Gear suggestions

[Dwergux]

Hello fellow Troubado(u)rs,I'm looking to improve some of my gear. I'm a level 70 Troubadour in a guild that does some raiding.My guild has access to the following (raid) zones:- Lab- HoS- LoA- DT (been there for the first time last friday)My current gear is:- Head : Hoo'loh's Merry Hat- Chest: Red Hauberk of Xhoroz / Xegonite Melodic Tunic- Shoulders : Nightchord Shoulderpads- Forearms : Nightchard Bracers- Hands : Gloves of Resounding Presence- Legs : Leggings of Resounding Presence- Feet : Xegonite Melodic Boots / Journeyman's Boots- Primary : Sword of the Four Winds- Secondary : Grinning Dirk of Horror- Charm 1 : T7 Str Hexdoll- Charm 2 : Music Box- Ranged : Splitscar Longbow- Neck : Mark of Awakening- Ear : Planar Orb of the Wanderer- Finger 1 : Imbued Acrylia Ring of Strength- Finger 2 : Imbued Acrylia Ring of Agility- Wrist 1 : Bangle of Melodic Speed- Wrist 2 : Finger Bone Manacles- Waist : Girdle of ConqueringCan any of you give me some gear suggestionsI'm primarily looking for upgrades for my chest and my feet. But any other suggestions are very welcome.I know I can hope for the Nightchord tunic and boots to drop or perhaps a relic, but what other options are good choices for a troubadour?

[Mastire]

<P>best i can suggest is look up some of the raiding troubs in eq2players and hope they have </P> <P>a: the feature enabled to see gear</P> <P>b: the good gear on </P> <P> </P> <P> </P>

[Ciela]

<P>Hello,</P> <P>I've heard that a nice chain breastplate can be found on HoF tribut run but I don't know the name of it.</P>

[Malicorp]

Many of the old school hardcore raiding Troubadors have gone the way of the Do-do sadly. Troubadors I'd check are Ballads of NPU (Guk) and Scavy and Delvo of Second Dawn (Najena). Also, look at the following site for a list of drops by NPC http://eq2.xanadu-community.com/eq2_loot.php?BrowseNPC=1&exp_id=6 My List to get from those zones would be: Helm: Nightchord, Relic or Fearling Tot Bulb bone (LoA) Chest: Nightchord, Relic or Parasitic Cuirass (Taranix) Forearms: Nightchord, Shining Dragonscale Vambraces (DT, Cruor) Gloves: Nightchord, Fingers of the Virtuoso (Taranix), Reinforced bloodsoaked Gauntlets (Bloodbeast, HoS) Legs: Nightchord, Relic, Gnillaw's Fear-plated Shinguards Shoulders: Nightchord, Armguards of Dread (Vlucidae, LoA), mantle of suffering (suffering, HoS) Belt: Bone-clasped girdle (HQ), Flawless Dragonhide Belt (DT, Fitzpizzle) Neck: MoA, Swansong Choker (Labs, Doomwright) Ear: Mystical orb of the Invoker (collection), Mist-Imbued Hoop Wrist: Finger bone Manacles (Yitzik, DT), Bracelet of Thule (Vlucidae, LoA), Silvered bracelt of rage (several labs named) Ring: Ring of Supremacy (Dt, fitzpizzle). Dragonscale (Claymore), DT access bracelet with haste, Mist-imbued Band (Elemental Warder, HoS), Band of songs (trash in HoS) Weapons (Grinning Dirk is the best, so you only need one): Windrazor (fitzpizzle, DT), Talonscreach (Amorpeous Drake, DT), Adamantine Dragonfang (Labs), Dirk of Negativity (Charged Presence, HoS), Vyemm's Fang (Vyemm) Also, I cannot recommend enough organizing Crab x2 runs in Fallen Dynasty as often as your timer allows. There are probably 6-9 drops from Bonesnapper that would fit the bill of highend quality gear. Great Bracers, Leggings, a Ring, a Bracelet, Earrings, Shoulders and a decent Belt all drop off a mob you can kill every 4 days with 2 groups. <div></div>

