Looking to have high end custom PVM suit made.

Looking for a PVM suit to add to my collection. Need a craftsman who can integrate/maximize skills, stats, and play style into a suit for this old Sage.

Credit to my old friend @Finley Grant who has been my absolute go to suit builder over the years. He is the quintessential master at this. Enjoy your retirement my friend 

If you had some references that would be great if we do not have history together.

What sort of template are you wanting a suit built for? 

King_Greg said:

What sort of template are you wanting a suit built for? 

Hello King Greg,

Looking for a good PVM hunting suit. 

The basic stats are as follows. 

Str 125
Dex 10
Int 125

120 Focus
100 Inscription
120 Evaluate Intelligence
120 Magery
  20 Meditation 
120 Mysticism
120 Spell Weaving 

Looking to Maximize damage output and overall effectiveness. 

Plays with Protection spell on so Physical damage would need to be at 80 to start
Usually holding a 50% sdi invasion spellbook. 

A mage suit.  Thats easy.  Head wear Dr Spectors or Halo.  Arms, Cuffs of the Archmage. Pants Kelp legs or the Elf version.  Just need a Chest, gorget, and gloves.  The basic Leg Mage shield that drops from roof.Tali the orb with SDI and LMC. Tangle, Hawkwinds robe.  LT sash if you need the 1 MR.  You do not need DCI because template does not have the skills needed. Jumu cloak for 5 SDI.

Right, Looking for something a little more next level. 

Str 28, Dex 28, Int 25, HPR 17, SR 15, MR 12  129/104/97/104/90 Resists, DI 60 DCI 20 LMC 22
Not bad for a starter set for my warriors and all from VS and every piece was less than 1M max

I also have a mage suit
Int 71, mana 76, MR47, resists suck, LMC 88, LRC 135  this is a MAX Regen suit for scribes but works great for casting spells non stop for training

I am working on a Mage suit with all the Mage stuff and 70+ resists in everything and yes both of these suits are brittle and so will my Tamer/Bard/Mage suit to run mastries nonstop while killing stuff with my pet

There isn't something really "next level" than most of what was suggested. For PvM, you're looking to max SDI. The only pieces that really require thinking are your jewels, gloves, and sometimes neck if you need it to cover resistances.

Head: Scholar's Halo
Neck: Pendant of the Magi (or a good gorget if you want resistances here)
Chest: Protector of the Battle Mage
Gloves: good legendary with whatever stats you're missing (lmc/lrc), 4 mana regen, int, mana, maybe an eater
Legs: Kelp Woven
Back: Jumu's
Robe: Hawkwind's
Sash: Spell focusing or Lieutenant
Belt: Tangle
Feet: Minax's Sandals
Weapon: 50 SDI spellbook
Shield: Vesper Chaos Shield
Ring: Crystalline
Bracelet: 18 SDI, 3 FCR, int
Earrings: 2% to a resist if you need to cover something like physical to have 70 even with protection
Talisman: Wizard's Curio or any other 5 SDI talisman

@bas what are all the stats with all those items on, maybe that will help.

It depends on your gloves/neck choice, but my tamer has:
127 / 10 / 150 str/dex/int
118 / 10 / 212 hp/stam/mana
151 SDI (164 with reaper, 189 with reaper + arcane empowerment)
3/6 fc/fcr
40 lmc
110 lrc
5 DCI
28 mana regen
67/70/70/70/75 (with protection, maxed without protection, maxed with reaper + protection)
770 skill points (120 lore taming eval mage med weaving, 50 focus)
27% poison eater

I could probably find slightly better gloves/neck to eek out the last 3% phys, but I'm often in reaper form, so it doesn't matter.

Thank you @bas

You're welcome. 🙂 @Lord_Frodo

I prefer the Basic Legendary shield you get from the Roof:



Since I use protection, FC is useless. The str requirement is less for these.
FCR is cheap on jewelry.  MR 4 is sweet.

you mentioned you use protection, do you also want 2/6 (magery cap) or 4/6 (weaving cap) ? 

do you want antique jewels or much more expensive and most likely not as powerful clean jewels?

are you wanting to maximize SDI only, or sacrifice a few points of sdi for other stats?

