What armor should i choose?

hawkeyed

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Sep 2006

R/Mo

Hi, I have an assasin/ritualist and im about to buy the max armor, now what should i choose? I know it depends on the mission/quest/boss but is there a combination that will, although not necessarily the best in most cases, work every where in pve? plz help, ty.

Mask:
I think the mask should be dagger mastery, what do you think?

Guise:
I can choose between:
reduced cripled on me by 20% and armor +15 vs piercing
or
armor + 15 while attacking
or
reduced deep wound on me by 20% and armor + 15 vs slashing
or
health + 15
or
reduced blind on me by 20 % and armor + 15 vs blunt
or
energy +3 (8 but the others have 5)

Gloves:
I can choose between:
reduced poisened on me by 20% and armor +15 vs piercing
or
armor + 15 while attacking
or
reduced bleeding on me by 20% and armor + 15 vs slashing
or
health + 5
or
reduced Weakness on me by 20 % and armor + 15 vs blunt
or
energy +1

Leggings:
I can choose between:
armor +15 vs piercing
or
armor +15 while attacking
or
armor +15 vs slashing
or
health +10
or
armor + 15 vs blunt
or
energy +2

Shoes:
I can choose between:
armor +15 vs piercing
or
armor +15 while attacking
or
armor +15 vs slashing
or
health +5
or
armor + 15 vs blunt
or
energy +1

I'm only going to use it for pve, what should I choose, plz help, thx.

Bloodied Blade

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

R/

I prefer full shrouded. Most of your combos are going to be energy monsters anyway.

Yanman.be

Yanman.be

Banned

Join Date: Dec 2005

Belgium

[ROSE]

A/

IF you keep using daggers (bows anyone? ), go with the dagger hat.

Think what armour will fits you best for your playstyle.

AoD builds will benefit from shrouded, health and armour are for those that prefer to stick around... etc.

wilebill

wilebill

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2005

Mt Vernon, Ohio

Band of the Hawk

W/Mo

Or, if you're an A/W Nightstalker +15 armor when attacking, and get out of Dodge quick when you aren't.

But it's true, select armor based on how you play.

Thomas.knbk

Thomas.knbk

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2006

It like, totally like, depends on like, your build you know?

Skuld

Skuld

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Sep 2005

Thousend Tigers Apund Ur Head [Ttgr]

A/

Dagger mask, shrouded for just about everything.

hawkeyed

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Sep 2006

R/Mo

Ok, so it is shrouded for damage dealing
What is best for staying a live, nightstalker or health?
And what about reduced cripple, bleeding etc. ? Not worth anything?

Thx again

Tingi

Tingi

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2005

Mo/

shrouded but reduces bleeding gloves - cuz u may as well

Bloodied Blade

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

R/

Shrouded is basically the best assassin armor there is. Just wear a dagger mask and make sure to use teleports. As someone once posted: "If you've stuck around long enough for your armor to matter, you've been there too long."

Ensign

Ensign

Just Plain Fluffy

Join Date: Dec 2004

Berkeley, CA

Idiot Savants

Shrouded is the armor you'll be using 99% of the time. You need a good max energy capacity to fire off your combos, and the base 25 isn't enough.

For mask, I've been using a Critical Strikes mask mostly, but a Dagger Mastery one works as well, depending on how you set your runes. You basically want to get 13 Critical Strikes and 12 Dagger Mastery on nearly every Assassin, which means either 11+2 Crit / 11+1 Dagger, or 11+2 Crit/10+2 Dagger (or the other variant using a Major rune). The former gives you 9 ranks of Shadow Arts or 8 in a secondary - the latter, 11 ranks or 10 in a secondary. The rune in my mask has changed a bit, but the base stats (13 crit, 12 dagger) hasn't moved in months.

Peace,
-CxE