I'll be going to PoG for an all mage raid later on today 30SE02 and until I started looking at the mage armor drops I was really looking forward to going. This stuff is no better than what you can get via a quest in Velious. And the effects placed on mage equipment are just plain sad and pathetic. Chanters get things like Rune IV, necros get summon corpse and we get shield of lava, summon bandages and reclaim energy.
GET A CLUE VI! Throwing lame effects on lame equipment with some stat bonuses doesn't make it a desireable item. Every caster bracer that drops on the outer planes should use the golden chitin bracer as the baseline, not a fricking polished bone bracer. Level 50+ players are not gonna be wearing PBBs and this bracer is a upgrade replacement only for the most ill equipped of mages.
If this thing had AC 6, +5 int/agi, +10MR/CR/CR & +20 HP/Mana and cast gift of xev or quiver of marr, it would be a very desirable item and mages all over the world would be happy to have just one. Also why make the bracers non lore, make two different lore bracers with same stats but slightly different names (hell use azia, beza, caza if you have to) and put TWO different effects on them, wow, versatility & creativity what a concept!
It's crap like this that almost caused me to make my cleric twink my main until the caster balancing was announced and started. Well I sure hope they put some better effects on planar gear as part of the balancing because if one of these bracers drop I'm pretty sure most of the raid will rather let it rot than roll for it. For damn sure I'm not gonna roll for this piece of crap. Maybe I'll get lucky and one of the mobs will drop Burnout IV and I'll be more than happy to roll for that.
Edited, Mon Sep 30 15:11:30 2002