Bards and Shields - post U9 version

[karl_k0ch]

Call it Necro, Selfbump or Update; it is one. I settle for the latter.

Thorkar is capped now. So far, I am pretty happy with his performance.

He's able to have self-sustained 38 UMD, 50 Perform, 62 AC, saves of 28/32/23, 53 Intimidate and with gear swaps 52 Search and Disable.

Without any GS gear (but a Lit2 weapon) he is currently standing at 420 HP, and there is still a lot of gear which can be farmed for to improve his stats, as you can see below.

My gear setup is the following. Wouldn't have been that easy without Cove and Cannith.

Trinket: Shard of Xoriat. Only for the fun. Will fill it with something useful.
Hat: Pirate Hat with +15 Intimidate and +5 Natural Armor
Neck: Plain +6 Con Necklace.
Cloak: Bard's Cloak (+6 Cha, +15 Perform)
Bracers: Tharaak Bracers (Toughness, +2 Dodge)
Gloves: Plain +6 Str Gloves
Armor: Epic Duelist Leathers Tier 3. AC Ritual. Empty Blue Slot. (+7 enhancement coming up)
Ring #1: Crafted Persuation (+3 UMD) Ring of Lesser Arcane Casting Dexterity (-5% ASF)
Ring #2: Epic Buccaneer's Ring Tier 3. Empty Green Slot.
Belt: Electric Haze (GFL, Heavy Fort)
Boots: Striders.
Weapon: Lit2 DAxe (+4 Insight Bonus)
Shield: Glow and Dimness (+5 heavy mith shield of sup stability.)