R155 Warlord set...

Hello,

This question has been plaguing me.

What are the new stats on the helm and shoulders.

LOL Head and Shoulder Shampoo

 

That is an excellent question to which I don't have an answer... makes me wish I had the set on Stable. Maybe @trakilaki can enlighten us... I don't know anyone who spends more time on test server than him.

 

I only have the Helmet and the Pauldrons ... and 1 second tier cape.

Basically they have more base armor and ... +1212 block rate ...

 

@trakilaki
Thankx man. Wow 1212 block rate is quite intresting...

 

YUCK!

Its even more sick than the 150 points that i had calculated with ...

And on top of that +60% "block chance"


I guess Balor will be a little OP so it will come handy to kill it, but pvpwise its .... anyway .... forget it...

 

That 1212 is actually rather nice... with this new linear system, that comes out to a 11% increased block rate (at LVL 50 with the LVL 45 sholders)... factor in the 30% from the set bouns and the 50% from wisdom, and you gain 19.67% chance to block from just the items alone... not even counting what you'd get on the shield. Then I also can't complain about that 0.6 Block Reduction either... just on it's own, you'd get 37.5% damage reduction.

All told, not using the skill in 2H mode because it would be too expensive, you have an effectiveness of 14.20% chance X 37.5% reduction= 5.33% effective health gain at LVL 50. This is in contrast to the 5.91% effective health I get right now from my LVL 48 shoulders... I'm surprised to say it, but I don't feel cheated.

Who knows? Maybe by the time I craft my LVL 50 warlord set, it will actually be closer to my current 5.91% effective gain due to the higher rate.

 

Upgraded to level 55

 

Hrrmmm, should have dropped 6K in anders for the locker space to store the intermediate pieces... have this at level 50 immediately is going to be a nice edge....

 

I want to ask, does the r155 warlord set for rangers still only give 15% longbow weapon damage?
If so they need to change it to 30% because they have to understand that although longbows can be used with shield/quiver, each enhancement on the 2H weapons = 2x of the enhancement on longbows, and that the enhancements on the quivers and shields are the crappy enhancements we get on rings/best/amulets/etc and not the good enhancements on weapons.

So if SWs and DKs already have 2H weapons that out-perform longbow+quiver/shield, how is it fair then they further get 30% damage bonus while rangers get only 15%?

I mean if the r155 wisdom talent gives 50% weapon damage equally to every class, I don't see why the developers should ignore the imbalance in probably one of the best post-r155 sets.

 

Yea, it's been a pain having all that space filled and not open for farming, but I'm so glad I did. I will have a nice power jump when I hit LVL 50 and craft those.

Nice, so LVL 50 will be about 1400 meaning about 16.3%-16.5% block rate with just the 3 pieces of the set. That comes out to about a 6.1-6.2% effectiveness, so like I had guessed and hoped, it will be a small step up, not a step back.