Alternatives to Treant Thews

[geadin]

I've been looking for an alternative to Treant Thews. The damroll and Hitroll bonuses are nice, But I want more saves vs magic. This is for a rogue class. Any suggestions?

[Ceridwel]

You're not going to find a Set of armor that gives you both the hit/dam of TT *and* saves. At least not in any large degree.

What exactly are you looking for? if we know what kind of saves you're looking for, that might help.

[geadin]

Maledictive would be my priority. Any other saves vs magic type would be fine though. At this point I have zero saves and a pesky necromancer is making my life hard. The only option I can think of is to gamble equipment and hope for the best.

[bassball]

Wyvern's eyes and wyvern's tongues give mal saves. Among a lot of other things. Blue steel is mal saves too, crimson steel even offers a little bit of mal saves, coupled with pretty good aff saves. Gambled gear can be REAL nice too. Just do what you gotta do.

[geadin]

is it possible for gambled equipment to exceed Treant Thews in power?

[Ceridwel]

Probably the best resource for looking up items and their attributes is invokation.net. Bookmark it and use it often. The ID section there is what you'll use to look up items. For example for your save vs mal issue, use the search term "save_vs_maledictive".

As Bassball already pointed out, wyvern items are key. Use them to compliment your Thews set and you're good to go.

[bassball]

[Davairus]

Actually no, gambling is not much better. 2 dam-1dex in 8 slots with a 4/4 bonus at 50 approximates to 3 dam-1 dex in each of those slots. That's without considering the 50 hp and +3 str +3 con - the hp especially is OP. And the effort to actually get by the hit/dam of TT is humungous - you can definitely get beyond a TT damroll by breaking it, but the road is long and you could get ganked before you get there. And you need to gamble something special or forge it, and its like, why bother? Even with the fire vuln. Its difficult to justify even grabbing rares instead of TT, nevermind trying to gamble on top. That's why a lot of players have been using TT with rare off-pieces. Outside of a winter suit, what you're looking at is a competitive hit/dam.

[Ergorion]

[geadin]

Thanks for the replies, I did go a bit over board with my saves. It looks like TT is good with a few save items. I was mainly looking for something to block that pesky sleep spell. Next time Aahdeya! ....if you're still around when I make my next character.