Finally maybe our clerics won't go oom keeping that paper tiger alive. ( rangers ) *cough* They're deathtouch fodder thats about it. Someone needs to do it though.
/salute rangers now get up there and wave hi to CT for us.
I don't think the Weight will matter in the slightest at the level one would get this. Even a wimpy wood elf ranger should have STR in the range of 180 by this level and I don't think it would be hard for them to carry all the weight of this armor and all their other loot and still be far underweight.
Heck, its not like you lose stamina by swinging this around like your weapons.
Maybe this will make more of a demand for RBGs and RBBs now, instead of having a CoF. RBB has same haste as CoF anyway (both 36%) and both dragon loot, so hopefully people will start wearin the belts again and not have CoF and CoCW as the only big uber haste items that sell for 120k (on Fennin).
In understand it being so heavy. It's made of dragon eyeballs ;)
Regardless, it's well worth the added weight. 100 hp is nothing to scoff at and the 28 AC for a back item should convert to almost 40 ac for you guys. Very nice item :)
Nice of them to put WIS *and* INT buffs on it, so the anti-paladins don't feel screwed. And, given how few nice hybrid cloaks there seem to be out there, something like this is a welcome addition.
Too bad I have to be 56th level even to survive walking into the ToV. Nothing like four breath weapons going off simultaneously to remove the spring in your step.