Fearsome Skyiron Coat  

 

To all those whining that the stats on this armor are too low, remember it is CHAIN not PLATE. Comparing this to Freeport BD chain (fine seafarers) stats compare favorably, and are a lot more resonable. However low AC compared to BD plate of other races makes this a pretty poor choice for warriors and SKs. But is not that bad for shamans really.

However as this armor is clearly intended for shamans, stats should be adjusted to make it a fairer comparison to planar (Hate) armor. All other classes have BD cultural that outdoes old world planar.

Also think stats on fine seafarers need tweaking to. A BD cultural peace, chain or not, should at least be as good as the class specific old world planar piece.

Anyway it's pretty easy to see why GM iksar smiths are extremely rare.

I think it wouldn't be unreasonable for armor with these stats to be made our second best armor, give it a trivial of around say, 225, and take the need for celestial tempers out of it. Then make never trivial BD armor with better stats. It would be more reasonable for a BD chain BP to have say, 40ac, and raise other stats by equivlaent amounts. Also think these pieces should have int as well as wis to actually make them attractive to SKs. Stats on fearsome skyion would be reasonable for a race's second best armor, but a race's best smithed armor should be higher, even if it is chain.

Edited, Sun Jun 22 16:40:53 2003

Hi,
I could not help but notice that "Fearsome Skyiron Coat" can not be used by us Iksar Monks (not surprising). I was wondering if anyone new what the Iksar Monk cultural armor is called and what the stats are? Just wondering if I should spend the time to make/get myself a set or if my present armor is better.

This items is not only horrible compared to the other races' smithed armors, but it's worse than the Planes armor we get at the same level as well. If you go to Hate (WAR/SHM) or Fear (SK) you will find out that our breastplates ROT most of the time. Why spend countless amount of money and time making a lesser BP when you can go on a raid or two and get a superior BP for alot less hassle?

what do the people that make this think? "o well iksars have some 200ac bonus so i guess they don't need good ac" then later "o what? its only 50ac at lv 60? o well who cares" i mean jeesus to offset iksar ac bonus all you need is a couple pieces of this set compared to a good 1, like this bp compared to a 51ac one, thats like 30 extra ac when you put it on, then we could just take another piece like leggings and there ya go, i mean it already sucks how i can spend forever trading stuff and get like 25kgear wise, then have some idiot with 3 be pieces have more ac then me?

Greetings fellow Grand Master Smiths! I am now living on the streets of Cabilis. I cannot afford the components to make any more of this armor. I made one BP and am now broke due to the fact that no one in their right mind would buy it. 30AC??! Yeah, like how the heck am I going to market that. Tribunal Barbarians are making 12k for their BP. I get beat out for 1.5k by Barbed Ringmail due to the fact that it can be resold easier. Back to hunting up enough cash to make sickles for the PotC quest...

This is almost exactly the stats as the tunare only ranger armor. Druids go a killer set of stuff, but the ranger armor is similar to stuff you can just buy in ec. A lot of it didnt even get made until a month afer it was live. 250 tailors saw stats on the ac30bp, figured the rest was as bad, and didnt waste the bd on it. I made 4 pieces, and they sit in my bank. Only piece i wear is the bracer.(

All the chain culture armors are pretty lame compared to the plate version. Obviously AC should be lower to some extent, but I think the rest of the stats should be up to par. I'm sure chain wearing classes value hp just as much as the next guy. My shaman does, however, wear artificer's bracer and arms. They are actually pretty decent (especially the bracers). The work involved making them is just as hard as plate, so no reason for the reward to be just as great.

I would just like to pass on a Good Job to the brother or sister that took the immense amount of time and money to make this item.

Now, I agree with it being not worth the time and effort totally, which is why I just had to pat the Iksar on the back, because it is way better than the reward they received for their effort.

*hug*

Don't be sadden brothers and sisters, someday we shall be rewarded for our efforts...then they will shut EQ down.

Ssrena, 43 Legionairess of Cabilis
Ssonia, 42 Scaled Mystic of Cabilis

was wondering if some one would waste there time making these i still dont understand why iksar warriors and sk's have to be lumped in with the chain classes, i understand the whole no plat armor thing when they made iksars but cant they come up with something thats comparable for us.... oh well guess i should have made a ogre or something

you know how many iksar smiths i know that would waste the time to make this? YOU GUESSED IT! Not many. I figured it would be better than this.