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Weapons

One-Handed

One-Handed weapons are primarily used in DW setups. There is the occasional Sword and Board setup, but DW considerations dominate market demand and thus pricing. The most common DW setup is Club/Rapier with Light or Heavy Armor, followed by Club/Dagger (usually Light) and Axe/Rapier (usually Heavy) in no particular order.

Two-Handed

Estoc is probably the best weapon in the game right now. Paired with Heavy Armor, it's got plenty of raw damage combined with a PA proc to tear through monsters quickly. Paired with Shade it makes for a glass cannon though. Mace is preferred for Shade builds, since the Stun allows them to avoid lots of damage. Slashing weapons are presently out of favor at high levels, since the Bleed nerf and because PA is so very powerful.

Staff

Staves are annoying to judge. They have more stats than anything except Light Armor, and usually several of them are pertinent.

Armor

Shields

Shields are presently out of favor because of the sluggish kill speed of 1H setups. High block chance is still valuable, but don't expect much money from even an exceptional shield.

Buckler

Barrier is the best suffix, as it adds to Block Chance. Nimble is similar but worse (while it can get a higher total Parry/Block, Parry is only physical, block is both). Protection/Warding is worthless. Battlecaster is ???

Kite & Tower

Grouped due to similarities. Barrier is by far the best, Battlecaster is ???. Everything else is jank.

Cloth

Mages are all about firepower and killing the enemy before it can even move. If a piece of armor doesn't advance that goal, they don't want it. Evade is good too.

Cotton

Cotton does not contribute anything to a mage's offensive abilities. It is therefore pretty much worthless, a way for newbies to fill in slots before they find something useful (or the free sections of WTS). Sell it or salvage it.

Light

Light builds are split among Mitigation based Kevlar builds and Evade based Shade builds.

Heavy

Heavy armor is presently considered the best for clearing at high difficulties due to the consistent defense of high PMI. Power Armor's very high ADB doesn't hurt things either.