Re: Magic Items "Blue's Only" Showoff Thread
Well since it a temp thing I would fill up the other spots with what you have and can get cheep and then empty it later and add the final stuff (repost when you do and explain for those that don't get it)
I agree its a nice mod all on it's own.
Right now it's cham'd with +282AR and 45ias, hopefully I can get some 100AR jewels soon.
Basically the armor free's up my belt/gloves/amulet spot so I don't have to use items with IAS. The cham allows me to use soj instead of raven. The mana and +skill from soj outweight the AR and lesser mana from raven. The +skill goes towards ES, tstorm, light mastery, enchant, fire mastery, warmth, and cold armor. So as you can see +skills are pretty important for this build. And since I don't need to use high lords, I can use a 2 sorc 17fcr ammy(fcr bp). The other option would be trang's belt for cbf, but then i don't get the 20fcr that arach gives (fcr bp). I've found frostburns to be the best gloves. Magefists don't have enough fcr to help you reach the 65fcr breakpoint, and rares don't provide as much mana as frostburns do. Though I might be tempted to use a pair of blood gloves with ias/str/dex/mana (i saw a pair of these 20ias/9cb/12str/12dex/19l/39m, but i would have had to spend 80% of my runes to get them).
This armor would be for fighting melee opponents (It has more defense than the gothic plate variants I own). Since melee characters typically have high defense, I'd need to get as much AR as I can to hit them.
For casters I use 15ias/15res jewels in a gothic plate. I also have another gothic plate, which I plan to socket with cham and 3 ias/mana jewels, just for the hell of it. However, no one saves these jewels.