The Daily Deal

White Flame
Multiplayer
Instant Burn is a weak card in a vacuum but surround it with other burning cards and you are off to the races. Fire wizards are the top choice for offensive wizards due to the availability of attacks on arcane items. If you play more than one wizard, avoid crossing the streams. Instant Burn will not trigger off another character's burning cards so it's best to avoid fire spells and attachments in general for the rest of the party. If enemy characters have burning attachments but are out of range or line of sight, you can fire an Instant Burn at your own characters to trigger them. Be sure to pack armor removal somewhere in your build. One Resistant Hide or Reliable Mail is enough to ruin your day.

Singleplayer
Best paired with multi-target spells like Ember Burst or Firestorm when you are outnumbered. If you are using Firestorm with Instant Burn, remember that it will trigger for burning attachments on your own characters as well.

Peon's prescription for prodigious players- Would get White Flame if you enjoy burninating the countryside. Just be prepared to shell out major moolah for legendary arcane items if you want to play with it.

Substitutes
None

Ettin's Club
Robe Of Useful Things
Savage Tome- One of the better options for getting Savage Curse.

 

I would love a White Flame, but without a Staff Of A Million Embers it's hard to optimize. The Overheated Staff is a possible alternative w/ 4 IB but with combustible it makes Firestorm a more difficult situation although being only 1 blue to equip makes it a consideration but not a true alternative (and it's legendary too).
Sure you could use the lessor Staff Of Embers or of the old chestnuts like Charring Staff(epic), Barnum's StAff or maybe go for some fireball love with a Staff Of The Fire God(epic) or a Searing Pain each of which has it's own issues. Except for the staffs I noted as Epic these are all legendaries so a rich man's build indeed since you want to pair it with Arcane items like Miligar's Dragon Tongue, Smoag's Bucket Of Pitch, Avakiria's Cup, Wym's Fiery Bangle, Barnum's Burning Bauble, Boxton's Red Pendant, Pumpkin Bomb, Wym's Fiery Pin, Yount's Chain, or Rantic's Orb Of Inner Fire (epic). So there are lots of key items for the deadliest of fire wizards, you probably need 2 staffs and 4 arcane items that are typically legendary items with an epic or 2 mixed in. Maybe you go with a Magma Spiral if you are feeling lucky, but the best burning items to use to max out instant burn are either burn 3 hit multiple targets or possibly both (Jet Flame).

 

Just a mini post to thank all of you people that give your oponion and hints for the daily deal. It´s really useful. Thanks a lot

 

Today's Deal is:

Xemu's Crown 3/3. It was much better before the rebalance, now both Cone of Cold and SPR were nerfed. Don't buy it.

Flashing Longspear 4/3. One of the best penetrating weapons in the game. All 5 attacks are penetrating + Blind Rage to boot. What's not to like?
Old Saint's Armor 3/3. Arrogant Armor is good, but Healing Pulse can heal enemies. There are better alternatives.
Untrained Tactics 1/1. Utter crap.

Please don't miss Vampire's Blade, if you don't have enough copies.

 

Swiz's Circlet Of Elements
Multiplayer
Both Flame Jet and Cone Of Cold are fine cards. However, items that mix and match cards that are used for radically different things tend to be a lot worse. There may very well be a build that actively wants encumbers and high damage attacks but Swiz's Circlet of Elements will only fit into that specific build. You will often be better off getting items that specialize in one type of card so you can mix and match them yourself.

Singleplayer
You have advance knowledge of how good Flame Jet and Cone of Cold are in each module but again, I believe you would be better served going after the specialized items so you can create a larger variety of builds.

Peon's prescription for prodigious players- Two copies of Flame Jet is rare for an item but dedicated burning build generally do not want to dilute their decks with other kinds of cards. There are many legendary items with 3 good burning cards for the same token cost. If this item had 2 Cone of Cold on the other hand it would be much more purchasable since there would be no strictly better option at the same cost. Would not purchase Swiz's Circlet of Elements.

Substitutes
None for Flame Jet
Hasek's Icy Ring (E) , Hylithia's Wand (E) , Xochu's Icy Circlet (E) : Cone Of Cold

Flashing Longspear- Great penetrating weapon.
Savage Plates
Untrained Tactics

 

It seems Peonprop has been allowed into the secret circle of preferred shoppers to get a different Legendary at The Daily Deal. I guess that's something also the rest of us can hope to achieve some sunny day.