[ForgottenFoundling]

<P>For DPS, it's best to throw that grinning dirk into your primary hand.  If you need a sword for Bladeturn, then macro it so that you can use the CA, then switch back to your GDoH.</P> <P>Wurmslayer is a great secondary weapon if you're a high level crafter.</P> <P>Melodic Xegonite is good for dps until you can get relic for both chest and legs (I see you already have legs).  Nightchord is good too when that drops for you.</P> <P>Try to get as many spell proc items as you can as they'll increase your personal dps as well.</P>

[911GT3]

Your gear is prety good, toss the dirk in your main hand, you can put weapons from your bag onto hotbar to quick swap or just make a macro if you need the sword for turnstrike, try to get the mystical orb of invoker over the one you have on ears, pray for nightchord cap to drop (i have been for a LONG time), nightchord gloves are better than relic and are easy to get.<div></div>

[Antipalad]

Having tested both, I much prefer using the Mystical orb of the Invoker instead of the Orb of the wanderer for my troub.

[Dwergux]

Thanks all for the feedback.<blockquote><hr>911GT3 wrote:Your gear is prety good, toss the dirk in your main hand, you can put weapons from your bag onto hotbar to quick swap or just make a macro if you need the sword for turnstrike<hr></blockquote>Is there a slash command to equip an item? Otherwise, I will add the items to my hotbar (best to add the equip sword next to turn strike and equip dirk next to that).<blockquote><hr>911GT3 wrote:try to get the mystical orb of invoker over the one you have on ears<hr></blockquote>have the mystical orb collection completed, but am waiting for the turn in for after EoF goes live <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> (besides, I believe EoF will give me another ear slot so it can be added to my other ear).<blockquote><hr>911GT3 wrote:pray for nightchord cap to drop (i have been for a LONG time), nightchord gloves are better than relic and are easy to get.<hr></blockquote>They might be easy for you, but...I have only seen them drop once for our guild in all the lab raids we have done. (and at that time I was still playing my paladin). Tonight we have another raid in labs planned, I better start praying (must work better now that the Gods are returning to Norath <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />)

[Rampagious]

Of the things Acapella said - Bone-Clasped Girdle, Mystical Orb of the Invoker, MoA are all absolutely necessary and should never be taken off, and to boot, are very easy to get.  I would even argue to say if you have at LEAST a GDH, you should be using a crafted strength ring.  Also, anything he listed, for example, Vullicidae's wrist of thule thing, you don't want, because it is "sucessful spell attack" not just "hostile spell" so it will proc SIGNIFICANTLY less, and it has a low proc chance as is.<div></div>

[911GT3]

I was recently testing out just about how often I actually get spell proc's during a fight and it seems that the Invoker Orb proc's the most often followed by Bracelet fo Thule followed by Bone-Clasped Girdle. I dunno if the girdle is bugged or something but it is false that the Bracelet does not proc often because in a normal fight you are using your spell attacks alot more than the rest of your hostile spells soo the chance of proc is still close to the other items, but then again it does have weak stats overall.<div></div>

[Rampagious]

That's odd - even most casters I've talked to that have it don't have it proc much at all, the least of ALL their items.  Idk, maybe you just had a lucky coincidence, because the people who I have talked to, have been using it for months.<div></div>

[DankShasta]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Rampagious wrote:<BR>Of the things Acapella said - Bone-Clasped Girdle, Mystical Orb of the Invoker, MoA are all absolutely necessary and should never be taken off, and to boot, are very easy to get.  I would even argue to say if you have at LEAST a GDH, you should be using a crafted strength ring.  Also, anything he listed, for example, Vullicidae's wrist of thule thing, you don't want, because it is "sucessful spell attack" not just "hostile spell" so it will proc SIGNIFICANTLY less, and it has a low proc chance as is.<BR> <BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR>  What do we ever need strength for?</P> <P> </P> <P>Dankshasta Dreadnaught of Cleveland</P>

[Rampagious]

<div></div>Crafted str ring for the dps buff...not not the str buff - and on top of all that, if you have ever parsed yourself for a zonewide, or even just one parse, you will notice that auto attack is like 35-40% of your total damage, so I would say that max strength is pretty important.<div></div><p>Message Edited by Rampagious on <span class=date_text>11-02-2006</span> <span class=time_text>03:00 PM</span>

[Dwergux]

Nice to see the discussion alive <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />I've upgraded my chest to Relic.Regarding rings and earrings:- Why is the spell proc earring better than a melee proc when 35-40% of zone DPS comes from autoattack?- I currently use the master crafted rings (STR and AGI) for their procs. From the suggestion when swapping rings (for resists) it's best to swap the AGI ring first?

