What are your favorite combat items to forge?

[Austen]

Just curious what items people like to make to put on their commanders at carious stages of the game. Not really talking aboutyour pretender as I have rad a lot about specific strategies there. Just your regular commanders that are combat capable.

Early game I like the Frostbrand I think it is (the cold sword) and shield of valor. I am much less clear about which armors/shoes/other pieces are supposed to be good. I tend to forge a lot of Jade armor, but can't tell if it's too good or not.

Would love to hear from some of you vets on what the best items to forge for combat are.

[ April 06, 2004, 17:09: Message edited by: Austen ]

[Teraswaerto]

The Blood Thorn is very nice: life stealing attack with room left for a shield.

[BkWyrm]

Ring of Regeneration
Shield and Helm (cant remember names) that auto cast lightning in addition to commander's regular attacks.

[Taqwus]

I'm fond of the Boots of Stone, for a low-encumberance way to give a battlemage half-decent prot and save the armor slot for perhaps a light armor (dragon scale, air/earth-based armors, robe of shadows, etc). I also like to give astral combat mages a clam to cut down on gem micromanagement if I can afford to (may not have the water income or mages). For others, I might use the messenger shoes for the reinvig.
Elemental armor is excellent if you have the earth/fire mages for it and can spare the encumberance.

[Anglachel]

Question about Crystal Shield . I put one on my Fire 2/Blood 3 prophet and it is supposed to add one to each path but as I read the description closer it said for battle only. Doh! Anyways, how does one plan out tactical spell usage for someone with that thing on? It will not list the extra spells in the cue for battle so I can't plan ahead for the extra paths. Am I just at the mercy of the computer on that one? Thanks in advance for any answers.

[ April 06, 2004, 18:20: Message edited by: Anglachel ]

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Anglachel:
Anyways, how does one plan out tactical spell usage for someone with that thing on? It will not list the extra spells in the cue for battle so I can't plan ahead for the extra paths.

The crystal shield adds 1 to the levels that your mage already has. This will make him a fire 3, blood 4, holy +1 mage in battle. You are able to script any spell that your mage has a chance to cast in battle. The ones that you can't cast without some kind of boost are grayed out, but can still be selected.