Rate my Randimar's Rarities

The problem is as a SP I like making the best from what I have. If these changes go through I'll probably ignore Randimar's. Pretend like it doesn't exist. Especially if we all get the same things in the store.

On-T: I've decided I'm going to buy that Axe. Just have to finish off the gold.

 

I have absolutely no useful items in my Randimar's this week. No legendaries at all.
When the new change is going to happen?

 

Hehe, I have 6L this week

 

Gratz! I hope there are some good ones.

 

Finally, I got St. Olf's Fiery Pike from Randi's!!!

Ferocity looks somewhat interesting as well. A second Beater might be good. Massive Harm looks to be a dud.

 

I would at the very least wait for an update on balance changes before getting Ferocity. Having an encumbered dwarf with Blind Rage on is going to be brutal now without long step cards. If you've been playing with Beater and liking it then a second one can't be bad. Massive Harm will get a big boost when the Violent Overswings switch to Controlled Overswings but it's hard to justify having 3 more points of damage over Beater in exchange for 3 possible discards.

 

4 Legendaries - don't really have the cash unless I luck into a legendary gold drop tonight/tomorrow... but they seem pretty solid especially the first 2
Dark Drewg's Mace - not sure it is something to chase, but there's always a place in my heart for tokenless weapons that kick butt
Heartripper - quite on the other side of the spectrum, use up your tokens and blow up your enemies from afar
Lt. Buckwell's Boots - nice solid tokenless boots especially for the spell-slinger and support-caster and even distance-stretch warr
Wild Trickery - I'm not sure this really beats Cautious Trickery but if you have to fly across the board

Reality is I'll likely pass on them all (at 1100gp currently) unless someone shouts one of these is a must must must must have

 

Heartripper is one hot staff to be sure. Depending on how the current balancing shakes out it might still be the best MP staff in the game. Very useful in SP to be sure in any case. I use mine on the higher level adventures all the time.

 

Punishing Bolt is a really long range attack that can do 8-10 damage early on. It's also arcane so you can take advantage of hard to block trait bonuses. I would rip someone's heart out for one of these...but alas I'd need a Heartripper first.

 

Heartripper is also my top choice. The mace is very good, but IMO St. Portia's Maul is better. It's also very hard to find.
If these had shown up in my Randi's, I'd have bought all 4 - and 3 would be duplicates.

 

Thoughts on Aegis Of The Defender?

 

Everything with Defender's Block and 2 decent blocks is legendary and nothing else has 2 of them so if you want that effect this is your best option. The addition of card draws will probably make up for the Weak Chop now.

 

Yup, I've been running this one with melee teams on the test server, where you have everything available. It's worth it.

 

Unless it changes again...
I expect Defender's Block to stay pretty strong, but I've guessed wrong about other changes.

 

I have a hard time buying something based off of potential changes, but I'd rather buy it than Axe Of The Titans. I rarely use chops on my warriors in SP. Plus the shield is cheaper. Yeah. I think I'm going to get the shield and leave the weapon.

 

Skull Of Savage Iljin (I don't have one yet, but Savage Curse doesn't impress me. Why would I want to turn anything I do with my wizard into a spell that duplicates Controlled Overswing? Bye bye, Res Hide, other armors, blocks, etc)
Yvette's Buckler already have one, but with the new balance changes, this looks strong
Cleansing Hide Armor meh
Dorimer's Boots I like, but I already have one
Flax's Thirsty Vial I have none, so I'll buy this, even if it's a dupe of Wuuna's Vampiric Shroud, of which I have three
Hrillia's Healing Ring Nice
Inkdark Halberd already have three
Maquah Of Ancient Blood
Novice Evasion
Solid Iron Helmet
Vira's Chain

Any thoughts? I'll probably but the Skull, the Vial, the Ring, the Maquah, and Novice Evasion, just because I have the money.

 

Does Lochaber Axe still look good after the proposed balance changes? I also have Knife Of St. Blenko available, but I won't be able to afford it.

 

I have on offer St. Alipp's Hammer, but I already have it.

Epics that interest me:
Flax's Thirsty Vial
Draining Dagger

 

My first Lochaber Axe, hopefully I'll get some use out of this pre-"nerf"

 

Well, we've seen two changes to Nimble Strike, so who knows if the current version in the balance change will be the final one. My answer is a "yes" -- step two, free move is pretty valuable. Especially since it's only an epic.

I'm a little frustrated -- I have 74% of Base set epics, and despite farming the level 12/13 adventures, I've seen neither hide nor hair of the Axe.