SC ing your end gear

[old.windforce]

short howto

step 1:
get http://theharms.org/daoc/sc-calc.html

step 2:
fill in your current set-up in here

step 3
get the best jewelry you can get from DF and quests (Albion bracer quest is great). Best thing is to start with empty template and gather the jewelry with highest utility value (only count in use full stats. Remember that +19 stat and +7% resist and +52 hp gems are most effective to imbue with. So try to target your jewelry that you can reach your cap with this value. (example: 37 strenght with jewelry is ideal because you can use 2 x +19 gems to reach cap)

step 4
Decide if there are any epic pieces you wanna keep. For armsman the pieces worth keeping are the legs (reasonble utility expensive to replace) helm.

step 5
if you wear a shield get a MP, only cost you about 600 gold on average which is cheap

step 6
get armour you can afford (for me 99%). For cloth it is about 1 plat for plate 4 plat

Step 7
fill in the picture. Flat out your gems. Don't use +25 strength and +9% resists thing because the highest graded gem will double imbue points. Ideal are +52 hits , +19 dex +19 quick +19 strength configurations on 99% items. You can safely overcharge 4 points on 99% items and 5 points on MPs. Try to max most important things first. (example: plate wearing armsman don't need maxed trust resist because plate is resistant as it is and not much trust out there. Another one: max body and energy since these are the types that do the mezzing)

Step 8
Find a spellcrafter willing to do your armour and weapons. Remember this can take up to 4 hours to do (32 99% gems required) and pay him good

 

[Simius]

Originally posted by old.windforce
fill in the picture. Flat out your gems. Don't use +25 strength and +9% resists thing because the highest graded gem will double imbue points. Ideal are +52 hits , +19 dex +19 quick +19 strength configurations on 99% items.

True and not true at the same time. Higher level gems do take double points, but more of lesser gems take more slots, it's finding a balance between the two that's important. Use all top gems and you wont have enough points to fit everything in, use all medium gems and you'll run out of slots before you've maxed everything. A bit of both is good.

You can safely overcharge 4 points on 99% items and 5 points on MPs.

5 points on 99% is perfectly safe, and even safer on MP's. Unfortunately it wont let you do 6 no matter what the quality of the gems.

Find a spellcrafter willing to do your armour and weapons. Remember this can take up to 4 hours to do (32 99% gems required)

If it takes me 4 hours to do a full set now then I'm afk half the time. 4 99% gems is overkill, maybe on a 5pt OC on 97% kit you might need them, but for 99% and MP you can get away with a mix of 99 and 98%. Do the higher gems first and take the first 98+ you get then make sure the rest are up to scratch. Speeds things up AND reduces the cost.

and pay him good

Can't argue with that