I have a reasonably well geared barb: about 55k life, 20k dps, 800+ resist, 38% block, and 1100 Life on Hit. I use SoE.
I have not bought an upgrade in quite a while (they're not easy to find, at any price), and I have been considering Justice Lantern. I would have to replace a ring that's 70 STR 70 VIT 40 Resist All and 150 Life on Hit.
I would probably be buying a JL with around 50 STR / 60 VIT and some minor stat (in the 12-16 mil mark), as the ones that are any better are stupdendously exensive. My question is -- do you think this is a good trade-off?
Alternatively, I could spend the same gold and upgrade my ring to a similar one with higher resist and higher Life on Hit.
I have so-so the same stats and mainly I'm looking to upgrade my dmg so I dropped the JL idea.
Thanks. From another perspective:
On the spreadsheet, the effective health drop, as well as drom in resists, is significant. From ONLY a damage mitigation/survivability/tanking perspective, do you think this is a noticable upgrade?
When I'm in a group, I don't really care about damage, not only because the DH and Wizzie I play with far out-DPS me (60k+ for both), but because I have no effective/cheap spammable/piercing AOEs like nether tentacles and blizzard. In fact, I the sole reason I made a barb was because our group's only tank was a monk, and this was not an optimal balance for late a3/a4.
I rarely solo -- I find the pace so much slower than my DH, no matter what spec I do, unless I just skip all the trash mobs and kill the bosses
I have so-so the same stats and mainly I'm looking to upgrade my dmg so I dropped the JL idea.
Thanks. From another perspective:
On the spreadsheet, the effective health drop, as well as drom in resists, is significant. From ONLY a damage mitigation/survivability/tanking perspective, do you think this is a noticable upgrade?
When I'm in a group, I don't really care about damage, not only because the DH and Wizzie I play with far out-DPS me (60k+ for both), but because I have no effective/cheap spammable/piercing AOEs like nether tentacles and blizzard. In fact, I the sole reason I made a barb was because our group's only tank was a monk, and this was not an optimal balance for late a3/a4.
I rarely solo -- I find the pace so much slower than my DH, no matter what spec I do, unless I just skip all the trash mobs and kill the bosses
For group/tank play JL is the best, if you have a sacred shield with high block% too.
Thank you, everyone, for your feedback. I ended up buying a very good Justice Lantern: 61 str, 65 vit, and socket (I put in a flawless star ruby for a total strength buff of 111).
To answer my own question, YES, my survivability has gone up, as compared to a good str vit all LoH ring.
@ballon - I really only play my barb in parties; the wizards do > 300k damage on crits in a wide AOE, so I don't even try to compete with damage. I only want to grab aggro and nail down mobs, particularly nasty elite packs. We clear pretty much the whole act, and do not skip anything... although yesterday, we hit Rakkis and there were THREE elites all together, that was just not fun!
@Cygone - In the current game economy, every great item is > 10mil, Every ideal item is > 50 mil.
For example: you cannot get a 200 str 200 vit 60 resist all chest for less than 20 mil. Up one stat to 300 (for example with sockets) and up the resist close to 80, and you're talking 80 - 100 mil. I don't like it, but that's the reality of the game.
On the other hand, it's not hard to sell 10 mil a day, based on ~ 5 hours of gameplay. So, I look at it as 1 week = 1 upgrade.. and that's not that terrible.
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I have not bought an upgrade in quite a while (they're not easy to find, at any price), and I have been considering Justice Lantern. I would have to replace a ring that's 70 STR 70 VIT 40 Resist All and 150 Life on Hit.
I would probably be buying a JL with around 50 STR / 60 VIT and some minor stat (in the 12-16 mil mark), as the ones that are any better are stupdendously exensive. My question is -- do you think this is a good trade-off?
Alternatively, I could spend the same gold and upgrade my ring to a similar one with higher resist and higher Life on Hit.
I have so-so the same stats and mainly I'm looking to upgrade my dmg so I dropped the JL idea.
Thanks. From another perspective:
On the spreadsheet, the effective health drop, as well as drom in resists, is significant. From ONLY a damage mitigation/survivability/tanking perspective, do you think this is a noticable upgrade?
When I'm in a group, I don't really care about damage, not only because the DH and Wizzie I play with far out-DPS me (60k+ for both), but because I have no effective/cheap spammable/piercing AOEs like nether tentacles and blizzard. In fact, I the sole reason I made a barb was because our group's only tank was a monk, and this was not an optimal balance for late a3/a4.
I rarely solo -- I find the pace so much slower than my DH, no matter what spec I do, unless I just skip all the trash mobs and kill the bosses
To answer my own question, YES, my survivability has gone up, as compared to a good str vit all LoH ring.
@ballon - I really only play my barb in parties; the wizards do > 300k damage on crits in a wide AOE, so I don't even try to compete with damage. I only want to grab aggro and nail down mobs, particularly nasty elite packs. We clear pretty much the whole act, and do not skip anything... although yesterday, we hit Rakkis and there were THREE elites all together, that was just not fun!
@Cygone - In the current game economy, every great item is > 10mil, Every ideal item is > 50 mil.
For example: you cannot get a 200 str 200 vit 60 resist all chest for less than 20 mil. Up one stat to 300 (for example with sockets) and up the resist close to 80, and you're talking 80 - 100 mil. I don't like it, but that's the reality of the game.
On the other hand, it's not hard to sell 10 mil a day, based on ~ 5 hours of gameplay. So, I look at it as 1 week = 1 upgrade.. and that's not that terrible.