AA set gives you 10% RoF increase that stacks with haste (doesn't with Ranger Capstone stupidly enough) so it's probably better damage than Shintao as long as your to-hit is fine.

For ring-belt set -  Frenzied berserker.

Just roll on every ring. Collect em all!

Didn't Dark-Star test the AA set and found out that it didn't do shit for arties?

I'm planning to do Shintao set + Epic Ring of the Stalker, using the belt slot for some Green Steel.

I'm looking at rahkir's ring for 9 int and gilvanor's for 9 dex. Then torc and a gs conc opp belt.

I don't see any of the tod sets as particularly over useful like they are on some builds. Or maybe I just hate tod right now amd don't wanna run it too much.

Found Dark-Star's post on the topic of the AA set: http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=354448

TL;DR: It doesn't stack with Armor of Speed or Haste for repeaters, making it all but useless for Arties.

Bigjunk wrote on Mar 15^th, 2012 at 10:41am:


Last I read, speed bonuses do not help repeater rate of fire at all.

Also, more data is needed on the AA set stacking with Ranger capstone. Numbers collected from multiple sources varied on if there was a stacking effect or not.... I wonder if the new effects channel will tell us for sure...

Not really sure how much my experience counts due to the fact that my Pew Pew is the last one left of its kind (on my server anyhow).

But AA set speed increase is definitely better than the +2 dam from the Shintao set. This was a grade A pain in the butt because it took me 100 TOD runs to get Kyosho's only to find out i need'nt have bothered

Kracky wrote on Mar 16^th, 2012 at 3:42pm:

That's really weird. You're the one who passed me (my monk Arkat) my Kyosho's in the chest a couple of months after ToD came out!

Not sure if you were on as Zexxi though. 

Vissarion wrote on Mar 15^th, 2012 at 11:52am:


This.  Slotting is so difficult for this type of toon.  Between really wanting to fit in a most likely crafted Greater Evocation Focus, the really nice effect on the Frozen Tunic, Epic Ring of the Stalker, Windhowler Bracers, Exc. Int somewhere, Exc. Dex if you can find a slot, strength somewhere (just because you probably don't have enough to carry anything without a str item or bull's str spell)...con, gfl, etc, etc...it just gets tough to find slots for everything you want to fit in.  Neck slot for the alchemist's pendant or kensei neck gives you more EF but takes up one of the two ToD sets.  Belt for GS in this case makes a lot of sense.  You can run the Tinker's set in Goggles/Gloves but goggles are usually a prime GS slot.  Using helmet/belt instead addresses that issue.

For 2nd ring then you could do something like Greater Evocation Focus of Persuasion (since bunny hat is no longer the no-brainer it used to be given that the spider mask's +1 would stack with persuasion).  I know that right now at least I have trouble getting to 39 UMD unless I'm using my purely UMD gear as I had to sacrifice my +sp/cha item for the Tinker's set.

There are plenty of ways to gear out of course but Arti's want so many different things that changing one piece start the dominoes falling until all your gear needs redone. 

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Arti's actually make me consider wand-whipping the +4 stat spells.  It's that bad.

I have bulls strength spell slotted on my arty for the +4 str. It's fucking ridiculous until you get that uberz perfect epic setup. I'm hoping it all pays off.