eso pants or chest - war

[Dracithius]

Tomorrow I can get the 190 chest and 200 legs (have 190 legs). Or should I just get 200 chest? Sorry if text is huge on cell phone!

[Iagainsti]

1: get your eso wep then save for the chest. i190 pants have wicked secondary stats for Warrior. The i200 Weapon and chest will be the last upgrades you can get till you can complete Savage Alex room 4, so might as well upgrade those with eso and everything else through Alex normal.

[Vurtney]

I'm in the same boat as you. The only i180 on my war is the chest. I'm probably buying the chest with [big, hard] shafts tomorrow and legs with esoterics. After that i'm pretty much done with normal alex since i got the slaying gear as well.

[Donjo]

Well, both of these should result in the same increases to Defense, Strength, and Vitality. So we're dealing with Secondary Stats here.

Getting Chest trades Accuracy(Pri)/Skill Speed(Sec) for Skill Speed(Pri)/Parry(Sec) no matter which of the two chests you choose. I'm going to assume that you have every i190 left side piece except for the chest. This means that you may be hemorrhaging Accuracy(ie. have ~650, possibly higher depending in which accessories you've chosen). Going this route would trade a decent chunk of that excess Accuracy for more Skill Speed and Parry. Don't worry about the Parry; even that is better than excess Accuracy.

Getting Legs Trades Accuracy(Pri)/Crit(Sec) for Accuracy(Pri)/Parry(Sec). You probably don't need this accuracy boost right now and the gain in Strength will be slightly neutered by the loss of Crit.

Recommendation: Upgrade to the i200 Chestpiece. It will increase both your damage and survivability without any sacrifice in either.

[Sapphidia]

Agreed with the above - imo the two best parts of the 190 set are pants and boots (Crit/Acc and Crit/Det respectively). These are thus the last parts you should upgrade to Esoterics - upgrade the Chest/Hat/Gloves before these.

[SpookyGhost]

If you're doing Savage:

Weapon -> Hands/Head -> Hands/Head -> Feet -> Belt -> Pants -> Body -> Accessories of your choice or gear another job if you've got crafted.

(all this changes depending on your drops, so keep that in mind)

If you're not doing Savage:

Whatever your heart desires.

[Donjo]

If you're doing Savage:

Weapon -> Hands/Head -> Hands/Head -> Feet -> Belt -> Pants -> Body -> Accessories of your choice or gear another job if you've got crafted.

(all this changes depending on your drops, so keep that in mind)

If you're not doing Savage:

Whatever your heart desires.

Hmm... I'm curious as to why you rank the Body at such low priority to purchase considering how much of a wall even Alex 3 Savage will be to the average group.

Also, Crafted Accessories are great but I feel so sad that I can't get excited about accessory drops in the raid anymore

[Synestra]

Hmm... I'm curious as to why you rank the Body at such low priority to purchase considering how much of a wall even Alex 3 Savage will be to the average group.

I think the reason is secondary stats, ilvl190 has same stats so its better to go for other pieces first. Also if possible i would suggest getting ilvl180 pvp chest as it has CRIT/DET and those will be alway usefull(sure it has slightly less str/vit compared to ilvl190 but atleast secondaries are good).

[konpachizaraki]

chest
eso war pants secondary stats is just horrible

[Cooperal]

Since eso equipment and gordian equipment are both capped by weeklys, I'd say it's wise to look at how they're being collected side by side.

The Gordian Chest requires 4 Gordian Shafts. The Shaft only drops in A4 so you can only get one a week. So it takes 4 weeks to get a chest minimum.
The Gordian Legs requires 4 Gordian Springs. The Spring drops in A3 AND A4 so you can get two a week. It takes 2 weeks to get legs minimum (slower if you sacrifice A4 for chest).

In 2 weeks of eso you can get a chest. In 5 weeks of eso (only one more than chest) you could already have an eso chest and weapon, while building up all other gordian pieces at the same time.

With that said, get eso chest. Both 190 hands and leg components can be sped up from the drop from A4 and even the combined time will be quicker than just getting the 190 chest.
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