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"Abed" <XXshooy100@lycos.com> wrote in message
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> >> Thanks,
> >> Julie
> >
> > My hunter friend is still wearing the vast majority of his leather armor
> > at
> > 53. He does it because the leather stuff has better stats for a bow
> > using
> > hunter, and 99% of the time, his armor rating doesn't matter. If
> > anything
> > needs to be tanked, and a warrior / paladin is not around, his pet will
do
> > a
> > much better job of it than he will.
>
>
>
> I'm a level 56 hunter still wearing 4 leather armor items. My main focus
is
> on AGI and Stamina and I don't give the armor number much attention at all
> unless all other stats are equal. Maybe that's wrongheaded but I've been
> trained by Diablo 2 rules.(remember Shaftstop and Serpentskin Armor?, I'd
> Take them any day over higher defense lower stat items.)
Oh Oh... I played EQ where AC (and intell/wisdom for mana) was everything
Stats could largely be ignored..
I have been focusing on AC health/mana and main stat. Hunter , Rogue AGI.
>
> I just got into an argument with a warrior in the Sunken Temple last
night.
> Blue leather bracers dropped (BOP)with high AGI and resistances and I
rolled
> on the item and won them. A warrior called me a ninja looter because
hunters
> wear mail and I didn't need them. Well they were way better than the
bracers
> I had on so I felt justified in rolling. It got so bad the group had to
> break up.
>
Pickup groups.... hmmm I need a real EQ type guild..