So yeah, found some amazing Strongarm Bracers. Nearly perfect rolled everything, I just needed Fire Damage on them because I'm going Fire Barb.
The bracers had 450ish STR, 500 VIT (which was a perfect roll) 93 All Res and 5% crit chance. A stupid secondary I didn't care about and a perfect 30% bonus damage on knockback enemies. The things were incredible. So, I take it to the mystic wanting to swap out my All Res for fire damage, because I personally believe that the All Res is easily made up through Paragon and/or a diamond, not to mention I already have plenty of All Res and didn't really need more.
It takes me 4 tries to get 17% Fire Damage, which I think is solid and well worth the Forgotten Souls spent. I put them on and things seem great. I go out hunting soon after and it doesn't take me long to notice that whenever I take a hit, my health plummets and I'm thinking WTF!? My health was pitiful and much lower than it should have been. I soon realize that I had accidentally rerolled the 500 VIT off of the bracers instead of the All Res. I was so pissed I couldn't see straight. In a fit of rage, I sharded them and logged for the night out of anger and frustration.
Even now, I'm still angry. However, the thing that angers me most is knowing it was my own stupidity and carelessness that led to me ruining and ultimately destroying one of the best pieces of gear I've had drop to date. A piece of gear I was actively hunting down and one that just happened to roll exceptionally well. Definitely a mistake and a learning experiece as now I'm more careful than ever when I reroll stats with my Mystic. I had an Andariel's Visage drop today that I rerolled and was extremely careful about what I was rolling before committing.
So yeah, first major mistake. Cost me 4 forgotten souls, some other meaningless mats and gold and some of the best bracers I've ever had drop, all because I was careless. So now I'm working towards another pair and I've been using my bloodshards in hopes of finding some that are comparable. Wish me luck as I'll not soon make that mistake again.
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Your damned soul wallowing in your sin.
Perhaps... it is time to die.
Oh, no doubt I should have kept them. I was just so pissed that I salvaged them out of anger. At least I was smart enough to log off before I did more stupid things I'd have ended up regretting.
You're absolutely right on being able to find something comparable though and I agree with you. Once I've calmed down and slept on it over the night, I realized that. However, I was actually looking specifically for Strongarm bracers for their effect, not to mention that bracers is the last real piece of gear that is in desperate need of upgrading (it's the only piece of gear I'm using that's still yellow). It wasn't the fact that I accidentally ruined a good pair of bracers, it was the fact that I accidentally ruined the very pair of bracers I was actively searching for.
Live and learn though. I'll get another pair, it's only a matter of time. The xpac has been out for what? A week? I'll not rest until I have another! (except at night when I get sleepy) Trying to stay positive!!!
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Oh pitiful shadow lost in the darkness,
Bringing torment and pain to others.
Your damned soul wallowing in your sin.
Perhaps... it is time to die.
Allres/armor (and also elite damage reduction) is better than life% or vitality. Mitigation > HP.
BUT: You need some life after all. Just one item doesn't ruin it for you, I actually prefer to have vitality on bracers (unless I'm wearing Lacuni's which are pure damage, elemental+IAS+int+CC). I'm even considering to re-roll allres on my pants because I'm already down to 300k HP, so I shouldn't drop too much (I'm at ~95% mitigation and an additional 25% elite damage reduction).
What everyone is saying is true. All Res is better than VIT. Except I'm sacrificing VIT pretty much everywhere else, bracers was one of the few places I was relying on having VIT rolled. My character only has 185k health, which is on the severely low end right now. If I go Dual Wield, I have much much more. However, I can get away with having 185k health cause I run with a Unity ring on myself and my Templar, so every attack I take in which we both aren't getting hit is reduced by a straight 50% off the top.
At the time, when I rolled those bracers and I was using the gear I had, without the VIT I had less than 100k health. It was like 97,000. It was just simply way too low. But even so, I should have kept the bracers and made the VIT up elsewhere, but in my frustrated fit of anger, I salvaged them.
But I've already got a decent replacement. I'm still on the lookout for Strongarm because I want it for the effect, but what I currently have is solid.
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The bracers had 450ish STR, 500 VIT (which was a perfect roll) 93 All Res and 5% crit chance. A stupid secondary I didn't care about and a perfect 30% bonus damage on knockback enemies. The things were incredible. So, I take it to the mystic wanting to swap out my All Res for fire damage, because I personally believe that the All Res is easily made up through Paragon and/or a diamond, not to mention I already have plenty of All Res and didn't really need more.
It takes me 4 tries to get 17% Fire Damage, which I think is solid and well worth the Forgotten Souls spent. I put them on and things seem great. I go out hunting soon after and it doesn't take me long to notice that whenever I take a hit, my health plummets and I'm thinking WTF!? My health was pitiful and much lower than it should have been. I soon realize that I had accidentally rerolled the 500 VIT off of the bracers instead of the All Res. I was so pissed I couldn't see straight. In a fit of rage, I sharded them and logged for the night out of anger and frustration.
Even now, I'm still angry. However, the thing that angers me most is knowing it was my own stupidity and carelessness that led to me ruining and ultimately destroying one of the best pieces of gear I've had drop to date. A piece of gear I was actively hunting down and one that just happened to roll exceptionally well. Definitely a mistake and a learning experiece as now I'm more careful than ever when I reroll stats with my Mystic. I had an Andariel's Visage drop today that I rerolled and was extremely careful about what I was rolling before committing.
So yeah, first major mistake. Cost me 4 forgotten souls, some other meaningless mats and gold and some of the best bracers I've ever had drop, all because I was careless. So now I'm working towards another pair and I've been using my bloodshards in hopes of finding some that are comparable. Wish me luck as I'll not soon make that mistake again.
Bringing torment and pain to others.
Your damned soul wallowing in your sin.
Perhaps...
it is time to die.
Bringing torment and pain to others.
Your damned soul wallowing in your sin.
Perhaps...
it is time to die.
You're absolutely right on being able to find something comparable though and I agree with you. Once I've calmed down and slept on it over the night, I realized that. However, I was actually looking specifically for Strongarm bracers for their effect, not to mention that bracers is the last real piece of gear that is in desperate need of upgrading (it's the only piece of gear I'm using that's still yellow). It wasn't the fact that I accidentally ruined a good pair of bracers, it was the fact that I accidentally ruined the very pair of bracers I was actively searching for.
Live and learn though. I'll get another pair, it's only a matter of time. The xpac has been out for what? A week? I'll not rest until I have another! (except at night when I get sleepy) Trying to stay positive!!!
Bringing torment and pain to others.
Your damned soul wallowing in your sin.
Perhaps...
it is time to die.
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ModeratorBUT: You need some life after all. Just one item doesn't ruin it for you, I actually prefer to have vitality on bracers (unless I'm wearing Lacuni's which are pure damage, elemental+IAS+int+CC). I'm even considering to re-roll allres on my pants because I'm already down to 300k HP, so I shouldn't drop too much (I'm at ~95% mitigation and an additional 25% elite damage reduction).
At the time, when I rolled those bracers and I was using the gear I had, without the VIT I had less than 100k health. It was like 97,000. It was just simply way too low. But even so, I should have kept the bracers and made the VIT up elsewhere, but in my frustrated fit of anger, I salvaged them.
But I've already got a decent replacement. I'm still on the lookout for Strongarm because I want it for the effect, but what I currently have is solid.
Bringing torment and pain to others.
Your damned soul wallowing in your sin.
Perhaps...
it is time to die.