02-21-2010, 09:34 PM
Well, yeah, but the moment you put on a high AC armor you're not a LAW anymore. >_>
Just one good obsidian shield, one HoS, and a nice awesome fpm of suffix will put you at 210+ pretty easily.
Swap out HoS for RC and that's an extra 35 ac. Or you can even swap out obsidian shield for an awesome/holy shield.
For a LAW though I would never choose a RC over a HoS. Unless I didn't have one available (or you need the 10 stats for perfect block vice a precision helm, but that should only really be an issue at lower levels 35 or so and will cease to be a problem as you level up higher your perfection jewels or zodiac jewels will take care of that).
The benefit of being able to engage a group of soul burners or advocates and telekilling an extra 4-5 of them before being forced to drink a potion is just better than 40 extra mana that I won't miss.
And the only two monsters in hell/hell I can effectively kill with magic are lava maws and snow witches.
Killing anything else with chain lightning takes too long. Killing anything else with fireball seems like I'm throwing peas at a tiger. I simple don't fire fast enough to achieve the killing rate I want (or maybe I'm just biased from years of sorcerer play). Oftentimes, if I meet a group where spells would work as well as simply attacking them, I'd rather stone curse them strategically so I can engage them safely and take them out with sword and shield rather than spells.
After life leech with haste sword, I cannot go back to telekilling a whole room of witches or mages without life leech anymore. It just seems too inefficient to have to stop and heal every other witch.
And against melee attackers, you shouldn't really be getting damaged to the point where you'd need to drink a potion at all if you're using a HoS (except for some rare cases of running into 10 knights around a corner, lava maws, storm lords, etc).
Just one good obsidian shield, one HoS, and a nice awesome fpm of suffix will put you at 210+ pretty easily.
Swap out HoS for RC and that's an extra 35 ac. Or you can even swap out obsidian shield for an awesome/holy shield.
For a LAW though I would never choose a RC over a HoS. Unless I didn't have one available (or you need the 10 stats for perfect block vice a precision helm, but that should only really be an issue at lower levels 35 or so and will cease to be a problem as you level up higher your perfection jewels or zodiac jewels will take care of that).
The benefit of being able to engage a group of soul burners or advocates and telekilling an extra 4-5 of them before being forced to drink a potion is just better than 40 extra mana that I won't miss.
And the only two monsters in hell/hell I can effectively kill with magic are lava maws and snow witches.
Killing anything else with chain lightning takes too long. Killing anything else with fireball seems like I'm throwing peas at a tiger. I simple don't fire fast enough to achieve the killing rate I want (or maybe I'm just biased from years of sorcerer play). Oftentimes, if I meet a group where spells would work as well as simply attacking them, I'd rather stone curse them strategically so I can engage them safely and take them out with sword and shield rather than spells.
After life leech with haste sword, I cannot go back to telekilling a whole room of witches or mages without life leech anymore. It just seems too inefficient to have to stop and heal every other witch.
And against melee attackers, you shouldn't really be getting damaged to the point where you'd need to drink a potion at all if you're using a HoS (except for some rare cases of running into 10 knights around a corner, lava maws, storm lords, etc).