Damage Taken Gear

[Drac]

Puppetmaster is lacking very much in the Damage Taken- gear.
We need a better set for those nasty NMs doing AoE damage.

[Mirage]

You can get -53% physical damage taken (With earth staff, but you can make a magian trial h2h with -11%), -52% magical damage taken and -24% damage taken.

Can't you just swap between a mdt and pdt set as needed?

[Drac]

I want to know where you are finding this magical gear set that gives you so much damage taken-

First earth staff really isn't a Viable option, neither is pdt- h2h.
Also please do not include Defending Ring as that is out of reach of 95%+ of players.
Plumb Boots might become available but the method of getting said item makes them also extremely rare.

So what are pups actually left with?

Twilight Torque Damage taken -5%
Colossus's Earring Physical damage taken -1%
Goliard Trews Physical damage taken -3%
Umbra Cape Physical damage taken -6%
Patronus Ring Physical damage taken -2%
Jelly Ring Physical damage taken -5% Magic damage taken +5% (IF the MDT+ won't be an issue)

That gives us -22% PDT, and that is stretching it.

Avalon Breastplate Magic damage taken -5%
Minerva's Ring Physical damage taken +8% Magic damage taken -8% (IF PDT+ won't be an issue)
Twilight Torque Damage taken -5%
Merman's Ring Magic damage taken -4% (shadow or archon might be better options)
Merman's Earring Magic damage taken -2% x2
Lieutenant's Sash Magic damage taken -2%
Colossus's Mantle Magic damage taken -2%

and that's -30% MDT, -38% if you have addional 4 peices Lore+1 gear and like to spam macros 6 times to swap out your gear.

While -38% doesn't sound terrible, that's every gear slot swapped out, 12 peices, which takes 3 macros (using /page for speed) to swap into, and back out. If the fight dictates you wear mdt full time (instat cast NMs) this gear offers no other real benifit.

Yes, I realize I might be missing a piece or two of gear that |can| be augmented with slightly better stats.

In conclusion, Most of this gear probably isn't worth the inventory space, but i've inclueded it to show theoretical viable max. What is left is not enough to defend our brave puppetmasters.

[Mirage]

2x dark ring with -6%PDT, brawny adargas -5% PDT, Wiglen's gorget 6PDT%, Goliard trews 3PDT%, Umbra cape 6%PDT, Colossus earring 1%PDT, that's 33% in total. I've excluded the Plumb boots because they seem like pretty annoying to get.

Except the weapon, that's just 6 slots, even fits in a single macro. As for macro space for the MDT set, well, that's another issue that should be fixed. I'm sure lots of jobs have certain gear sets they need several macros to swap to. Let's just hope they eventually let us save entire gear sets to be loadable with a single macro line.

I can probably agree that there should perhaps be a body piece available with -PDT, but it's not *that* bad.