On the other hand if the majority of your runs are through fiend/undead areas, or areas with a high elemental content (like the citadel which has both), then it's a fairly good investment. It's also good if you have a faust and like the charge attack. My friend has this hood and he doesn't get cursed that often. I've got an ashtail cap that has some curse resist on it and I get cursed somewhat infrequently, but moreso than he does.

QTF

I'm currently on my way to getting Divine Veil and the Volcanic Plate. =D
Uber Elemental defense and great Phys defense still. And wicked sick resistances.

Oh, and the Divine Veil is the first 5* item I'm aiming for specifically because it offers Shadow defense of which I have none yet except my shield.

"In my view there are many nice set-ups out there what people lack is the time to compare all the armors and helms and make a great mix. Many of the players I see use cookie cutter layouts (Vog Helm and Armor with Grey Owlite Shield). "

I personally can't wait until the next big boss to see how equipment builds will change. I mean, right now those builds are top tier partly because of the fire resist, but perhaps new bosses will see the rise of new kinds of weapons and perhaps, shockingly, diversity! =p

In another light, I almost think that using the Plate Mail, lowering more Attack Speed, has helped me to control my sword and shield a lot better instead of just mashing enemies into corners and hoping not to get hit.

Yup your absolutely right about that when new bosses do come out it may change gear set-ups which will be very interesting for sure. Personally, all my swords are already slow (DA and GF), so I dont really notice the slow movement much, and if I wish to remove the well attack speed I would just need to obtain uv's for the weapons =). The great thing about the plate sets are that it makes you feel like your untouchable since with the right uv's your normal defense can be MAXED out so hits become very little =).

First sorry for spelling your name wrong

Well to max out normal defense with:

Divine Veil or Volcanic Plate Armor

is pretty easy:

V-Plate Mail = is basically max normal so any low uv on normal defense would work well with it or even on your divine veil

Now this would be a beastly combo as well:

V-Plate Armor (Elemental Uv: High or Medium) *I have this uv on my ironmight armor instead*, but with Divine Veil with: Elemental High or Shadow High could put you close to having MAXED elemental and normal defense. (Max = the bars are maxed out).

^Maxed elemental with V-plate and maxed normal is possible sorry if what I posted is kinda confusing though. (If I had the divine veil I can see the stats clearly when its equipped on-to me).

Get what you need for whatever you are running and just wear a costume. I wear vog cub coat and a skolver cap, but wear cobalt and a divine veil for the costume.

If you can get a Divine Veil with a good UV (for normal), and wear with strong normal armor, it should do well...

At least, that the theory I'll be testing - I just got a Skolver Coat (with elemental UV high) and Divine Veil (with normal UV moderate). This looks to give me decent Normal and Elemental, with some Piercing and Shadow on the side, bonus sword damage, and resistances to freeze, fire, shock, and curse.

Plus, it looks cool. So even if it fails to measure up, well, I have one heck of a costume.

dis thread should go in Arsenal.

anyways, no normal damage can really kill u. find something with good normal defense.

I wear a divine veil + skolver + aegis just have to be careful around lumbers.