Black Pantherskin Tunic  

 

im just wondering what a good upgrade from BPS is i got a lvl 27 monk and thinking bout upgrading to better gear i know this stuff is good but i want better any ideas??????

Aordan Swiftkill
monk of the 27th season
Spirits of Storm
luclin server

It says the item (actually, all pantherskin) was edited. What changed?

This item is nice. The stats are well rounded, AC a little low but other stats make up for that. I've read this column all the way down and must say that I believe everyone is right to an extint. Monks are pullers and assisters, when you get an add stomping your cleric and there is no enchanter you will be the one chasing that mob down and he will turn on you, thus need more AC. In a good group that mob will be mezzed or rooted and you can go to work on dmg dealing thus higher agi, str, dex. So their are allot of opinions on what stats you need but the best monk is the well rounded monk not to high or low in any level. Not to mention as you progress so do the buffs you will be getting from other players, your best friends should be first a shamana then a cleric. Just my 2c.

how and where do u get velium bonig (name of mob,zone,lvl, and rareness of drop (how many times it drops an hour)) thx, ohh and if merchants sell it where?

Well after reading these posts I realize 90% of them are posts by people who ether dont play a Monk or only have a lvl 20 twink....
BP armor still rivals even the new Acrilia, ya ac wise Acrilia is better but thats not gona help you. This is high lvl armor for a reason, there are no resists on it, ever hear of Blue Diamond armor? any half decent 50+ monk has at least BD Earings and Bracers in his Tink bag, so forget resists. AC well butt nakked my AC is over 900, with full panther its 1100, not bad at 54 but my HP and yes that is VERRY important is extreemly high due to the +STA, and +HP. The more AC and HP you have the longer you have to live to get the pull compleeted. Anyone who thinks otherwise should delete there Monk Twink and make a Warrior.
So whys it decent, most pices have all the needed stats for a Monk first AC, second HP/STA, Third STR, and for those Procs like SoS T Staff etc DEX. All in all this armor is awesom unless you got ToV Thurg or PoA ide sugguest 50+ keep there eyes open for BP Armor.

If BL can wear this, then I'd like to get some on SZ. anyone have a link to a site that has a list of what is needed to make? and when it's trivial? would be much appriciated. thx

I want to buy some black pantherskin on Quellious name Zazomy Goldenfist

With the latest patch, black pantherskin armor has become usable by Vah Shir Beastlords. Very interesting...
http://www.rpi.edu/~pattem/eq/bp1.jpg

I went to Wakening, and killed panthers for 3 hours. I now have a few black panther skins and one haze panther skin. Yew leaves are sold for 100p a piece on my server. I hung out for a while with the intention of finding some but got very bored with that. The tough part about this is that while 2 of the 3 components are easy to find, yew leaves are nearly impossible to scrounge up. I bought them and saved myself the trouble. The boning is easy to make. I don't tailor, but I have a grandmaster tailor in my guild. All in all it was pretty easy to get everything I needed. It was most definitely time consuming, but this armor is really pretty decent. The ac is... quite honestly not spectacular. The fact that it doesn't have resists is kind of disappointing too. But with the other stats you get from the armor, maybe you'll trade in your jewelry for something with better resists. /shrug
The weight is far more monk-friendly now... and it certainly looks pretty cool.

Ok, this item is definitely NOT worth getting. If it was given to me for free, I MIGHT wear it to replace my ROTWF when I get my CF's. More than likely I would wear that CCS I have stashed in the bank. Ninety-five percent of the time, if a piece of armor is monk only, it is inferior to the ALL/ALL item we usually wear in that slot.

As to those who THINK they know what a monk's role in combat is and what type of equipment a monk should wear, think again. A monk has two major goals with his equipment and these are pretty much the same goals that all other melee types have. Those goals are first (and most importantly) survival, and secondly damage output.

SURVIVAL:

The most important stat is AC, followed closely by resistances and HP/Stamina. The next most important stat after these is agility which affects our odds of successfully using our defensive skills. The degree to which agility affects us is a matter of debate. The much vaunted stat of strength is nice to have but has very little effect on damage output unless you have a really, really high strength. I would rather have a 10 AC item than a 6 AC item with 4 strength any day of the week. Unless you are a rogue, dex is a joke. It's only use for a monk is to make weapons proc more and even then its effect is minimal. Some people point out that a monk has AC comparable to any other tank, but there is a deception in that AC. Verant has admitted that AC is a combination of two numbers. One number is damage avoidance and the other is damage reduction. A monk with an AC of 1000 might have 750 points of damage avoidance and 250 points of damage reduction. A warrior with an AC of 1000 might have 300 points of damage avoidance and 700 points of damage reduction. At higher levels, particularly if a foe cons red, the monk will get hit for maximum damage just as if he were sitting down. I am sure you casters out there know what I am talking about. Basically, if you want to know what your damage avoidance AC is, remove all your equipment and see what your AC is. This AC value is based on your Defense skill, your class, and maybe your agility (not sure on that last one.) A naked level 50 monk usually has about 750 AC naked. My level 50 monk has 910 AC fully equipped. That means that only about 160 points of my AC are in the damage reduction category. Casters can beat that.

