hiya
well in my quest to evolve some kind of working (and hopefully winning) strategy with SnA i'd like y'alls opinion on these basic pretender setups.
None of these have He/Co or Death scales because i'm trying to save every penny I can. Luck would either be at 2 or 3...the scales really aren't what i'm debating here. Dominion Ratings would vary a *little but none lower than 5.
Statue - Astral 5: this would be to start casting acashic record, which is good. Gems for SnA very important, very good. Having to spend all that time researching conj. 5, bad.
Cyclops - Earth 10 (maybe take a HE or Death scale for water 1): This would be for the bless effect of reinvigoration 5 (i think). I don't have a clear understanding (in my minds eye) how much of an impact this would have, but there aren't many items that have more then reinvig 5...so it seems pretty nice. This guy also functions as a pretty good SC 'cause his starting armor value is 29 and once you hit evoc4 you can crank out the blade winds. easy to get a luck coin and robe of shadows too.
Vamp queen - standard SC setup: not much to be said about this.
to all who post thanks in advance.