Jewelry and weapons vs body armor

DigiAngel · January 26

So...I have every single piece of Coral Riptide for the Arch. I'm currently doing Coral Riptide body, Deadly Strike jewelry with weapons. I'd like to try Azure and a couple others, but I don't have the weapons and I honestly don't feel like grinding to get them. Is there really much difference with say having Coral Riptide jewelry and weapons instead of body? Besides using up more mats and crystals that is.

Taril · January 26

There's no difference between using armour or jewelery/weapons for sets.

EXCEPT, the fact that many sets only come in one specific armour type. So you might have to factor that in in some cases if you want to retain the bonuses from specific armour types.

Jewelery/Weapons lets you bypass armour type restrictions for sets. For example, if you wanted to use Elemental Catalyst but still have Medium Armour bonuses you can use Jewelery/Weapons instead of the armour pieces.

DigiAngel · January 26

Brilliant..thank you.

MincMincMinc · January 27

@DigiAngel

One thing to keep in mind is that the armor stats are different for different pieces too.

Chest gives the most
Head/shoulder/legs/boots give the second most
gloves next
waist gives the least.

So lets say you want to do 5/1/1 You would do a heavy chest, a light waist, and then fill the rest. If you want another light or medium itll go on the gloves first.

People confuse this with enchant sizes
Chest/legs/head give the largest enchants
Everything else are the same

Soarora · January 27

Last I heard, its actually better for arcanist to body azure and frontbar coral. Also, you’d want coral jewelry because it should reconstruct as gold or purple, while deadly and azure reconstruct as blue.

DigiAngel · January 27

Thanks...looks like I'll be reconstructing some weapons and jewelry then

BXR_Lonestar · January 29

DigiAngel wrote: »

Brilliant..thank you.

It also depends on what sets you are using. In today's meta, where tanks can strip around 16k armor, armor penetration has become a stat you can pretty much ignore as a DPS, and so almost every DPS wants to wear medium armor on the body (extra crit damage and weapon/spell damage as a passive is just too good). So if you are wearing a set that comes in medium armor and a set that comes in light armor, you will most definitely want to wear the medium set on the body.

Outside of that, some sets like relequen have build-up damage based on the dot proc from light attacks. You will always want these kinds of sets on the body because if you have them on weapons and jewelry, your stacks will drop off as soon as you lose your 5 piece bonus. Often times people run a set that can be front-bar only on weapons and jewelry so they can take advantage of a mythic AND a monster helmet, or an arena weapon, but you have to be careful that you put your armor pieces in places where you won't cause your stacks to drop off.

DigiAngel · January 29

Awesome...thank you!