SoD T5 or Crystallos Raid Essenced?

[Blabberpuss Stryyker]

What do you guys prefer if you can get either one? Prismatic Gallant Lord or SoD group T5?

[knytul]

SoD Tier 5 Group gear beats Crys Group gear HANDS DOWN

[Wyvernwill]

Wait... you're comparing SoD Group Armor to Crystallos Raid Armor?
Other than Heroics on some slots (considering a lot of Paladin Crys/MMM gear lacks agi/dex), Prismatic Gallant-Lord wins hands down.

[boukk]

Yeah cryst raid armor is better, would even say MMM cores are.

[Normy]

Quick comparison:


SoF / Raid Tier 4 (Crystallos) Head AC: 147 HP: 840
SoD / Group Tier 5 (Ordained) Head AC: 117 HP: 725

SoF / Raid Tier 4 (Crystallos) Arms AC: 142 HP: 850
SoD / Group Tier 5 (Ordained) Arms AC: 113 HP: 725

SoF / Raid Tier 4 (Crystallos) Wrist AC: 116 HP: 790
SoD / Group Tier 5 (Ordained) Wrist AC: 90 HP: 700

SoF / Raid Tier 4 (Crystallos) Hands AC: 136 HP: 805
SoD / Group Tier 5 (Ordained) Hands AC: 107 HP: 710

SoF / Raid Tier 4 (Crystallos) Chest AC: 228 HP: 900
SoD / Group Tier 5 (Ordained) Chest AC: 182 HP: 760

SoF / Raid Tier 4 (Crystallos) Legs AC: 172 HP: 865
SoD / Group Tier 5 (Ordained) Legs AC: 137 HP: 745

SoF / Raid Tier 4 (Crystallos) Feet AC: 133 HP: 815
SoD / Group Tier 5 (Ordained) Feet AC: 104 HP: 730

TOTAL SET:
SoF / Raid Tier 4 (Crystallos) Set AC: 1190 HP: 6655
SoD / Group Tier 5 (Ordained) Set AC: 940 HP: 5795

Calculated with a metal orb from raidloot.com's armor set feature. That is a hell of a lot of AC to lose in my book, and even a loss of HP overall. The mod2's are different for the SoD gear, and I'm sure some of the focus effects will probably go up to 85, but since its group gear it probably starts off as less of a boost on the focuses anyway.

Plus on the group gear, the chest aug will never function at 100%, so the uber chest aug that you can get in the crystallos gear will be gimped a bit in the group stuff.

[Kakimor]

The biggest factor for a lot of folks is the availability of the MMM cores ... without them you CAN NOT make Crystalos armor set. You have to spend 3 to 4 times the amount of time doing MMM clears as you do Crystalos clears in order to farm the same amount of cores. Right up to the Air wing boss in crystalos is easier than MMM or so it seems, with double the amount of essences to be had. Any guild that can clear MMM will have little if no problems with events right up to Air boss that event has a much bigger learning curve than all the rest. With a bit of work and time you can make a complete set of SoD tier 5 nps.

Knights and Warriors take the biggest hit in lost stats between tier 5 groupable and crystalos raid. You could perhaps add the other melee classes in there as well due to cleave and fero being on arms and legs. Where as casters and priests can make up a lot of the lost INT and Wis by min maxing the Heroics and other mod 2s on the groupable Tier 5 set Knights and Warriors cannot say same for the lost AC. What I see a lot of folks doing is min maxing their gear by getting Tier 5 SoD groupable in visible slots and saving their dkp for non vis slots or vice versa.

[Blabberpuss Stryyker]

Well now they made this less time consuming to get a set of Crystallos Raid Visible gear. The need to get the MMM drop is no longer neccessary.....

[Normy]

Yea, but have to get two chest loots from Kerafyrm. And that can suck.