Schmoe wrote on Oct 29^th, 2010 at 9:23am:


Wow.  That's a rough build.  155 HP at 15th level?  That player could use some guidance on gear, feats, and enhancements.

Unless I miss my math, 8*15 = 120 + 20 + 15(con)= 155.  There's no toughness, no false life item of any sort, no minos helm, either no con item, or a really crappy starting con.  That's about as bare bones as it gets.  Wouldn't take much to double that.

Anyways, EtK was nerfed at the end fight, which was all that really bothered anyone.  The rest of the quest was a cake walk.  Even before the nerf, however, it was still not that bad if you had people who knew what to do and had some decent gear/buffs going in.

Pugs could be rough, though, because you get people who were clueless and panic.


Edit:  A review of base bonuses shows no con item at all.  For a +6 con item, GFL item, 20 taps, and a feat respec with toughness and resetting your enhancements this player could have 130 more HP.  A +2 tome would net another 20 for 150 more HP.  But the tome would be pricy for this guy.  the other three items would cost maybe 50k plat and an hour in the orchard with a few friends.

Evasion make EtK easy, no evasion no easy.  Or if your caster can land ooze puppet on the spells that makes things easier.  T

Breaken wrote on Oct 29^th, 2010 at 6:30pm:



You wound me man, you really wound me.

Blow me, Infi.

I never said it was the best helm ever.  The point above post was how this player could easily double their HP.  The minos helm is an option there.  Sure, you can get Heavy Fort a hundred different ways and get the +20 HP a couple ways nowdays too, thus freeing the helm slot for several options. 

But for a new player with shitty HP and no heavy fort it is one of the most easily accessible options.  Most anything better takes more grinding and effort.  And until you have heavy fort and more HP, not much else you could do with that slot that would be more valuable.  Ever heard of Maslow's Heriarchy of Needs?  In DDO, HP and Heavy Fort are at the first tier. 

Not sure why you felt the need to take a comment out of the original context to try to make it something it's not. 

This is clearly a new player on a first toon.  Making suggestions that are outside their realistic range would be useless.  I didn't even feel a +2 tome was a realistic idea for this player at this time.  Within those parameters my comment is valid.  Yours is not.  Go troll somewhere else.