Staff of Olgreb

[Un67]

Trog, ever the pragmatist, saw fit to gift my KoBe a Staff of Olgreb. While I have to admit it might be a good idea to take a side path in Evocations, I'm not really sure what's the best way to use this thing in the first place, so any advice? Currently I'm on Snake:2, so it won't have too much of a use for now. Still, I guess it could be very useful for clearing Vault:8?

[jackalKnight]

If you invoke Olgrb, it does a Toxic Radiance (basically, poisons everything onscreen). The real draws of Staff of Olgreb are the free poison resistance (actually pretty useful in Snake, even for a warrior build) and the boost it gives to poison magic (which will be useless to you since you're a Trog follower). My advice is to use it for the poison resistance while in you're in Snake and then dump it afterwards, since you're not going the VM/Conjurations route as a berserker.

[Un67]

I've already got rPois though, from an artifact buckler I found.

[jackalKnight]

Then your character doesn't need to haul around Olgreb, since the "poison on hit" ability of Olgreb won't hurt most enemies in Snake (since they have RPois).

[mageykun]

The other cool thing about the Staff of Olgreb is it has a chance of casting venom bolt along with toxic radiance (10% per evocations level?). If you're willing to put some exp towards it, this gives you a nice renewable ranged attack, which you might be lacking with Trog.

Course, if you're getting to areas where everything has Rpois, or if you have a nice shield or buckler in the way, it's not worth it.

Edit: ninja-ed, and it sounds like it's indeed of limited use to you.

[Un67]

Yet another gift to stash

Ah well, at least I can say I've found my first unrandart.