STR/STA/AGI gear

[Macord]

<DIV>Level 38 berserker here, and I'm trying to make a shopping list of gear I can start looking for once I hit 40 to maximize the big three stats as much as possible.  If anyone has the time, could you list your primary stats ( in your order of importance) and their numbers so I can run to eq2players and check out your gear and what I may want to get?  Thanks in advance.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Tuckabary</DIV> <DIV>38 Berserker -- Kithicor</DIV><p>Message Edited by Macord on <span class=date_text>09-16-2005</span> <span class=time_text>04:31 AM</span>

[-Aonein-]

Id be looking for STR / STA gear, forget AGI, it hardly does anything for Avoidance now.

[z2xm]

<P>I agree with Taem, AGI really has little effect, I would still get it over 100 if you could, just to be on the safe side, but really focus on the STR/STM after that.</P> <P> </P> <P>And personally while I am happy with our overall damage, it pales in comparison to most casters now, so I am going with a majority of STM, even though the returns are just as small as with other skills now, it is the one area that, as a berserker, none of my other groupmates are built for.  But that's just me.</P> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Jinos </DIV> <DIV>L'DL</DIV>

[Chog]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> -Aonein- wrote:<BR>Id be looking for STR / STA gear, forget AGI, it hardly does anything for Avoidance now. <BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Agility still helps.  With my 44 Dirge, using his self Agility buff and group Str / Agi buff gains over 6% avoidance.  Not sure how much those 2 buffs increase agility by, at work and not able to look.

[-Aonein-]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Chogar wrote:<BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> -Aonein- wrote:<BR>Id be looking for STR / STA gear, forget AGI, it hardly does anything for Avoidance now. <BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Agility still helps.  With my 44 Dirge, using his self Agility buff and group Str / Agi buff gains over 6% avoidance.  Not sure how much those 2 buffs increase agility by, at work and not able to look.<BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR>I have Vehemence adept 1 and Wall of Wrath App 1, cant remeber the total amount of AGI i get from them both, but i do know it only equals 3.5% avoidance for like.......almost 70 AGI i think.</P> <P>I think from memory ( cant log in atm servers went down with no notice ) Vehemence Adept I is 43 AGI and Wall of Wrath at App I is 23 AGI.</P> <P>So its very minimal at best. STR has a much more noticeable effect on DMG then AGI does on Avoidance.</P>

[IpseDix]

<P><FONT size=3>I agree Aonein : AGI means little to nothing now.</FONT></P> <P><FONT size=3>Since they have brutally <U>removed</U> our HPs spells/buffs (I've lost <FONT color=#ff0000>30% hps</FONT> , from 5200 to 3600 !!) I'm definitively goint to STR/STA.</FONT></P> <P><FONT size=3>This means no more AGI dolls, AGI ring and AGI potions ! Welcome STA gears/items/potions.</FONT></P> <P><FONT size=3></FONT> </P> <P><FONT size=3>P.S. nobody noticed they have nerfed potions as well and said nothing to players ?</FONT></P>

[cr0wangel]

I went for STR and STA as well. However I was wondering about WIS. We do not really need INT, AGI don't give much now sadly. But what about WIS, anyone know what is the ratio 1 point of WIS give how much of resistances?

[kr8ztwin]

<P>I did alot of respec and testing this week and here is what I got from it.  </P> <P>Well let me mention why I did the testing.  I was curious with my 35 assassin concerning buffin up avoidance.  I managed to use equipment + defensive stances to get his avoidance to 66%.  Of course this is with little to no mitigation.  I then compaired this through parsing with full chain and defensive stance.  The avoidance won by far.  Ok this is tested on white and yellow con mobs in Hideout.  FYI.  I do not have my parsing information so you'll have to take my word for it.  </P> <P>I then parsed my fights in harclave.  With the 66% avoidance I was able to take on 2-3 groups of mobs on regular settings.  This blew me away because assassins are not tanks and if my zerker pulled 2 groups my [Removed for Content] was running.  (FYI these test were AFTER the avoidance patch to make it scale per mob lvl)</P> <P>Ok so what if I went pure avoidance with my zerk?  I proceeded to buy the best treasured cloth armor on the market and worked out the best avoidance possible with and without a tower shield.  The best I could come up with was just over 53%.  I then proceeded to run Hideout and then Harclave in the same fashion and I got the opposite results.  First of all, in defensive stance I could not land enough combat arts vs the yellow con mobs.  It was just not doable and I ended up losing out.  For white cons, the fights just drug on to the extent that it just didn't beat out full plate and offensive stance w/ duals.  </P> <P>Ok so then I test this new avoidance with duals and offensive.  The avoidance just wasn't high enough.  Bleh.  Basically my assassin waaay out tanks my zerk lol.</P> <P>Then I tested with no stances.  Same results.  My damage overshadows everything in offensive stance.</P> <P> </P> <P>Now as for STR vs STA.  Personally I prefer STA because my parsed damage in STR gear/traits was just not substantial enough to overshadow the fact that I MT alot and want as much HP as possible.  46 Ratonga Zerker with 3900 hp is kinda fun anyway heh.</P>