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(02-18-2012 12:23 PM)livindeath Wrote:  

(02-18-2012 04:56 AM)Belaganor Wrote:  

(02-18-2012 03:03 AM)livindeath Wrote:  I would have to think my biggest question would be, as we are approaching full rakta gear, with the stat changes going from shield to full absorb, how is that working out for our tanking? I mean overall on the gear we have a total of only +48 shield rating.. are ppl remodding the gear or actually using it the way it is?

Re-modding. BIG TIME. Rakata gear is far from BIS. In many cases, it's better to pull the enhancement from your columi gear and overright the Rakata one. You just don't need that much accuracy. Also, Really high Absorption, with really low shield is a waste. You need to balance them much, much more.

Thats what I was thinking about doing, just needed some input, also I got the absorb relic from KP normal last night, and knew that would defeat the purpose of it if I had not much shield to proc it from..and also, what about the gear with surge on it? start with remodding that first, or is surge actually going to benefit us?

yeah one of the first rakata pieces I got was the boots, as to which i replaced the def/surge mod with the mod from the columi boots. Gear optimization is downright terrible. My gear isn't the best, but I do the best I can with what I have. My guild has two tanks, me, and a Powertech, they prefer the powertech over me big time, the healers say he is tons easier to heal, as of last week. I have done everything I can with my gear to try and fix it. My defense % was at around 27% and my shield chance was like 25% with only 20% absorption rating a few weeks ago, with out mod swapping etc. in a mix of mostly columi, rakata, and champion's War leader gear.

Currently I'm using

Rakata war leader earpiece
Rakata war leaders implant
Tionese war leaders implant
moddable bracers with advanced guardian armor 25 / advanced resilient mod 25B (99 str 84 end 37 abs) thats +22 str -4 end +8 abs versus rakata
Rakata relic of the shrouded crusader
Rakata relic of imperiling serenity(exceptional) +28 shield rating
Rakata war leaders helm
Columi war leaders chest with advanced elusive mod 25B
Rakata war leaders gloves
moddable belt with advanced guardian armor 25 / advanced elusive mod 25B (99 str 84 end 37 def) thats +22 str -4 end +8 def versus rakata
Rakata war leaders legs
Rakata war leaders boots with advanced elusive mod 25B
Champion war leaders lightsaber
Columi war leaders shield generator

This puts me at, unbuffed:
20210 hp
7607 armor
47.33% DR
22.13% Def
31.25% shield
34.37% Absorb
100.05% accuracy with no talent points in Accuracy

I also have a moddable lightsaber with a 41 endurance color crystal, 51 hilt, and 56 mod and enhancement that give me another 1% def, a little more shield and absorb but 500 less hp, i swap to, but the top end dmg feels is a threat loss, so its a trade off. Also I dropped artifice for biochem goodness after i made my relics, got the exceptional imperiling serenity on the first try, but after 7 attempts at making an exceptional shrouded crusader I gave up. Hopefully the healers will have good things to say about how much dmg I take this next week in EV and KP HM.