Noaani
06-14-2007, 03:21 PM
<p>All I ask is for a new robe.</p><p>As a raiding wizard in a guild that has killed every instanced mob in the game, as well as all KoS contested mobs, and being in a position to pick my gear from any drops that any of these mobs have, one would assume I would have a choice of some really nice raid dropped robes.</p><p>One would be wrong.</p><p>Dead wrong.</p><p>As a raiding wizard, I have a choice of 3 robes, 2 of which are used in very specific situations.</p><p>The first, as anyone that has played this game at the top end would assume, is the Gown of Glory. Sadly, after a year and a half (or there abouts), SoE has failed to implement anything that comes close to this robe for a raiding wizard, short of the robe from avatars. 2 expansions of raid content later, and the best robe for me in most situations is a drop from a low level heroic zone that I solo'd to get. This robe has a proc that increases power and provides a small ward. The power this robe will give a wizard works out to be, on average, and assuming no casting haste or proc increasing buffs, 214.2 a minute, or FT 21.4 (but it will stack with in combat power regen, unlike true FT, making this even better).</p><p>The second the Raiment of the Skywatcher, which I pull out only when I have a total lack of hate management. This is from a 'heroic' ring event in TT, and again I acquired this while soloing. This robe has a proc on it that de-aggros the wearer, and assuming no spell haste or proc increasing buffs, it will deaggro a wizard for an average of 2663 points of hate per minute (this is in contrast to the effect on the wizard set robe, which will deaggro a wizard for 600 hate per minute, assuming the wizard wastes time to actually cast cease every time it is up, wasting casting time, thus wasting DPS, thus not needing the de-hate).</p><p>The last robe, to be used whenever hate and power will not be even the most remote of issues, is the wizard relic vest. At least with this one it is a raid drop, however, it is a drop from raid trash. Thi robe decreases the recast timer of Ice nova by 3 seconds. Not a great effect, but it is better than nothing, and if power and hate are not issues, this is the next best effect we have, short of the robe from avatars.</p><p>Every other fabled robe in the game is one of two things, pure stats or Flowing Thought. Increasing my int while in a raid group will have no realistic affect, unless it was an increase of 50+, needing a robe with 70 int on it, which wont happen, and Flowing Thought is near useless with either a bard or chanter in my group, and totally useless with both of them. Not to mention, thereis no robe in game with FT 21.4 or higher, so GoG wins over anything with FT by defult.</p><p>Now, I am sometimes a reasonable person, and I do realise that by not being on the cutting edge, as it were, I do not get the very best of hte best loot. I am not asking for a robe to drop in an instance that competes with the Robe of Al'Kabor, but surely, after 2 full expansions of raid content, there must be something better than heroic drops?</p>