Elder Spiritist's Gauntlets  

 

druids are one of the main soloing classes, there not that great in groups. They are sorta like bards cauz they have almost all talents but suck at them. Btw snare on those gauntlets wont stick on 50+ mobs.

I got this in the bazzar for 250p was great I aug it cause it has the lvl spell so I go to try to use it it don't work. Come here to find out that I can't use a lvl 1 spell to save mana till 45... hmm. oh well the 9ac is cool for lvl 25. just wish they would have put a higher lvl snare spell on it.

are the effects on all this armor INSTANT cast or is there a casting time?

I was doing my daily selling in Surefall and I found them at the vendor for 536pp. I ran to the bank and pulled the cash.. i wont be able to use them till im What level 50?.. Im getting there..Just hit level 39 today.. Im also working on the rest of my gear.. I will grow up someday.

39 Druid Dontaious
31 Shaman Jesellia
15 Shadow Knight Soulsick

I would much rather have something that procs root instead of snare. As a halfling, I can't use that Tunare necklace that procs the root.

Could anyone tell me if Beastlord can really wear? I have talked to many Druids and they say no please verify whether Beastloards can use. If you are on Mith Mar I would like to by a pair.

Its true, these have a longer cast time, shorter duration than ensnare, but think of it this way....0 mana. I use these to solo, the difference between using snare and ensnare is you just refresh after every cast, (and why not, its free mana) thereby allowing me to keep a better spell such as another DoT to use. Here is a little secret from a High Level druid. Drones of Doom line of spells do stack. Its probably a bug, but you can cast Drones of Droom and then Winged Death (at level 53) and they stack on top of each other, I replaced ensnare with DoD and now kill the mobs much faster. Here is my formula:

Pull to safe location by casting cancel magic. Cast root. Right click Gaunts. Drones of Droom. Right click Gaunts. Cast Winged Death. Right click Gaunts. Refresh root as needed. Sure it takes a little more work by right clicking more often, but I cant imagine mind numbing soloing without these.

This gear has great spells, and yes if they made the effect ENSNARE, It would never leave my inventory. There are so many different applications to this gear, the greaves give you a mana free heal 100 points at a time. (good soloing) The helm invisibility for those wonderful group runs with melee's, why waste the mana because they lose invis every 10 seconds. The boots, manafree levitate traveling (and keeps you from having to waste a spell slot)...need I say more. Take 1 trip to KC through Dreadlands, and Ill guarantee you would want these boots.

The gear could be better, but when you look at the applications, they really arent half bad. Its all in the creativity of how you use them. These were designed for conventional use, but they can be used in unconventional ways.

You will be killing your group much more than saving them with these when the mobs break root and attack them, use ensnare it uses little mana. These dont even save mana becasue you need to cast this 4 times instead of one ensnare. 4 casts at 10seconds a cast = 40 seconds- 5 seconds to cast ensnare = 35 seconds you could be medding and with clarity on thats way more than 15 mana gained. It is much better to ensnare and then root by the way not root first. All of the 50+ Druids I know only have these for walking around in the tunnel for the look.

Does a high level Druid still use Snare? If so, would this not prove invaluable?

This essentially frees up a slot for a more powerful spell... Doesn't it?

Drag-and-drop the item slot to your command menu and right-click when you need it...

Call me crazy, all the ES items sound sweet to me. (And, yes, I realize that I am not a Druid. It just seems that this would work the same as Mrylokar...)

Rhus Mohrtis, Rogue of Rodcet Nife

it is common drop off Hangnail and all u got to hope for is him to spawn. my group got 2 pairs in about 1hr in Karnor's last night so it is more like common or uncommon drop.

Camped the hand room today for 13 hours with maybe 4 decent drops all day. My gauntlets being the last decent thing. Not sure if I really like them. Each time I went to snare, I felt like wonderwoman using her magical armbands and that stupid theme song would pop in my head. The ac is very nice on them. But overall, I still need wis items cause i screwed up when I made this char..lol. The green look, well, does nothing for me though believe it or not! Still cool to say I have them. What are they worth??

You can begin using the proc at lvl 45. Some more info on the gloves.. The casting time is 2 seconds longer than normal snare, and its the lvl 1 snare, NOT the lvl 29 wayyy improved ENsnare. it is very helpful if you want to free up an extra spell slot, but mana consumption is a laugh anyway at the snare line series. 15 mana for snare and i think its 25 for ensnare. Doesn't really matter if we right click the gloves to save mana. We can regain it by the time the spell effect goes off. These are handy in a number of situations however. Obviously one would be when you are low on mana, root, then snare the mob for a time to med in case root breaks. Power levelling is also good for these if you dont wanna waste cast after cast on multiple mobs *shrug* Also when you get really bored and feel like terrorizing an old easy zone like unrest of even some hill giants in the karanas, these kind of come in handy. Because of the long casting time on them you must be careful to give yourself some extra range when the mob is running at you. (same with the arms). I almost never would use these in dungeons either. That extra 2 seconds adds up when you need the mana to heal/buff/what have you, and like i said the regular ensnare spell itself hardly takes any mana. Hope that info helped. It's kind of a neat novelty item, and the green hands thing does seem to work well with the elfies ;-)

True they are not the best gloves out there in the world but I am happy with my new set. Now that the snare/root bug has been corrected I can pop this one off quickly after I've rooted a critter as a back up. Opens up a spell slot and the AC is good. I was over 200 wisdom anyway so losing those whopping 2 Wis points from the split paw junkers didn't hurt. (plus us leather bound druids need that dark green look to help us out with the chickies back home)