Where do you slot your GS HP item...

[WangChi]

Rogues - help me out. I just capped my first toon, human pure rogue assassin, and am working on the mats for my GS HP item. My question is, where do I slot it with end-game gear in mind? I was thinking smoke cloak, but right now that's got resistance +4, which I'm not sure where else I can slot.

Current setup -

Head: Minos Legens
Neck: Health +6 Necklace of blah blah
Trink: The Blood Stone
Cloak: Stormsinger cloak (+4 resistance/sonic guard)
Belt: Proof against poison belt of greater false life
Ring: Feather Falling ring of persuasion (UMD/FF)
Ring: Clever +6 ring of blah blah
Hands: Charged Gauntlets (switch to spectral gloves for ethereal mobs)
Feet: Madstone boots (switch to dustless boots when sneak is critical)
Wrist: Ogre Power +6 bracers of blah blah
Body: DT Vestments (deathblock, healing amp 20%, rad guard)
Eyes: Blindness ward goggles of battle skill (reserved for tharnes eventually/hopefully)

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, I really don't want to go through the collection process for mats more than once on this one.

Thanks.

[Teharahma]

Setup I will be using for my rogue next life. While leveling mostly, and what I'll use fully pimped out.

Tharne's Goggles
Minos Legens
Shintao Cord
Bloodstone
Triple Earth HP Cloak
Awanahu's Sash /w +20% amp
Whisper's Ring
Spectral Gloves
Madstone Boots
Kyosho's Ring /w +2 Str
Statbracers +6str prolly.
DT Robe with Radiance Guard

What I'll be using pimped out.

Tharne's Goggles
Epic Red Dragonscale Helm /w GFL
Shintao Cord
Bloodstone/Litany
Rad2 HP Cloak
Awanahu's Sash /w +20% amp
Whisper's Ring
Epic Gloves of the Claw
Madstone Boots/Gyroscopic Boots of Striding (Depending on solo or not.)
Kyosho's Ring /w +2 STR
Epic Bracers of the Claw
Epic Red Dragonscale Robe /w Toughness + 6int.


Thinking about taking Epic Envenomed Cloak /w GFL instead of the HP Rad2 and replacing the helm slot for that Rad2.

But we'll see.

Hope this helped.

[Ookami007]

Made a cloak... but then got replaced it. Made a helm... then replaced it.

Currently, it's like this:

Head: Event hat with +6 seeker, +15 balance
Neck: ToD Monk Neck and Swap item (GS INT skill, GS Cha skill, Silver flame, etc.)
Body - Epic Vulkoors w/ Heavy Fort
Gloves - Epic Brawling Gloves
Back - Epic Silver Concord
Bracers - GS HP Item
Feet - Madstone/Anchoring/etc
Trinket - Event Trinket/Head of Good Fortune/etc
Belt - ToD FB Belt
Ring 1 - Encrusted
Ring 2 - Monk

Some of my other toons have it on the helm, if they put toughness on their armor or on their back.

[Musouka]

You can always slot your STR into a ring, especially since Intelligence on a rogue is situational just for +3 trap skills. You just have to equip the ring every time you work on traps. Then you have a wide open bracer slot.

[DrunkenBuddha]

I gotta recommend KingOfCheese's rogue - he's the most balanced and DPS capable rogue build I've seen.
http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=309669

[brzytki]

Usual slot for GS hp item is cloak or, like for me, bracers.

Goggles: Tharnes / Epic Kundarak Delving Goggles (swap)
Helm: Epic Helm of Frost w/ GFL
Necklace: Veriks Necky
Trinket: Bloodstone
Cloak: Epic Envenomed Cloak w/ Toughness
Belt: Ravager Belt
Ring: Ravager Ring w/ +2 STR
Gloves: Epic Charged Gauntlets w/ Disease Immunity / Seven Fingered Gloves (swap)
Boots: Madstones / Epic Boots of Corrosion w/ +6 DEX and GL
Bracers: 45hp Triple Air GS
Armor: DT: Heavy fort / Heal amp 20% / Radiance
Heavy fort / Heal amp 20% / Tharnes
Heavy fort / Corrosive Salt / Tharnes
Ring: Epic Ring of Bucaneer / Rakhir's Ring w/ +2 INT / Ring of Lies / Verik w/ +2 CON

@Sae Didn't know u are going rogue next life, I hope I can catch u on ur TR spree with one of my toons :P

[TheDjinnFor]

Rogues - help me out. I just capped my first toon, human pure rogue assassin, and am working on the mats for my GS HP item. My question is, where do I slot it with end-game gear in mind? I was thinking smoke cloak, but right now that's got resistance +4, which I'm not sure where else I can slot.

