Andor's Trail

Was working on my latest build when i found this ring:

Ring of the Protector

AC: +20%
AD: 0-3
BC: 14%
Raises max HP: +3

The stats on this thing are amazing, its just the price tag that i am not too fond of. 4.3K is pretty pricey early on in the game.

Opinions?

in most cases, i judge my gear on how many levels it would take to gain said bonus

so, in my opinion...

- the HP bonus is negligible (0.6 levels)
- AD bonus varies (1.5 levels on average)
- BC is nice (4.666 levels) - blah [see below]
- AC bonus is also nice (4 levels)

i tend to use rings for offense, not defense...
so all i see is an AC ring - but that's just me!

with $4K gold, i would get a JoF, PRoB & Villain's Armor...
leaving no room for this ring.

BUT - this is very close to being an amazing ring!
if certain things change during the development of this game...
i could see myself buying it.

(it costs over four grand for a reason! )

Honestly had i not already had 2 rols this would be the ring i would have used until i got them. as a rounded character the high level value of this ring would be worth the money and it would have suited me quite well.

My first build could not have cared for it, it did not care for block chance at all (even had a negative BC for a long time). For my 2nd character I decided to go exactly the other way. I was indeed using this ring right up to the moment I got my 2nd RolS. It's one of the best BC boosts you can get. In fact, if you count how much levels it takes to obtain the same stats the RolS only barely beats it.

I found the Villain's ring to be a good non-critical store bought substitute for the RoLS. Same AC%, almost the same AD, and some extra HP.

a long time I preferred rings with offensive power but since I started two new Chars I mostly use only these rings (pushing the BC sligthly over the AC of the monsters I hunt). Even the RolS is not that powerfull imho as long as the Char is below Lvl 50 or so and its BC < 90% ...
With the main Char (stats below) I use one RolS and one RotP. If I loose to much HP I switch to 2 RotP and use the RoL to recover faster while slaying some not so powerfull monsters.