Now adays a peice of armors look isn't TOO important since about all players use the dyes now. I did have a ranger one time though that wanted there money back after buying a set of leggings off me that looked like plate. I gave him his money back, and he bought a more expensive pair of leggings that had worse stats. Odd thing is he used black dye and you really couldn't tell a big difference between chain and plate on his leggings.
These beautiful boots now have a recommended level of 35; found out on my 24 cleric and the stats weren't to full effect =( just a heads up if you were planning on using these with a low level twink.
So I probably shouldn't tell you that these boots off the first elemental I killed?
I decided to try to get my last half bubble of 56 killing these. Two of four conned light blue and hadn't respawned by the time my pet's health and my mana were full, so I left.
Im not sure a 50+ Paladin would really want these, I would hope that you would go with the AC of DW boots over these. After 50 I started tanking more then anything else and I wouldnt have given up the AC. At the Time I was wearing Valorium and would still use those over these, currently wearing scaled knights. These are good but become outdated as soon as you become Planes ready.
I was hunting here tonight and two pairs have dropped in 4 hrs. Had to let one rot as no one from other Gunthak zone want to come to Nadox to pick them up
Woot! I finally got these boots late last night. I spent about six hours killing those elementals before they dropped the boots. Maybe i was just unlucky or maybe they'e extremely rare.
LOY is a guard hunter's paradise. I go with some caster/healer typer backup (slow helps here but is not necessary if you have decent AC) and I can single pull with pacify more or less indefinitely. There is an additional element hiding in the lava, and if you find the boots arent dropping you might want to swim around until this one aggroes, as this is how I got the boots on my most recent trip. It is really unbelievable the kind of loot that drops off of zone trash here (bracelet of the spiritcharmer over at the torgiran zone line and mantle of stealth in dulak) and next time I go ele and troll hunting i think im going to park my alt here so i can loot the boots and sell them. I gave up 5 points of armor class gladly (i had been using deepwater boots ac 21 rt click endure magic) for the stat pluses. LOY rocks.
I nearly soloed a scorned elemental when I zoned into Nadox accidentally. I figured, "dark blue, zone really close, why not?" With average gear and no haste I came close to soloing him. With C3 or lay hands you could do it. Or as any caster class besides cleric.
I don't know what level you are or what you are currently wearing, but I am still wearing the Shrouded Boots I looted in ME as an upgrade from Fine Plate. I would definitely upgrade to these given the chance. The 4 AC alone is certainly worth it and it would be a nice bridge until I finally win a roll in Kael, currently 0/6 on corroded, have Moktor drop in UP, Crystal Chitin drop in Velks or save several K for Peerless or Matchless Dragonhorn.