Pimp My Pretender

[PvK]

The Sickle has fairly good weapon stats, and can be used with a shield.

The Ankh also protects the bearer. You can also just have some commander in the rear carry it to big battles.

[SlipperyJim]

The Sickle Whose Crop Is Pain works well as a Thug weapon, and the free death gems are a nice bonus. However, I think it's a bit underpowered as a SC weapon.

How about The Sharpest Tooth? It seems like a great weapon for an assassin or a Thug, but maybe not for a SC....

[Olive]

jutetrea said:
I've not used the sickle, but read a post where a guy used a wraith lord (i think) casting shadow blast. The deaths from shadow blasts still caused gems to appear apparently..or it was SB, SB attack and he refilled that way. Dunno.

I thought gems harvesting worked only for units killed with the sickle ? At least it doesn't work while trampling.

[Taqwus]

I'm a bit fond of the 'Firbolg Sniper with Vision's Foe and Eye of Aiming' combination, as a twisted joke, but that requires a rather diverse set of magics (nature for Awaken Sleeper, earth/death for Vision's foe, air for Eye if memory serves... and water, if you want boots of quickness for faster reloading) -- this was far easier to pull off before D3's restricted randoms.

[MaxWilson]

RE: the sickle

Yes, so the Wraith Lord in question was apparently scripted to <Soul Vortex, attack, Shadow Blast, attack, Shadow Blast, attack rearmost> or something similar, with the logic being that with boots of flight, an <attack> would move right into the thick of the enemy for a point-blank Shadow Blast, and that ending on "attack" meant the Wraith Lord would collect enough gems to repeat the sequence next turn.

I'm a little leary, myself, of letting anyone cast gem-hungry spells before going into melee, since they have such high fatigue costs (the Wraith Lord is going to be taking 40+ fatigue from each casting even with maximum death gems), but I guess it must have worked out okay.

-Max

[jutetrea]

I haven't got to a point in an SP game to test it out yet, but if anyone else does i'd like to hear the verdict. Sounds good in theory....