Elbow Spiked Arm Plates  

 

Got these bad boys for my 51 Warrior tonight!!! That was one heck of a rush fighting through there. If you go, you had better have people that listen and a leader that can keep things in line!

We had a few deaths, but nothing close to a total wipe ... not even much grumbling with the deaths . From the get-go some of our party trained about 5 hobby-gobbies and a tree or two to the Hedge, but after about 30 min. of rezzes and meds we kept on trucking! GL to any going on this trek, it is a blast! Oh, and the sucker dropped an Ethereal Parchment and we also had a few drop throughout the maze.

I would love these. However, so would most of my guildmates. Everyone who can equip has a valid case for why they should be allowed to lotto. Between the HP, AC, and resists, anyone would want it; the DEX/CHA/INT make it even more attractive to bards (dex = reduce missed notes, cha = lower resists on lull/mezz/charm AND reduce missed notes, int = mana).

As for what bards use mana for:
1. Denon's Desperate Dirge. Never heard of it? It's on page 50 of most bards' song books, and rarely sees the light of day. 800 mana for about 300(varies greatly based on equipment and instrument modifiers) ae dd, pretty easily resisted. Later nukes do about as much damage to a single target with far fewer drawbacks.

2. Charm. Pre-60 a Bard is likely to use charm a LOT...post 60, it is much less useful 8( our level 39 charm is all we have until level 64; the 39 charm hard caps at level 51 MOBs. At 64 we get a new charm that works on up to level 57 MOBs...but that song is from a spectral parchment; any Bard who has hit 64 and has the song is likely to be fighting mostly level 60+ MOBs and very rarely encounter any level 57 or lower in any serious encounter. 60 mana used for level 39 charm, 90 for level 64, one minute duration for both. Level 27 charm caps lower, lasts 18 seconds and has no mana cost.

3. Fading memories. It's a level 63 aa skill that is essentially feign death + invis. It doesn't ALWAYS work (the invis component) but the feign death part can make a bard one of the best pullers in the game. Problem: 900 mana used.

Bards regen mana at a rate of about 1 per tick and are not affected by manasong/clarity/mod rods/manastones/meditate or ANY other mana regen spell. The only way to increase their regen rate is mental clarity AA and flowing thought items. I have a grand total of 3 mana/tick (1 natural 1 MC 1 FT). I can Fade roughly every 30 minutes.

This item is still worthwhile for a Bard to get, but Bards do not argue for +mana items; it's FT that we really need.

Just got these from the maze this past weekend very nice...Better than our SS arms ugly puke green but oh well

and i'm a Cleric :-)

name slips my mind but it droped from the PoN maze trial boss mob today when we hunted there. i was the lucky ******* to get it so im happy...great upgrade for a paladin...

someoen said olive green look, with luclin models on a human (my settings) they look like deepwater but darker in the color...dark gold.

gl doing trial...easiest trial from what i seen =)

// $ean

What drops this item in Nightmare?

Teremont Valorius, Warlord of Rallos Zek
Tarew Marr Server

Good upgrade for me and my Vambraces of Forbidden Rites (Thurg/Cleric Armor). They have an olive green look.

Moshimoshi of Vae Inimicus
61 Cleric of Tunare Server

Edited, Mon Oct 28 23:03:22 2002