Twinked warrior approaching 50, have weapon questions

[Jimjam]

Originally Posted by PatChapp [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The only time a solo warrior would need see invis to XP is in velks. Bracer of the hidden clicks more than adequate

In Velks you just remember where the spawn points / paths are and the spawn interval / kill order you're doing. SI is just good QOL

[Crede]

Originally Posted by Troxx [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Pras ;p

I do wish mechanisms existed to allow for the kind of lengthy and autopilot parsing that was possible on live EQ. I would love to flesh out the exact returns a warrior can expect at various levels of AC but between the era and the “one player one character” rule, that isn’t possible unfortunately.

For my parse runs on live I typically wanted sample sizes, continuous and uninterrupted, at least 2 hours long to fully even out the random number generator.

I was then, and remain today, an ac junkie.

For this era hp reigns king as you need every last ounce of it to survive the nastiest ass beaters … and for the rest, the passive ac found on the best gear give more than sufficient ac to trivialize all other content.

The hp vs ac debate will never die. My guild on live the warriors stacked hp and the knights stacked ac for offtanking adds. There was one iksar warrior who did stack ac but I don’t recall him ever feeling superior in any way. I tried stacking ac on my Ranger on blue for soloing 50+ but was so hard to tell the difference since rangers get slapped around I ended up just focusing on dex for leveling as earthcaller proc is the best form of mitigation.

[Troxx]

Yes I was a big part of those epic ac vs hp debates along with Brael from the sk forums evilgamer.net. We proved sometime after augments came out that it was possible between full ac augments (vs full hp augments) and aas that it was possible on live to completely eliminate DIs 18-20 from raid bosses and skew the percentage of minimum it’s to the 45-50% plus range. Hp centric warriors would see 8-9% hits for max and only 24-32% hits for minimum. At that era of EQ, for both raiding and grouping the correct answer was definitely full balls to the wall ac. At the time I was our guilds top tank and most survivable despite having a few thousand less total hp than my peers. Eventually most of the warriors came to the other side of the fence.

This is p99 though. Completely different era and mobs like AoW exist that have such proportionally high attack that the safest bet is to always stack hp as high as you can absolutely get it.

[Naethyn]

This isn't P99 specific but it will give a good idea how live parses work.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...it?usp=sharing

[poxxy]

Originally Posted by Crede [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

https://wiki.project1999.com/Magelo_Blue:RaidTank

This magelo is a decent goal and you're already most of the way there. You're pretty much tapped out though from a tradeable perspective, I'd prob use that extra money on another cool tradeable item for another char because unfortunately no matter how much plat you sink into your war at 50+ you will basically die to adds unless you get lucky with Spade procs so you are pretty limited in where you can go. If you are dead set on getting the war some no drop gear though then SS greaves/gaunts would be nice upgrades. I'd be stacking DEX hard though as you'll need fast truncheon procs, I would prob lose the hp rings as well and swap in 2x overseer's signet. Good dex, ac, and some added mr.

Thank you for the link, that helped a lot. I've made a bootleg EC version of it: https://wiki.project1999.com/Magelo_Blue:ECTank. This may just be the absolute limit of EC gearing. I'm focusing on droppables, don't want to spend major plat on no drops unless I have to. How's this setup?

[Naethyn]

ECTank looks awesome. SS gloves are no drop, but 90 hp is hard to pass up. You should also consider an MR set up at 180 worn MR so you can have 255 on your next dragon raid with grm.

[Naethyn]

https://wiki.project1999.com/Crustacean_Shell_Greaves are going to be better than cobalt until you are max sta.

[poxxy]

Originally Posted by Naethyn [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

https://wiki.project1999.com/Crustacean_Shell_Greaves are going to be better than cobalt until you are max sta.

Should I wear crusty arms too? Both pieces have insane STA, but giving up a lot of AC.

[Naethyn]

Yes,

Haste > STA (to cap) > HP > Weapon Ratio > MR > AC > CHA> REST

I'd also consider:
https://wiki.project1999.com/Blood_Runed_Greaves
https://wiki.project1999.com/Blood_Runed_Girdle
https://wiki.project1999.com/Cloak_of_Flames

[Naethyn]

https://wiki.project1999.com/Zlandicar's_Talisman