This armor is interesting because you can customize it using evoliths, and more importantly, change the color of the armor to better match your other gear. The gear itself is decent, but generally nothing game-breaking and there is almost always better gear to be had somewhere else. Still, Fuuji has gone and obtained the full MNK set, and in our camping of the NMs, I've picked up some of the Aptants for the DNC/THF set and we've both been getting the Aptants for the PLD set.
We finally got our Ebon Breastplates crafted yesterday morning thanks to Greysnake, so we took our Aptants and had them modified for PLD use.
Here's the base Ebon Breastplate:
The finished PLD version is called the Ebon Haubert adds shoulder pads, changes some of the upper arm details, and shifts the location of the hip guards. Overall, it looks very much like a WoW armor piece. Here's me and Fuuji:
I think these are also some of the few pieces of armor that actually cover the neck... which does make sense for an armor with a lot of protection :o
Now we're working on customizing the armor... Currently, we're working on getting dyes to change the color from black to red. I want to see how Fuuji's armor comes out first before dying mine. The black & red look isn't too bad, and my PLD kiting gear is almost entirely black and gold, so it actually matches this armor quite nicely. I'm not sure if the shade of red the fuira armor uses would match homam.
As for Evolith... well, that's where this system generally falls apart since there hasn't really been any significant evoliths discovered yet. Currently, the only evolith that looks interesting for this piece might be the "Divine Magic -recast" one, which is a pain to get as it comes either from a heavily camped NM, or a low-level random-pop 24-hour respawn NM. Currently, I do have a "Divine Magic +Accuracy" evolith, but I don't think that it's worth etching into the armor since... well... Flash is mainly cast for the enmity, and it's rarely resisted!
The "synergy" process itself actually seems like it's pretty fun! Like a mini-game instead of just throwing materials together to craft... I might look into it and try doing more food crafting with synergy if I get some free time xD
Other news
Not too much in other news... COR38 now, mostly leveled up with noob parties with the "new-returnees". Also mostly as COR/BRD... I need to start taking /RNG out now. It's fully geared up now that I'm above level 35, and from even a few experiments with shooting as COR/BRD, I think I will end up doing quite a bit of damage :o
Final bit of other news... AV decided to go on a rampage last Tuesday so...
Tornado II for the kill xD
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