The only reason to wear these in place of banded/ring shoulders is to slam magic only mobs like wisps and ghouls. If you're a melee class, don't give up ac for stats. If you're a cleric or shaman don't give up ac for any stat but wis. And neg10 mr? 'Nuff said.
i have these and the are good for str witch i need i also need my sv magic SO... i need a shoulder pad that has 10 or so str but has ok ac 5 or so and no -10 sv magic!! plz RE me and tell me what they have. I can only dig up about 200pp being a nontwimk is hard hehe (i only have 176 wis at lvl 27 =0) but i have no money i was given my stuff by my good friend in his will ( he had to quit the game /cry ) i am in loio and on the nameless server plz contact me their or here r e-mapl me at clayjoe3106@hotmail.com
I've been wearing these for a while since I got them from a clover room raid but I'm going back to my banded mantle since I started noticing far more damage from orc shamen and other casters. Might have considered keeping them if I was a Warrior but as a Shaman I'd rather have better AC than higher STR...
At levels below 15 where you rarely run into magic users it is a good deal. I have reached level 18 wearing it although when you run into strong magic users like Splitpaws and Orc Shamen it can be uncomfortable. I have seen this dropped a couple of times in BB.
ive spent plenty of time in black burrow and ive seen about 3 drop. off refugee splitpaw and off gnoll commanders. i raised a 12 ranger, 9 shaman, 14 monk, and 17 druid all in bb. probably the best drop that they have along with the onyx earrings.
Got one off an elite in blackburrow. It is good verse the fighters and nonmagic users, but when I get into a fight with the gnoll shaman, I switch back to banded armor. It seems to help their casting ability.