Avenger Gear Advice
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BlackWinterDay
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Yeah, I thought about using that armor for about 2 hours the other day. No EDef on it either... Not a great choice for melee even with the damage increase...Aoxoa said:
Stormshield
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Dig the 'tar BWD. I have that shirt somewhere.
I'd honestly go with a shaftstop. Upped if you're on the ladder. Opens up a lot of options for your belt/helm.
Or you could go with an ormus, and work on getting defense elsewhere (about 12k defense will cut it in hell I've found. More is better of course, but 12k will get you there.) You should be able to get about 12k def using exile if you pick and choose your gear, and manage to get a decent level holy shield.
I'd honestly go with a shaftstop. Upped if you're on the ladder. Opens up a lot of options for your belt/helm.
Or you could go with an ormus, and work on getting defense elsewhere (about 12k defense will cut it in hell I've found. More is better of course, but 12k will get you there.) You should be able to get about 12k def using exile if you pick and choose your gear, and manage to get a decent level holy shield.
jumbo_SHRIMP
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i think spirit ward is better shield...or if you really want, just wear spirit ward until the fade goes off, then switch to your exile
phelix
phelix
The Best Armor for an Avenger is the Guardian Angel IMO. I played one and he did pretty well. The Helm can be anything you want. For the Belt. I would recommend Thundergod's Vigor. Theres a lot of good bonuses on that Belt. It's probably my favorite in the whole game. (Then again i love Zons). For gloves i would suggest either Draculs or Soul Drainers. Both would work really well.
BlackWinterDay
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Bump on the Soul Drainers, they are wicked cool gloves. Just wish they had IAS... Another belt to consider if you are having any sort of mana problems is Nightsmoke. If you're going to take damage, you may as well get some mana back for it. Also has +10 resist all, but it needs to be upgraded to hold 16 pots.Denzik said:
If you are not using HoZ then I would suggest GA for the increased chance to block. I wanted to use Shaft + Gaze, but since I have decided to use Dragonscale + HoJ then I wll have to change my armor to GA otherwise I won't be able to block much of anything, even with Holy Shield.
Thanks for the suggestions, but they all seem to have the problem of not adding very much or none at all in the resist department.
If I wear a Guardian Angel, which would allow me to get nearly all resists up to 90-95, but adds no resists itself. Seems like coming up with another 165 resist all from head/gloves/boots/belt/jewelry is a pretty tall order.
I have a Kira's, so there is 65 there. I would have to trade for a Mara's although I have a metalgrid, but that's level 81 which is a long time to wait (don't you just love items that become useable about the time you've pretty much wrapped up the major part of the game?).
As far as Spirit Ward being better than an Exile in a Zak shield? huh? I don't get it. :scratch:
If I wear a Guardian Angel, which would allow me to get nearly all resists up to 90-95, but adds no resists itself. Seems like coming up with another 165 resist all from head/gloves/boots/belt/jewelry is a pretty tall order.
I have a Kira's, so there is 65 there. I would have to trade for a Mara's although I have a metalgrid, but that's level 81 which is a long time to wait (don't you just love items that become useable about the time you've pretty much wrapped up the major part of the game?).
As far as Spirit Ward being better than an Exile in a Zak shield? huh? I don't get it. :scratch:
BlackWinterDay
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Well if you are rich enough to afford Famine + Exile, then you can probably afford CoH tooAoxoa said:
jumbo_SHRIMP
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spirit ward gets the following bonuses to the listed when fade goes off:Aoxoa said:
+50 res all
+8% dr
71% lowered curse duration, mix that in with the other stats, and you have a pretty mean shield
why those weapon and sheild ?
avanger should use hoz instead of exile since u wouldn't be able to have enought point to dump in defiance so you should go for zak instead for its skill and resis. And famine is an ok weapon over all for a avanger but best weapon choice remain eth botd zrk and beast zrk all tho I my self like doom zrk more then the other two.
I use:
doom zrk
andy helm(15%ias/15resis all *** in)
coh archon
t-god
eth trek
lava grout battlet(for ias and free enchant charge altho u dont need high ar for avanger while convintion will lower there deffense like mad but still ias glove still pretty good)
1x ravenfrost
1x duel leech ring with good stats boost
seraph ammy
hoz(um'd)
this build give me 90 resis to lighning and 80 fire cold and 85 resis to poison with some leech I dont really have to drain potion at all. and I'm doing solo even in 7 player game with out much problem.
I'm doing 5k damage with all those item if I switch to my botd I can easily do 7k+ with out problem.
avanger should use hoz instead of exile since u wouldn't be able to have enought point to dump in defiance so you should go for zak instead for its skill and resis. And famine is an ok weapon over all for a avanger but best weapon choice remain eth botd zrk and beast zrk all tho I my self like doom zrk more then the other two.
I use:
doom zrk
andy helm(15%ias/15resis all *** in)
coh archon
t-god
eth trek
lava grout battlet(for ias and free enchant charge altho u dont need high ar for avanger while convintion will lower there deffense like mad but still ias glove still pretty good)
1x ravenfrost
1x duel leech ring with good stats boost
seraph ammy
hoz(um'd)
this build give me 90 resis to lighning and 80 fire cold and 85 resis to poison with some leech I dont really have to drain potion at all. and I'm doing solo even in 7 player game with out much problem.
I'm doing 5k damage with all those item if I switch to my botd I can easily do 7k+ with out problem.