Artis for a Skald

[Bonky]

trying to understand all the new bonus's and spells etc on the TOA artis is doing my head in. My 50sword,43 BS skald has only recently got her SC gear giving perfect resists and skills etc.
I can see that the artis have interesting spells etc but cant imagine which ones i should get.

So all you clever cloggs out there:

Which artis are must haves for a sword skald that in combination with SC items would still give good resists, plus 11 to sword etc. I dont care about what things look like and mismatching armor suits is of no importance.

 

[Rulke]

Artifact stats here
ToA SC calc here

Mix and match....


Common skald artifacts:
Battler
Harpy feather cloak
Shades of Mist cloak
Crocodile tears ring
Sword of kings
Phoebus harp neckie
traitors dagger
etc

 

[Bonky]

thanks. great start and i didnt know that there was a template aid specific for toa items,

 

[Allways]

also Eirene's Hauberk is quite nice...

 

[AngryKid]

also Eirene's Hauberk is quite nice...

This one is seemlessy IDIOTICALLY hard to get.. I've seen just a few of these around on excal, not many who has it. :-|

 

[Rulke]

Apparently Eirines is borked for skalds, we get caster stats on it.

 

[Carrera]

Eirenes is pretty easy to get compared to what everyone says... The mob spawns in 3 different places every 1 - 3 hours.

 

[Rulke]

yes and hauberk is only a rare drop.

 

[Peaches]

Aye and farming those idols everytime is sooo much fun

 

[Carrera]

Got mine first time

 

[Gravmaskin]

Eirines?? doesn't GoV come as a chain for skalds?

 

[Rulke]

Personally I'm sticking with my TG vest. For one thing I need the utility and secondly the heal proc is great for someone who solos a lot, especially combined with crown of zahur

 

[Ntina]

Eirene's is nice for skald if u want spell range bonus etc.....nice innit? :kissit:
Hope they patch it soon since theres no info nowhere that we get those stats....nm

 

[Bonky]

Would be nice to get 2 or 3 artis that would give:
various toa type benefits not obtainable from SC/ALc or TG items,

all able to be leveled either solo on mobs(without BB)or via RvR or DF mobs (lets face it we dont need xp anymore after lvl 50 , but do need rps and seals and getting a grp of people without the same arti to help you level it is a non starter),

leave enough spellcraftable items to get the template right,

So that cuts down the field a bit.

 

[Naetha]

You can't go wrong with a huge Battler - its probably one of the harder artifacts to get and activate, but the stats are very nice. Another art that might be good is the Guard of Valor as you'll get both spell damage/range and style damage/melee damage. I'd recommend getting something like Maddening Scalars or Dreamsphere as these have a nice wolf/cat morph and quite nice stats. Crocodile tears ring is also nice for a skald as your speed/damage add will effect the nearest 20 people when you've got it to level 10.

 

[Calo]

im gonna take croc tear ring & hammer version of battler and thats it

got a belt lvl 10 but its not that good so dont get belt of sun