Hello, Stormreach and neighboring realities! LoL. I haven't posted in forever and honestly haven't lurked the forums in a long time either. My game time has been on and off for the past few years with no reliably predictable pattern due to scads of real life stuff, but greetings aside, my forum/google/wiki-fu must have gotten weak, because I can't find a couple simple answers I KNOW have to be out there somewhere......so here goes, and thanks in advance for either your answers, or pointing me towards where I can find them....
I'm looking into crafting up a few generic leveling gearsets. I'm fairly experienced about knowing what mods I want and what mods I don't from character to character and I have recently (well, I read it much earlier this year, but anything I've read since the beginning of the year is still recent in my book) quite enjoyed reading through EliisDee37's Melee Gearset thread to get a quick run-up-to-speed on the new Cannith Crafting. I was maxed and enjoyed well enough the old version, so the example he has come up with for an all purpose scheme is quite easy to use as a platform for any changes I care to make. I quite agree with a lot of his gear selections, and my first bout with the new crafting was to pretty much duplicate his EPIC layout (ML23-style as per my choice) with the exceptions that I have my Smoke in the cloak slot and wanted to keep my Master's Gift socketed fully-upgraded Level 20 Ring of the Stalker as a permanently worn item as well. It called for a lot of twisting and turning but it all came out nicely in the end.
All that being said (and I know I type too much, I'm pretty quiet in real life and pretty verbose - and even rambling - when it comes to writing, forgive me), I am now looking to throw together some Heroic leveling gear to replace my old-cannith crafted bits. And I'm planning on using augments to cover the Fear Immunity, Blindness Immunity and Deathblock when crafting gear at ML8 (and ML12 for deathblock) to allow more gear mods. But here's the question I have (finally):
Prior to those levels I can craft those defenses onto otherwise vacant item slots - but how early should I even bother? I'm not asking this from a personal opinion stance, I don't care how early you think you REALLY need them or how much you're willing to tough it out (or rely on pots/wands/party members because crafting that stuff onto gear that's going to be outgrown so fast is silly (to you). What I am asking is more about straight game data......
1) When is the first time you could possibly get hit with blindness in the game? Don't really need it al all before then, right? Same goes for,
2) When is the first time Fear Immunity will do you any good, or
3) Deathblock, or not that I'm planning on it as a constant piece, but maybe a quest specific swap item,
4) Disease or Poison Immunity?
And if you feel like elaborating on your opinion on when you think starting to use these mods is actually practical, go ahead, I'm all ears on that count, too......however the main thrust of this is discovering when the first instances of these types of attacks currently occur without too much more effort on my part - my time is still at more of a premium than I'd like these days and I'd rather be in game playing. I've already spent more time searching than I wanted to...::laughter::
Thanks once again for your responses! Live long and loot hard!