Killed doomshade last night with 11 people :P yeah ll people that dropped went to a mage must say it's a pretty nice piece for downtime regen something to keep in your backpack for when you need the FT ^_^
i got one of these the other day and its nice all i did is got rid of my one 5 int ring and got a velium bd ring to get the saves back but over all this item kicks ***
My druid, with KEI, can swap in some resist items, and still have 255 wis. In addition, this puts EVERY ONE of his unbuffed resists above 100. PLUS I can buff them up another 40 points with buffs. If I'm quadding blue con, non casters, I think I'd rather have 130+ resists, and another 2 mana per tick, than 140+ resists, without the mana.
BTW, my gear isn't particularly "uber". I have Elysian armor (nice, easy to get), and a few other items, selected for the purpose of getting resists up (eg. scimitar of the emerald dawn). The rest comes from diamond/blue diamond resist gear, purchased pretty cheap in the bazaar.
According to posts I've seen and tests that have been done, the FT cap is still 15. Whether or not it actually was 25 at some point, I don't know. But I doubt it.
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Posted:Mar 20 2002 at 6:13 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) ok so its what we would call EQ's equivalent of a Cursed item. but for straight melee combat, yeah this would be sweet.
I'm confused as to how this would be useful in melee combat as it has no benefits to melees stats but it does have mana regen... To a beastlord/sk/ranger possibly... but why in melee combat??? why not in spell casting???
I think it would be best for a caster involved in a battle that doesn't require resist gear.
I can't imagine a melee taking off their arm armor for this. It's a nice item for exping, but for many raids I take these off due to the hit that it does to my resistances.
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Posted:Mar 18 2002 at 10:51 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Considering that flowing though 1 items don't stack with other flowing though 1 effects (though they do stack with flowing though 2 and above, as well as other mana regen effects) I wouldn't even consider this a good item for down time! I know getting a flowing though item of any kind is difficult, but no AC, no stats, negative resists...if you get jumped while wearing this you certainly deserve what you get. Maybe if you could obtain this item in your 30's it would be good but by the time you can get this you might as well work on the last few steps of your coldain prayer shawl instead. (which is definatly one of the best fft 1 items for the level you can obtain one)(and yes, it IS hard to get one, so?).
Ok, I'd really like a clarification here, because it sounds like these two could be saying the same thing.
I've heard many times that FT1 does not stack with FT1, but does stack with FT2, etc, up to a max of FT15. So, you could have FT1+2+3+4+5 and get FT15 that way, but you could not have FT5+5+5, as that would only result in FT5.
Someone else mentioned a patch message. Which case did verant confirm, that FT items can stack or that FT items of different values can stack?
Only having one FT1 item on one char, I cannot test this.
There is a large debate as to weather the cap of ft 15 remains. Many people have reported it is gone. I'm approaching the magic number now, and Will post what I find as a responce to as many of these threads as I can find =)
This would be a great item for downtime when no danger is threating or even when fighting warrior type only mobs.Resists are only worth while if casters are about.
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Posted:Mar 18 2002 at 8:11 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) This is the suckiest item i ever seen in my life time of eq why would u have that kind of item on pvp if u had that u would be so screwd becaus u have to have resistance not negative resistance so my rating out of a 100 is a -100 cause this item truly sucks
This is a bit off topic, but obviously you need the help. If you check the yellow pages (either web based or old fashioned paper book), then you should be able to find a place that will repair the broken period key on your keyboard. You could also pay about $20 or less for an entire replacement keyboard. In either case, I hope you get the help you so obviously need.
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Posted:Mar 19 2002 at 12:07 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Because no one cares about PvP :P
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Posted:Mar 19 2002 at 6:10 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Cant be helped if all you nancy boys are afraid of a little confrontation...But no you would rather wait in line for a mob rather than go in and kick butt for it yourselves and throw all the other bums out...
No, actually us "nancy boys" are playing the game as intended. PVP was never a designed in part of the game, it was something thrown in for people who whined for it.
And in the end, it was badly designed and never worth it.
More Mana regen then should be humanly possible. Cracks me up that a 52 Wiz would knock this. Simply burn your mana kiting, drop some of your gear and toss your FT items on. Conceivably, you could knock down your med / leveling time significantly over a period of 8 levels soloing.
yes i would agree it is worth dying once for but no more cause with the super regen you could level faster and also if it has all those resistences put down then like many have said use during down time or if your a ceric or druid you normaly med untill someone needs a heal or buff so if your a druid instead of sitting there until u get the mana to heal/buff you get that mana faster and get to have the rush of using your birth right(kick **** nukes)