What Manastones Do You Use and Why?

Personally I play two different characters.

For my Cleric I roll all out +HP. I find that survivability is insane to begin with and after the the additional boost from the stones I can't die.

For my Templar I going with full P.Crit. I hardly ever lose threat, good damage, and faster grinding. It is just very expensive.

i use two sets of armor for my templar.

1x full crit set of armor - 1v1 pvp / faster grinding / and just plain badass damage
1x full +55 health set of armor. more life = better tanking obv defence is a big deal however ive noticed a big difference between a full set of shield defence or parry manastones vs full health stones.

From the higher up tanks I've seen a lot of them seem to socket there shields for Shield Defense. I've been considering moving into that for my shield. I find that they are really cheap for the better versions.

SM - Magic Boost, Magic Accuracy, +HP Reasons: ... Need a reason for damage, chance to hit and do damage, and live longer?

Cleric- +HP ... Why? Clerics + lots of life are insanely hard to kill and MP is not needed also, they aren't damage dealers, so what's left?

From what I've heard, templars stacking +crit is supposed to be good, however I know that in the abyss and even morhiem and such, ganking is a bigger problem than doing damage to mobs.
A guy in my legion stacks +HP, parry and evasion and he is fairly hard to gank/duel or even kill in general and has very little down time.

This post was edited by cdnmoosehunter on Nov 11 2009 07:15am

correct going full crit has its huge down sides getting ganked in morhiem is a big problem elyos are everywhere and it makes it hard to solo grind shit when you keep getting gang banged. i keep running scrolls and always pay attention to whats around me when im in areas that tend to have elyos. i usually can hold my own against 1-2 elyos with full crit armor any more and i just drop like a stone

Im thinking about stacking up on all evasion manastones for my assassin...Im only lvl 15 tho so i dont have a lot of worries yet..But in the long run whats your guys opinions on that? Or what do u think i should be using in terms of PvE shit vs. what i should use PvP?

I just know that eventually im gonna be able to do higher amounts of damage with my skills alone, but ill be in some skanky ass leather armor and when i get hit im gonna shatter like glass... SO i figure evasion would be best, that or a shit ton of HP.

Sorc.

Magic Boost...Magic Boost and More Magic Boost.

When I hit 50 I'll probably make sure I always have 1250 MB and then rest HP.



Psy crit til soft cap(440 crit) then a mix of attak and hp stones.

This post was edited by TeH SaNdMaN on Nov 11 2009 10:00am

Yeah i loaded up on Psy Crit for now, but then i got to thinking evaison would be better so i dont get hit as much? You dont think so huh?

I use shield def stones on my shield and for everything else, physical crit. Once I get to soft cap for crit, I'll prob use +attack for the rest.

Like he said physical crit till you hit soft cap and then go hp/accuracy/attack, evasion wont help you worth a damn when you're getting magic thrust inside of you.

Believe me, every time I see an assassin I smile. I dot em up, slow em, nuke em, kite em, the only chance they get is within the first 5 or so seconds of the fight, they need to hit me hard and fast, even then, I slow/dot and get my distance, then shower on the dps.

Unfortunately assassins are somewhat under powered from what I've seen, prove me wrong but I believe they are the weakest class in the game so far.