Paladins and Agility

[imnotdisco]

<p>Let me preface this post by saying im a  decent geared Paladin, I do not raid regularly, so my gear reflects something of a more casual playstyle. I have 5 pieces of Tier 2 shard armor(voidknights) and a Tier 1 shard helmet(zealots) i have my fabled epic, and currently working on my myth updates. My jewelry is a mix of Tier 1 and 2 pieces with some ROK instance and Shard instance drops. My ability to tank/dps/hold agro is very good, but  survivability is a bit lacking.</p><p>What i was wondering, is the agility stat worth investing into? Not the AA stat, just the agility stat in general. Some of my armor/jewelry has a decent amount of +parry +defense. My avoidance is around 57% in offense self buffed, and in defense at 60.1%.</p><p>Would raising my agility be benefical for more survivability? I currently sit around mid 400s in agility stat self buffed.</p><p>Currently im a instance tank, with light MA and OT raiding duties. Both i do great with 2 healers. I generally stay in offense at all times, only switching to defense if i realize my healers are having problems, or hard name pulls.</p><p>Any advice or constructive criticism is welcome.</p><p>Thanks</p>

[Brat]

<p><cite>imnotdisco wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Would raising my agility be benefical for more survivability? I currently sit around mid 400s in agility stat self buffed.</p></blockquote><p>No, agility doesnt works against epic mobs. Its useful only as crit miti boost, but you shouldnt worry about it, b/c cap crit miti from agility = 10%, its approx. ~700-800 agility. In decent gear you will have enough agility.</p>

[Kigneer]

To get agility up I use AGI adorns (they're no more than 2p a piece as they're treasured) and use the agility food (Juicy Cranberry Cobbler/Headless Cocktrice) and can get it around 530 (avoidance of 46.7% in offensive around 55/56% in defensive all in T1 at the time with one +4 parry adorn). With raid food with parry, it is close to 590. Parry adorns really help, as even a T5 +4 parry one raises the agility .5%. Except for the boost from the fabled sword for WIS, my stats are mostly balanced. To me the difference is night and day when I switch out from regular fighting gear to resist gear with its lower AGI. Get beat up without agility above 500. FYI -- the shield that I use with the +44 AGI drops in Chardok off of names.

[Kordran]

<p>Agility only affects contested avoidance, and with the gear that you have your numbers sound about right. What you want to look for is +Parry%, +Parry, +Defense and bonuses to shield effectiveness. Although they're spendy, there's wrist adornments that are +3% Parry, and there's a forearm adornment that is +8 Parry. Both are well worth getting on gear that you plan on wearing for a while. For your epic, there's the balanced ayr stone which adds a +3% riposte to all frontal attacks, +3% parry to others. If the fabled smoldering adornments are just too expensive, the scintillating ones would be a workable alternative.</p><p>Also do some research on lootdb.com and look for decent gear with shield block, +parry/+defense; for example, Hood of the Sphinx, Grunblig's Coil, Magmatic Bronze Rock Blocker, Longbow of the Netherflame and so on. If you see a raid offering to sell loot rights to the Savage Wall shield, the Ring of Walled Flesh and/or Xebnok's Band of Might, I'd jump at those too.</p><p>If you're wearing (mostly) T2 void armor, then you should be in good shape for mitigation with the set bonuses, so just focus on boosting that avoidance; that will help considerably when it comes to survivability. After all, not taking the hit in the first place is a good way to keep yourself standing upright.</p><p>Edit: For some really bad spelling...</p>

[imnotdisco]

<p>Thanks for all the info guys.</p><p>My shield is adorned with +1 block chance( i hear thats worthless) im using a fabled shield out of SOH, its decent not spectacular but protection value is like 1594 (currently the best i can get atm). RNG is not nice to me. And most of the 1600+ protection value shields auction for usually 100 plat + on my server, and im not really rolling in the dough.</p><p> I use a +7 parry on my forearms currently, and on my server the wrist adornment (+3 parry) goes for 32 plat each.....</p><p>i use the MC(lv 77) necklace that gives a 2% riposte., forgot what its called. Any recomendations for an upgrade without raiding?</p><p>When raiding i use the infusions for food and drink, and for grouping its just something that buffs int/sta/str.</p><p><a href="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/characters/character_profile.vm?characterId=472440117">http://eq2players.station.sony.com/...terId=472440117</a> <- i know some jewelry is slightly outdated (ROK), but again RNG is a pita for me.</p><p>And one more question, off the topic of agility, how the heck do some of you guys get in excess of 15k health? i do realize alot of the high health comes from the fabled armor. i cant seem to break 13k self buffed. Is that to be expected for me with my gear or am i missing something? currently self buffed i sit at 12.5k I use sta adornments on all my armor is that worthless, i dont see a huge gain from it. I do have some +100 health adornments on my rings. But also went with STA on my other jewelry pieces.</p><p>Thanks to all who reply, your advice is appreciated.</p>

[Kordran]

<p><cite>imnotdisco wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>And one more question, off the topic of agility, how the heck do some of you guys get in excess of 15k health? i do realize alot of the high health comes from the fabled armor. i cant seem to break 13k self buffed. Is that to be expected for me with my gear or am i missing something?</blockquote><p>For legendary gear, yeah that sounds about right. You can get a T7 +100 health adorn for your shoulders which will give you more bang for your buck than the T8 +16 STA adorn. Likewise there's a +100 power adorn that's better than getting the +16 WIS adorn for your helm.</p><p>Unquestionably, the high health you see with some Paladins is just a function of their gear (not just armor, but also charms and jewelry). Your typical raiding Paladin would have around 16K health or so self-buffed; a top-end raiding Paladin in avatar gear can get around 18-20K health self-buffed.</p><p>All that said, health is important, but strive to achieve some balance. Don't [Removed for Content] yourself just to get high health; you wouldn't doing yourself or your group any favors. It's one the tougher things about gearing out Crusaders in general, because the class needs a "a lot of everything" to be effective.</p>

[Leonardo]

<p>Agility should  be considered secondary like the rest are saying. Focus more on the % defense parry items for shield weapon wrist items. A lot of your defensive gear will come from SoH which I still use until my TSO armor fricking drops.  I'll send you my equipment stats so you can see. This armor is very easy to attain and will put you in a good position. And I sit currently selfbuff at 14,994 hps.</p><p><a href="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/characters/character_profile.vm?characterId=110502104">http://eq2players.station.sony.com/...terId=110502104</a></p>