Throate wrote on Nov 8
th, 2011 at 6:07am:
Is the description of the defender enhancements correct, does the additional threat only apply to S&B damage?
There is also an increase of the max dex bonus mentioned, but no numbers. Anyone got any info on that?
It's hard to say right now exactly what the threat really works out to. The last time someone at turbine looked at things, they were getting more threat than they were supposed to.
The intimidate threat bonus works for any type of weapon, but it lasts longer on s/b. When grabbing aggro in ToD part 3, I've been in s/b mode for my first intimidate, then immediately switching to thf mode for my initial beatdown. Then I'll swap back to s/b the rest of the time. I haven't had any issues holding aggro so far.
Armor breakdown so far:
10 base
7? dex - defender may increase this
15 armor DT
9 shield Levik
5 deflection - DM shield of faith
3 dodge DT
2 dodge bracers
1 dodge feat
3 enhancement defender
5 natural - chimeras crown/barkskin
2 alchemical ritual on shield + armor
4 sup parrying - chimeras fang
2 defender set
Putting me to a measly 68 AC without guild buffs.
Any help to increase my AC any further would be appreciated.
Btw, did not get any bta festival stuff beside the T1 cavalry plate for a build like this.
For gear layout, you may want to try and fit in the 3 piece abashai set for it. The extra str and the +3 stackable ac bonus has some nice synergies. I'm still grinding out a few more shrouds on my defender so I can get another cleansing stone to remake my hp item before I can wear my abashai set tho, so my current gear layout is subject to change.
My current layout is...
helm sfl/+15 intimidate pirate hat
trinket epic gem of many facets
necklace defender
cloak epic dragon cloak
belt heavy fort, for lack of anything better
rings fighter defender ring/some random +9 str ring
glove epic claw gloves
bracers +2 dodge/toughness
armor epic vambraces of inner light (slotted +7)
For the future, I'm looking at making a new shroud hp item (min II belt), and fitting 3 piece abashai set into helm, cloak, and boots.
I've got the circle of hatred from the abbot raid already, so that will be my intimidate item and it should add some incite after the next mod.
I'll be wearing the epic cavalry plate slotted with greater nimbleness.
For shields, I decided that since there aren't any epic tower shields right now, I'm better off using epic kundarak warding shield so I don't have to worry about the dex limitations from that at all.
For quests where ac doesn't really matter (epic lob for example) I'm using the levik's defender shield for the extra static dr from the defender line.