I guess it all depends of ones expactations. For sure if you go from Polearm guard to Hox in PvP you'll have a choc. Same thing in PvE when you go from barb to hox. It's a diffrent world.
Vali~The Mental Mushroom
Vehl~The Pink Flamingo
Vahlie~Redhead's bane
Tisane~Kettle of Xotli
Nvah~ . . .
Alternatives for belt and shoulder also includes Shadows if you want the "free" items from dungeons. Shadows pieces drop from Pillars (shoulders) and Malice (belt). Wolves gear isn't bad either but a bit more turtleish in regards of the pure strength stat that adds to armor, and loss of magic damage.
The Dragon Spine items are rather expensive with a cost of 196 rares per piece. I enjoyed playing my HoX pretty much in the HMs when I geared it up, so getting 400 Rare Trophies was done in just a few weeks time.
Hey guys, which is better Poss or Avatar?
http://joharaoc.eu/feat?link=v4_12b6...bfac1b2601c00c
http://joharaoc.eu/feat?link=v4_12b1...bafc1be7c1bbc0
(taken from the HoX Raid Guide thread)
For what purpose? Levelling I guess? Since you are level 65, I'd focus on having a possession / general build. You could have this as a starting point, and progress further down Possession. http://goo.gl/cIW6xE this gives you survivability from general, spreading burn to death dot, self resurrection, silencing on hellfire breath, aoe stun and increased range on root.
Possession for HoX has so many of the good utility feats it's almost unfair. Self-rez, Inferno, Phoenix Wings, Horrible Visage, even Touch of Hell is useful.
ANY leveling HoX would find the above feats from Possession tree useful. But if you plan on doing lots of PvE stuff, or anything really, you'll be relying on Burn to Death for damage, and Avatar tree is where you get the most out of it.
If you can multi-spec, by level 80 you want to have a Poss and an Avatar spec. There really are situations where each is king. For example, I still can't beat Vayaspara on Dead Man's Hand with a Poss spec, but I can manage it handily with Avatar. The dps for me is simply superior. But Poss gives you Chains and the magic damage to do better ranged damage for when you can't stick to your target all the time.
How come we don't have a HoX feating guide like Sidar's DT guide at this point...After the HoX changes come out, I swear we will maybe want a guide for this forum.
Last edited by CimmerianHoX; 10th September 2014 at 05:01.