Defiant

My Guardian is sitting at 200 AAs. I wear the bracers and legs from our VP set and the rest of my gear is TSO tier 2 shard armor + fabled jewelry from RoK content/TSO instances. Our guild just moved to EQ2 from Vanguard in Sep 08' and started TSO raiding last week. Fully raid buffed I'm at about 70 percent mit and 77 percent avoidance if you go by the profit tool tab.

Currently my Raid Spec is 4/4/8/8 str 4/4/5/8 sta and 4/8/6/4/1 INT. I am noticing that I am getting destroyed by some of the raid mobs in TSO. First 3 in ToTMC don't really touch me, but once we moved onto Xebnok and Switchmaster I have been getting two shotted by back to back crits. Our warden doesn't have enough AAs yet for the crit mit buff. I only have about 10 crit mit atm, but I am seeing tanks saying they are having no problems with Switchmaster or Xebnok with limited to no crit mit in other threads.

I am considering dropping the int line and going down agi for the 12 sec invuln for TSO content. I am having a hard time bringing myself to drop the INT line down to 4/1, but it is looking like is something I may need to do.

Thanks in advance for any input outside of the generic "get better healers" response 0.o

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Sudden

Dragoon's (12 sec parry) is pretty worthless on mobs that have strike through, which is pretty much all of the TSO mobs. You are better off upping your crit mit by farming the first few mobs in each zone.

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Falter

Yar more crit mit and warden buff will make alot more difference then AGI.

Anap KaSplat

They just gimped switchmaster this last update.

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Maybe EQ2 just isn't your game. I know! Let's have a spelling contest!

keldo

Just wait and fill out more crit mit and other gear, the spec won't win the fight for you. You CAN do those mobs with limited crit mit, but you need superior healers and generally a raid force that has experience with the mob. I have used my Shadowknight with 10 crit mit on Xeb, Kultak, Switchmaster, and the lesser crit mit is very noticeable.

daw4888

Tell your raid warden to grind some more AA.

Defiant

Switched to this spec for raids, going to see how I like it.

STR - 4,4,8
AGI - 4,4,8,6,1
STA - 4,4,8,8
INT - 4,1

Edit: I can't spell for shit sometimes.

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Frogweiser

uhhhh AGI line, unless its just 4,4,4(4-8) then its a waste, seems like this convo comes up alot.

Defiant

I know mobs can strikethrough DR, but used immediately after DM it is knocked down to almost a minute and a half reuse, you don't think there is any worth in that?

It is nice to have Acc Strike's buff up and maxed almost constantly don't get me wrong, but if it's a marginal dps/reuse loss to gain more survivabilty and I am not having any issues with agro I'm not seeing the waste.

Am I overlooking something Frog?

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Frogweiser

The last time AGI line was needed was in EoF, you DO NOT need dragoon reflexes to kill any of this tier content. You have so many tools as a guardian to keep yourself alive, and if you are running a 3 healer MT group what is that 4 deathsaves?

You are overthinking things, just get to basics, make sure your healers are rotating saves on you for harder fights, and be mindful of when to use your saves, and for the love of god go INT, AGI is worthless beyond the AE autoattack.

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I can't think of one time in the past 2 expansions where it came down to "man if i would have had dragoon reflexes...wheewwww"