Equipment: which to use and what to avoid?

[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

[vfb]

Sorry, that's not the case. Undead (and other Enc 0) casters take extra fatigue from casting spells with armour on.

Click on the Encumbrance stat, the popup will say something like:

Basic Encumbrance: 0
Melee Encumbrance: 0
Spell Casting Encumbrance: 7