) that I use on them. It depends on your gear and which slots you can swap around, but this way I keep the Minos Legens too for extra hitpoints. If gear slots were more of an issue and I had to drop the Minos and use a Min II helm, I wouldn't lose sleep over it.

[sephiroth1084]

Thanks for your reply! (again)

My main is a paladin 12/fighter 4 intimitank, so the cloak goes to Cha +6. Very pressed for item slots, and was debating whether I wanted to give up Minos or not. It just looks so **** cool!

I've got a pretty good sense of what I'm gunning for now. Again, thank you.

[llevenbaxx]

I making an hp item, just becasue Im too **** squishy.

Going Tier 3 for the Air gaurd to even further decrese my squishyness.

[lathreborn]

my guild runs constant loot runs so i am verry well known for carrying arround stacks of greater/major mana pots and using them freely so for me the sp boost isnt near as important as say the hp or lore items (went 2 rog as on all my toons, have a capped wiz 2 capped fighters and a capped ranger/rog/monk build, and all are near as good as a straight rog when it comes to trap-monkeying[is that a word] and i have lots of fun building toons that seam to be gimpped, but usually are at the top of the kill count or in the case of my wiz....... well he usually is too lol)

with all that in mind i must say that what items u craft and the order you craft them in is soooo dependant on your build/play style and what YOU want from your toon that wile sugestions are allways helpful, i wouldent go do a million shroud runs and start crafting until you have thought alot about all things considered, and make your own plan....

and also we all do have to remember that not all of us have the redilaly available ingredients, or cash to buy them, or even a gaurenteed no tard shroud run that comes with membership to a top guild, as i do sometimes forget my self..... but im rambeling so i guess............................