By Ragnarok.Martel 2012-12-26 12:33:53
Assuming top-tier gear already, there's only about 2 usable DD pieces.
Ares' hands+1 are a minor upgrade over brego. More STR/atk. Although -1 acc.
And Ker's flanchard is a surprisingly good jump piece. They're actually a DPS gain over lancer legs based on spreadsheet results.(assuming my sets, of course.)
Ares head/legs+1 suffer from a lack of stp, compared to phorcys(and -1% haste on the head.) Making them hard to work into a 5-hit build. I played around with various builds in the spreadsheet, but couldn't find a setup that made them worth using.
The body makes a good idle piece. But the regen/refresh are only 2/tick. Making it inferior to Kumarbi's as a regen piece, and only equal to twilight for refresh. And twilight is eternally in your inv anyway, so it won't even save space. Only viable for DD purposes as a /mage TP body. For ws it's just a gimp phorcys korazin. It would be the strongest normal jump body... if you were focusing purely on per hit dmg, rather than TP gain. Oh, it does make a good HP+ body for healing breath trigger though. Most of Ares+1 does(depending on race.)
Overall, very disappointing gear for DRG. Although that assessment may change slightly depending on if the Ares set bonus is tiered, and it's potency. But it's to early for anyone to have more than one piece. And these aren't available on the test server yet.