Smoot said:

you mentioned you use protection, do you also want 2/6 (magery cap) or 4/6 (weaving cap) ? 

do you want antique jewels or much more expensive and most likely not as powerful clean jewels?

are you wanting to maximize SDI only, or sacrifice a few points of sdi for other stats?

I think I would like to max the SDI. Magery is usually my go to side for supporting a group I am hunting with. Spell Weaving maximized damage with WORD of Death that I can cast over and over would be a good objective to achieve. Right now I can hit with that at 705 hp of damage about 4 times or so in a row. 

This is what I consider Next Level. I tried really hard to get 250 mana but I just couldn't make it happen with the 150 HP. Has Halo, Slither and Minax Sandals along with a few no names. I have not died in PVM is over a year with it. The suit also has 18 MR and 12% Casting Focus.

Lord_Nabin said:

Right now I can hit with that at 705 hp of damage about 4 times or so in a row. 

I can do 9 WoD before I reach >30 with the suit I mentioned.  My other toon with more Meditation can do 8 while running consume. Both do 800 to 900 WoD damage depending on targets.

I go with 30MR and have 120 mag and eval. I die often because I make bad choices.

bas said:

It depends on your gloves/neck choice, but my tamer has:
127 / 10 / 150 str/dex/int
118 / 10 / 212 hp/stam/mana
151 SDI (164 with reaper, 189 with reaper + arcane empowerment)
3/6 fc/fcr
40 lmc
110 lrc
5 DCI
28 mana regen
67/70/70/70/75 (with protection, maxed without protection, maxed with reaper + protection)
770 skill points (120 lore taming eval mage med weaving, 50 focus)
27% poison eater

I could probably find slightly better gloves/neck to eek out the last 3% phys, but I'm often in reaper form, so it doesn't matter.

@bas ;

Could you please provide a break down of the various pieces of your suit and which are artifacts and which imbued ?

I see that you have no luck on it, does it means that you have then a luck suit that you swap for the kill ?

Thanks !

My suits has over 200 SDI in Reaper form and AE form with 221 mana, 134 HPs, and 29MR. 🙂

Word of Death is such a joke @Kyronix . It can be used by everyone on screen to kill and get looting rights from anything. Death Ray however, which pales in comparison, can only be used by a single person against a single target. One of these should be changed to match the other.

Pawain said:

Lord_Nabin said:

Right now I can hit with that at 705 hp of damage about 4 times or so in a row. 

I can do 9 WoD before I reach >30 with the suit I mentioned.  My other toon with more Meditation can do 8 while running consume. Both do 800 to 900 WoD damage depending on targets.

I go with 30MR and have 120 mag and eval. I die often because I make bad choices.

I can totally relate to that last sentence! 

RubyKnight said:

This is what I consider Next Level. I tried really hard to get 250 mana but I just couldn't make it happen with the 150 HP. Has Halo, Slither and Minax Sandals along with a few no names. I have not died in PVM is over a year with it. The suit also has 18 MR and 12% Casting Focus.

Well Done! Can you break down what you did to get to 250 mana please. 

I appreciate all the very good input. Here is where I am at so far

Head: Dr Spector's lenses
Neck: Pendant of the Magi
Chest: Protector of the Battle Mage
Gloves: Grey Mist (Mi 2, SDI 2% pr 7 dr 7 cr 3 pr 4 er 4)
Legs: Enchanted Kelp Woven Leggings 
Back: Jumu's Sacred Hide
Robe: Hawkwind's Robe
Sash: Lieutenant of the Britannian Royal Guard 
Belt: Crimson Cinture
Feet: Minax's Sandals
Weapon: 50 SDI spellbook (MR 3 SDI 50% FC 1 LRC 10%)
Shield: Arcane Chaos Shield of Sorcery ( SC 30% INT +5 MI 5 MR 4 LMC 5% pr5 fr 4 cr 3 pr 4 er 1
Talisman: Mana Phasing Orb MR 1 HC 5 SDI 5 LMC 6 
Ring: Compassion's Eye
Bracelet: open 
Earrings: open

Suit Stats are as follows

Dex Bonus 5
Intelligence Bonus 38
Hit Points Increase 15/25
Mana Increase 30/25
Hit point Regen 2/18
Mana Regen 29/30
Physical R 47/70
Fire R 67/70
Cold R 57/70
Poison R 59/70
Energy R 62/70

Damage Increase 20
Hit Chance Increase 5 
LMC 52/40

FC 1/4
FCR 1/6
LRC 125/100
SDI 137
Soul charge 30
Casting 7/12

Night Sight
Resisting Spells +15

The basic stats are as follows. 

