I hate Figurine of the Colossus
The usage is cute. I’ll give it that, but as I’ve mentioned before Block rating simply isn’t a strong stat.
Yet I see a lot of very well geared tanks still using [item]Figurine of the Colossus[/item]. I guarantee they’ve got half a dozen better trinkets sitting in their bank if not in their bags. I’d honestly be tempted to use [item]Rune of Duty[/item] instead of it.
July 12th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
what trinkets would you recommend?
i currently have dabris enigma and adamantite figurine.. we have cleared kara twice to prince/spite and wiped and ive got decent gear.
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July 12th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
As you can see on my armory page, I usually use my Auto-Blocker and my Lucky Pocketwatch. Depending on the fight I sometimes switch those out for my Alchemist’s
It’s more superstition on my part than actually having a bad experience with having less than 25% block, but nevertheless I use it cause I’m scared. >_
Stone or my Violet Eye AR badge, but rarely do I use my Colossus. I do however use my Pocketwatch and the Colossus on one particular fight…Prince Malchezaar. With the gear I currently have I only have about 23% Block and TBH I’m afraid of unlucky chains of crushing blows during phase 2.
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July 12th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
It really shouldn’t matter though, right? We get around 140-150% avoidance with Shield Block and you only need 102.4% to be immune to crushing…regardless of how fast the mob swings…especially when he’s a dual wielding mob who is affected by the dual wield miss factor. I mean, I can’t say I’ve never been crushing blowed by him before, because I have, but I’ve never died due to taking too much damage too quickly. I think if tank does it’s because they didn’t put up their shield block at all…not because they were 2% short on their 25% blocking.
Block rating is nice and all, but there are so many other trinkets out there. I wouldn’t use up one whole slot with 2.5% to block and a useless use.
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July 12th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
25% to block is a myth. You should read the post this one links to.
Crush Immune = Shield Block up + 25% (this is your combined Miss Rate, Dodge, Parry, and yes… Block)
@char: My recommendation is both the trinkets you use until you have the necessary defense and then you should be using either Stamina trinkets, Auto-Blocker, Moroes Watch, or if you did BWL… Styleen’s
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July 13th, 2007 at 6:42 am
Since I have achieved 490 defense now without trinkets….I am running the Darkmoon: Vengeance and the Spyglass trinkets. Stam and a semi-useful side ability.
Figurine is situational at best. There is a video floating around of a warrior soloing the Panther boss in ZG largely due to FotC. But for normal use….not even carried on my toon. Swap in the avoidance trinkets for fights like Prince if you need to. Otherwise the Auto-Blocker is the only trinket I use on a regular basis.
- Bodd
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July 16th, 2007 at 7:26 am
:O I can’t seem to find the video…link maybe?
His block rating would have to be insane! With the crap damage you’d be doing in tanking gear there would be like 9878567498579 panther adds up by the time you actually killed her!
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July 16th, 2007 at 8:05 am
There’s a cap on how many panthers come out
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July 18th, 2007 at 9:25 am
Ohs, I did not know this. We usually just killed them anyway. :/
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