Equipment: which to use and what to avoid?

[Valandil]

The question concerned items in general, not just scs, though.

Also, why avoid red/blue dragon but not green? Is poison res that much better than fire/cold?

[otthegreat]

Why not bane blades? They seem like a decent early weapon.

[quantum_mechani]

Valandil said:
The question concerned items in general, not just scs, though.

Also, why avoid red/blue dragon but not green? Is poison res that much better than fire/cold?

Hmm, I read it more as for building SCs, but in any case I'm not convinced on the crystal shield for any purpose. If you have the astral to forge one communions and power of the spheres can almost always fill the niche.

On dragon armor, really green armor is pretty bad too, but unlike the other two there are cases where you might totally lack access to armor with a decent protection value other that.

Bane blades are basically trinkets requiring more research. Most trinket weapons are slightly better in stats and the decay effect (in that context) is almost 100% useless. When equipped on a SC, weak things will die quickly anyway, and it's quite ineffective agaist enemy SCs.

[sector24]

I really like the Spirit Helmet even if it's not the most efficient helm. And of course I have to mention clams because no one else has yet.

[Lingchih]

The Crystal Shield is too heavy for anything but an undead commander who doesn't get any encumbrance to carry. I lost a good Gorgon by stupidly equipping one that I got in a luck event.

[vfb]

Green Dragon armour is not good because if you could make it, you could have made Hydra Skin instead, freeing up a misc slot and getting 100%PR instead of 75.

I build a few Horror Helmets if I'm not worried about being mind hunted, and I've got enough death gems. Don't build Skulls much unless I've gone drain-2. Snake Bladders plus Horror Helmets can be good for killing morale and stripping Glamor. Vine Shields are good if you can't make Charcoal Shields.

Armor of Souls is great if you can forge it and have the slaves. You can even squish the slaves with your Dwarven Hammer etc, unlike the contracts.

[Lingchih]

I always wondered how the Dwarven Hammer helps with using blood slaves. I see now. You squish them with it.

[vfb]

Yeah, He who spareth the hammer hateth his slaves, or something like that.

[quantum_mechani]

vfb said:
Green Dragon armour is not good because if you could make it, you could have made Hydra Skin instead, freeing up a misc slot and getting 100%PR instead of 75.

It's true, in almost all cases the Hydra armor is greatly superior. However, of nature amours green dragon skin at least has the distinction of having significantly higher protection than other armors, even if in 99% of cases it amounts to little. So in the end I guess we arguing the rather theoretical concept of levels of uselessness.

On the crystal shield, yes I suppose in rare spellcasting situations it has a niche, especially since it got a good sized discount from dom 2 to dom3.

[mathusalem]

crystal shield is really effective with undead caster, because no encombrance at all