SS or Sanctuary???

[VoxMagnus]

i have a made a wind druid and cant decide wether to use the ss i have, or make a sancuary rune words. i will be spending alot of time in hell doing duels so not sure about resists. ma set up is as follows:

shako-um
engima
hoto
ss/sanc
dungos
soj x2
sandstorm trek
trang gloves
3+ ele ammy

if u have an opinion im open all ears! :wave:

[biko]

i would defiately change dungos to arachnid mesh and use ss.

[Bob_TheMadCow]

your gonna be screwed for resists there... but as long as you can keep your CA up, you should be ok. be sure to recast it after any elemental hit, or it might go down without warning, and when it goes down, the rest of the damage is applied to your hp after your resitances.

If you have 1000 CA and get hit for 1100 damage, then 100 damage would get through, run through your -25% resist, and you'd get hit for 125 hp.

If your CA was down to 100 and you didn't realise, then that same hit would send 1000 damage through your -25% res hitting you for 1250 hp.

some things will be able to eat through your CA in one hit, and those things will hurt without resists. Eg: A 20k Fireball (it can happen) will do 3400 damage after PvP penatly, which would wipe out a 3k CA and still hit you for 400 damage. That becomes 500 damage after -25% res, or 100 damage after 75% res.

If you think thats bad, the next Fireball would do 4250 or 850 damage with -25% and 75% resists respectively...

My personal preferance would be to max my resists and get better at dodging melee attackers.

[VoxMagnus]

wow excellent thanx alot!

[biko]

yeah resists are of course good... i would change that amu to maras though, for res+i think the 2 to all skills are nicer because they boost not only ur elemental skills but also ur spirit and teleport and bo (if u use cta) OR... IF u can get a druid amu with 20 fcr it would be awesome to use together with arachnid cus then u get to the 99 fcr bp... and i would still use ss mainly because of damage reduction and u can always um it for 22 extra res.

thats my opinion but its up to u

PS. u can always get res charms

[Bob_TheMadCow]

I didn't mean to imply you were wrong Biko, having as near to 50% DR is a good thing too. It makes life alot easier against physical damage dealers. And SS is the best place to get it from. As I said IF you can keep CA up, you can afford to sacrifice resistances for other mods.

res charms are good :thumbsup::) With Maras, an Um'd SS and some 5%res all scs, you'd be well on your way to good resistances as well as max block & DR.

[Salo]

anything that has that elemental damage isnt going to be trying to hit with with a switch!!

(dtalon assassin is about all i can figure with elemental damage that might hurt from a trap)

point is, ss for melee, otherwise, that sanctuary is very nice