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Sealody
11-25-2003, 03:37 PM
There's a few belts in time. None of them really stand out much different from each other.
I need a new belt so I'm looking at the choices. Which one would you think benefit a druid more?
Belt of Temporal Bindings
MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM NO DROP
Slot: WAIST
AC: 25
STR: +20 DEX: +20 STA: +18 CHA: +10 WIS: +15 INT: +15 HP: +185 MANA: +185
SV FIRE: +20 SV COLD: +20 SV MAGIC: +20
Spell Shield: +5
Required level of 65.
WT: 2.0 Size: MEDIUM
Class: ALL
Race: ALL
Belt of Tidal Energy
MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM NO DROP
Slot: WAIST
Charges: Unlimited
AC: 25
DEX: +10 STA: +30 WIS: +17 INT: +17 HP: +185 MANA: +185
SV DISEASE: +20 SV MAGIC: +20 SV POISON: +20
Required level of 65.
Effect: Form of Rejuvenation (Must Equip, Casting Time: 4.0)
WT: 1.0 Size: MEDIUM
Class: ALL
Race: ALL
Cord of Potential
MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM NO DROP
Slot: WAIST
AC: 25
STR: +20 DEX: +15 STA: +20 CHA: +10 WIS: +25 HP: +160 MANA: +185
SV DISEASE: +25 SV POISON: +25
Required level of 65.
Effect: Composure (Worn)
Focus: Quickening of Solusek
WT: 2.0 Size: MEDIUM
Class: CLR DRU SHM NEC WIZ MAG ENC
Race: ALL
Of those 3... the last one I'm gonna rule out for myself. Not because it's a bad belt, but looking at lucy, composure wont stack with serenity. And Quickening of Solusek is 23% spellhaste. Neither I need since shield of whores and icy vengeance provides better or the same effects.
This leaves one of the first 2. One has spellshield +5, other has form of rejuvenation. Since it was never actually explained what spellsheld does. And lucy is a mess when looking up Form of Rejuvenation. It looks like it's a +20 to all resists, +181hps, +AC and +8hp/tick. I'm not entirely sure about that tho.
Which of those 2 belts would you go for?
There is one other thing I wanted to ask. Does Form of Rejuvenation stack or overwrite/overwritten by Form of Defense. It looks like Form of Defense is the higher of the 2 in the same line of clickies. I will be getting Band of Primordial Energy, ring with Form of Defense sometime in the future and it would be pointless to have a lesser clicky on another item if they are non-stacking.
Lucy urls for items listed.
Belt of Temporal Bindings (http://lucy.fnord.net/item.html?id=15927)
Belt of Tidal Energy (http://lucy.fnord.net/item.html?id=15877)
Cord of Potential (http://lucy.fnord.net/item.html?id=15881)
Band of Primordial Energy (http://lucy.fnord.net/item.html?id=26990)
Sea!
DemonMage
11-25-2003, 03:57 PM
ALL worn effects stack. Serenty/Composure, being worn mana regen, count towards the worn mana regen cap (It is not a flowing thought cap, it is worn mana regen) of 15. So they will stack, just not past that. ANd they also give hp regen, which caps out at 35 for worn.
Personally I'd go with the first belt. Spell shield is love. Form of Rejuvenation is handy, but I'd rather have Form of Endurance which is stackable 180 hp buff, just won't stack with any other Form of X. (no Form of X spell stacks with another Form of X)
Though the disease/poison saves are handy on the other two belts, you're not hurting on mana regen, and I think you'd benefit the most from the first belt.
iegil
11-25-2003, 04:24 PM
Belt of Temporal Bindings
MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM NO DROP
Slot: WAIST
AC: 25
STR: +20 DEX: +20 STA: +18 CHA: +10 WIS: +15 INT: +15 HP: +185 MANA: +185
SV FIRE: +20 SV COLD: +20 SV MAGIC: +20
Spell Shield: +5
Required level of 65.
WT: 2.0 Size: MEDIUM
Class: ALL
Race: ALL
Spellshield +5 seems like a lame affect at the moment. Other than that, this belt focus's on the common resists and has no other redeeming features.
Belt of Tidal Energy
MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM NO DROP
Slot: WAIST
Charges: Unlimited
AC: 25
DEX: +10 STA: +30 WIS: +17 INT: +17 HP: +185 MANA: +185
SV DISEASE: +20 SV MAGIC: +20 SV POISON: +20
Required level of 65.
Effect: Form of Rejuvenation (Must Equip, Casting Time: 4.0)
WT: 1.0 Size: MEDIUM
Class: ALL
Race: ALL
This belt gives great poison/disease resist, resists no one can be without. However, the form doesn't stack with other forms, however I don't remember the other forms having quite the capabilities of this one. Each form has a specialty yanno.
Cord of Potential
MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM NO DROP
Slot: WAIST
AC: 25
STR: +20 DEX: +15 STA: +20 CHA: +10 WIS: +25 HP: +160 MANA: +185
SV DISEASE: +25 SV POISON: +25
Required level of 65.
Effect: Composure (Worn)
Focus: Quickening of Solusek
WT: 2.0 Size: MEDIUM
Class: CLR DRU SHM NEC WIZ MAG ENC
Race: ALL
This belt is a nice acquisition if you don't have a fennin ro belt. It offers high poison/disease resist, 5ft 5 regen that stack up to the caps with all other forms of ft, and detrimental spell haste.
