prisoner
01-23-2005, 03:58 PM
<DIV>This goes without saying, but someone needed to say it to me oddly enough, so I'll share. Gear condition is important. Not only that when it reaches 0 you cannot wear it(duh) but I found out that if its below a certain condition(I've heard 70 and below) your gear is less effective, and believe me it seemed true enough. Here's the story.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Been grinding alot in TS the past week or so and hadn't made a run to town in a long time. Had a death here and there but nothing to worry about right? So last morning I had a really rotten run of bad luck, got 3 or so deaths. Gear was at 40 condition. I figured, well, I got at least 3 more deaths before I have to start worrying about it. Wrong. I was invited to a group to kill some giants. Earlier in the week I had been doing alot of grouping at giants and I tanked them quite well. Didn't take too much damage at all, healer had no problems keeping me up. Well, in this group, I got my [expletive ninja'd by Faarbot] handed to me. Repeatedly. Normally in a fight, I get hit with their new "crushing" attack maybe 3 times at most, the one that hits for high 200's, low 300's. However, in this group, with my gear at 40 condition, I got hit many times often for high 300's. At first I couldn't figure out what was going on. I thought maybe they had beefed up mobs or something. I even had a person in my group that I had played with before, and even he agreed something was wrong, something was different, and I was two levels higher than the last time we killed them. The next time I logged on, I depleted my coin pouch a bit and fixed myself up. Grouped again and I was able to tank as usual. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>What is decieving is that with condition low, you dont see a change in AC or stats. It still was showing me I had 1600ish AC unbuffed, but it certainly was not acting like it. I dont know if its been posted elsewhere, or mentioned someplace, but other than not being able to wear it at 0, I didn't know that my ability to tank would go down as well. So take this as a friendly reminder to keep your gear in good shape. I missed out on a really good group because I decided I was a liability. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Good hunting.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Arxis - Paladin</DIV> <DIV>Leader of Hexen - Kithicor server</DIV>