Question about shard armor

[Comtorro]

<p>i currently have 3 pieces of the Heroic Steel set the chest gloves and legs i chose the gloves for hast the chest for Steel nerves and the pants the get the 3set bonus should i get the lest 3 pieces of the set or get the Ground 3 piece bonus by getting he shoulders head and boots it looks like i woud get better dps stats and CA bonus damage out of the deal i just dont know if it i worth loseing the 4 and 5 set bonuses form Heroic steel but they arnt that impressive.  tell me what you think.</p>

[Rahatmattata]

<p>I did the heroic steel set.</p>

[RafaelSmith]

<p><cite>Rahatmattata wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I did the heroic steel set.</p></blockquote><p>As did i.</p><p>The other set has too much wasted itemization on stuff for crusaders.</p>

[Terron]

<p><cite>Comtorro@Nektulos wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p> i just dont know if it i worth loseing the 4 and 5 set bonuses form Heroic steel but they arnt that impressive.  tell me what you think.</p></blockquote><p>You don't think the 5 piece bonus is impressive?</p><p>It made a big difference for me.</p><p>I am currently am not wearing my one piece of fabled armour (some legs from OK raid) so I can wear 5 pieces of T1 with my T2 shoulders to get that bonus, and I am thinking I need to save up to be able to buy 4 more pieces of T2 before I get any more T2 as the bonus is too good to loose.</p>

[Xalmat]

<p>I skipped over Heroic Steel and went straight to the Champion's Mirror. The set bonuses make a big difference until you can get some better, non-void shard gear.</p>

[Vlahkmaak]

<p>Personally I think the shard armor is crap due to low resists.  The resists are just out right crap compared to VP gear and lower tier RoK raid gear.  If you have most of the plate gear from RoK raid zones you dont need the shard armor for anything but taking up space in your bank inventory until you upgrade it to the t3 shard armor while working on the TSO raid gear.  Yes, it is "only" heroic legendary quality gear but still - at least have 3 resists as was pretty much the standard - 2 resists is just kinda lame.   This gear really only is used when you need increased mit at a loss of resists/avoidance. </p><p>Now my newer tanks Pally and bruiser to reach t8 shard armor si just fine as they are not established and raid geared yet with table scraps from main raiders but I'd rather have my guards gear options than a single set of tso shard gear: I like to carry vast quantities of gear to mix and match for each encounter - not be tied to the los of a certain amount of mitigation for a 5 piece bonus set.  Really: why is there no reinforcement bonus on TSO gear like VP gear?</p>

[Yimway]

<p>The t2 shard gear is by far the way to go.</p><p>There are 2 resists we care about before all others, and particularly in TSO:</p><p>1) Mitigation</p><p>2) Hitpoints</p><p>The 5 piece set of T2 is undeniable compared to VP/RoK gear.</p><p>Get your T3 set out of WoE, and I run around with 4 pieces of the x4 gear banked =/</p>

[Fiercemind]

<p>It appears that they made the tso 3 shard hybrid gear (obsidion/steel  - excuse spelling) so that you have to use a buckler to get the bonuses.  That just screws me out of the water.  Can anyone verify for me if there is a place to swap it for the champion/lawright (spelling) gear anywhere?</p>

[Giliad]

<p>hate to necro this but what Shard jewelry would you recommend?  Started with stone tower set, but was thinking of the crippling or onslaught.  is there another def/tank line of shard jewelry?</p>

[Yimway]

<p><cite>Giliad@Befallen wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>hate to necro this but what Shard jewelry would you recommend?  Started with stone tower set, but was thinking of the crippling or onslaught.  is there another def/tank line of shard jewelry?</p></blockquote><p>I'm not using any of it, I didn't find any of it to be worth the slots =/</p>

[Giliad]

<p>well just hit 80 and mainly soloed him to that level.  To be a tank and do shard instances to get the good gear, since no one wants ROK instances anymore, I need gear.  I was using MC or some of the legendary pcs from questing or named drops.</p>

[Xalmat]

<p>The problem is while the Shard Jewelry has great defensive stats, it leaves much to be desired offensively. And you could be the best defensive tank in the world, but if your offense is low you're going to struggle with aggro.</p><p>The only piece of shard jewelry I found useful, offensively, is the Onslaught Earring. The Onslaught Wristband is also nice.</p>