What classes benefit most from gear progression

[sajbert]

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

While I tend to agree with those pointing to monk for "most" benefit, in my experience gear progression is fun on any character you have a strong preference for.

I feel as if this is true in most cases. However I can't see the point of gearing a few classes past a certain point. Good example would be wizard. Once you have basic resist and HP gear (EC tunnel stuff), Epic, VP robe and staff, Pegi Cloak, Jboots and banespells then there's no point in getting anything else really. Maybe UB bracers from fear? But really, I'm reaching here. Manastone if you're feeling fancy but its incredibly niche and not a raid drop.

Mage shouldn't need anything either past basic resist gear, jboots, epic, lvl 55, coth and velk boots. I guess maybe if someone went all the way and got full BIS and a Willsapper to tank for their pet, maybe they could pull off some crazier things. Yet to be seen?

[Snaggles]

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

Mage shouldn't need anything either past basic resist gear, jboots, epic, lvl 55, coth and velk boots. I guess maybe if someone went all the way and got full BIS and a Willsapper to tank for their pet, maybe they could pull off some crazier things. Yet to be seen?

As a bot or a personal character? Quad DA is a world of difference for your purpose in life. Air and Water focus staves are easy and nice upgrades. No way a mage is tanking for its pet since it has no HP recovery system. Can’t even slow with a sapper without taking tons of damage due to npc’s prioritizing players over pets. Maybe you could run in/out each combat round and try to joust a proc. In most cases with a sapper a mage would just be helping slow preslow stuff like a worse ranger.

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

Can you give a nodrop willsapper to a pet?

No drop items to a pet get poofed without the pet benefiting.

[sajbert]

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

Can’t even slow with a sapper without taking tons of damage due to npc’s prioritizing players over pets. Maybe you could run in/out each combat round and try to joust a proc.

With sufficient AC (like full BIS) you should be able to tank a bit, and yeah especially if you try to joust a bit. Sadly mages can't slow themselves.

[Vivitron]

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

I feel as if this is true in most cases. However I can't see the point of gearing a few classes past a certain point. Good example would be wizard. Once you have basic resist and HP gear (EC tunnel stuff), Epic, VP robe and staff, Pegi Cloak, Jboots and banespells then there's no point in getting anything else really. Maybe UB bracers from fear? But really, I'm reaching here. Manastone if you're feeling fancy but its incredibly niche and not a raid drop.

Sky neck, DA ear, zheart, manna robe, evac/nektulos staves are pretty nice too. I have access to a wizard with all those toys plus semi-budget raid drops focused on mana/resist and I like it over a base wizard.

Seems like a decent amount of gear progression to me.

Definitely a raid focused class though, whether that hits you well or not.

Mage shouldn't need anything either past basic resist gear, jboots, epic, lvl 55, coth and velk boots. I guess maybe if someone went all the way and got full BIS and a Willsapper to tank for their pet, maybe they could pull off some crazier things. Yet to be seen?

DA ring+earring are definitely core to the class, but past that gearing them might speak to me the least. A personal preference maybe; I acknowledge an extra coth of mana is typically a bigger raid impact than an extra porlos.

[sajbert]

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

Sky neck, DA ear, zheart, manna robe, evac/nektulos staves are pretty nice too. I have access to a wizard with all those toys plus semi-budget raid drops focused on mana/resist and I like it over a base wizard.

The staves are nice, but cheap and EC items. Sky neck I forgot about, it's maybe the best item aside from Epic. Zheart, eh, it's very rare that I feel it ever matters. Manna robe, sure, EC item like Manstone though. DA Ear? I mean it's cool but should be pretty rare that it matters, maybe some tryhard raiding wizard who doesn't wanna warmbody and defeat the purpose of playing wizard.

[sajbert]

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

Sky neck, DA ear, zheart, manna robe, evac/nektulos staves are pretty nice too. I have access to a wizard with all those toys plus semi-budget raid drops focused on mana/resist and I like it over a base wizard.

Seems like a decent amount of gear progression to me.

Definitely a raid focused class though, whether that hits you well or not.

DA ring+earring are definitely core to the class, but past that gearing them might speak to me the least. A personal preference maybe; I acknowledge an extra coth of mana is typically a bigger raid impact than an extra porlos.

True, DA items are essential for mage if we get to the tryharding with raid pulls.

And yes, I mean, it depends on how much you play. For some getting a Fungi can be THE goal of the game and that's it and until that point I think every class benefits immensely from gear. However, if we're talking getting ToV and ST-loot then things are different. I guess I have more of a velious raiding point of view.