05-20-2005, 05:59 PM
Now there are three different types of what I call "effect boost eqipement"
a) the +% to crit. Very highly demanded drops. Crits are just too good to pass on any chance increasing their chance.
b ) the items that state +X to a certain effect such as healing.
c) the items that state "up to X" to certain effect or more commonly a certain school of magic or all magical effects.
The b ) items are of course better regarding the "effect boost" than c) items, although the c) items have a broader range of use, and retain some bonuses on attributes like intelligence, spirit and stamina, while the b ) items often have just the +X effect without any other bonus.
I would recommend to go rather with the c) items than the b ) items, because the b ) items just cut to deeply into your manapool by the lack of intelligence or spirit bonus on them. Especially in prologend fights a bigger manapool is imho more important than raw HPS output, so the c) items look like a good compromise.
Of course others may have come to different conclusions. It's just the way I go about this.
a) the +% to crit. Very highly demanded drops. Crits are just too good to pass on any chance increasing their chance.
b ) the items that state +X to a certain effect such as healing.
c) the items that state "up to X" to certain effect or more commonly a certain school of magic or all magical effects.
The b ) items are of course better regarding the "effect boost" than c) items, although the c) items have a broader range of use, and retain some bonuses on attributes like intelligence, spirit and stamina, while the b ) items often have just the +X effect without any other bonus.
I would recommend to go rather with the c) items than the b ) items, because the b ) items just cut to deeply into your manapool by the lack of intelligence or spirit bonus on them. Especially in prologend fights a bigger manapool is imho more important than raw HPS output, so the c) items look like a good compromise.
Of course others may have come to different conclusions. It's just the way I go about this.