Quote (fentr @ Jan 20 2013 11:17am)
It's not that Inna's pants and IC aren't worth it, it's that crappy versions of them will really fuck you over in ehp. Inna's pants are essential to building a good 2.50 bp ww barb because they give you 9% ias in a non-trifecta slot. However, a standard 80+ str only version will give you 0 vit in a slot where you normally expect 200. 80+/80+ or 180+ vit inna's pants will run you 150m-300m or more. Ice climbers offer tons of strength and life%, but you need to make sure it has 80+ vit because boots (like IK boots, for instance) normally have 80+, otherwise, it's a wash. 250/80 IC are not cheap, either.
If you have a lot of vit and AR to spare, you can definitely get cheap 80str inna's pants. I personally don't think it's worth upgrading from IK boots to non-vit IC.
say you get a 90 vit inna's: you lose out on 80 str + 110 vit +60 res from inna's (rough numbers), Climbers give 190-250 str + socket (+42 let's say) so 232-292 and 12% life and let's say 10 less vit than IK. 1% life should be around 2-3.5k EHP per %, vit would be roughly 400-450.12% life = 36k EHP + 100 dex from inna's (around 11k) = 47K EHP, 120 vit = 51k EHP. In the end you lost 4k EHP for around 80 str (estimating), 9% attack speed and 1% crit. Even if you don't get vit, or much vit on your ice climbers it's not THAT big of an EHP loss for the dps you gain. All this being said, Rare pants + IK boots should be considerably cheaper.
This post was edited by Sanctumxz on Jan 20 2013 11:13am