Herald of Xotli: What Stats to Look For

Armor: Primarily the choices come down to regeneration out of combat, in and out of combat (natural), and an increase in the base stat. Your main focus should be on +natural stamina and mana regeneration gear, something you will notice very early on. Grabbing health regeneration gear is also a good decision when stamina gear isn't available, and should probably be taken over mana gear outside of special cases where you're stacked with health. After all of these choices, +mana/stamina pool items are also very beneficial, although not nearly to the extent of natural generation, while a balance of each for health is probably best.

Weapons: Big focus for weapon stats will be the stat drains, primarily health drain and the higher the drain percentage the better.Stat drains essentially mean that dealing white/slash damage will drain the target of a certain percentage of that damage depending on the weapon. Having a very high health drain chance will increase your survivability substantially and is a primary focus for soloers and pvpers. When you've made it past the first 79 lvls and are finally into raiding, grabbing a stamina drain weapon will be your next focus, or a mana drain at least considering you can easily turn a little stamina into a massive chunk of mana with Body and Spirit Wrack. Of course choosing a weapon that simply has a large amount of stats would also be a choice, possibly even higher on the list than some mid to low range mana drains or very low stamina and health drain weapons.

Both: To make sure you are doing the max possible damage at all times you will want to be sure to collect the best +2handed edge and +fire damge(magic) gear you can get your hands on. The fire gear will increase your hellfire damage as well as and and all damage over time effects from desecrating essence, burn to death, etc. Two handed edge damage will increase all of your other damage output, meaning combos and white damage.