These are the items that make the Warder REALLY STRONG. The only slots that are not going to be mentioned here are the ring slots and hand slot because I’ve already mentioned them in the first part. If there is any additional thing I would recommend about the rings, is that you should use the component Corpse Dust for each ring.
Here’s the list of gear and components that will let you clear end-game content easily.
- [li]Weapon: Stormreaver[/li]Component: Blessed Steel
This weapon adds alot of utility to your skills. Even the skill from the weapon is useful as it’s not only ranged, but it has weapon damage, which can be used with lifesteal gear. Blessed Steel gives us more damage with Elemental damage and resist debuff.
[li]Head: Ultos’s Hood[/li]Component: Sanctified Bone
You want to get the 4-piece bonus of the set, which gives +2 to all shaman skills. Even when we’re not completing the set, this helm is highly recommended because more points in Torrent means more AOE. In addition to that, the helm has decent defensive stats. The component on the helm gives you a chance to clear SoT and BoC a little bit faster.
[li]Shoulders: Ultos’s Spaulders[/li]Component: Scaled Hide
Decent offensive stats. Scaled Hide is great with Scars of Battle because the armor absorption will apply to ALL your armor slots. Since you’ll be going above 43% increased Armor Absorption, Armor will absorb 100% of it’s armor value. This transforms the armor formula into simple subtraction.
[li]Chest: Ultos’s Cuirass[/li]Component: Chains of Oleron
There’s sort of a trend that majority of the end-game gear is going to focus on Offensive stats, but this is because we’ll have a few amount of gear that will provide resists SO HIGH that it’s possible to focus on high damage output while having good resistances. This allows us to get away with stuff like completing the set, and equipping some offensive components.
[li]Hands: Grasp of Unchained Might[/li]Component: Antivenom Salve or Consecrated Wrappings
Really good gloves for this build, has high armor, good attack speed, and good proc. The component is pretty much the best choice for the gloves as fire, vitality, and poison resists are what this build lacks. Consecrated Wrappings is good if you get the GG ring I mentioned earlier.
[li]Legs: Empowered Legplates of Valor[/li]Component: Ancient Armor Plate
BIS. Insanely high resists, +2 to Scars of Battle, high armor, and high Health. General rule with %Armor bonus (from components, skills and items that don’t have armor) is that this bonus applies to ALL armor slots. This is will give the warder some tankiness so that the warder can focus on damage output.
[li]Feet: Golemborn Greaves[/li]Component: Mark of Mogdrogen
Another piece of gear that offers REALLY GOOD defensive stats. In addition to that, the proc is AMAZING!!! Since we’ll have gear that have high resistances, we can get away with equipping a Mark of Mogdrogen for move speed, health, and health regen.
[li]Amulet: Ultos’s Gem[/li]Component: Arcane Spark
Amazing Amulet. The +2 to Primal Strike and %Physical to Lightning Conversion are pretty golden. Arcane Spark is a must have for its stats.
[li]Ring: Lifegiver Signet[/li] Go back to the top of this post to know about the component for this ring. Lifesteal is very useful for this build. The vitality resist from the ring are also useful. Even though the chain lightnings from torrent and storm tap only do 45% Weapon damage, the fact that they deal damage to MULTIPLE TARGETS makes this ring very useful.
[li]Medal: Badge of Mastery[/li]Component: Black Tallow
BIS simply because it’s so STRONK! The main stats to look out for when crafting one are at least 30% Elemental Resist and +3 to Primal Strike, if by chance the badge has +5 to primal strike, than remove 2 points from Primal Strike because the skill will only scale up to rank 26. This will give you 2 more skill points to be used.
[li]Waist: Tinker’s Ingenuity[/li]Component:Antivenom Salve
Gives high bleeding and poison & acid resists, also reduces the armor requirements in order to equip Empowered Legplates of Valor. Antivenom Salve goes hand in hand with this as it further increases poison & acid resists and gives health regen.
[li]Relic: Eye of the Storm[/li]This is a no-brainer since we’re focusing on lightning damage. Gives +1 to all shaman skills, reduces skill energy cost, and gives an AMAZING AURA that improves our lightning damage. Be sure to roll +1 to Torrent to improve the damage output even more.