Bad news. Rings have been fixed. My ring is still for sale if you want but they now only have the following stats:
+7 con/4% Dodge/+5 exceptional combat mastery
PM me offers.
Bad news. Rings have been fixed. My ring is still for sale if you want but they now only have the following stats:
+7 con/4% Dodge/+5 exceptional combat mastery
PM me offers.
Last edited by Wingkin; 08-21-2012 at 05:34 AM.
Not bad at all, though I thought the Dream Ring had +2 exceptional Con/Str to make up for the lost ToD ring, since Con 7 is on Abashai Cloak :P
Still a **** impressive ring. Wish i could offer anything on it more than 1 red :P
Smrti on Khyber
Nah I'd never lose the TOD ring.. rely on it so much. Was thinking of ditching manslayer ring and taking the drow goggles to cover the manslayer loss.. But too much hassle to regear overall so I thought I'd put it up for sale to see what offers I get.
Current offer 2.5k tp. Will take highest bid on Wednesday.
Have you seen the new cloaks in the latest update? The wolf or bear cloak kick the **** outta the abashai cloak. All it has going for it is the set at this point. You can get +7 or +8 so many ways.
Envenomed Cloak is last season's model. It's nice for leveling from 20-23, but at cap, there are better options.
Asheras - Velania - Renvar - Ventarya - Officer of Lava Divers - Khyber
Not seeing it.
- Adamantine Cloak of the Bear - Sheltering +9, Protection +7, Ex Combat Mastery +6, Incite +20%
- Adamantine Cloak of the Wolf - Exceptional Seeker +5, Dodge 4%, Attack Bonus +4, Diversion 20%
Those are very nice... but the Envenomed cloak has +7 CON, +5 resist, and a GREEN SLOT.
My tank who could use sheltering and protection doesn't use tactics, and he already has Incite +20%. When he's in DPS mode, the wolf cloak would be nice, but just for the exceptional seeker. He already has 4% dodge, and a good attack bonus.
So there's really only 1-2 things on each of those cloaks that I'd love to have... +7 CON, +5 resist, and a green slot can still compete.
(Plus, there's the whole cascading effect whenever you replace an item in one slot... next thing you know you have to move around 5 other items to make it all work).
Your tank doesn't stun, sunder, or trip? Interesting.
I just think that +7/+8 con is available everywhere now days. That's not very compelling. The GREEN SLOT is the moneymaker on that item, really. The slots are sorely missed on the new gear. And the set bonus for stacking +3 STR. The +5 resist is not particularly impressive anymore. +6 resist is available from a few sources. I'm not saying it's worthless. It's an OK item, but it's getting harder and harder to justify several of the abashai items. The cloak is probably the one that is holding up the best ATM. Bracers and Boots are especially weak at this point. Which makes the set bonus harder to keep.
As for your comment about moving gear around, of course you do. That's what gearing a toon is all about. It's a never ending cycle of "What's Next".
Asheras - Velania - Renvar - Ventarya - Officer of Lava Divers - Khyber
Depends alot on your build. For a caster/monk with +6 Resists on their new armor, then chrono cloak is probably not as important any more. Especially with CON+7 on the Sun Soul belt.
For tanks it's not so easy. Neither of the new heavy or light armor options give resists. Plus the Helm of Frost is still the best CHA+7 option with a YELLOW slot. If the Dodge was swapped on to the tank slot - free up ring slot for stalker+TOD ring - then it would be a no-brained.
Personally I think the Envenomed cloak is still an important item option.
Varz
Wanderlust
Ash, it'd be really nice on my Bard or Monk, or another Melee that doesn't already have the full abashai set. It makes gearing faster, but the synergy of the old "standard epic gear" is still too strong to just give up without ALL of the gear being better.
That being said, I'd love them if they fit my gear better.
And that ring is still very spiffy.
Smrti on Khyber
I presume it just has 1 of the two good effects on it now. Which?
Bard? Who gears out a bard? All they do is play songs every 5 minutes and pike in between. But maybe I'm just jaded from running with Hordo for so long....
I've got the Envenomed Cloak on both my main melees, but am finding that +7/+8 con items are pretty plentiful. New Content Armor, Planar Focus, Dun'Robar Ring, and the Claw Set set items give you 4 easy sources for +7/+8 STR and CON and +2/+3 Insightful STR and CON. So you can have all 4. If you use the cloak then you either have a redundant slot of +7 Con or get your armor or planar focus with Dex on it (Which are more easy to come by). I'm not saying it is worthless, just that it used to be the clear best choice for the slot for the marjority of builds and now it's much less of a sure thing.
Don't get me wrong, I like that there are so many options and ways to gear out now. I think it makes it very hard to say what the ideal Dun'Robar ring is or what the ideal "anything" is. The randomzation of the stat items and suffixes on the gear makes it much harder to create a single optimal configuration.
Since this is a trade thread, I will add that the ring is a sweet one. I'd do 2 reds for it if there is not already a higher bid.
Asheras - Velania - Renvar - Ventarya - Officer of Lava Divers - Khyber
I play my bard like a Barbarian with self buffs.
I don't sing songs for anyone but myself unless it is a raid, and even then, it's sing on the run and refresh when I need it. If someone else gets them, awesome, otherwise, I'm DPSing/Healing
My point was that Smrti's gear is already optimal the way I have it set up. The new cloaks are awesome, just not better than what I have already :P
Smrti on Khyber