this is a truly hilarious artifact to shove into the hands of my life magic practicing Paladin but also for reference i was doing like 36 per round with a broadsword of sharpness before this.
Powerfully Slay Humans and Mana Brand stack, which means i'm going to walk into Camelot (which is full of human knights of every flavor) and absolutely pulverize it between my gauntlets.
Sharpness
and*Sharpness*
are both really interesting in this game. they aren't a damage multiplier like brands and slays are. it just rolls to see if it applies crit like damage On Top Of your regular damage for each blow, even other crits. (also it gives you the combat log equivalent of gibs)Meng Huo is usually the point in the game where it asks you "have you stacked up phase door scrolls to range dangerous melee units yet or at the least acquired some way to inflict confusion?" and my answer this time around was "yes both but im going to just stand still and cleave him in twain"
these earlygame drops have been frankly, incredibly generous. double res on a single piece and a handy activation at a reasonable fail rate is so good.
new character since the Weird Fume quest was a shitshow and i croaked. going for a Weaponmaster this go around and i wanted to see how goofy the Digger subclass was. anyway i'm kicking myself for not choosing Slings because both of these early game slings dropping would have been insane starts. still nice for this class because the +17 (now +24) to hit is really welcome when proficiencies with weapons are low.
one of upsides to encountering a monster pit (or zoo as it's more known as these days) is that all the monsters are roughly the same, which is great as their corpses stack into single slots in my inventory so that i can bury them for on the spot bonuses. at the start it's a short lasting bless (minor +to hit and +ac) but now at level 15 it's also giving me full on heroism which gives fear protection and +cold res.
