Rate my Randimar's Rarities

Should I get a second St. Alipp's Hammer? Already have one, don't use it. But might be good for low level Mass Frenzy Priest?

 

For a tokenless frenzy priest I usually just use 3x Shuddering Relics. I've thought about using St. Alipp's Hammer, but couldn't bring myself to give up my St. Portia's Mauls. I recommend you try it and see how it works for you before forking over the gold for something you may end up not wanting.

 

I used to use St. Alipp's Hammer a lot until I got a couple Vigun's Blessed Blade.

 

2 Legendaries this week but neither very interesting

Brin's Spiked Rod
Kazmir's Staff

2 epics I'm thinking about though
Sliding Boots - this seems like a must buy
Bec De Corbin - interesting defensive weapon, not sure if I'd use it though

 

Yes, it is a must buy. These are one of the best if not even the best boots there are. Best in class for a warrior in MP.

Don't bother, you won't be using it. I have more than one and have never felt inclined to use them. The two Dodges are intriguing but the rest of the cards are way too weak in order to spend two gold tokens on it. You'd be handicapping yourself.

The go-to weapons with two Dodges are Reaper's Scythe and Quick Jon's Axe. Granted, they are both legendary so much harder to get. The training-wheels Dodge weapon while waiting for the legendaries to pop up would be the Eixocl's Hammer, not Bec De Corbin in my opinion.

 

You may play this rod at certain special maps and even in MP. All cards are useful, none of them is short-ranged, which is extremely rare for the tokenless arcane items, even legendary. Stone Spikes is common though, so you may decide to skip it, but I'd buy if I could. Massing Stone Spikes allows you to block the narrow passages. There are many worse legendaries in the game

If you want damage, Staff Of Pain is much stronger and focused, and if you want freezing, Sub-Zero Staff or Winter Staff are specialized in that. But if you want decent damage with one Freeze as a "silver bullet", then you cannot find anything better. This isn't a must buy of course, but it isn't bad as well. I would even use it for the high-level farming where one Freeze may completely stop the big monster and let you finish it in two turns. Flash Of Pain is extremely useful against swarms in SP, especially boosted with Savage Curse.

Definitely a must buy! The best warrior boots in the game.

 

OK so here is an item that I am unsure about - Mindshrinker. I already have three Greyworm Mace that I don't use often.
I mean, the difference is basically going from Able Bash - Touch of Death to Mind Worm - Polearm Slash.

Does anyone here use Mindshrinker?

 

If you want NSx2 Whiteglow Flail is better then those two. If you want something cheaper to equip, you can save another major token with Darkblood Glaive. One less NS but the Savage Curses are more playable then the worms imo.

edit: Rapier Of Misfortune is even more cheap and has 2 NS.

 

OK so let's assume that I absolutely cannot fit Whiteglow Flail. And I don't have Darkblood Glaive; for that matter I am unsure I would want to use that either.
It's pretty easy to compare Rapier Of Misfortune to Mindshrinker though- is Bad Luck actually better than Mind Worm? :O

 

The real question would be: is having mind worms instead of bad luck really worth a gold token?

 

Really depends on the specific situation. Both Bad Luck and Mind Worm are good vs opponents relying on lots of armor/blocks. Both cards also have interesting and unusual uses. I.e. Bad Luck to make your own dudes less likely to discard non-keep armors like Frenzy Aura or Arcane Aura, Mind Worm as a last-resort counter measures to Punishing Bolts.

If I really had to pick one of the two, I'd go for Mind Worm, because I like card advantage over the -1 to rolls.

Also to be kept in mind, Polearm Slash doubles as armor, which might or might not be what you're looking for.

If you care more about the Mind Worms than the NSs (I doubt that's the case, but alas...) another very good option would be the Draining Dagger, which is cheaper (2 minor tokens) and fits a vampire build very nicely.

 

If you have a fair amount of unused gold I'd say, sure, why not? But if that's not the case I'd try making a build that would include it and then look and see if you like the build. Its really one of those 50/50 items.

 

The responses appear to be "no"s, so far. I've tried it out, but I don't regularly use it.

 

Hi!

This week Randimar is tempting me with a Bynzer's Black Spear, which I can only just afford. I don't really play a vamp but I'd have to give it a go if I had this.

Trouble is, I really don't have any priest weapons I'm really happy with. A Healing Hand Mace would best improve the builds I currently run with, and I would be most sad if I couldn't afford one if one popped up when I was broke from buying the above shiny.

So... do people think BBS is supergreat? Thanks in advance.

 

The Healing Hand Mace is just epic. You will be able to farm 500 gold easily in a week if you really see it.
Bynzer's Black Spear is one of the best weapons for the vampire priest, if not the best, so you simply cannot afford skipping it Even if you don't play the vampire right now.

 

I'm convinced. I now have zero gold! Thanks for the advice.

I'd be annoyed if I left it and then had nothing but garbage in Randimars for a month while I got trounced by awesome vamp priests

 

I've been away for a while, but only 1 in Randimar's I'm interested in - White Katana (no Ls this week)

3 Shredding Strikes and 2 Dancing Cuts seem good for a specialist weapon.

 

If you are running into a lot of Reliable Mail then White Katana is one of the better weapons. However, since only successful armor rolls trigger the discard it is much less useful against things like Sparkling Cloth Armor. You'd often be better off just packing weapons with higher damage and hoping for the best.

 

Something new players tend to overlook: Shredding Strike (and Sundering Strike) bypass Toughness, the ludicrous backbone of dwarf cheapness beside their disproportional high hp. So if you are tired of double tapping every dwarf, these are the attacks for you.

 

Not sure about everyone else but I hate Ouch