Two people with NTOV loot arguing about group content that both of them outgear. This is past absurd. I've done about all the group content there is to do in this game, most of it duo with the wife, and I have mainly Thurgadin-quality stuff.
I don't know why DSM thinks he needs to stack resists for group content, but I ignore resists almost entirely and it causes no issues. Stupid 40 second poison dots in Sebilis or the occasional Togur's landing or those 250 damage dragon AE's in west wastes don't matter enough to care about. Only time I put on MR gear outside raids is if I'm going to be fighting something that can charm. Might matter more if you're trying to gear to be a soloist but I can't imagine why you'd make a Shadow Knight if you wanted to mainly solo.
Not going to argue that stacking HP is "wrong" if you want to try to be the best raid tank you can be because it's the correct approach to that problem. That type of job plays against the strengths of the class to an extent, but only moderately--there are a lot of raids the knights can and do tank for. I approve, anyway, because I dislike the notion that a guild might bully a person into playing something he doesn't want to as opposed to what he does. Some guild invites me on my Shadow Knight, that's what I am, and I'm going to tell them to piss off if they ask me to log their stupid cleric bot.
For group stuff you want some focus on AC as well, especially if you're like me and receive a lot of torpors without necessarily always having a cleric around. Mitigating those hits down matters a lot when you're trying to out-heal something that hits for 400's or more and don't have a bunch of people at your back. If your idea of grouping is Karnor's trash then you could be wearing Crustacean and nobody would notice the difference. People do that every day.
Danth
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