I just found a chest with 100+ mixed refinements and a few amalgamators at an idoc and am trying to figure out what to do with them. Great guide. DCI works vs melee and ranged attacks only but has zero impact on incoming spells if I remember correctly. Therefore on a mage who avoids close combat in pvm and rarely is attacked by an npc archer DCI is next to useless. That means I want to stack on the resists even if DCI falls a bit. Since these are for non-medable armor only I'm assuming it works with plate w/ mage armor attribute?
What I don't get is the levels, defense to invul. If I use an invul on one piece that's like using defense on 5 pieces in terms of effect, right? So if I want a specific resist higher, but not all of them, I have to go with the lowest level scour for example? 75% is resist cap for a human so it would take invul x 5 pieces to reach 75/75/75/75/75 max right?
Trying to figure out which is worth more. Should I amalgamate them all into higher levels to make them worth more if I just want to sell them? I'm thinking yes just because they will be more rare but is it worth the reduction at each step.
edit: looking at vendor search it seems only the regular platemail armor type with reinforced bonus are worth much. I guess that answers my question, plate wearing melee like to increase their resist caps.