User:Yoko5000/dps equipment guilde

my post on my former guild site
 * idea of the list originally from Faranerk
 * Update 11 stuff and beyond not included (yet)

Epic Claw Set
+4 damage, +20% Threat
 * STR VALUE: 8 before crit
 * Pro: good damage increase, very good for hate tanks, has Healing Amp and +5 stacking intimi too
 * Con: only +6 Str, takes up 2 slots with no epic augmentation slot, may have to unequip when you're not tanking

Epic Charged Gauntlets
Greater Shocking Blow (120 lightning damage on roll of 20)
 * STR VALUE: 12 (woo!) after crit
 * Pro: good DPS increase for a single equipment slot, has Yellow Slot
 * Con: only +6 Str, 0 DPS for electricity-immune mobs (such as DQ)

Greater Abishai Set
Profane STR +3
 * STR VALUE: 3 before crit
 * Pro: set includes good items like Charged Gauntlets and Cloak of Venom, Profane Neutral Armor +3 (stacks to regular Neutral Armor)
 * Con: DPS increase is rather low, esp without Charged Gauntlets

ToD Raveger Set
2d6 DoT bleed damage (1st tick happens each time on hit, doesnt work on handwraps and ranged, WAI?)
 * STR VALUE: 14 (gosh...) after crit
 * Pro: INSANE DPS increase, way to go especially for TWF builds
 * Con: need GFL elsewhere (yellow slot etc), constructs and undeads are immule to bleed damage

ToD Frenzied Baserker Set
+2 damage, +2STR/CON for level18 Barbarians
 * STR VALUE: 4 (6 for Barbarians) before crit
 * Pro: very easy to use, since the belt has GFL
 * Con: DPS increase is rather low

ToD Sintao Set
+2 damage, +2 to hit (stacking), bypasses DR/Good and Evil for Sintao III monk
 * STR VALUE: 4 before crit
 * Pro: being best Neck/Ring Set
 * Con: none?

ToD Tempest Set
1d4 slash damage (DR check is separately applied on this, holy/metal effect doesnt help on this portion of damage), exceptional to hit
 * STR VALUE: 5 (only for no-DR monsters) after crit
 * Pro: easier to get since not too many ppl want it
 * Con: slashing damage is often surpressed by DR, thus better than Sintao only on occasion

Madstone Boots

 * STR VALUE: 4 before crit
 * Pro: Con bonus as well, easy enough to get, boots slot (pretty much no competition other than 5 set Abishai)
 * Con: unable to spellcast (Paladins lose out Zeal and Divine Favor)

Litany of the Dead
+1 profane bonus to all stats, +1 to-hit and damage
 * STR VALUE: 3 before crit
 * Pro: +1 Dex, Con, Wis, Cha etc..
 * Con: negative level (-5 HP, -1 skills and saves) for good alined characters

Greater Bold Trinket (Crystal Cove)
+1 damage bonus, Shocking Blow (35 electricity damage on a roll of 20)
 * STR VALUE: 3.5 (2 before crit, 1.5 after crit)
 * Pro: min level 4, BtA, was easy to get, good substitute for Litany
 * Con: Exceptional Seeker +2 broken, cannot be obtained till the event is up next time

Gloves of Titan's Grip

 * STR VALUE: 6 before crit
 * Pro: good STR increase although it's very short duration
 * Con: casting motion is looooong and kind of surpresses its own benefit, hard to obtain, can be substituted by Titan Cookies

Sneak attack bonuses
when not having aggro or on attack-of-opportunity only, 0 bonus when you are at top hate.

Tharane's Goggles

 * Backstabbing +5 (+5 to hit, +8 damage after crit)
 * Pro: True Seeing, threat reduction when used together with Bracers
 * Con: 20 hell boring VoD runs with bunch of noobs

Epic Bracers of the Hunter

 * Backstabbing +5
 * Pro: Yellow Slot
 * Con: very hard to obtain a Shard, seems to be designed for archers but competes with Wind Howler Bracers

Wretched Twilight

 * Backstabbing +4 (+4 to hit, +6 damage after crit)
 * Pro:
 * Con: pretty much no other bonus

Epic Brawling Gloves (Crystal Cove)

 * Backstabbing +4
 * Pro: Spike Studded (1d4 piercing damage for handwraps), STR +7, BtA, tier 3 version has Yellow Slot, was f***ing easy to get
 * Con: competes with Charged Gauntlet and Claw Gloves, cannot be obtained till the event is up next time

ToD Assasin Set

 * Backstabbing +3 (+3 to hit, +5 damage after crit)
 * Pro: exceptional +2 to hit, -20% threat, Energy Drain proc if 18 Rog
 * Con: both item not so great (Con6, Dex6, exInt1)

ToD Ninjya Spy Set

 * Backstabbing +3
 * Pro: exceptional to-hit +2, -20% threat
 * Con: both item not so great (Con6, Wis6, exDex1)

Lenses of Opportunity (U10 tavern quest locked chest)

 * Backstabbing +3
 * Pro: Seeker +4, AC hate tanks' favored item probably, easy to get
 * Con: only +3, lesser version of Thrane's if you can afford Seeker elsewhere

+10

 * Epic Malilith Chain

+8

 * Epic Blood Stone

+6

 * Regular Blood Stone
 * Regular Malilith Chain
 * Crystal Cove Hats

+4

 * Shimmering Arrowhead
 * Lenses of Opportunity
 * Mentau's Goggles

+2 exceptional (currently broken)

 * Greater Bold Trinket (Crystal Cove)

Attack bonuses
for those priskey builds that cannot have power attack on in epic contents...

Competence bonuses
does not stack with Bardic music, only the highest apply

+1
 * Goggles of Insight
 * Battle Coin
 * Nimble Trinket
 * Steady Handed Armbands
 * Scales of Surety/Docent of the Claw (Emerald Claw Nugget)

+2
 * Spectral Gloves
 * Full Plate of the Defender
 * Tumbleweed
 * Shimmering Arrowhead
 * Morgana's Belt (Warpriest, the set has Exceptional +2 so it can be +4 total)
 * Battle Skill Googles/Trinket (Cannith Crafting, Divine 40)

+4
 * Storm
 * Epic Spectral Gloves
 * Epic Vulkoorim Fighting Leathers
 * Accuracy Googles/Trinket (Cannith Crafting, Divine 84)

Exceptional bonuses
only the highest apply (?)

+1
 * Purple Dragon Knight Set

+2
 * Kensai Set
 * Warpriest Set
 * Ninja Spy Set
 * Assassin Set (?)
 * Deepwood Sniper Set (?)

+3
 * Kensai Set (w/ 3rd tier enhancement)
 * Tempest Set (?, w/ 3rd tier enhancement)

Bonus type unknown
+2
 * Anger's Wrath Set/Path Finder's Set (Korthos)
 * Wrath of Sora Kell Set (Lordsmarch)
 * ToD Sintao Set (stacks with Warpreist Set)

+4
 * Greater Raven's Eye Set (Red Fens ggls + glvs, or Gem of Many)