Also important to survival is how much a monk aggros a creature. It is very difficult for warriors, etc. to keep aggro off of a monk of about their level. Yes, we can stop attacking, back off and FD to lose aggro, BUT that kind of defeats the purpose of having a monk along by greatly reducing our total damage for a fight. Monks sometimes deliberately reduce their fighting effectiveness just so they will aggro less and give the tank a chance to keep aggro.

DAMAGE OUTPUT:

Some argue that a monk should concentrate completely on equipment that makes him do more damage, and charge into the fray like a berserker doing unholy amounts of damage, and then die like a man. This is fine if you are trying to kill Trakkanon or something, but for day to day playing it is ridiculous. Even if I had my own pet 60th level cleric to give me a high level rez every time I died, I would still get negative xp every day using this philosophy.

I have noticed that the people praising this item tend to fall into one of two categories. One category is low-level monks who simply don't know any better. The other is non-monks. Now why would a non-monk even care about this item? I can think of only one reason that a non-monk would even look at this item and that is if they are a tailor who wants to make it and sell it. Now it becomes obvious why non-monks make postings here in praise of this item. No doubt when they were raising their tailoring skill, they saw the price-tag on this baby and thought they could make a killing. Then, they finally make one and NOBODY wants to buy it. So what do they do? They come here and make postings that praise this item as incredibly nice to have and well worth the cost. They denounce the experienced monks who know it is of little practical value despite the difficulty involved in making it as if they knew more about the class than people who have been playing a monk for a year or longer. Well, forget it. It won't work. Any monk that has enough money to afford this has enough experience to know not to buy it. You might fool a power-levelled twink, but you won't fool anybody else.

Argfeld
Level 50 Monk
Order of the Scattered Winds
Bertoxxulous

Let me throw in a little item alot of you guys seem to be missing. Yeah the Stats are decent. The weight Sucks. It has some AC. but.....

And these are big Buts.....

it has a high weight and NO RESIST!. Monks are pullers. We are not tanks. We do damage and split mobs. The one thing that kills more monks when splitting mobs is not being hit on but the damn casters. Consider your resists when looking at tyour total armor package.

A full set wouldn't be THAT heavy. Besides, you don't have to go to a plane and hope you win just a piece of uber armor that isn't too much better. Looks cool as well.

anyone know what blakc panther skin goes for and is anyone making it on druzzil ro yet?

First off compare stats to shiverback tunic
11ac 13str 9dex 9agil. so stats are about the same just sta instead of dex. they couldnt make the tunic better than shiverback cuase then everyone would bitch about that. yeah sure it does weight alittle. but these peices are only meant to be worn as single or few peices not the whole set at a time unless you like looks.

IF YOU DONT LIKE IT DONT WEAR IT! go get your guild take down PoG 30 times and get a full set of silvermoon or fear and get shiverback... ohh wait nm some of those peices suck to.

Maybe should should shut up about this cuase i think verant did a good job. IF YOU DONT LIKE IT GO PLAY DAWN, CAMOLOT, ULTIMA or the other new games coming out!

well boys and girls it goes to show that VI doesnt like monks still. Just compare the stats on this to the rogue armor and weep. forget the ac because we get a nice ac bonus but just look at the stats... <sigh>
/em looks for a log to bend over
Khaltos looks for a log to bend over
/shout ok come do me again you bastages!!
Khaltos shouts ok come do me again you bastages!!

I dont think Verant cross refrences their CLASS armor against other items...! A Crystal Covered Shroud is a better peice of Equipment and can be found relativly easy OR bought for 1200pp

As i Tailor this item sux to SELL. and the time it takes to retrive the components and the risks of Failor do not justify Risk vrs Reward.... and not to mention R vs R + Time consumption...!

The Chest Peice of Any set of Armor Sets the standard for that Set... AC+11 .. ? WTF is that.. ? I am not asking for UBERism, just reward for my Skills and TIME (and risk).

This Armor should read:
Ac+14
STR+10
STA+10
DEX+10
Effect: Panthar sight (Ultravision)
WEIGHT: 1.5

and all the rest of the peices should scale from this.... Not UBER but acceptable...!


my 3 cents

what do you need to make it i am assuming the panter skins from wakening but what else

Here's the total stats for an entire suit of this armor:

AC:89
STR:44
STA:34
AGI:22
DEX:46
CHA:11
HP:95
WT:13.5

So it does weigh in at right under the weight limit at the lower levels. Sure, if you add in rings, earrings, range and inventory your going to go over unless all you have are tinker bags. But with the weight limit increases at higher levels (which this stuff) is designed for you should have no problem staying under the limit and still operate at peak performance. You can also trade out pieces that aren't quite as good like the mask, neck, belt and cap.

Besides, have you seen a player in this stuff yet? Its a cool dark blue-black color like a black panther.

This is one sweet tunic.......