Re: Eye Shield
 

I thought I remembered reading on here a long time ago that it was random which eye they replaced.

So they could just replace the bad eye with it, or you might get screwed when they replace the good eye.

Re: Eye Shield
 

Ah. I probably should have done that test with more than 3 units, then.

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Heh. The fight earlier reminds me of my Monolith with astral shield on. Surrounded by petrified units until they ran away or round limit got to em.

Re: Eye Shield
 

I found the eye schield not that effective against strong opponents. In my last game (sp) I equiped the bean sidhe assasins with them. Mundane commanders got blinded if stayed long enough, but I had several battles against Nifel Jarls, every battle pretty long (for an assasination attempt) but none lost even one eye.
I thought the mistform and mirror image were preventing hitting the schield for the effect to take place but as I said common indy commanders got blinded almost every time when they last longer than one combat round.

Re: Eye Shield
 

It has nothing to do with thug's MR, it just works every time you block an attack. So having a very high attack and a flail (+6 vs shield) should work more often than not.
Put it on something with defense 30 or more and watch all attackers get blinded in two hits.
In the example with bean sidge vs Nifel Jarl, Jarls were hitting your mirror images. Images dont block, hence no eye loss.
Its an extremly powerful item for lvl2 construction and 10 gems, when used properly it does turn battles. In my opinion it should be lvl4 or even lvl6 (its more useful than many lvl6 items) and probably cost more.

Re: Eye Shield
 

I agree with Kuritza. It is a good item to keep in the game. It just should either cost more, or have a higher level of research. Preferably both.

Re: Eye Shield
 

I love my eye shields! They are great items. However I at 10 gems a pop I find them moderatly hard to forge. Rings of regen are always higher on the list, as are all of the reinvig items.

It is a very powerful item, but if its cost were increased and it remained nature gems I fear it would not be used often.

Perhaps adding another path?

Re: Eye Shield
 

I personally find vine shield better in most cases.

Re: Eye Shield
 

I agree. Against normal Str units the Vine Shield is quite good (beware giants).