Str 125
Dex 10
Int 125

120 Focus
100 Inscription
120 Evaluate Intelligence
120 Magery
  20 Meditation 
120 Mysticism
120 Spell Weaving 

Now Bracelet is another 18% SDI when made that gets me to 155 with room for another 5%

I would like to get this to an all 70's suit if possible while protection is on. Max out the mana to 250 and the hit points. 

Seems like I would adjust the stats to 150 int and 150 str with whatever else I can to Dex? 

Ok thoughts everyone! Thank you! 

Dump the pendant and chest. You can easily find 20 physical resist chest and gorget on Atlantic with 4 Mr 20 lrc 10 mana. They were less than 2 M each. I just happened to buy a bunch this week but I left a few.

Also look at gloves for more phy resist.

You also have the cuffs I think. 

When I die it would not matter if I had high hitpoints or not. 

Yes I have the Cuffs missed putting that on there. 

OK after a lot of work here is where I ended up. 

Head:                    The Scholar’s Halo

Ears:                      Nocturne Earings

Neck:                    Pendant of The Magi

Chest:                   Protector of the Battle Mage

Arms:                    Cuffs of the Archmage

Legs:                      Enchanted Kelp Woven Leggings

Feet:                      Minx’s Sandals

Hands:                  Mystic Gloves of Defense Int +6 MI +6 MR +1 luck 40 PR 30 FR 5 CR 24 PR 9 ER 21

Shield:                  Arcane Chaos Shield of Sorcery Soul Charge 30% Spell Channeling INT +5 MI 5 MR 4 LMC 5 PR 5 CR 3 PR 4 ER 1

Ring:                      Crystalline Ring

Bracelet:              Vicious Bracelet of Wizardry Magery +15 SDI +18 FCR 3 Poison Resist 11

Tali:                        Wizard’s Curio

Cloak:                    Jumu’s Sacred Hide

Robe:                    Hawkwind’s Robe

Sash:                     Lieutenant of the Britannian Royal Guard

Waist:                  Tangle

Spellbook:           Invasion 50% SDI

STR 125                 Total 294                              Focus 120                             Total 785

DEX 19                                                                Inscription 100                                  

INT 150                                                                Evaluate Intelligence 120

                                                                             Magery  120

                                                                             Meditation  85

                                                                             Mysticism 120

                                                                             Spellweaving 120

212 SDI total with Reaper Form and Arcane Empowerment

Last steps I would like to add another +15 meditation to the ring, 5% LRC so I could change the sandals to detective boots, and the 11% Poison Resist off the ring to make room for the Meditation. 

Tested the suit this morning seems like plenty of casting power and WoD hit for 937

Lord_Nabin said:

I appreciate all the very good input. Here is where I am at so far

Head: Dr Spector's lenses
Neck: Pendant of the Magi
Chest: Protector of the Battle Mage
Gloves: Grey Mist (Mi 2, SDI 2% pr 7 dr 7 cr 3 pr 4 er 4)
Legs: Enchanted Kelp Woven Leggings 
Back: Jumu's Sacred Hide
Robe: Hawkwind's Robe
Sash: Lieutenant of the Britannian Royal Guard 
Belt: Crimson Cinture
Feet: Minax's Sandals
Weapon: 50 SDI spellbook (MR 3 SDI 50% FC 1 LRC 10%)
Shield: Arcane Chaos Shield of Sorcery ( SC 30% INT +5 MI 5 MR 4 LMC 5% pr5 fr 4 cr 3 pr 4 er 1
Talisman: Mana Phasing Orb MR 1 HC 5 SDI 5 LMC 6 
Ring: Compassion's Eye
Bracelet: open 
Earrings: open

Suit Stats are as follows

Dex Bonus 5
Intelligence Bonus 38
Hit Points Increase 15/25
Mana Increase 30/25
Hit point Regen 2/18
Mana Regen 29/30
Physical R 47/70
Fire R 67/70
Cold R 57/70
Poison R 59/70
Energy R 62/70

Damage Increase 20
Hit Chance Increase 5 
LMC 52/40

FC 1/4
FCR 1/6
LRC 125/100
SDI 137
Soul charge 30
Casting 7/12

Night Sight
Resisting Spells +15

The basic stats are as follows. 

