Adivce on GS Gear for Clerics

[Pape_27]

Just finished my Conc/Opp goggles last night. It was the one piece that I really wanted to get finished, so yay me lol.

Okies, so thats done, What now?

Do I make another Conc/Opp item? will it stack with the goggles?
Make a Conc/Opp weapon? does that stack with the goggles?
Finish my Holy/Goodburst Khopesh? (needs tier three)
Make an exceptional stat boosting weapon?
Make an Item - something with a guard such as the disruption guard?


Advice from the more experienced would be greatly appreciated.

[Chette]

Two con-op items won't stack but a Con-op weapon and a Con-op item will. I suppose it depends what other gear you already have as to what you need. I have pretty much everything I want already on my cleric in terms of spell points and power, so I'm just making her an HP item. Maybe exceptional Con so that I can take it off my dragontouched and get the efficient empower heal.

[sirgog]

Second Conc-Opp accessories will not stack, do not make them.

A Conc-Opp weapon will stack, but this is considered a bug by the Devs, and will be nerfed when/if they can be bothered doing so. Not a good use of ingredients.


My advice (assuming your Con-Opp is the pretty common Blindness Immunity/50 SP/100 SP, and that you are somewhat into melee given that you have a double positive khopesh): Consider one of the following:

1: (Budget option) Air/Air/Air hitpoint item. +45 HP, 3 96 second Haste clickies, and a knockdown guard (plus an unreliable Haste proc). Requires Essence of Cleansing from 20th Shroud completion.
2: Lightning Strike Khopesh (Holy, Shocking Blast, Shocking Burst)
3: Radiance Guard HP item
4: Disintegration or Lightning Strike guard HP item

[Steveohio]

For me, first 2 items are:

Con Opp, +150 SP
and
Either air/air/air or earth/earth/earth, aside from weaponry(if you use it)

Con opp is obvious, and the cheapest way to a 45 hp item are those 2.

[Propane]

If you are wearing the gloves from the Reaver Raid for you healing lore, you might consider...

Greensteel Gloves With Blindness Immunity, Disease Immunity, Immunity to Fear, Proof against Poison - Symbol of Weakness (3/day), Superior Healing Lore

They are cheap only needing one single shard...

[Pape_27]

The goggles i have, as sirgog indicated are BI/DI, +50, +100 sp on the goggles. Pretty traditional i know, but if it works....

As for gloves, I do use the ones from reavers, I aslo switch them out between spectral gloves, titans and gloves of the glacier. I do like the healing lore aspect, will have to consider that idea.

The next item will be a set of bracers, as that seems to be the biggest hole in my gear most likely with added hit points and a superior guard like disruption or lightning. Was looking thru the combinations and didnt see a radiance guard, so i will have to play around with it more to see what that will take to build that.

Double the cost I know, but its worth it in the end i suppose. Besides i have time, as I only have 15 shroud completions. so there is plenty of time to farm the larges and have enough materials to get tier two done already.

[sirgog]

The goggles i have, as sirgog indicated are BI/DI, +50, +100 sp on the goggles. Pretty traditional i know, but if it works....

As for gloves, I do use the ones from reavers, I aslo switch them out between spectral gloves, titans and gloves of the glacier. I do like the healing lore aspect, will have to consider that idea.

The next item will be a set of bracers, as that seems to be the biggest hole in my gear most likely with added hit points and a superior guard like disruption or lightning. Was looking thru the combinations and didnt see a radiance guard, so i will have to play around with it more to see what that will take to build that.

Double the cost I know, but its worth it in the end i suppose. Besides i have time, as I only have 15 shroud completions. so there is plenty of time to farm the larges and have enough materials to get tier two done already.

First a warning - Greater Disruption Guard is terrible. Don't let that stop you making an item if you really want three positive shard effects, but even against undead, Earthgrab Guard is better.

I strongly recommend a 45 hitpoint item, which then lets you choose from all 21 Aspect effects. The ones worthy of your consideration are:

Earthgrab (2 scales): 5% chance to proc, DC 35 Reflex save, melee or ranged attacker that fails save is held for 4 seconds
Radiance (6 scales): 15% proc rate, no save, ~14 irresistable damage and blinds melee or ranged attacker
Air Guard (2 scales): ~2% proc rate, trips melee attackers, also randomly Hastes you. One of the best clickies.
Lightning Strike (5 scales): ~2% proc rate, 600 lightning damage
Disintegration (4 scales): ~2% proc rate, ~450 untyped damage
Mineral (5 scales): Provides Heavy Fortification for slot consolidation
Smoke (5 scales): Provides permanent Blur, and one of the best clickies

[Jiipster]

Radiance and Smoke are less useful for divine casters, though, since they get the uber-spell known as Holy Aura.

[sirgog]

Radiance and Smoke are less useful for divine casters, though, since they get the uber-spell known as Holy Aura.

Good point, although making heavy use of Holy Aura to blind everything costs a lot of spellpoints.

[gott_ist_tot]

Personally I can't resist spamming holy aura every now and then to get some nice tharness sneak damage in. But then again I'm at 2700ish SP with my FvS, have no idea if a cleric can afford this.

My pick would be a lightning II weapon, as I'm finding myself fighting more thrash mobs than silver/good bosses (and a plain met of pg or epic antique g-axe is good enough for divine melee). But I'm soloing a lot.

Oh, how I wish I crafted this weapon before wasting larges on conc-opp... maybe if I got the torc beforehand... eh.

[sirgog]

Personally I can't resist spamming holy aura every now and then to get some nice tharness sneak damage in. But then again I'm at 2700ish SP with my FvS, have no idea if a cleric can afford this.

My pick would be a lightning II weapon, as I'm finding myself fighting more thrash mobs than silver/good bosses (and a plain met of pg or epic antique g-axe is good enough for divine melee). But I'm soloing a lot.

Oh, how I wish I crafted this weapon before wasting larges on conc-opp... maybe if I got the torc beforehand... eh.

Bah, I *love* my Conc-Opp (and the Torc gods have not smiled upon me yet). That said, Lit 2 weapons are excellent, and better than Mineral 2 against DR 15 Pit Fiends like normal Horoth.

The Epic Antique Greataxe will take a *long* time to imbue with Good damage, as it takes thirty Epic Dungeon Tokens - a week of farming for most players, and almost out of reach of people that aren't in guilds that hit Epics heavily.