by Dinadass » Thu Apr 29, 2004 8:18 pm
Gonna post one last time in this thread, regardless of how much it makes me suck. Most warriors use a 1:6 ac to hp ratio when considering gear, and any extra stats are usually irrelevant or useless, with exceptions of course. With this system, giving items a point value based on their ac/hp is pretty straightforward. So if 1ac = 1pt, and 6hp=1 pt, then this is how they stack up:
Horn spiked: 46.17 pts, with 8SvC/M
Barbed rubi: 24 pts, with +10 total saves. Also 15 stam.
Strength of Ele (Why not?): 32 pts, with +30 total saves.
So the saves on the SotE is better, obviously. The one thing the barbed rubi have going for them is the 15 stam. This 15 stam will only give you extra hp if you are > 60 stamina from your cap, since a stam buff will cap you. Getting a stam buff in an exp group is pretty easy, but the extra hp you would gain should be fairly trivial in an exp group anyways.
Also, an increase of 10dex will raise your primary weapon's average procs per minute by 2.5% (Parses show that +100dex = +.5 proc per minute more. So you'll get one more proc every 20 minutes. Cong you)
Anyone that still insists that barbed rubi is better than horn spiked is wrong. I'm not gonna knock the SotE because they're free, but if I logged on tomorrow to find that the 4th item i need to finish the quest was on my cursos, I wouldn't bother running over to get them.