armour confusion

[Tilia]

armour confusion

Hi there

I'm playing a lev 63 trapassin and I have been following what has so far been a reasonably successful build.

I have been working on creating the one of the armours suggested in the build which was a 4 soc armour with RalOrtThul and a Pskull.

I finally got the 100 strength needed to wear it and joyfully donned it... to find my stats going down.. this is what I had and now have..

Old armour 1 soc ghost armour with I think a +4 min damage jewel.. it's stats are

Def - 218
Dur - 20-20
+4 Min damage
+85% enhanced defence
+36 Life
Lightning 23%
Damage reduced by 1

Which gave me stats of
Damage - 36-231 and 57-195 (have 2 weapons equipped)
Defence - 358
Fire - 60%
Cold - 61%
Lightning - 75%

My new RalOrtThul Ancient Armour has these stats

Def - 224
Dur - 60-60
Replenish Life +6
Regen Mana 19%
Cold + 30
Lightning +30
Fire + 30

Giving me the following stats

Damage - 56-231 and 45 -195
Def - 364
Fire - 75%
Cold - 75%
Light - 75%

My basic resistances without any armour are
Fire - 50
Cold - 61
Light - 52

So after all that... what should I wear? I'm a bit miffed that it took all that work and now it seems less useful than my ghost armour. My only positive thought is that when I hit hell will it be useful coz my resistances will drop and it will top me up.

Will I ever reach Hell? Is it that important? I don't know.. I've never been there...

So, should I stick with my ghost armour that gives me better damage, even though I am a trappassin.. or should I go with the slightly better defence of the RalOrtThul... or should I work on getting something else?

Thanks heaps to those that got this far....

Tilia
Mousebane

 

[Thyiad1]

You have only lost a little bit of bottom end on the off hand. Your minimum of the left hand has increased. Personally, I like the resists being up: I use Nef-Lum (Smoke) for it though.

I think that mana regen will be useful though.

 

[ilkori]

Wait, I'm confused. What's with the damage gear on a trapper? The only useful stats for a hell trapper are +skills, frw, fhr, ias, and resists. You claw damage is, well, useless if this is the kind of trapper most people talk about.

 

[Tilia]

so does +damage not apply to a trapper?

I didn't know this :undecided:

 

[Glorft]

No it doesnt - u fight withyour traps - you need items with + skills to boost your trap dmg up. If i were you id get myself a Vipermagi or a Smoke and stay with it for a while or use the ancient armor

 

[Tilia]

ok.. thanks for that.. I learn something every day... so I need to find/make some +skills then.

Will work on the Vipermagi or Smoke too.

Thanks heaps :smiley: