Curse

Kunder · Sep 22, 2011, 01:04 AM // 01:04

Players under SY should never die. Ever. Therefore, +Health becomes useless (actually worse than useless since it slightly decreases the effect of prot spirit against armor ignoring damage, but thats splitting hairs) and +armor becomes of very marginal usefulness (saves a small bit of healing power over time).

What does matter is what happens for the 1% of time SY isn't running because your physical got blinded/hexed/snared and you lose the +armor, or the 100% of the time there are no player physicals in the party. In that case +armor from weapons becomes much better than +health for almost all instances.

SY becoming the original WY would much improve balance (+20 armor for 10s, 4A requirement IIRC). Its still an amazing deal, back in the prophecies days I used to run it even on casters and it was uber pro. +30ish armor for 5-10s @ 4A would probably be a better compromise to reduce the amount of QQ bad players would make.

Of course, ST rits and ER eles need to take a corresponding hit since they are as effective or more so (though less versatile).

mrseasonalt · Nov 18, 2011, 06:46 AM // 06:46

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Originally Posted by LifeInfusion

+10 vs type, -2 enchanted/stanced: Unless you're soloing or have an imbagon and only one monk, it doesn't matter enough for PvE most of the time because if things are around that long to be making use of -2 damage you're screwed. It only matters when it's pressure like in pvp.

The only place I've seen people actually care enough is DoA.

You obviously dont do very many SCs then because I have way more shields on my assassin than on any pvp char. UW/FOW/Dungeons have lots of specific dmg shields you switch between during runs. DOA only requires 1 shields b/c everything is demons.

Also this bug really bites because I have lots of drake kabobs and they dont do anything even if you have no armor. NOTHING AT ALL NO MATTER WHAT. Fix this crap anet my +10 -2ench shields collection depends on it.