Early-game DsWa artefact choice

[Alethiolet]

So I just came across the Majin-Bo and the Glaive of Prune early on. I started off training polearms, but found the Majin-Bo, so switched to Staves. I don't have a spellbook yet though, so the Archmagi and Int bonus isn't doing much for me. In addition, I had to stop using the shield I was training up. I thought I'd be clever and started worshipping Sif after getting the staff, but 2 floors down I've found the Prune glaive, and I'm wondering if it would be better to switch back to polearms or continue using the Majin-Bo and go the spellcasting route.

[Turukano]

and started worshipping Sif after getting the staff, but 2 floors down I've found the Prune glaive, and I'm wondering if it would be better to switch back to polearms or continue using the Majin-Bo and go the spellcasting route.

I'm not sure if taking Sif with your DsWn was a good idea. (S)he might eventually give some useful spellbooks for a fighter, nevertheless Sif is for sure no classical fighter god.

In the long run Sif + Majin-Bo should make a really good caster once you get spellbooks, e.g. aiming for fire/ice magic and conjurations. However, things are not that easy as Sif will start to give books at 6*. Until then Sif doesn't help at all - unless you are happy and find an early book.

So probably you have to fight your way through the early dungeon. The Majin-Bo is a very good weapon for quite a while. The Glaive of Prune is strong but needs a lot of XP (min delay is at polearm skill 20!).

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Good luck!

[le_nerd]

I'd have gone with glaive. While Vamp is nice, its very weak and a tedious tabfest to use majinbo post-lair.

[WingedEspeon]

Ma-jin bo Doesn't do enough damage to be worth using as a melee weapon. Glaive of the prune if great. Switch back to the glaive.

[BugHunter]

A big problem with going with Sif with a char like this is that you only get piety for training magic skills, and if you don't have a book yet, you can't train magic skills very much. I guess you could train spellcasting, but you get no real benefit from it, so that would be pretty much throwing skill points under your mattress instead of putting them in something that kills things or keeps you alive. And getting piety up to the point where Sif starts throwing books at you would be a challenge. So until you find some book, you really can't get anywhere with Sif.