An embarassment of artifacts

[Pleroma]

Fo:Fi:Ok, Armor 16, str 28
I just cleared The Vaults, and got +9 Armor of the Dragon King (rPois, rF+, rC+, MR+). And that's great, I hear you say. Except, I already have an artifact Crystal Plate +4 (Fly+, rN+, Slay +4). And seeing as I can't layer plate armor (much to my sadness), I have to pick one.

I already have something to provide all the resistances from the DK armor, though I've learned you should never cough at resistances. The Dragon King armor provides an effective +1AC (no changes to EV), but does provide probably more broadly applicable resistances. Oki gave me flying boots if I need to fly, so I'm not really sweating that part. But that +4 slaying bonus is really calling to me.

Does someone wiser than me have some thoughts on this problem? Aside from "All of your problems should be so nice"?

[phloomp]

I'd go with the slaying, particularly since resistances suffer diminishing returns.

[Sprucery]

Although it's always fun to use unrandarts (as you don't see them so often), in this case I would also choose +4 slaying. An important question is though, what is your MR? If that MR+ would make you immune (or nearly) to paralysis/banishment/mark, that would be a point in favour of Dragon King.

[Pleroma]

Although it's always fun to use unrandarts (as you don't see them so often), in this case I would also choose +4 slaying. An important question is though, what is your MR? If that MR+ would make you immune (or nearly) to paralysis/banishment/mark, that would be a point in favour of Dragon King.

Having just completed my very first successful game (both first time to the orb and first time escaping the dungeon), I can say that my MR was high, but very nearly not high enough, as I got banished to the abyss once right as I was trying to get out of the Orb Vault. But, I got out, I survived, and +4 slaying served me well!

[edgefigaro]

Collective nouns-
A grove of trees.
A murder of crows.
A pride of lions.
An Embarrassment of Artifacts?

[BabyRage]

Heart of the Cards.

[jwoodward48ss]

First world problems.