Gear to improve surviving?

[Varashad]

People have asked about my gear, so I'll include it here and the OP. This is not my final gear set, but merely what I have now.

Helmet: Purple Dragon Knight
Necklace: Kyosho's Necklace
Trinket: Voice of the Master/Sustaining Symbiont
Cloak: Fortification +25%
Belt: Colenthenis
Rings: Kyosho's Ring(+2 str)/Ring of the Ravager(20% heal amp)
Boots: Madstone Boots/Treads of Falling Shadow
Gloves: Epic Gloves of the Claw
Bracers: Epic Bracers of the Claw
Armor: Terrorweb Chitin Breastplate(+8 str)
Goggles: +45 HP Blurry

I have slot in gear for specific circumstances such as the energy absorption items previously mentioned. Silver Flame potions are carried with me by the hundreds; I literally have two entire pages of my inventory full of them. A third page has my swap in gear.

All good posts. I eventually will swap out Kyoshos and the Ravager ring for Encrusted Ring and a Seal of Dun'robar, though this is more long term. I plan to use the Cormyrian Red Dragonscale armor eventually. The bonuses to fire and seeker on that armor are worth more to me than the 15% fortification bypass and 5% damage boosts. I'll probably make both eventually and swap them as needed.

The cloak is loot gen, and a serious weakness in my gear setup. I'm probably going to make it where I slot my green steel, and then put in Tharne's Goggles for sneak attack and true seeing, or maybe the Dream Visor depending on ease of obtaining. Kyosho's Necklace will be replaced with the Golden Guile, or green steel; I'm unsure, and doubt I'll have a final answer until Turbine stops adding new content.

Flawless Black - http://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Flawles...gonscale_Armor
Cormyrian Red - http://ddowiki.com/page/Item:Cormyri...gonscale_Armor

[smithj_2020]

your a barb the only way for more survivability is to have someone healing you, you are going to take damage and lots in epics, because your going to be out damaging almost everything.

You need:
HPs
Heal AMP
PRR
Some Dodge chance
Silver Flame Pots are a huge help

and MOST IMPORTANTLY......KILL IT FIRST...haha

[Stormraiser]

How can you speak of experience if all you did is solo EH? On EH saves or incoming damage don't matter.

Try to do the blue dragon fight in EE Tor with SF pots.

The truth. Reflex needed is about 59...

[Stormraiser]

There are some things you can do to increase your survival in EE, but they will come at the cost of DPS. A lot of it depends on the party setup and often you'll increase everyone's survival by just killing stuff faster while at other times, scaling back a bit will do wonders.

CC will help a lot. Can you trip/stunning blow? Proper use of uncanny dodge.

Aside from that here are things that will boost your survival at the cost of some DPS:

Improved deception
Radiance weapon
Fatesinger ED (don't worry, it does offer some ok. DPS boosts too)
Level drain weapon
Tumble through enemies ED twist

EE is not as scary as people make it out to be, provided the groups works as a team and understands their strengths and weaknesses.

Storm

[Cheezburgerz]

How can you speak of experience if all you did is solo EH? On EH saves or incoming damage don't matter.

Try to do the blue dragon fight in EE Tor with SF pots.

Who said all I did was solo EH? EE Blue Dragons is the toughest fight in the game right now if you don't have evasion. 10% more healing amp is not going to help you, but being able to chug SF will. I have Energy Sheath twisted in and a ring of the Djinn, so that's how I mitigate damage in that fight. But all of that would not matter if I didn't have SF. Learn something.

[HalfORCastrator]

Who said all I did was solo EH? EE Blue Dragons is the toughest fight in the game right now if you don't have evasion. 10% more healing amp is not going to help you, but being able to chug SF will. I have Energy Sheath twisted in and a ring of the Djinn, so that's how I mitigate damage in that fight. But all of that would not matter if I didn't have SF. Learn something.

Yep. The blue dragon is one of the toughest EE encounters in the game, hardly an average expectation for EEs. For that encounter, electric absorb is the only way to go.

The cloak is loot gen, and a serious weakness in my gear setup. I'm probably going to make it where I slot my green steel, and then put in Tharne's Goggles for sneak attack and true seeing, or maybe the Dream Visor depending on ease of obtaining. Kyosho's Necklace will be replaced with the Golden Guile, or green steel; I'm unsure, and doubt I'll have a final answer until Turbine stops adding new content.

I suggest going with Adamantine or Mithral Cloak of the Wolf. Gets you exceptional seeker(Mithral is 1 less, but gives you 3% dodge which is much less common than 4% and is much less of a grind. Up to you) in an underused slot.

[Varashad]

Yep. The blue dragon is one of the toughest EE encounters in the game, hardly an average expectation for EEs. For that encounter, electric absorb is the only way to go.


I suggest going with Adamantine or Mithral Cloak of the Wolf. Gets you exceptional seeker(Mithral is 1 less, but gives you 3% dodge which is much less common than 4% and is much less of a grind. Up to you) in an underused slot.

I've never heard of this item before. I didn't even know there was an Eveningstar Challenge pack... Huh. Well, that sounds very much worth making. How long would it take for me to make said Mithral Cloak of the Wolf?

[Ozrik]

As soon as you get an item with a nice blue slot..grab a 14 ppr augment.If possible grab the axe from Citw and a planar focus of prowess trinket.When you eventually have the PDK favor for the set bonus will add another 15 ppr.Both will make a nice difference to the damage being mitigated that is incoming.My barb was on 19 ppr.Since i made these changes its between 33-48.This makes a big difference.

Only last night i was on elite shroud at first harry healer instant death..soon followed by a couple of dps. After the first wave of blades the second healer died and most of the raid followed.Leaving 3 of us 2 ranged guys and my barb.We took down harry with him at 30% with no heals with blades inc i was chugging silver flame pots and standing up to my beating quiet well.We made it thru and successfully completed the raid.Certainly was entertaining and i would have been fodder with out the pots and ppr.I only run 20% amp when in full dps 50-60% when i have to tank.I didnt have time to switch gear to tank mode so a barb can survive a fair battering.

goodluck in your quest for survival its possible!

Cromelia tr2xbarb thelanis

[HalfORCastrator]

I've never heard of this item before. I didn't even know there was an Eveningstar Challenge pack... Huh. Well, that sounds very much worth making. How long would it take for me to make said Mithral Cloak of the Wolf?

It has been to long since I made the (adamantine) cloak. It did take a while and it is a grind. The best way to find a ballpark timeframe would be to go into each challenge once, at cr25, 5star it(with or without a group) and see how many ingredients you get, then multiply it by how many you need for the Mithral or Adamantine cloak. As an example of the difference, 5 starring cr25 Daybreak Ritual for Copper Thumbs, I got ~500-700 mats(like I said, been a while). 6 starring(cr30 5 star) I got over 1k. That said, as far as Daybreak Ritual vs. the other challenge payouts, you need many more Copper Thumbs than the other mats, but you get a greater number of mats than the other challenges. Sorry I can't help more.

This site has cumulative mats needed.