[Guide] Upgrading Chaotic Armor To Kael

[moordian]

I do think that Kael needs some work in order to get people to use the zone. For me, I'm just not interested enough in the Barb illusion or Giant Slayer quest to go to Kael for anything other than a boss kill. If anything, I would remove the Kael armor drops and replace them with non-visible armor items. Give them stats on par with Kael armor and people would go there to help gear up. Right now there seems to be a bit of a gap in non-visible armor items from casual to raiding. Kael could be the gap filler.

These are already in Icewell -
All/All earring - Pure Ice
Caster ring - Pitted Iron Ring
All/All ring - Molten Ice
All/All neck - Necklace of the Frozen Snow
All/All face - Mithril Studded Mask

It would be nice to see in Kael -
Caster/Healer earring
Melee earring
Healer ring
Melee ring
Shoulders
Caster/Healer Belt
Cloak
Range

This would give people an option between Chardok and Kael for the other non-visible items you need before ToV.

[khaliss]

That's a good idea, but there really is no need to remove the Kael armor drops (since it can still be something for alts/bots, and for those who couldn't stand tailoring).

Still, I would go for a way to change the loot table for class armor drops not to be too random so one doesn't have to depend purely on luck.

[Rerfu]

There should really be a Kael Ideas thread in zone, the last page and a half of this thread has nothing to do with my guide.

[khaliss]

Sorry, I'm to blame... this started when I gave a review of Kael. Admins, please feel free to move the inappropriate parts of this thread into another one as Rerfu suggested. Thanks!

[khaliss]

Took like 8 hours total to equip 4 of my toons to Kael armor (except legs/chest)... only warrior arms/head never dropped. I got the impression that druid/mage/ranger items drop more often than others.

[ChaosSlayer]

I maybe misunderstanding something but Ala shows that ready to use gear already dropping in kael without any sort of "molds"

[moordian]

The ready to use Kael armor is exactly what is being discussed. Due to the level of difficulty in Kael, it makes no sense to try to upgrade your armor there. It's much easier to simply hut Icewell for a couple of hours and get multiples of every slot on every toon in your group. Kael is so hit or miss, you could spend a couple of hours there and not get a single usable piece of armor. Yes you have to get tailoring/smithing up, but neither of those is particularly hard to get to 200ish.