I like goggles slot for most melees, since when you need the extra SA damage you often don't need the extra HP. For rogues its a little different, though; I'm partial to cloak or boots. Boots is more for hotswaps though, and cloak can be taken by Epic Envenomed Cloak.

For the neck, belt, and ring slots, you'll not want to hold off on filling them since you get a lot of good items there from Tower of Despair; unless you know you don't want, say, a necklace, from Tod, those are probably off limits. Hands and wrist will probably slot the high DPS weapons from red fens or chrono. Helm is probably going to be the epic Red or a pirate hat, So it's down to boots, cloak, or goggles, imo.

For the actual item itself, Triple Earth is pretty cheap, and you get a good end-game summon, +45 hp, +6 extra concentration for your UMDing, and a proc that earthgrabs the enemy like an earth elemental does, for only 2 scales, 2 stones. I suppose perma blur and some displace are nice from smoke, but you should have some good UMD should you not?

[Talon_Oakenleaf]

My 20 assassin uses the Epic utility vest (not hard to get)+15 to disable and open etc. , Epic Spy glass +20 to spot and search etc. (easy to get if the event comes back). Also tripple neg Green steel boots for all the immunities. I dont have a hp item but have 400 hps so never thought of making one. Maybe you could make a partial hp item and lose the first tier for a +6 to one of your stats, that way you double up on a slot and only do not gain 10 hps. I agree with TheDjinnFor that TOD does have really nice sets you might want to try for so i would save your 2 ring, belt and neck slots.

[cbomya]

I'd recommend cloak or helm, as they're fewer pieces of raid loot and epic items that you might ultimately want in those slots. Since you just capped you'll probably be using that Minos for a good while to come, so I would recommend cloak. As for your resistance bonus, maybe pick up a Resistance +4 ring of the AH for now and wear it instead of your Clever +4 ring when you're not doing traps or assassinating your enemies. You might also slot +5 resistance on your Dragon Touched armor rather than deathblock, unless you're soloing quite a bit, you shouldn't need a permanent deathblock item. I believe most players will just swap on a Silver Flame necklace when they need deathblock.

[QuantumFX]

Currently, my rogue has Radiance II braciers. Tharnes is better on a goggle/dragontouched armor setup rather than trying to slot those stupid braciers.

Edit: Try soloing Monastery with stealth. You’ll find that Eldrich/Tempest runes are pretty easy to acquire on a rogue and the fluidity of those slots is way better than any current epic armors.

[nerdychaz]

Bracers

Air/Air/Air haste guard

[Miahoo]

Cloak atm. Will be reallocated in order to make place for the Epic Envenomed Cloak

[Lavek]

had on cloak with earthgrab

made rad2 on bracers to clear space for envenomed

[karl_k0ch]

Bracers

Air/Air/Air haste guard

This.
Cloak is reserved for (Epic) Mabar Cloak at the momement. As I am using Minos at the moment, I could craft a Min2 helmet and slot Toughness somewhere, if I need the Bracers slot for any reason.

[DragonTroy]

I gotta recommend KingOfCheese's rogue - he's the most balanced and DPS capable rogue build I've seen.
http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=309669

i must agree, he is the most amazing rogue ive ever seen. i almost changed servers when i saw that post. although, while sockpuppet's layout is something to aspire towards, it might be a little overboard for someone with their first capped toon

with my own rogue, i went with the air bracers. but i fully expect that im going to change those later. but not for at least one more life

[Kmnh]

I keep changing the slot of my HP item, I don't know where to place it, :P

I have 25 hp displacement bracers, 25hp haste cloak and a radiance belt. I usually run with the belt because I don't have ravager's set yet.

[WangChi]

I'm actually pretty surprised at the number of different slots used, really speaks to the variety and playability of DDO.

Regarding the mighty Sockpuppet - I built my rogue using his build as a guide (I went human with more balanced stats instead of halfling though), and I gotta say, I love EVERYTHING about it, fantastic build. The pure utility of a rogue that can do that much overwhelming DPS, handle every trap and lock, and throw heal/raise scrolls around when needed is awesome.

Thanks for the advice rogues!

[destiny4405]

min II bracers. also have smokeII cloak, but i use it only as clickie now.