[Kilnger]

Zhi'feng's Guard of Speed from Nizara is also an excellent pair of bracers for the haste (23%) and the +slashing as well as various other stats.<div></div>

[Ballads]

<div></div><div><blockquote><hr>Dwergux wrote:Regarding rings and earrings:- Why is the spell proc earring better than a melee proc when 35-40% of zone DPS comes from autoattack?- I currently use the master crafted rings (STR and AGI) for their procs. From the suggestion when swapping rings (for resists) it's best to swap the AGI ring first?<hr></blockquote>Why invoker over the melee one ? really ? Because procs trigger best off AEs. We dont have any melee AE's but there are 6 spell AE's on my bars.  Incase any troubador dosn't know by now itsPoMmighty below debuff 1debuff 2 -click off 1debuff 3 -click off 2debuff 4 -click off 3debuff 1 again -click off 42 off 13 off 24 off 3 Im sure you see the pattern here. Just keep going till PoM drops or you down to single target.  Since NDA was lifted today ill say that the caster adorments seem to be better then the melee ones for us. The + spell damage ones are the ones im refering to youll see if you haven't.  Ballds NPU-Guk </div><p>Message Edited by pickle27 on <span class=date_text>11-03-2006</span> <span class=time_text>06:58 PM</span>

[DankShasta]

<DIV><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Rampagious wrote:<BR> Crafted str ring for the dps buff...not not the str buff - and on top of all that, if you have ever parsed yourself for a zonewide, or even just one parse, you will notice that auto attack is like 35-40% of your total damage, so I would say that max strength is pretty important.<BR> <P>Message Edited by Rampagious on <SPAN class=date_text>11-02-2006</SPAN> <SPAN class=time_text>03:00 PM</SPAN><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>My auto attack parses for 4-5%! maybe your countimg our  CA's? They usually account for another 12-18% combined, but it some fights they are never used sparingly (kiting)  I went for Int until I reached cap, and then kinda went with a combo of high all-round stats.Maybe your kit is alot different, as I don't claim to be the Ultimate Troubador, just the ultimate<STRONG><EM> PvP</EM> </STRONG>Troubador.</DIV>

[Spider]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> DankShasta wrote:<BR> <DIV><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Rampagious wrote:<BR> Crafted str ring for the dps buff...not not the str buff - and on top of all that, if you have ever parsed yourself for a zonewide, or even just one parse, you will notice that auto attack is like 35-40% of your total damage, so I would say that max strength is pretty important.<BR> <P>Message Edited by Rampagious on <SPAN class=date_text>11-02-2006</SPAN> <SPAN class=time_text>03:00 PM</SPAN><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>My auto attack parses for 4-5%! maybe your countimg our  CA's? They usually account for another 12-18% combined, but it some fights they are never used sparingly (kiting)  I went for Int until I reached cap, and then kinda went with a combo of high all-round stats.Maybe your kit is alot different, as I don't claim to be the Ultimate Troubador, just the ultimate<STRONG><EM> PvP</EM> </STRONG>Troubador.</DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR>im right about where u are lol </P> <P>geared right were sick in pvp </P> <P>and in pve i have still  many times pulled agro over the necro and the assasin lol </P> <P> </P>

[aelder~]

