Adormnet question

[madha]

<p>prob was asked before but.</p><p>Just finished claymore and was wanting to adorn the mist protector and the claymore rewards with the +mental damage symbol adornment.  Can i do this? and would i want to?</p><p>Im trying to get respectably dps in raid but have the healer buff aa line and the spell haste and cant seem to break 700dps zone wide.  I have problems with the spell haste line becasue sometimes i lag just enough for perpetuality to expire before my next cast goes off. and i tryed the str line and hated it with a pasion. SO would these 2 items adorndend help me out enough to notice. Or do they not effect any of our reactive dmg spells casue SOE is a [Removed for Content].</p>

[Mage Knight]

<p>The Mental damage adornments (with the new LU) actually have a pretty big benefit, as well as the +25 to all spells adornment for gloves, if u get all 3 then its +115 to all ur spells (reactives as well)</p><p>i go down the AGI/STR line myself and parse about 1500 ZW (depending on if there r fights that i have to mez or not), with the STR line just make sure u spam sprint to keep power down, as well as using all the mana regen stuff (mana flow on urself, transfer potiential etc.)</p>

[finnean]

so +mental better then the +crit now even though crit is fabled?

[Vydian]

<cite>Mage Knight wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>The Mental damage adornments (with the new LU) actually have a pretty big benefit, as well as the +25 to all spells adornment for gloves, if u get all 3 then its +115 to all ur spells (reactives as well)</p><p>i go down the AGI/STR line myself and parse about 1500 ZW (depending on if there r fights that i have to mez or not), with the STR line just make sure u spam sprint to keep power down, as well as using all the mana regen stuff (mana flow on urself, transfer potiential etc.)</p></blockquote>I think you meant AGI/INT here <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />And yes, the +45 mental adornments are great stuff. I'm running something like +245 spell damage right now and while I'm under 30% power, stroke hits for 900-1100 on the tooltip (crit for over 2k last night). Fun stuff.

[Vydian]

<cite>finnean wrote:</cite><blockquote>so +mental better then the +crit now even though crit is fabled?</blockquote>You'll find that many items that are legendary or even treasured are better than fabled. And yeah, +45 mental damage beats 1% spell crit (I think thats what the fabled ones give).

[Mage Knight]

lol yes, sry, i meant INT, not STR...dunno what i was thinking...

[Ramladu]

The main reason that spell crit is fabled is because of how universal it is.  +mental damage really doesn't apply to many classes, but for coercers it ends up being almost the same as universal +spell damage.+45 will give you a much bigger damage bonus than 1% crit chance.  If you're int specced, you already have at least 15% crit chance, so an additional 1% wont' even give you a 1% total damage upgrade.  The +45 spell damage will probably give you a 4-5% boost, depending on how much +spell damage you already have.

[Snowlily]

<p><i><span style="color: #cc00ff;font-family: comic sans ms,sand;">Thank you so much !! i took the advice here and picked up the +45 mental adorn and my dps is alot better !! Kudos to you all <img src="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/images/smilies/e8a506dc4ad763aca51bec4ca7dc8560.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" /></span></i></p>