For a melee character ~ say my Samurai Hindu ~ is easier to do a solo 1-71 climb with enhanced effect armor or dex armor?

Additionally, are heavy or light armors better for solo play?


Leave your opinions!

Thanks

i would use an ee leader/scale armor for solo

both have advantages, it really depends if the dmg increase is going to lessen your time vs the mobs to a degree that your defence loss is negated

from what i can tell so far it's similar to soloing in Arena before, you can get away with stat armors up until 20 or 25ish, then switch over to EE

I have found that more damage serves me better as I can always grab shrines.

Any other opinions?

at lower-mid lvls stat arms are fine but later on (40+ maybe? depending on gear) u'll probably need to put on a tank since they can hit quite hard and u might find urself not getting enough shrines to slash w/o regen

about ur 2nd question: generally medium>heavy>light, in my opinion scale>leather>chain>plate>padded>robe but that might be different for different builds / chars / lvls, if u can't afford scales i'd say u should go for leathers at higher lvls
imo at 55+ there's more casters than meeles, just to give u an idea, i tanked better with a 207 ee leather than with a 250ee plate

Thanks for posting Leny.

I prefer scales and leather to be honest. Plate just doesn't seem to work too well

I agree with this and the rest who said something similar.

If you solo, EE armors are your best buddies later on in the climb. Stat armor just doesn't cut it.

You could even try statting 5-10 Vitality for an extra HP boost later on, it helps cut down on the trips to town in my personal experiences, and doesn't lower your damage by much.

This post was edited by jlhromeo on Jul 13 2011 05:28pm

I prefer ee armors. I stat quite a bit into vitality and use leathers or scales. Your issue with the plate armor is that it is good for melee attacks but offers very little for caster attacks. This would require statting intelligence rather than vitality to give you defense against both. The ee armor vs. stat armor works better if you have some nice ee weapons to make up for the stats invested in vitality. I'm not fond of dieing as you lose major proficiencies when you die. The investment in vitality pays off well for me

Theory crafting here: I was wondering how effective a pure vita paladin would be. Going for 10k health or so.