DRK Knights and Esoterics First Item

[Allyrion]

If it's worth 8 main stat, you gain a total of 25 strength from the Weapon (from the i190 hive weapon: 2x8 from WD +9 raw strength).
The Chest will give you 25 as well (coming from i180).
The chest is a clear winner then, given the vit, defence and the fact you get it a week earlier.

(WD=8strength is sketchy at best, though. Clearly if it's worth 9 or more the weapon comes out ahead)

The 180 chest is +78, the 200 chest is +93.
That's a difference of 15 STR.

The 190 WPN is +92, the 200 WPN is +101
So yea that is +25, though the stat weights were 8.5 for WD before, so probably closer to +26.

So the weapon is probably significantly stronger offensively, but that's not taking into account the cost and defenses.

I would posit chest/legs are better for both dps AND survivability per point of esoterics.

You can do a simple test. Compare law weapon + gordian chest/gloves vs hive weapon + law chest/gloves.

That's not really a fair comparison though.
You're saying that since the weapon cost more we can compare two items to one, right?

But the Chest + Gloves for the 10 ilvl gain of both costs 1320 altogether, while the weapon only costs 990.
So unless you take that into account, you can't compare those two directly.

[Rbstr]

The 180 chest is +78, the 200 chest is +93.
That's a difference of 15 STR.

Yeah, I grabbed the 210 chest stats on accident there.

[pandabearcat]

That's not really a fair comparison though.
You're saying that since the weapon cost more we can compare two items to one, right?

But the Chest + Gloves for the 10 ilvl gain of both costs 1320 altogether, while the weapon only costs 990.
So unless you take that into account, you can't compare those two directly.

Oo you're right, I had costs confused. You can test it then divide by the relative costs, I think I was going for being able to buy chest+gloves by 3rd week (as well as having chest 2nd week) is an advantage.