PM placeholder trinket?

[tekkentroop]

My human pale master finally got her ToD rings this week, which means she doesnt need the crystal cove trinket for exceptional int anymore. This frees the trinket slot, but Im really not sure what to slot now. My wishlist for her has Litany and/or Eardweller, but I have neither (Even though shes flagged, I dont know Abbot or people who run it regularly, plus Id need a set of +3 tomes to make use of the bonus, and eardweller farm is too tedious for me atm)

So, what should I slot as trinket until I have time to farm for the really rare stuff?

some stuff I have
-cunning trinket (can be swapped out after entering lich form)
-pale lavender (still need to upgrade, but seems more like a situational swap-in, too)
-crafted trinket with greater conjuration focus (any good suffix here?)

Im looking for quickly farmable items or interesting crafts up to lvl 70.

Current gear in other slots:
Head: GS con-op hp helm
Eyes: Magewright Spectacles
Hands: GS SP+6 cha skills, Bramblecasters
Bracers: Greater Enchantment focus with medium guild slot
Fingers: Draconic, Rakhirs
Neck: no Torc yet, +6 con
Waist: Lion-Headed, ToD sorc belts
Body: Epic Mabar Robe
Weaps: Skiver, Epic Cove Dagger, Light&Darkness, GS cold absorb
Back: no Epic Envenomed yet, +5 resists
Feet: Cannith Boots

[Jaid314]

unless i've just gotten absurdly lucky, the eardweller is really not all that tedious to farm. the two i have i'd say i did less than 10 runs to get.

[Habreno]

Greater Cunning or crafted Greater Focus X. Litany is nice but more SP from Cunning (AFIK 50 Cunning vs 29 INT) so Litany is a swap-in.

[Maegin]

I think the pirate trinket, the one that procs a stone skin, is a good place holder..

Its 3 am here, cant think of the name

[wax_on_wax_off]

My Palemaster uses:
Vibrant Purple Ioun Stone (source of spell pen IX and archmagi)
Pale Lavender Ioun Stone
Greater Stalwart Trinket (don't use this anymore as have epic ring of the mire but +10 HP, earthen guard)
Epic Blasting Chime (Greater Evocation Focus, Cacophonic Guard)
Eardweller (really not hard to farm this if you have a decent DC)

[dynahawk]

I situationally use the Bloodrage Symbiont as a source of DR cause I hate keeping stoneskin up.

[voodoogroves]

Second the Stalwart trinket and Ioun stones. Use the Earbug as a swap, that thing breaks like crazy otherwise. Also ...

http://ddowiki.com/page/Shard_of_Xoriat - Nice to not swap in an enchant + 2 item

http://ddowiki.com/page/Mindfury_Symbiont - Swap item for the clickie if you don't have an eardweller

[Simplesimon1979]

My Palemaster uses:
Vibrant Purple Ioun Stone (source of spell pen IX and archmagi)
Pale Lavender Ioun Stone
Greater Stalwart Trinket (don't use this anymore as have epic ring of the mire but +10 HP, earthen guard)
Epic Blasting Chime (Greater Evocation Focus, Cacophonic Guard)
Eardweller (really not hard to farm this if you have a decent DC)

Doesn't the death aura eat up the PLIS charges.

[wax_on_wax_off]

Doesn't the death aura eat up the PLIS charges.

Yes, have to heal with inflict wound pots or be out of form while this is on but I got it while farming for a Vibrant Purple and all my other toons already had one so thought might as well.

[cdr]

I have Greater Stalwart Trinket permanently on. Earthen Guard is bonkers for a PM, and the only other place to get it is Epic Ring of the Mire.

[Simplesimon1979]

Yes, have to heal with inflict wound pots or be out of form while this is on but I got it while farming for a Vibrant Purple and all my other toons already had one so thought might as well.

Yeah, I got one too just incase they ever fix it.

[tekkentroop]

thanks for replies,
-Greater Stalwart trinket seems to be a nice option once cove comes back, will keep that in mind
-Ill try to farm Eardweller when I have the time, but atm I prefer doing quests with guaranteed results (xp, favor, completions, I have 2 active alts atm)
-Shard of Xoriat isnt better than crafted greater enchantment focus... id rather have it on a melee for the summon
-Vibrant purple will help next TR but not so much this life since I already have archmagi on skiver and spell penetration on goggles.
-blasting chime... well, I dont have the challenge pack, and rarely use sonic/evocation spells (maybe greater shout as cc against drow, but a greater evocation focus craft would suffice)

[cdr]

-Ill try to farm Eardweller when I have the time, but atm I prefer doing quests with guaranteed results (xp, favor, completions, I have 2 active alts atm)

Eardweller is *really* easy to farm if you have a decent knock DC or Open Lock. You can get it down to about 5 mins per run and it doesn't ransack.

[Vellrad]

Uh, but why to use ToD wiz rings at all?

[tekkentroop]

Why a ToD wiz ring? Because it comes with +1 exceptional int and you can slot another +2 exceptional int. I dont run epics much (so far) so there arent many better options for ring slots. They will also help during the next few TRs since theyre lvl 18.

[daniel7]

Head of good fortune so when you drink a Yugo pot you still have 100% fort

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