[licker]

Indeed the PD is only useful early in the game when you can stick a decent amount somewhere important that you cannot otherwise defend.

By mid game you hopefully have flying jarls and can afford to keep one or two in centralized locations (forging, researching, ...) who can react to any kind of barbarian incursion, or other province loss.

My issue with the jarls is what kind of shield to give them, or to just equip them with 2 weapons. Of course if you have good nature/astral income you can easilly make lucky coins or vine shields, but these are not really that exciting, and you are probably going to be saving your nature income for a gift of health at some point anyway.

I'm thinking lantern shield is interesting, but you have to get the fire death combo somewhere.

Three or four jarls with lantern shields and soul contracts (though imps dont synergize with cold exactly) would be a nice amount of auto chaff to take some attention off your jarls.

Also I forget... does regen stack at all? If you need poison resistance is there any additional point in going for hydra skins?