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Another weapon choice topic...

PostPosted: Tuesday, 22nd April 2014, 23:54
by ElderVIII
Trog's being nice to my MiBe. Too nice. Now I'm in weapon dilemma mode.

Currently:

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+6,+5 demon trident of the Cup {freeze, sInv}


So, working in shields a bit. Then he drops a +3,+3 bardiche of flaming.

Seems a silly question, but keep with the trident, or work towards getting bardiche at mindelay? My rough and tumble crunching gives the bardiche a slight edge later, but just wanting second opinions.

Re: Another weapon choice topic...

PostPosted: Tuesday, 22nd April 2014, 23:57
by Sandman25
Bardiche is not that great with 0 skills in polearms and you can be killed while crosstraining. Trog will grant you dire flails and great maces if you are not happy with this Demon Trident which can easily win the game for you.

Edit. Stupid me, Demon Trident is Polearms. I have to take a rest from crawl :)

Re: Another weapon choice topic...

PostPosted: Wednesday, 23rd April 2014, 00:02
by ElderVIII
Yeah, I was running Polearms from the get go anyway, and I was gunning for a bardiche until the trident fell into my lap. Methinks I'll keep it for a while.

Re: Another weapon choice topic...

PostPosted: Wednesday, 23rd April 2014, 00:05
by Sandman25
Do you have a good shield and some Shields skill? Also amount of slaying can change optimal strategy.

Re: Another weapon choice topic...

PostPosted: Wednesday, 23rd April 2014, 00:18
by ElderVIII
Just have a base large shield atm (skill @ 10) and a +5,+4 ring of slaying. Not really affecting my swing rate and isn't hampering my admittedly lower EV, but I'm less concerned there as I'm still in Lair and should not be a huge investment for me to get up as needed.

Re: Another weapon choice topic...

PostPosted: Wednesday, 23rd April 2014, 00:20
by crate
the answer is your weapon choice doesn't matter so just pick one and play

Re: Another weapon choice topic...

PostPosted: Wednesday, 23rd April 2014, 20:49
by tasonir
If you have a decent amount of slaying, I like the demon trident better. 4 is a bit low, but it's still slaying, and probably worth it. You might want to try to find something else with +dam if possible, mostly because the demon trident is locked at +5.

I'm actually in the same boat in my game - I don't have a demon trident yet, but I have a shield which has +5 slaying on it, and so once I get a demon trident I'll probably switch to it and use the shield for the extra damage. Currently using a vampiric halberd, which is sweet, but an unbranded halberd isn't much damage to go to end game. I have a glaive of protection, but no bardiches, and so will probably end up switching to demon trident when those start to become common and vamp stops working.