Sylvan bashing artefacts

Ghia

I'm looking for opinions on what artefact I should go after next that would be the most beneficial to bashing. Here's what I have: fire pendant, amulet of the will, gloves of harvesting, mayan ring, ring of vitality, mayan bracelets, collar of ceylon, ring of the magus.

If it helps.. at level 85 in Viridian form I have 18 int, 13 con, which puts me at 4420 health. 

I'd really like an Aldar talisman, but it would be a while before I had enough credits for it. 

Nazihk

Tank up more. Maybe reincarnate to a constitution spec. Arguably change race to something without constitution as a drop stat. Tanking is probably the biggest bashing boost you can get because better tanking lets you bash better areas. It also improves your exp/hour, because you have less time lost to hit+run, less downtime between kills, and tankiness reduces deaths that cost you exp.

Also, the Aldar Talisman is actually an L2 eq boost. For 500cr you can get the Offspring Talisman, which is a L1 eq boost, half as effective at half of the price and you can upgrade it to a full Aldar talisman later. I mention this because the Offspring Talisman isn't listed in any helpfile that I know of and I didn't even know it existed until somebody else told me about it.

Ahmet

I don't see a belt or SoA on your list!

Austere

Don't buy an SoA until you hit dragon(flail staff is plenty good enough). Get the talisman.  Worth

Cooper

Ahmet said:

I don't see a belt or SoA on your list!

That's because flail staff is roughly equal to the benefit of SoA.

Austere

Cooper said:

Ahmet said:

I don't see a belt or SoA on your list!

That's because flail staff is roughly equal to the benefit of SoA.

Fairly sure flail staff>soa in standard reduction, but doesn't have the chance to absorb. Before the display for armor was changed, flail was like 5/5 higher, iirc

Sena

Flail staff is 15% (before nimble/quick-witted, so it's really more like 13.5%) blunt/cutting/magical resistance. SoA's 15% absorption chance is generally better than a straight 15% reduction, and then the actual armour stats probably reduce damage by 3-4%, but it's close enough that you'd get more benefit by spending those 800 credits on other defensive arties instead of an SoA (and of course, staff also has the advantage against magic damage).

Kyrra

Would it be worth socketing a SoA into armour?

Sarathai

Aldar. L1 with option to save for the L2 upgrade later if necessary. Also a hunter's belt for a bit more CON and to round out your L1 stuff, it's cheap and helpful.

Nazihk

Kyrra said:

Would it be worth socketing a SoA into armour?

I have one. No regrets. Yeah, it's expensive(1000cr paragon + 350cr rondel + embrasure), but watching it eat both shots from Proficy's L3 flails is pretty sweet. 

I don't know that I'd recommend it for a purely PvE focused player, though, because it's a pretty big investment into what equates out to just a -15% damage resistance. Streak blocks in PvP are what makes it so valuable to me, those moments where the paragon lets me soak an entire round of damage and stay up for another round. I wouldn't pay that much if all I got out of  it was -15% PvE damage taken.

Ghia

Great information, thank you all! I think I'll go with the L1 Aldar for now. I had no idea it existed. 

Kyrra

Nazihk said:

Kyrra said:

Would it be worth socketing a SoA into armour?

I have one. No regrets. Yeah, it's expensive(1000cr paragon + 350cr rondel + embrasure), but watching it eat both shots from Proficy's L3 flails is pretty sweet. 

I don't know that I'd recommend it for a purely PvE focused player, though, because it's a pretty big investment into what equates out to just a -15% damage resistance. Streak blocks in PvP are what makes it so valuable to me, those moments where the paragon lets me soak an entire round of damage and stay up for another round. I wouldn't pay that much if all I got out of  it was -15% PvE damage taken.

SoA makes a huge difference for hunting, especially when you end up in areas like Prin. I dragon hunt with an SoA and soaking the damage helps a lot, especially when you end up with a nasty group on you. Wouldn't want to be doing multiple cockatrices without an SoA for example.

Nazihk

Yeah but a 1350 investment is pretty steep and I don't know if I'd recommend it as an early purchase over con and bracelets upgrades and such.