Talk:Blacksmith/Conquest Equipment/@comment-11369246-20161002214327/@comment-30325991-20161026021732

That is true. There are better attack and defense items, however getting these have other advantages. 1) Each item adds to your "archive bonus" by increasing your attack and defense.  If you do not do any PvP battles, then those are pretty irrelevant.  If you do PvP then they can add significantly to your attack and defense.  I have the 1st 7 Conqueror items and that increased my attack by 93 points. 2) The Conqueror and Guaridan items have no negative traits. For example, the Retribution Helm 55/63 for Guardian has 40 Resistance. 40 Resistance = 4% of your Defense. My defense is roughly 3000 so it adds 120 defense points. The Vargulis helm has much higher stats 80 att/80 def but -15 water resistance. The resistance makes the Retribution helm much stronger than the Vargulis Helm for defense only by more than 100 points in my case. For a level 200 player, the less expensive items are practical but in the long run, you need items with high pierce, high resistance and few negative pierce or resistance values if you plan to do Player vs Player battles. Without those pierce and resistance items, they will kill you when their base stats might be lower than your stats.