Str 125
Dex 10
Int 125

120 Focus
100 Inscription
120 Evaluate Intelligence
120 Magery
  20 Meditation 
120 Mysticism
120 Spell Weaving 

Now Bracelet is another 18% SDI when made that gets me to 155 with room for another 5%

I would like to get this to an all 70's suit if possible while protection is on. Max out the mana to 250 and the hit points. 

Seems like I would adjust the stats to 150 int and 150 str with whatever else I can to Dex? 

Ok thoughts everyone! Thank you! 

I have the same except meditation in place of inscription 

So med 120 focus 120 and MR 30, yet I still run out of mana by the time I wish to strike with WOD.

Before arcane empowerment and reaper form, item max sdi can achieve 156, but resist is bad. This is mainly due to Pendant of the Magi.

Swap that for a legendary and should be able to get 70s resist.

So I have 3 configuration:
1) Max SDI 156 + arcane emp + reaper form = 216
2) Max resist 150 - 151 SDI before arcane emp + reaper form. Should be about 210 SDI in total.
3) Swap to max luck suit at 2500+ and statue. 

Then 7 superslayer spellbook keys with SDI >= 25 and all lesser slayers on standby in pack.

Very Good. I missed the town bonus for SDI 5%. Moving my loyalty around to pick that up as well. 

When you carry all the slayers do you have some macro to switch them out or do you have to do it manually?

Lord_Nabin said:

Very Good. I missed the town bonus for SDI 5%. Moving my loyalty around to pick that up as well. 

When you carry all the slayers do you have some macro to switch them out or do you have to do it manually?

Great input friend! 

Wish there was a like button! 

Speaking of spellbooks and cameos, anyone else tired of backpack being FULL on your fully equipped 'any situation' toons? My sampire has something like 20+ weapons + cameos

Nikard said:

Speaking of spellbooks and cameos, anyone else tired of backpack being FULL on your fully equipped 'any situation' toons? My sampire has something like 20+ weapons + cameos

Same suit, yada yada.... But what I don't see is enhancing the gloves. I tookrtook high resists legendary gloves, and enhanced them with valorite. With just that piece, and the arti sdi, I'm at all 70 except poison. 

Returning after many years away, my approach was also to drop Pendant of the Magi, and thanks to that am well above 70s in everything, even in reaper form. The pieces are the same that have been mentioned here, and My book is only 46SDI.
Running Magery 120 (15 from jewel)
Eval 120
Med 95
Spellweaving 120  (use its mastery)
Inscription 100
Poison 80
Resist Spells 105 (w jewel). 

How does it look to the experts?

Seth said:

This looks like a PVP template to me with Poison and Resist. Since I have retired from UO PVP (rather play other game for PVP), so I will not go there.

If it is a SDI mage in PVM and non-solo situation (e.g. invasion, EM events, etc), this is my opinion:

1) No need for Resist, poison.

2) Mystic + Focus instead, both 120

I prefer 120 Focus and 120 Med over 100 inscription, so that I can continuously dump spells on the bosses without interruption, and including WOD.

Even at 120 Focus and 120 Med, I ran out of mana by the time their HP reaches 35% for WOD.

Thanks for your answer Seth.
You do make a good point! (although I love to see orcs and liutenants spassming uncontrollably in pain, hehehe)
 I'll stone-swap the skills and see what kind of jewels I can find to try this template out , but will have to train Mystic cuz I've never used it.
So here the question would be, what does Mysticism bring to the table, what spells do you use from it?

Thanks again! I guess I'll learn my favorites trying to level up the skill. I just hope it doesn't take forever, hahaha!

Archangel said:

Returning after many years away, my approach was also to drop Pendant of the Magi, and thanks to that am well above 70s in everything, even in reaper form. The pieces are the same that have been mentioned here, and My book is only 46SDI.
Running Magery 120 (15 from jewel)
Eval 120
Med 95
Spellweaving 120  (use its mastery)
Inscription 100
Poison 80
Resist Spells 105 (w jewel). 

How does it look to the experts?

@Archangel ;

out of curiosity, what is the interface that you are using to display those stats ?

