What Haste cloak/belt combination for RNG?

[Troxx]

Sirens Grotto belt is just an all around great item; imo best value amongst the top tier tradable haste items. Good stats/saves and a strong 34% haste that gives you a functional performance rate within 1% of 36% worn haste for all times you don’t have strong enchanter haste to push you to 100%.

Remember also that at lower levels your total haste is capped:

1-30 haste capped at 50%
31-50 haste capped at 74%
51-54 haste capped at 84%
55-59 haste capped at 94%
60 haste capped at 100%

At 34% worn haste this means shaman celerity will put you at the haste cap until you dong 55. Until you hit lv 51 lower shaman alacrity haste will have you at haste cap. Functionally until you hit 60 any level appropriate good ench haste will have you at the cap.

Imo it is the best value. For the stats alone it is worth wearing.

[Cecily]

Stats aren’t that big a deal in EQ, haste is though. Seahorse belt looks deceptively good with all the numbers, but +4 core stats 25/25 1vsall makes no functional difference in reality.

That’s why CoF sells despite having pretty bad stats. 9agi / 9dex / 9 svf is not a selling point for anyone. 50 hp and 36% hp are why you’re buying it, the rest are just incidental numbers.

[Wallicker]

Originally Posted by Cecily [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Stats aren’t that big a deal in EQ, haste is though. Seahorse belt looks deceptively good with all the numbers, but +4 core stats 25/25 1vsall makes no functional difference in reality.

Big Effin LOL to this! Guess tanks should stop asking shamans for str/sta/dex bc stats aren’t that big a deal lol!

[Cecily]

I remember myself as a new player being super excited about buying a serpentine bracer because it had a lot of stats, too.