05-30-2012, 06:50 PM
(05-30-2012, 06:25 PM)RedRadical Wrote: Looks to be worth it, but 225K would take most of my gold. Thats an increase of 510 armor, my health stays about the same, and resists go up, plus i get resource bonuses. I would lose dmg but I have plenty of DPS already anyway. I guess the question is, are these improvements worth it to spend almost all my gold on one piece of gear?
And using shield on DH though huh? Sigh. That just seems SO WRONG, lol.
If you don't need the DPS then, by all means, take a crack at it. That is a huge bump in armor. I will warn, however, that the DPS stat can be misleading as it is easily manipulated by Attack Speed. It is my experience with the Wizard that when making choices about what damage to give up for defense you want to account for Attack Speed adjustments.
As for the shield, there is no way I would go into Inferno with any character without one I don't think. You can stack so much freaking defense on 1 item slot that barring the absolute best damage based off-hands it's not worth it (and even then it's questionable if you compare the best Shields to the best Damage Off-Hand).