acquire a +0 eveningstar of freezing to replace the current +1 whip of feezing, which will (hopefully) prove immediately useful in smashing those quickly-regenerating demonic crawlers
I’m pretty sure the correct choice is the first one, which makes me sad.
I’m with Wu Jian, which makes Ponderous not-100%-bad, and a eveningstar much less exciting. Additionally I am fully committed to switching to Distortion as soon as I find it, no matter what the base weapon is.
I don’t even have Cancelation identified yet, and I don’t want my mutations messed up.
Sinv is redundant with my current amulet.
You’re using a +1 freeze whip at XL 16 and I promise you there are better options. Doing a ~20 second search through your .lst I see several morningstars including this one.
(14, -29, Swamp:2) a +1 morningstar of protection
Seems like a decent choice. There might be even better weapons.
I would go with the eveningstar since you already have a +4 barding with good properties but either way, please don’t use that trash whip! Sticking with that whip is a self-enforced challenge mode!
If I was playing with my normal rules (trying to win a 3 runer), I would pick the weapon. Easily.
But given the distortion only rule (I hope you find the GOAT of weapons, Rift), I think the obvious choice is the barding. It will serve you the whole game, whereas the weapon would be discarded pretty soon given that distortion isn’t that hard to find.
I did spot that morningstar of protection, but it really is the first proper upgrade I’ve found.
But my AC is pretty good already, I’d need to train 4 more levels of M&F to reach mindelay, and after all that it wouldn’t even be better when I go into ultimate mode - ie, whip up a storm and get +15 Slay.
Honestly I’ve been surprised how quickly things die to a +1 whip of freezing. The freezing brand has also been surprisingly helpful, slowing down lots of enemies in Lair. Maybe the horns have helped a lot, and I lost those recently. I haven’t quite kept track of how the horns mutation has changed.
Interesting that I’m getting contradictory advice.
I’m sure this character is long dead or ascended, byt my advice is to always go with the unrand. Especially one as species-specific as the Black Knight’s Barding, how often do you get a chance to use that?
I would say that in this situation, the unrand is a much better choice, but you shouldn’t always go for the unrand. Unrands vary drastically in power, and you can get some really powerful options on acquirement. Don’t just let the crow brain go ‘ooh, shiny’.
Yeah, that staff is great for a Dj. And the name is perfect for a genocidal maniac killing all the inhabitants of the dungeon that were peacefully coexisting (for the most part, some mini vaults show a history of fighting).
