Ethereal Woven Armor suggestion!

[vip00]

This is an issue that I noticed brought up in the necro thread and I thought it was worthwile to point out.

The focuses on the t8 armor for pure casters seem to be of pretty limited use - unlike the melee and priest ones, which appear to be spot on!

Bonuses by piece and classes that can use them:

Boots - Frost (Wiz, sort of Mag)
Bracer - Poison (Necro only)
Gloves - Disease (none, since necros don't have a top-end disease dot)
Helm - Preservation (ALL YAY!)
Pants - Minion (Mag, Necro)
Sleeves - Fire (Wiz, Mag, Necro)

Other (jewelry) - Distance, Health, Chromatic

So it seems to me that it would be of great use to most silkies if the gloves had a Thunder focus, which would be of great application to 3 classes (I don't think mage has a magic based spell at this level). The bracer also seems to benefit only one class, and I personally think it would be great if that had Quickening instead, which all 4 classes would get great use from. The Poison focus could then be moved to the Necro-only drops from T7/T8 (I apologize, I'm not familiar with how broadly available that focus is otherwise). I do understand that poison is a critical focus for necros, so I wouldn't object to it staying either though!

Something to think about moving around or at least in terms of future armor set design! Thanks

EDIT: realized that mages don't get good use from a thunder focus

[Tyhanna]

There is one focus that the casters do not get that I can find anyway and that is not on any of the evolved t8 gear, that is Dark Enhancement. I did a search for a mage and only two items come up one I have no idea where it comes from and the other is the shield off xeru. Dark thunder comes on the Dark Resplendent Leather Aegis, so the shield off xeru would be a trade off for having dark enhancement but loosing dark thunder which is more important. So ive put a true enhancement on the head hunter mask. I wonder if this was just over looked in the mix of all the focus and t8 gear. This would be the same for a wizard, necro,enchanter.


I probably will have to continue with waring the HH mask with the ldon true enhancement in it, im not sure how id change things around even if an item did have enhancement on it, depending on what slot it went into I guess.

I know dark enhancement is not a huge thing, but its nice to have buffs on a longer time.