I saw ODS in Bazaar channel 7K other day, there Not that Expencive, ONlY 10% to mana preservation. Less you use a High Cost lvl 60 Spell your Not getting Much benifit from it Specialy when you can Get Mage to Summon a Better item for Free. And they 2 itmes Dotn Stack Only One will trigger at time.
Only 10%? to put into perspective what he just said, lets look at how much 10% actually matters..
only 10% of rangers die every day...(how many times you seen that happen)
only 10% of summons result in a casters death (seen that a lot too)
only 10% of the mobs in loy arent under cons (/shiver)
that only 10% ONLY makes a live saving event bout once a day lol.
that may be exagerated, but wearing this over somethin with a little better stats is worth the saved hardship of trying to find a cleric at 3 am.
think about it, winged death takes me 350mana, snare takes me 35 mana..thats the 10%, that 10% can save my life from an add in a bad siuation, and given the right situation that 10% could leave me enough to evac your sorry ***.
case dismissed you lose ONLY and 10% dont go togehter goodbye
ONLY 10 percent???? WTF is this ONLY crap? Last time I checked, 10% less mana was a **** load less than 0% less mana. Put down the crackpipe and come back to the real world. "only 10 percent" that has got to be one of the dumbest things i've ever heard.
Even rangers should like this item if they utalize their spell line.
"only 10 percent"
you might as well have said "the ODS is bad because of lbadkhjadfjajhq2304372akmehfadh" It would have made the same amount of sense.
Is amazing how many people post stuff on the boards trying to sound like they know what they are talking about when its obvious they don't. I am a ranger myself and wouldn't dare to say I know all about priest classes.
hte mage summoned earring does in fact have a better % of mana conservation ( 15% ) but it only affects DD spells. this item affects all spells and so it is much more valuable. it should also be noted that the effect on this stacks with the effect from the AA Spell Casting Mastery.
Edited, Mon Aug 19 08:33:25 2002
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Nalaani Darkfyre, Mistress of the Elements 63 Arch Mage <Rendered Asylum> Tholuxe Paells
Not much benefit??? Well since you're a ranger, you probably wouldn't.... but as a cleric this helps immensely, as we constantly are casting heal spells, buffs, etc etc. ONLY 10% conservation of mana??? Since at lvl 60 my mana pool is about 3500, that would save me 350 mana if I were to cast until I am OOM. So basically, we have a 350 mana item in the shoulder slot with the obulus death shroud. You're crazy if you think anything a mage can summon is better than this (no offense, mages).
Well, its actually better than +350 mana. Since you only use 90% of the mana, you only need 90% of the time to recover. So if your mana regen rate is 15/tick, this is like a FT1.5 item as well. With KEI, its close to an FT3 item while medding, FT1.5 item while fighting.
Uhm,. I'm a 45th level ranger, I bought this sweet shroud 3 days before the patch that added focus items for 1.5k on xegony. When me and my brother play together, hes a 47 rogue, i end up using all my mana keeping the mobs offa him when we constant pull mobs. This is definatly an item i dont plan to upgrade for a long long time. And when i do, my chanter is gonna wet his kilt when I transfer it to him.
I'm a 60th cleric and wear this all the time. Unfortunately Complete Heal is not affected by the focus effect. If you're like me, you use CH often and wont blow all your mana with other spells so you're not looking at saving 350 mana. Make sure you're wearing this when you cast group ageo.
Still a caster's favorite. I'd wear this over 7th shawl, and swap between 8th and ODS.