I’d like to start this new newbie questions thread with the following question (or more precisely request for a piece of advice).
I am now considering crafting an unbound Emengard Shield (got the recipe and ingredients) to be used by my alt characters (mage, cleric and potentially - who knows - may be even by a warrior that sucks so badly that I cry each time when I play him).
What I would like to know is what gems experienced players would advise to insert in it? I am torn between
- blue gems: for more block to enhance the survivability aspect. Potentially it could be useful for anyone, though I don’t know how block works in general (tried to google but the information was rather controversial) and this causes doubts - may be the effect is negligible, especially for non-warrior classes;
- red gems: very solid option for physical classes (both my auto-attacking chaplain-pardoner cleric and warrior (when he’ll need it)) but absolutely useless for mages.
What would you advise?