Thoughts on crafted armour prefix

[wisdomstorment]

Good day all. Would like to get some thoughts on what would be a good general-purpose prefix on armour for 10/1/1 Rng/Rog/Ftr. I'm at crafting levels 20+ in all schools at the moment, so looking at making a +3 xxx Mithral Chain Shirt of Invulnerability. Can't seem to decide on the prefix. Fearsome maybe?

[EllisDee37]

Good day all. Would like to get some thoughts on what would be a good general-purpose prefix on armour for 10/1/1 Rng/Rog/Ftr. I'm at crafting levels 20+ in all schools at the moment, so looking at making a +3 xxx Mithral Chain Shirt of Invulnerability. Can't seem to decide on the prefix. Fearsome maybe?

I'm considering Lionheart for my Ranger with the same splash (9/1/1 Tempest Trapmonkey) since he is always the first one paralyzed by fear and the last one to overcome it. In a tight race with Lionheart is Life Shield, which I'm probably going to go with on my Paladins to help defray the cost of Divine Sacrifice. It's not as appealing for the Ranger, but man, that Ranger scares me with his almost complete lack of self-healing, so Life Shield would be kinda nice.

Assuming your Ranger is True Neutral, Invulnerability is a solid choice but for me as soon as I get Elemental school to 35 (currently at 35/35/32) I'm switching to Greater Stability.

[voodoogroves]

I'm a fan of Life Shield. I think you'll find Invulnerability may start to diminish in value soon as well.

My FVS is wearing Life Shield of Command right now, I'm pretty happy with it.

[sirgog]

I'd avoid Fearsome - it's useful when soloing, but in quests where you want to kill most of the mobs, it really slows your group down.

[wisdomstorment]

I think you'll find Invulnerability may start to diminish in value soon as well.

Thanks for the thoughts.

Just wondering, I've seen several comments about Invulnerability losing it's value over time but can't seem to figure out why it's so. Given the high emphasis on CON and the common mantra that "more HP is always better", I'd always assumed that being able to mitigate 5HP/hit would fit into that school of thought. Getting physically hit 8 times would make it the equivalent of a Superior False Life item, in a way. Am I missing something? Or are there just better suffixes available (for a non-True Neutral)?

[rytiux]

in later content monsters also get magic weapons which break the 5/magic dr you have

[wisdomstorment]

in later content monsters also get magic weapons which break the 5/magic dr you have

Ah, right. That figures. Thanks for the enlightenment.

[Matuse]

Only add Fearsome if you never plan on grouping with the same people twice. Because they will never want to group with YOU again.

[darkminstrel]

Only add Fearsome if you never plan on grouping with the same people twice. Because they will never want to group with YOU again.

+1. This is DDO, not bloody Benny Hill.

[Chette]

Thorn guard is pretty nice if you're getting hit a lot, but I think it's higher level than you're at in crafting right now. I also really like lifeshield. Instead of invulnerability you might want to consider spearblock which will block 5 damage from all archers and other piercing damage, even if they have magical arrows (which almost everybody does past level 8 or so). I generally find spearblock to be the most useful type of "block" past level 10 as there are usually lots of archers, and they are usually the enemy I kill last, if at all, meaning I take a lot of hits from them.

[Teech]

+1. This is DDO, not bloody Benny Hill.

Ah... should totally play that music through my mic when someone goes around fearing mobs... Thanks for the laugh!

[darkminstrel]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHmskwqCCQ

Now it's stuck in YOUR head too!!!!!