High end Knight mana conv.

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Apros

Dalayan Elder
Going through a lot of the high end items, and through trying to figure out how to gear my toon, I have noticed that there is kinda a lacking of Mana Conv items for knights around t11-12+

Currently our options are as follows:
Back from ferdin
Vah Back
Gloves from Drakes
Belt from gloom.
Bracer from Akarn / Duo

Now seeing as the Akarn back is the only real high end tank haste item, that pretty much rules out using a back item for mana conv. The Drakes gloves are great, but all high end tanks eventually get gloom gloves, and what tank is going to wear a 5ac belt? The bracer has been proven to be exceptionally rare, and literally there has been only 2 seen in 2 years (maybe longer?). I know there are more SK bracers, but still it seems limited to restrict mana conv at the higher end to 1 particular item.

So just wondering if it is possible that mana conv could be added to a higher end knight item. Some examples of I was thinking, after talking with others:

-Greaves of Mental Warding
-The Weight of the War
-Custodian Arms


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I guess SK's can also get mana conv 9 from the BP in Tur'uj.... so really it would just be nice to have one more options for paladins.

Realtalk only please, no trolling!

Thanks,
Apros
 
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I am not sure if it is the new philosophy for ALL foci to be very difficult to obtain, but all foci for almost all classes are only on a few items here and there. I think hybrids have it even harder. Unfortunately, knights might have to use their class bracers for quite some time.
 
I haven't had mana con in mid tiers for a LONG time and its not really a problem I have enough mana to get through fights with my threat rot + Aoe hots and usualy OOM. Then again this is only while raiding During exp groups I need to ration my mana or have stacked mana regen.
 
Join the club, also there are very few options for magic focus as well. This is an issue across the board for most classes, you have to sacrifice in something either hp mana ac etc to keep up with maxed focus effects.
 
Apros said:
The bracer has been proven to be exceptionally rare, and literally there has been only 2 seen in 2 years (maybe longer?). I know there are more SK bracers, but still it seems limited to restrict mana conv at the higher end to 1 particular item.
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Not her to troll but this statement is not true. We rotted quite a few. We had 2 or 3 drop when lindstrom needed one and he just was not there to loot one.
 
Like any low chance long respawn, you can get lucky and see them or have poor luck and not. I dont think FWF saw one through all of 2011. Seems like a odd item to fill a key piece in focus effect progression, but I don't know how easy/hard devs want it to be to obtain focuses.
 
the ring from gruniet (paladin usable) used to have MC8 but it was changed. that was the PAL MC item from Turruj, comparable to Eclipse for SKs... but I guess nothing was ever put in to replace it. Class bracers are important sources of MC for lots of classes, really... it's the only MC I have on both of my chars. You could say they are a solution to this problem.
 
cian2 said:
the ring from gruniet (paladin usable) used to have MC8 but it was changed. that was the PAL MC item from Turruj, comparable to Eclipse for SKs... but I guess nothing was ever put in to replace it. Class bracers are important sources of MC for lots of classes, really... it's the only MC I have on both of my chars. You could say they are a solution to this problem.
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The only one really for t12+ Paladins at this point actually.

Just thought it would be nice to see maybe 1 more instead of just going for the ellusive bracer.

If it was intended this way, I will deal with it. Can't be worse than 25 spawns of corpseworms!
 
Thade said:
Not her to troll but this statement is not true. We rotted quite a few. We had 2 or 3 drop when lindstrom needed one and he just was not there to loot one.
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Then I was misinformed!

Thank you for bringin the faith!
 
The raid portion of the zone is still broken as hell so it doesn't even matter at this point.
 
jew_nose_it said:
Then what were you killing that was dropping those cool BPs?
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We killed two raid bosses, which were not working correctly. I'm sure if anyone present would have used the BPs that dropped, Slaar would have deleted them. There were lots of mobs that could not be killed and got the raid stuck in combat over and over, some mobs would depop and repop instantly as we killed them, trash HP was too low, etc. The 6man stuff seemed closer to being finished but the raid sections were definitely not.
 
So yeah that bracer.

I have been on kill 20 times Seen 1 bracer (hi xenion)
Exo total kills 21 (Sintasia has one in bank)


Just saying don't' hold you breath for that bracer, and I would love another option.
As far as people that can use it having it yes only 2 on server.


Also 'Yes the magic focus is also rare for gear setups. (hello hermit bracer lol)
 
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