armor vs defense stat for SC

[MaxWilson]

Pretty effective. It means the first 10 enemies attacking you at once (or 5 enemies with 2 attacks each, like cavalry or flagellants) have no realistic chance of hitting, although someone may get lucky once every couple of rounds.

-Max

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

I actually have to disagree with Kristoffer O.

Quite effective. I wouldn't worry about being hit by melee weapons. I would worry about being hit by ranged weapons.
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[MaxWilson]

Agreed that Protection is generally less brittle than high Defense, ethereality, etc. The one thing you have to especially watch out for with Protection, though, is fatigue, since even a 30 Protection can take significant damage on a lucky critical hit at fatigue 45 or so.

I've found that Wraith Lords benefit from good Defense because 1.) they already have high natural Prot and Ethereality, 2.) beating good Defense requires swarm tactics, 3.) swarms are just more fodder for Soul Vortex.

-Max

[Ironhawk]

Yeah, high prot is better than high def in the general case. But keep in mind that a strong SC may never really get heavily surrounded, instead killing the majority of the troops that come against them and keeping the numbers reasonable.

Additionally, remember that if you sacrifice too much def to get protection, you could open yourself up to another player using a cheap anti-SC against you.

[Shovah32]

*Insert lifeless swarm here*

[Taqwus]

Mandragoras, say. Fear the sleep vines.

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

Actually, skelly spam is all you need. If you're facing a very early supercombatant with no area attack, just keep them fighting until they run away, or fall unconscious. If you've got single d necros, you can just animate one at a time with several, or spend 5 on the world map. Just be prepared to counter any supporting priests.

[Rytek]

I dunno, it all goes back to that label thing. To me, an SC can by definiton deal with skelly spam.

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MaxWilson said:
3.) swarms are just more fodder for Soul Vortex.

-Max

Funny you should mention that now. I thought I'd get away with casting Gift of Health at a 50% discount site, with AC up. Umor was not amused. The Treelord who cast it was expecting something a little less exciting, so he was only armed with a few swarms and Ardmon's Soul Trap.

Umor managed to increase his HP to 75 (from base 55) by feasting on the little buggers. With MR3 they didn't last very long because of the blood vengeance, otherwise he might have been able to eat a few more.