The reason that I am asking, is that I am using the Enhanced Client with Pinco and it looks different to me, for example, my Character Sheet, not only uses different icons but, among others, does not Display the Strength Bonus, Dexterity Bonus, Intelligence Bonus or Hit Point increase, Stamina increase, Mana increase and so forth that I see as shown in your pictures....

Furthermore, yours is called "Equipment Stats", mine is called "Character sheet"....

Lord_Nabin said:

OK after a lot of work here is where I ended up. 

Head:                    The Scholar’s Halo

Ears:                      Nocturne Earings

Neck:                    Pendant of The Magi

Chest:                   Protector of the Battle Mage

Arms:                    Cuffs of the Archmage

Legs:                      Enchanted Kelp Woven Leggings

Feet:                      Minx’s Sandals

Hands:                  Mystic Gloves of Defense Int +6 MI +6 MR +1 luck 40 PR 30 FR 5 CR 24 PR 9 ER 21

Shield:                  Arcane Chaos Shield of Sorcery Soul Charge 30% Spell Channeling INT +5 MI 5 MR 4 LMC 5 PR 5 CR 3 PR 4 ER 1

Ring:                      Crystalline Ring

Bracelet:              Vicious Bracelet of Wizardry Magery +15 SDI +18 FCR 3 Poison Resist 11

Tali:                        Wizard’s Curio

Cloak:                    Jumu’s Sacred Hide

Robe:                    Hawkwind’s Robe

Sash:                     Lieutenant of the Britannian Royal Guard

Waist:                  Tangle

Spellbook:           Invasion 50% SDI

STR 125                 Total 294                              Focus 120                             Total 785

DEX 19                                                                Inscription 100                                  

INT 150                                                                Evaluate Intelligence 120

                                                                             Magery  120

                                                                             Meditation  85

                                                                             Mysticism 120

                                                                             Spellweaving 120

212 SDI total with Reaper Form and Arcane Empowerment

Last steps I would like to add another +15 meditation to the ring, 5% LRC so I could change the sandals to detective boots, and the 11% Poison Resist off the ring to make room for the Meditation. 

Tested the suit this morning seems like plenty of casting power and WoD hit for 937

@Lord_Nabin ;

what is that you are using to display those stats ?

From the Buff icon visible below as well as the game Graphics visible through the transparency, I gather that you are using the Classic Client.

How can you get all those Stats informations using the Classic Client ? Using what ?

Also, how did you get that "transparency effect" to have them show the Graphics background below through them ?

Thanks !

It appears he is using the stat screen from the mannequins. He just cut and pasted it all in one photo. The transparency is how it appears in CC naturally .

Marge said:

It appears he is using the stat screen from the mannequins. He just cut and pasted it all in one photo. The transparency is how it appears in CC naturally .

Ah, thanks, never used a Mannequin so it looked not familiar to me.

Change shield for vesper chaos shield to get to fcr6? and if you are using WOD, wont you want FC4? Use FC1 on book, FC1 on brace, FC1 on halo, FC1 on shield?

popps said:

Archangel said:

Returning after many years away, my approach was also to drop Pendant of the Magi, and thanks to that am well above 70s in everything, even in reaper form. The pieces are the same that have been mentioned here, and My book is only 46SDI.
Running Magery 120 (15 from jewel)
Eval 120
Med 95
Spellweaving 120  (use its mastery)
Inscription 100
Poison 80
Resist Spells 105 (w jewel). 

How does it look to the experts?

@ Archangel 

out of curiosity, what is the interface that you are using to display those stats ?

The reason that I am asking, is that I am using the Enhanced Client with Pinco and it looks different to me, for example, my Character Sheet, not only uses different icons but, among others, does not Display the Strength Bonus, Dexterity Bonus, Intelligence Bonus or Hit Point increase, Stamina increase, Mana increase and so forth that I see as shown in your pictures....

Furthermore, yours is called "Equipment Stats", mine is called "Character sheet"....

Hi Popps, I'm using classic client. the gear is seen like this because it's being worn by a mannequin, and that's how it shows when you click the mannequin option to display suit stats.  🙂

Yes Classic Client and the Mannequin. 

Like most said not having the 4/6 casting is making a huge difference. 

Looking to upgrade the ring a little bit with some solid skill adds and at least 1/3