Greensteel Guard Effects for Hate Tanking

[TheDjinnFor]

So I'm looking for some opinions on a guard effect + HP item on my melee toon for the eventual future. I made myself an Earth II (+45 hp, +6 con skills, summon earth ele 2/day, earthgrab guard) goggles and I've been quite satisfied since it's cheap and effective against trash, but I'm looking for something I can slot to replace them as a hate tank. I've also got a cloak slot available; right now it has a Neg II (immunities); again, cheap, effective vs trash, etc. but I'm willing to replace both. They're useful while leveling/TRing and I'll keep them for that purpose, but they're not end-game items, for sure.

I'm looking for stuff that's going to be useful in the far, far future; this means it has to be in the right slot even after epics. I'm going to slot my main HP guard in Goggles (since the only other thing worth putting in there is Tharne's, for when I'm not tanking), but I also have room for a guard in the Cloak and Boots slot; Cloak is obviously competing with Envenomed Cloak and my existing GS, and for Boots I'll swap it in after Madstone procs and assuming I don't need Firestorm Greaves or Epic Boots of Corrosion.

Here's what I've looked at so far for the Goggle slot:

Salt II: +45 HP, +6 Str skills, corrosive salt guard (2% chance at 300~400 untyped dmg).
Dust II: +45 HP, +4 Con skills, +2 Str skills, Disintegration Guard (2% chance at ~500 untyped dmg).
Lightning II: +45 HP, +5 Dex skills, +1 Con skills, Lightning Storm Guard (2% chance at ~600 lightning damage).

Obviously Lightning Surge is not going to be useful against Lailat, and Disintegration Guard is on a lot of other accessories as well and won't stack (and is it no-save or is it actually the disintegration spell?). Hence the importance of Salt II. Fire guards are pointless outright just for not working on Horoth/Harry/Sully. I don't like the damage output of Crushing Wave guard or any of the other guards I've seen.

Anything I'm missing?

I'm thinking I might go:

Goggle: Salt II - +45 HP, +6 Str Skills, Corrosive Salt Guard (7 pt guard on avg)
Cloak/Boots: Lightning II - Good/Elec Guards, Lightning Storm Guard (20.25 pt guard on avg).

Any other guard ideas?

[bendover]

You can check out this guide I've made a while back see if it interests you:

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php...guard+crafting

[TheDjinnFor]

Alright I'll probably go Salt II Goggles, Lit 2 Cloak, and Epic Boots of Corrosion for when I want some guards for hate tanking.

[Rogann]

Meh, from my experience gs guard items are fun but not needed at all. They don't produce hate and u can waste ingreds. Say u craft 2 duel shard gs guard items then a week later u role a new alt and have no ingreds for gs weapons.