Magic items EVERY character NEEDS

[FreeTheSlaves]

Yeah I'm just thinking of magic items you just have to have cause if you don't... RIP

So here starts a list:
1) An item that grants a resistance bonus to saves, cloaks.
2) Boots of speed, or equivilent.
3) Bracers of health, +? to con.
4) ?

 

[Bagpuss]

Disagree with all of those.

 

[FreeTheSlaves]

C'mon, you would neglect your saves?

Real?

 

[Garmorn]

The list depends on the campain and playing style. I could well see a campain where +x to bluf is more important than a equaly expense + to armor or saves.

 

[Bagpuss]

While desireable I believe it is not necessary for the whole party to be equipped with any of the items listed above.

While high saves are good a cloak of resistance has to be a pretty high value to make any difference to you low save, and your high save you are likely to make anyway.

Bracers of Health have a similair thing they aren't going to help dramatically except at high levels and high values. Even then it isn't going to give a huge increase to a fighters hit points, or completely compensate for a wizards low hit points. Its not a requirement to survival.

 

[Drawmack]

I think about the only item that every character can use is a bag of holding and generic + weapons and armor. Other then that it depends on the character. For example a dwarven cleric in full plate might need boots of speed but a human monk probably does not.

A rogue could put boots of move silently to good use, where as what is a fighter in metal armor going to do with those?

 

[paqman]

As long as haste is not corrected with DnD3.5, Boots of speed are a must. I mean, an extra partial action for 10 rounds in a row, and then you only need to take a single round to reactivate them again, and here you go for another 10 rounds.

Aside that, there is the Cloak of resistence +4.

 

[jmucchiello]

As long as haste is not corrected with DnD3.5, Boots of speed are a must. I mean, an extra partial action for 10 rounds in a row, and then you only need to take a single round to reactivate them again, and here you go for another 10 rounds.

Funny, my DMG says the boots of speed only last 10 rounds per day:

On command, these boots enable the wearer to act as though haste for up to 10 rounds each day. The duration of the haste need not be consecutive rounds.

 

[megamania]

Any potion of Healing

 

[Ruined]

Something to enhance your AC. It gets easier for everyone to hit as they ascend in level, but dodging attacks doesn't work as well...