MP Game - Live and Learn (newbie game)-running

[Yvelina]

I recall one of your solo Tartarians kicking my butt in a water province - he was equipped with a Scutata Volturnus, a blood thorn and various other equipment. I've not seen the Scutata in use a whole lot - is that particularly effective generally, or more so underwater?

It is one of my two favorite non-artifact shields. The other is the Charcoal shield. I use one or the other depending on the situation.

The Charcoal shield is great against mobs, and gives you fire resistance, which is why it was the shield of choice on the C'tis front.

The Scutata Volturnus's attack is better against single, powerful enemies, has better defense, and gives you electrical resistance. Using it underwater, against Pythium, was an easy call :-)

Would you mind telling us roughly what astral income you were getting from the Arcane Nexus?

Once I got fully into forge mode, I was getting about 400 absorbed gems, or 100 astral gems per turn. I would use them to wish for gems, which brings in 210 gems of all kinds, and use those to forge items. OF course, they would get absorbed back into the Vortex

In retrospect, things may have turned out very differently if I had turned north, instead.

Absolutely. But I was already prepared for a defensive war and you would have probably not have been able to unite everyone against me. At that time, you looked like the one to beat, not I. Although I doubt that anyone had anything that could beat Odin, Veni, Vidi or Vici, who already were equiped with the best artifacts.

... and now I am off to bed. I love debriefings, but what I need is sleep.