What gloves do you put on your Monk/Rasaad?
Lathlaer
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Ok, here is the question: there are two possible choices here: gauntlets of crushing (+4 THAC0 +4 dmg with fists) and AC bracers od defense AC 3. The first ones boost your fighting performance significantly, the second boost your AC likewise.
I don't play Monk but when I put AC3 bracers on Rasaad, his AC goes from -1 to -8 at 11th level. That's not nothing and I fear that I simply cannot affard giving him anything else and just wait for a Strength Girdle to boost his damage/thac0.
And before you ask, no, currently I don't have means to boost his AC by other means. I have a party of 6 and other items (cloak, ring of gaxx etc.) have been redistributed to other party members.
I don't play Monk but when I put AC3 bracers on Rasaad, his AC goes from -1 to -8 at 11th level. That's not nothing and I fear that I simply cannot affard giving him anything else and just wait for a Strength Girdle to boost his damage/thac0.
And before you ask, no, currently I don't have means to boost his AC by other means. I have a party of 6 and other items (cloak, ring of gaxx etc.) have been redistributed to other party members.
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i had him using the shield amulet (found in the d'arnine keep). it drops his AC significantly and there are plenty of charges. there are also two cloaks of shield in the game too. using this with ilbratha (a shortsword that allows once per day use of mirror image) meant that he was very difficult to hit
Just out of curiosity - if I sell the amulet with, say, 10 charges left and then rebuy it, will it have fresh 50 again?
Personally I just slap the bracers of armour on him and the Scarlet Ninjato for his offhand, a belt gives him the Strength, and he's no slouch at damage with the extra fist attacks anyway.
I'm running a good party, can't stand Jansen and obviously Hexxat is out of the picture.
I'm a little embarrased but I never thought that you can dual-wield fists with a weapon
What does that mean? like the offhand will be a weapon and the mainhand will be his fists?
though if I cast barkskin on him, his AC lowers to -22… …so even before ToB, I would seriously consider using Gauntlets of crushing and just casting barkskin on him when needed.
But it works now, so it's good enough until next patch.
But the idea fist/CF in the offhand os excellent... though, that must destroy the Thac0 with 0 points in dual hands though.. for the end SOA game/TOB... but kuddos for the discovery @Lathlaer..
...i myself tested the +4 THAC0 +4 dmg bracers... they seemed absoluely excellent at the beginning of ToB levels..i don't remember exactly the AC/thac0 number, but all i remeber they were all very good then.. ad the natural number of bare fists attacks too (!!)...
..initially, i wanted to test the gloves on Cernd, ironically..as i noticed he was affected by gloves/etc under his (G)Werewolves forms... as expected, the +4dam was excellent for Cernd transform too but.. weirdly, the +thac0 was not added too then (the +dam too)... another bug? not sure..but those gloves could be excellent for Cernd transforms so...pity right now, the +thac0 thing doesn't seem to be activated, 'casue the main problem for Cernd is really his thac0 at mid/high levels..would have been the perfect gloves for him too then..but as such, not sure too..another bug (/+4thac0 not added under his transforms -but rest ok) or not again?..not sure again.. ^^
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..but i try to keep tracks at least for the chars i may play with))..well, when possible enough (i just want to have the feeling things to be 'logical' lol..yeah, even in a 'fantasy game'..that's it)) ).. ))
And I totally agree with you when it comes to the logical thing in the game. In this instance, actually it makes some kind of sense. There is a lot of wuxia movies where you can see the heroes mixing swordfight with hand to hand combat
Gloves of the never lost fox...