I like it for those reasons.
Desert
11-25-2003, 04:34 PM
I'm going with Cord of Potential for the same reasons as listed above, but they're all 3 good choices. whatever suits your focus needs, etc..
Sealody
11-25-2003, 07:52 PM
Ahh.. thanks. I didn't realize that none of the 'Forms of ....' stacks with each other.
Since numberwise, they all are about the same, I'm going to ask a slightly different question. Here are the 4 Forms of found in time.
Form of Defense Band of Primordial Energy (finger)
Increase AC by 54
Form of Endurance Veil of the Inferno (mask)
Increase Max Hitpoints by 180
Form of Protection Earring of Celestial Energy (ear)
Increase All Resists by 20
Form of Rejuvenation Belt of Tidal Energy (belt)
Increase Hitpoints by 8 per tick
Which would you choose? My first choice would be Form of Protection, 2 earrings also, so you not locked into a single slot. Can never go wrong with more resists. Then it would be Form of Endurance.
Sea!
DemonMage
11-25-2003, 08:24 PM
Form of Endurance
Form of Protection wouldn't be bad either, it even stacks with Eternal Ward, so you'd come out with 35 resists, and and 45 ac that way, assuming you had enough buff slots =-p
[Edit] And you know, had the Prismatic Ring of Resistance as well, but still, looking ahead!
Noliniel
11-26-2003, 12:14 AM
Hmm
Form of Endurance Veil of the Inferno (mask)
Increase Max Hitpoints by 180
More hps never hurt =p
Form of Protection Earring of Celestial Energy (ear)
Increase All Resists by 20
Same with hp, it never hurts.
Form of Defense Band of Primordial Energy (finger)
Increase AC by 54
Not much useful, softcap for ac for druids is 1200 iirc.
Form of Rejuvenation Belt of Tidal Energy (belt)
Increase Hitpoints by 8 per tick
I personally never cared for regen heh.
There are not many good time belts out there. I d go for
Cord of Potential
MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM NO DROP
Slot: WAIST
AC: 25
STR: +20 DEX: +15 STA: +20 CHA: +10 WIS: +25 HP: +160 MANA: +185
SV DISEASE: +25 SV POISON: +25
Required level of 65.
Effect: Composure (Worn)
Focus: Quickening of Solusek
WT: 2.0 Size: MEDIUM
Class: CLR DRU SHM NEC WIZ MAG ENC
Race: ALL
I guess. Even though I lost 25 hp but I gain 5 more FT =p
Fenn ro belt is just too rare to become a reality for most of the druids.
:(
Feebbil
11-26-2003, 04:59 AM
Belt of tidal energy, has the best resist, which is also your worst.
If u dident had that quarm bracer, then cord of potential would be first choice.
Athunder Taima
11-28-2003, 09:16 AM
Im using the cord of potential myself, composure is 3hp/mana per tick not 5.
From the 4 form types i'd choose form of endurance, 180hp is by far the best effect, 2nd choice would be protection(20 to resists). The other effects suck :D
Spell shield 5 is pretty nice, makes those huge ae dd's a bit easier to handle.
Trevize
11-28-2003, 07:09 PM
I went for cord of potential due to the focus effect. Casting haste in potime has very few choices for us druids.
Fayne Dethe
11-29-2003, 12:24 AM
What annoys me is that there are 10 million melee belts all throughout the elemental planes, gods, various tiers of Time. However, there are so very few belts that are druid useable that are worth a damn. Out of the time belts, temporal bindings and tidal energy are a big yawn other than their hp/mana, and cord of potential is pretty useless to anyone who ends up getting a Quarm bracer. Wish I had gotten the Fennin Ro belt when I had a chance, lol. I guess there is always that one earring for beneficial spell haste.
In the end, might as well get belt of tidal energy, except does the regen even stack with our spells??
DemonMage
11-29-2003, 03:13 AM
Stacks just fine, stacks with every regen. Just won't stack with other Form of X.
Sealody
11-29-2003, 08:52 AM
Originally posted by Feebbil
If u dident had that quarm bracer, then cord of potential would be first choice.
Here's funny. Q's bracer is this || close to rotting. Our last kill, it was nearly forced onto another druid. He was only 1 of 2 leather users there without it already. He was the only person to ask for it pretty late. Only cause the only other who can use it looted shield on our last Q kill. Back to back Quarm loots and tension goes up.
Leather users really do have it easy.
Sea!
Khardan
12-02-2003, 03:48 PM
Oddly enough. . .the best belt for a druid is not found in time. . .
Fennin's belt is the only item druids can use that provides Quickening of Mithanial (30% beneficial spell haste)
It's really good to have the fastest heals possible
(nightcaller leggins in VT are the only other item in the game with 30% beneficial spell haste)
Of the belts you list however, Id go with Temporal Bindings. . .and find more spellshield to stack on top of it
Aelia
12-02-2003, 04:30 PM
Originally posted by Khardan
Oddly enough. . .the best belt for a druid is not found in time. . .
Fennin's belt is the only item druids can use that provides Quickening of Mithanial (30% beneficial spell haste)
Huh?
Earring of Unseen Horrors (http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=26980)
is a much nicer place to find your beneficial spell haste.
As far as the belts go. I would prefer temporal bindings. Spellshield is a fine mod.
-hs
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