<DIV>With the new changes post EoF and the increase in stat caps and the new diminishing return curves, does any of this change?  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Take for example:</DIV> <DIV>  -- Hoop of Deception (+18 STA; +11 AGI; +24 INT; +24 WIS)</DIV> <DIV>  -- Ivy-Shrouded Earring of Tunare (+16 STR +16 AGI, +10 STA; +6 dps proc at 1.8 per min)</DIV> <DIV>  -- both have better stats than Mystical Orb of the Invoker (+20 INT; ~425 proc damage @ 2 per min).  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Unless the resists of either of those is useful would you always go with Invoker and Tunare over Hoop of Deception?  Or do the better stats matter more now if you in 400-500 range on STR, INT, and AGI?  Or would it actually be best to throw on Planar Orb of the Wanderer (+20 AGI; ~425 proc damage @ 1.8 per min) on second ear to go with more damage procs?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Other example might be:</DIV> <DIV>  -- Mist Imbued Band (+11 STR; +18 STA; +14 AGI; +30 WIS; +29 INT; FT I)</DIV> <DIV>  -- Echolalic Band (+26 STR; +18STA; +26 AGI)</DIV> <DIV>  -- Acrylia Band of Strength (+23 STR; +23 STA; +23 AGI; buff proc: +21 STR and 26 DPS @ 1.8 per min&nbsp<img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Mist Imbued and Echolalic are both lovely fabled rings, but unless the stat cap changes really matter is the band of strength actually better for us?</DIV>

[Nainitsuj]

<DIV>My gear is ..</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Head: Crown of Cynosure </DIV> <DIV>Neck: Swansong Choker</DIV> <DIV>Ear: Dragonscale </DIV> <DIV>Ear: Awakened Bloodscale</DIV> <DIV>Ring: Dark Chitin</DIV> <DIV>Ring: Dark Chitin</DIV> <DIV>Wrist: Dragonscale</DIV> <DIV>Wrist: Bangle of Melodic Speed</DIV> <DIV>Chest: Tunic of Shadowed Song</DIV> <DIV>Forearm: Nightchord</DIV> <DIV>Shoulder: Nightchord</DIV> <DIV>Hand: Dutheris' Dark-Link Gauntlets</DIV> <DIV>Waist: Belt of the Doomflight</DIV> <DIV>Feet: Feet of Spyk.</DIV> <DIV>Pants: Pristine forged xegonite melodic pants</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>About the collection earrings.. I replaced them as soon as I could.  They don't offer that much.  But I also don't aim for personal dps.  I'm looking for the maximum I can get in defense.  The longer I stay up the more dps my group puts out.  </DIV>

[Spider]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> aelder~ wrote:<BR> <DIV>With the new changes post EoF and the increase in stat caps and the new diminishing return curves, does any of this change?  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Take for example:</DIV> <DIV> <FONT color=#ffff00> -- Hoop of Deception (+18 STA; +11 AGI; +24 INT; +24 WIS)</FONT></DIV> <DIV>  -- Ivy-Shrouded Earring of Tunare (+16 STR +16 AGI, +10 STA; +6 dps proc at 1.8 per min)</DIV> <DIV> <FONT color=#ffff00> -- both have better stats than Mystical Orb of the Invoker (+20 INT; ~425 proc damage @ 2 per min).</FONT>  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Unless the resists of either of those is useful would you always go with Invoker and Tunare over Hoop of Deception?  Or do the better stats matter more now if you in 400-500 range on STR, INT, and AGI?  Or would it actually be best to throw on Planar Orb of the Wanderer (+20 AGI; ~425 proc damage @ 1.8 per min) on second ear to go with more damage procs?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Other example might be:</DIV> <DIV>  <FONT color=#ffff00>-- Mist Imbued Band (+11 STR; +18 STA; +14 AGI; +30 WIS; +29 INT; FT I)</FONT></DIV> <DIV>  -- Echolalic Band (+26 STR; +18STA; +26 AGI)</DIV> <DIV>  <FONT color=#ffff00>-- Acrylia Band of Strength (+23 STR; +23 STA; +23 AGI; buff proc: +21 STR and 26 DPS @ 1.8 per min&nbsp<img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Mist Imbued and Echolalic are both lovely fabled rings, but unless the stat cap changes really matter is the band of strength actually better for us?</DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>personaly i would go witht he highlighted items