Best item

[Endoperez]

Edratman2 said:
I like to put the Sickle whose crop is pain on four armed types with every quickness item I can forge. Generates 20 to 30 death gems every battle. Of course you have to remember to transfer them to another commander after every battle, which does seem to pose a few problems for me.

Every quickness item you can forge would be Boots of Quickness, then? Because, you know, quickness from spells and items doesn't stack with itself. It stacks with heroic quickness if you get a non-pretender four-armed guy to the Hall of Fame and get lucky, but that's about it as far as Quickness stacks.

[Edratman2]

Endoperez said:
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Every quickness item you can forge would be Boots of Quickness, then? Because, you know, quickness from spells and items doesn't stack with itself. It stacks with heroic quickness if you get a non-pretender four-armed guy to the Hall of Fame and get lucky, but that's about it as far as Quickness stacks.

But the problem is that I did not know quickness doesn't stack. Whoops.

Which brings the question, what doesn't stack?

[Endoperez]

Effects don't stack with themselves, and duplicate items don't stack their special effects (unless you abuse a bug). So two identical Staves of Elemental Mastery won't produce +2 to elements, but different ones will.

As for finding which items give identical effect with each other or a spell, check the manual. Marble Armor and Boots of Stone both have the effect "Stoneskin", so that won't stack with Stoneskin the spell.

[Wauthan]

I guess it's just me but I really like those extra life bottles. It's just takes away a lot of stress knowing that my carefully developed SCs need to be killed twice. And the anti-aging quality is a nice bonus as well.

Must be the best birthday gift ever.

[Ironhawk]

Lingchih said:
That is why SCs with an Eye Shield are so rarely targeted by other SCs. They don't want to go blind. It is an extremely nice fear tactic.

Yeah this is definitely the case. In my last game I was faced with an enemy SC wielding an Eye Shield. I had a pair of strong SCs which could have defeated it, but I was unwilling to let them fight because I didnt dare risk that they would lose an eye.

However you can still counter it by just bringing the SC down with mages or a suicide thug of some kind.

[chrispedersen]

Armor of virtue + Carcator the pocket mage.
You teleport. Carcator stays.
When he dies.. he comes back to you.

[Zeldor]

I am absolutely sure that Eye Shield is not so great against SCs. You really need luck and it may take even 20-40 hits for other SC to lose just one eye. I had 1:1 fight, my Tartarian with Eye Shield against Arch Devil and he lost one eye after about 40 turns of battle.

[DonCorazon]

Z, you are destroying the fearsome mystique of the Eye Shield.

[Dedas]

Stop doing that Zeldor... I want to believe.

[Kuritza]

I'm pretty sure eye shields dont have a MR check. They just work when you block.

My favourite item is Boots of the planes, methinks. And a vine shield, cheap but so damn nasty with a cold aura.