Uhm, stupid question: GoRing crushers?

[Poopsi]

Crushers have 0 encumbrance. No fatigue. Sure, it can still be destroyed by spells (then again, few things cant be destroyed like that), but in my experience with the armored onyx oracle it worked rather well. Specially at independent smashing. Of course, I was factoring in MA agartha's dominion, as well, which gives a hp bonus to your golems and stuff.


On this same line: are banelords all that better as thugs than regular banes? They cost three times as much, and dont have twice the hitpoints (and the other stats are almost identical).

[MaxWilson]

Originally Posted by Poopsi

Crushers have 0 encumbrance. No fatigue.

No fatigue from melee, that is. "With or without Stellar Cascades" was my feeble attempt at acknowledging that some thugs are 0-enc, with the caveat that they can still rack up the fatigue and die from critical hits if they have elemental attacks, Stellar Cascades spam, ice elementals, etc. You're not likely to face any of these things vs. PD, but the real point is that high Prot has diminishing returns--IME a Prot 24 unit and a Prot 30 unit have about the same change of dying[1], so I personally wouldn't consider raising Prot to 30 to be worth the gems for GoR. YMMV.

-Max

[1] For example vs. PD, the biggest threat is "Ooops, it isn't just PD any more after all."