Imperial Plate set useful?Follow

The only set benefit that I have seen from this stuff is when you have 2 of the items you recieve @100AC. There is no benefit to having 3 items. That has been tested by my BS friend who makes the stuff. For your level, the bracer belt combo is the only one that makes sense, the extra AC is good to have. None of the gear is better than the green items that you can buy in AH.

My opinion is that the stuff is not worth it.

For the record, 4 items gives you +28 attack power and I've heard 6 gives 12 sta. If it didn't take ludicrous amounts of thorium to make the chest/legs/boots/helm, wouldn't be bad to get to hold you over until you can get better stuff from instances.

(but it does)

Imperial Plate is better than the 'of the bear' greens, but worse than most blues. The cost is very high though, personally I felt it was a better use of my gold to buy a couple nice blues than the whole set. I did, however, buy a couple pieces to get the +100 armor bonus. I use the belt and shoulders, but only because I got lucky and had Lord Incendius drop an 'of the bear' version of his bracer on the first kill. At the time I had been using bracer and shoulders from IP set.

What weapons were you refering to, Kalinwulf? I've checked the AH a few times and have yet to find anything better than Thrashblade or Princess Theradras' Scepter for less than 200G.

Edited, Mon May 23 05:36:12 2005 by Ziggyny

if you're level 52 and have some high level friends, get them to goto eatern plaguelands and kill Lord Darkscythe, he drops the Ta'Kierthan Songblade which IMO is one of the best weapons at your level.

Imperial set sounds good when you get the first few pieces, but most of the medium level instances drop blues that'll last till valor. If you want a really good suit of armor, get Hydralick Armor, gives good bonus's and has decent defence.

Personally, I feel that this set is usless. Run a few instances, and you can get better greens/blues from bosses, in less time then it takes to get all the mats for this set, and then find a blacksmith that can make it all. The only reason I would get this set, is for looks. It looks cool, but that is the extend of its uses.

The price of imperial is plummeting on my server now due to thorium prices coming back to reasonable levels (from 9g/stack after the patch that introduced the imperial set to 4-5). Should be able to get a full set for 60g or less now.

I spent something like 25g on 6 out of 7 pieces (keeping the rockridge legs from maraudon) and I'd have to spend hundreds of gold and weeks camping the AH to match the stats at level 55. I wouldn't buy it if it amounted to 50g or more though, esp since you can't get a lot of bonus from it until lvl 54 which is pretty close to 'endgame' instance lvl.

I lose about 1.5% damage reduction compared to using blues, but the stats and price more than weight up for that IMO. Also, finding blues with the right stats to complement your other gear isn't easy. Since this set has tons of STR and STA and nothing else, I like it for now ;)