By "thought", I meant that without the life draining weapons being viable, that there is thought in what other weapons to use. I disliked the life draining aspect of the game as it was implemented in the weapons and am glad they have been rendered virtually useless as combat weapons except under special circumstances (I've still seen the Hell Sword, though).
I think I always have seen luck on SCs. It doubles your hitpoints for 5 astral. I agree that the only reason that Boots of Quickness might not be used is because the SC needs Flying Boots to fly. Flying is also very powerful. Too powerful, in my opinion, especially the ability to attack non-adjacent provinces. I think that ability should be very much curtailed. But that's a whole different game mechanic discussion
