Quote Originally Posted by Almagnus1 View Post
Because our ranged slot is banner v armaments, so it's either buff us or the herald, and honestly, the herald is losing that one.

Here's to hoping the issue is resolved in U13.
I did do some testing on this. I'm only level 50-53 at the time of this conversation, but I do have a maxed tailor, and made the best armaments I could find for my Captain at this point. Until this comment, I hadn't really focused on this aspect because I figured I could make them at any point when it "became necessary" (like when I started running Turtles).

Using the armaments on the archer nerfed my dps a bit but made it so I didn't have to occupy much of my time with shield brother skills unless he was down in power or something specifically targeted him. In solo, this was a complete non-issue and will probably be my new MO.

Using the armaments on the herald doesn't seem to help as much even in solo, maybe because if you're at melee range, you simply take more damage than AoE? I couldn't say. It didn't seem to offer the same benefit tradeoff.

In fellowships, the armaments DO NOT stop the sudden death of heralds, even if they're being shield brother-ed. With crests, they seems to do slightly better, but it could be random. Not sure on that. Armaments give a herald about 1700 armor at this point? I'm not logged in and can't just look at it. No other stats are given. Shield brother give him more stats. In another thread someone mentioned that pets don't have basic att's like Might, they simply have Morale, etc.. I'm not an expert on that. But it does seem like with three layers of protection: crest, shield brother, and armaments, the pet still simply dies even when NOT fighting mobs in 6-man instances.

It could be the heals. Some of the instances clearly have mobs that target healers. The loremaster pets don't heal, so they wouldn't be targeted for any reason other than dps. Just a guess, but I did catch an orc walk right up to my passive herald and attack during a fight... from behind us. Could've been random though.