Spend Loch's Millions (strat advice) (in General)


Lochnivar July 30 2007 3:44 AM EDT

In order to celebrate finally renaming my main character I've decided to elicit a modicum of strategic advice from my CB peers.

Since I will soon be out of debt I have to decide how to spend my future earnings. I've basically come down to the following 3 options:

1) buy 2 corns for my enchanters since AS and GA are kind of important to my strat

2) upgrade my tank/wall armour

3) save up and buy a nice big MH for my tank/wall (this one might take a while)

Since I plan on doing all of these over time I'm really looking for priorities.

Other advice is always useful as well (not major strat rebuilds... more like equipment suggestions, and no I don't want DBs or a Mage Shield for reasons I will explain upon request).
Thanks all.

Talion July 30 2007 9:11 AM EDT

2) upgrade my tank/wall armor

That's what I would do. Since you use a ToE, it would be very beneficial to upgrade your wall armor to over 200/250 AC. It would then become a lot more difficult to defeat you. Although I imagine that will be hard to reach if you keep using a TSA instead of an AC.

Rubberduck[T] [Hell Blenders] July 30 2007 9:24 AM EDT

Does the wall ToE aura get overwhelmed by blow size often? If so upgrade the AC, if not get corns. Are the minions equal in size, this might affect my thinking somewhat. I'd suggest an AoF for reflection at some point.

QBJohnnywas July 30 2007 9:36 AM EDT

When I fight you I lose, and the loss is mostly due to your GA. But I notice in the battle results, your mage is taking nearly 100k damage from my AMF per round, while hitting for less. I'm presuming you've tried swapping the AGs for NS gloves?

Meanwhile, I've found that Corns don't make enough of a difference to my AS/GA but do impact on my rewards because of the amount of PR they add...Have you tried out a CoI on your mage, while moving the ToE to one of the enchanters?

Where walls are concerned I personally feel that unless you've got nearer to 300 AC or above they don't mean much in the upper levels where damage is so huge. So I'd probably be looking at the Morg option as I built the tank up...

Lochnivar July 30 2007 11:05 AM EDT

With regards to minion size: yes they are all roughly the same size (within 100k exp)

The wall does pretty well as is... the biggest MM takes 4 rounds to kill him and I don't use AMF.

Obviously the only option that wouldn't affect PR is a properly sized MH but it will be a little while until I can afford one and until I can increase me strength to make best use of one.

And JW... the my build is set up so that if AMF nukes my CoC then GA and AS with pummel attackers. I leave the AGs on because a big DM would mean I want to do as much damage as I can. It works in my mind at least, hehe.

Nerevas August 5 2007 10:29 AM EDT

2 corns.

Nerevas August 5 2007 10:30 AM EDT

2 corns for power. or MH for power without pr increase. Could go either/or actually.
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