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Nexus Clash :: View topic - Thinking of all classes and soak
Clothing holds six enchantments. Armor holds ten. There are nine (easily available) clothing slots and eight types of damage you can actually enchant against. You wear conventional armor (probably Military Encounter Armor) in the ninth slot for the mundane soaks, and either enchant it to soak whatever exotic damage type you're most worried about or just take dodge or lightness or whatever and leave your exotic soaks at 6.
GI gives +4 to all soaks. It also stacks with regular and lesser invulnerability potions, although for the sake of your question we'll ignore that.
That gives you a profile of 8/11/9 against impact/piercing/slashing, and 10 against everything else, unless you decided to damage enchant the MEA in which case one of the other soaks will be 14. Note that you'll need an Advocate to enchant against holy, a Conduit to enchant against arcane, and a Dark Oppressor to enchant against unholy.
"Best" is kind of a bad description of this, though, because that many enchantments is insanely expensive and impractical to upkeep.
Last edited by Kiralio on Thu Dec 10, 2015 9:31 am; edited 1 time in total
You can get more mundane soak, and also more enchantment slots, by wearing leather cuirass + police riot suit as opposed to just a MEA. Having just the MEA is, however, much easier to upkeep.
Short answer: Immunity to one element, minimum of 30 soak against two elements, minimum 26 soak against all elements, and minimum of 25 soak against mundane types.
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Two pieces of armor give you 10 base soak against whatever you enchant them to defend. The base soak from armor is a bit trickier since it depends on the particular Shirt+Jacket combo you've picked. Thing is, with Mystic Mail around, you are guaranteed a minimum of 5 base against all mundane types, which is what I used in the short answer.
You get 6 base soak for the rest of the elements thanks to clothing enchantments.
Invul pots are an extra +9 soak to everything.
Being in the Adamant Kinship is a +3 soak to everything. EDIT: Though it doesn't synergize at all with the Conduit's Trail bonuses.
Eating painkillers, which are available to find in pharmacies, gives you yet another +1 soak to everything.
Mystic Shield would give you +2 soak. I originally thought spells shouldn't count, but then realized that if enchantments count, an Advocate Holy Transfering a spell onto you should too.
A friendly HC with Cloak of the Foundation can Divine Resolve all allies in the tile for +2 soak against everything.
Advocates provide a +3 soak bonus when they bless their friends.
Provided a Conduit gets lucky and you acquire the upgraded Focused Trail, that's another +1 soak against everything. This cannot stack with the AK bonus, I believe.
That's whatever armor you started with, plus 20 soak with friends helping out. This means you will have a minimum of 30 soak against two elements and 26 or more soak against all others except mundane types which can't be enchanted. Thanks to Mystic Mail, however, you are guaranteed a minimum of 5 against all mundane types.
Oh, and an affinity pot. _________________ For the Kin!
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