About Champion Skull

Herode · #1 July 14th, 2007, 04:02 PM

Do you guys know what's this artifact for ? The notice says something like "it makes you a seasonned warrior in no time" but I can't figure what this exactly means : more attack ? More defense ? More XP ? How much ? What's the amount of time required ? I tried the Champion Skull in a solo game and I've been unable to guess what it does...

lch · #2 July 14th, 2007, 04:05 PM

gives +3 exp per turn

Herode · #3 July 14th, 2007, 04:28 PM

Wow. Let's say 17 turns to get the first "star" with its bonusses. That's why I didn't notice the effect : it is almost microscopic. And sounds very expensive for a 10 death gems artifact, no ?

Kristoffer O · #4 July 14th, 2007, 04:30 PM

It only takes 10 xp to get your first star. But you are right. It might seem a bit slow to get higher xp levels for 10 gems.

Jazzepi · #5 July 14th, 2007, 05:33 PM

Actually, since you can pass it around your researchers it's not that bad. Think of it this way. You build one skull, give it to one researcher. 4 turns later, he has +1 research permanently.

Actually, this is pretty useless =\ For 10 death gems you can build a skull researcher which gives +9 research. See the below comparison between the XP skull and the research skull. The totals are the total amount of extra research attained by spending the gems.

I think if you raised the amount of XP the skull gave to +5 instead of +3, it'd be much more useful.

Turn / Skull Researcher / XP skull
1/9/0
2/18/0
3/27/0
4/36/0
5/45/1
6/54/2
7/63/3
8/72/4
9/81/8
10/90/10
11/99/12

Fixed my math. I'm taking Calculus you know, multiplication is below me XD

Jazzepi

lch · #6 July 14th, 2007, 06:23 PM

so, what's ten times nine??

PvK · #7 July 15th, 2007, 07:21 AM

Bah. It lets you stack yet something else on your warriors, with no risk, indefinitely. I generally make at least one in all my SP games where I'm paying attention to trying to keep some heroes alive.

Ironhawk · #8 July 15th, 2007, 02:46 PM

The only use I've had for champion's skulls is for training thugs/SCs prior to deployment. Like if it will take me more time to forge thier equipment or if I'm at peace with my neighbors

Lazy_Perfectionist · #9 July 15th, 2007, 03:48 PM

Completely useless? Bah. What nation do you play? As Agartha, it takes forever to get anywhere, so why not put that 'in transit' time to use?

quantum_mechani · #10 July 15th, 2007, 04:04 PM

Edi's is I think the only really viable use I have heard of for it. Buffing a thug up a few XP is not a big deal considering how fast they get one star anyway and how long it takes to get it to 2+ stars with it.