 

Veeeery interesting. @Duke Tresnor also has Swiz's in his Daily Deal right now; I have Xemu's.

 

I dont't have Savage Plates either but Old Saint's armor. And Xemu's not Swiz's.
Same goes for my other 2 main server accounts, too.

 

Divide & conquer. I'm closing the city gates and starting the big water cauldrons boiling just in case.

 

Well that's weird. I had those items before the server shut down too so that wasn't it. Rares are:
Benefactor's Charm
Blackeye Hammer
Bulging Ringmail
Club
Clumsy Black Mace
Coruscating Blade
Displacing Staff
Gouging Helm
Hexagon Shield
Spear of Dancing

 

My rares are:
Bursting Medallion
Displacing Staff
Golem Cleaver
Gouging Helm
Hexagon Shield
Perilous Ringmail
Scouring Axe
Spear of Dancing
Sword of Loud Thoughts
Vampire's Blade

 

I probably wont be home in time to confirm, but I believe that matches my Daily Deal. Definitely had Vamp Blade, Scouring Axe and Hexagon Shield and I'm prety sure on Sword of Loud Thoughts.

Very Odd indeed.

 

I can confirm my Daily Deal stock matches Veza's

 

The counts according to item type match up.

 

I got the @peonprop version of the Deal on the live server.

On the test server, five of my accounts have @Sir Veza's version.

EDIT:
New day, new junk:
Swiz's Circlet Of The Elements
Cudgel Of Healing Light
Ephriam's Crazy Boots
Foley's Footwear
Club Of Devastation
Command
Crusty Helm
Exceptional Sparking
Greenspark Staff
Leaden Maul
Perfect Tactics
Shiny Chain Coif
Spear Of Dancing
Teak Horn

 

What a wonderful day!

Red Flame. 5?/5? Having two of these is the same as having White Flame and Staff Of Million Embers, but the general consensus is White Flame variant is more versatile, since it allowes you to use other burning staves (especially in SP missions where you don't have enough yellow tokens). Still, Red Flame is a very powerful staff, and it's well worth the cost. If you want to build a not-that-specialized burning wizard and reduce the number of Instant Burns, it may be your choice. You may want Red Flame + Staff Of Embers, for instance.

Azure Shield. 2/2. I would consider it if it wouldn't have Flimsy Block. Having extra Lunging Bash may be very advantageous, but the Flimsy Block is awful. It could help you versus Boiling Armor or Cone Of Cold, but you shouldn't play the blocks that are useful only against them.
Badjeera's Black Relic 4?/3. One of the best vampiric items. It's just slightly worse than the legendary Hand Of Melvelous. And the best item in this category is...
Flax's Thirsty Vial 5!?/3. The best tokenless vampiric item in the game. Three good attacks, two of them even have range 2.

My rating shows only the power/cost ratio of the item in the right build (not necessary in yours!) '?' means the need of a special build (or a special map). '!' means the best item for its cost, in its category or essential for the build.

 

Isn't Badjeera's Black Relic third, behind Hand Of Melvelous?

 

Oh yes, you're right. I've forgot about that legendary stuff. Fixed. Thanks for your attention!

 

You're welcome!

 

Red Flame
Multiplayer
Ember Burst is powerful for any build. It does a decent amount of damage to multiple targets and is one of the few ways to hit things behind cover. Instant Burn is also powerful but only in burning builds since without support it does a lousy 3 damage. When you put both on the same item though it becomes harder to evaluate. Red Flame does not fit into a dedicated burst build and by itself it doesn't have enough Instant Burns for a Instant Burn build either. What you are left with is a solid staff for general Firestarter wizards.

Singleplayer
There is nothing wrong with running Red Flame if you use enough burning cards to support Instant Burn but again, it won't slot into as many optimized builds.

Peon's prescription for prodigious players- Red Flame is undoubtedly powerful but it is hard to justify getting an item when more focused versions exist. Would not purchase unless you specifically want to add 3 copies of Instant Burn or Ember Burst to a deck.

Substitutes
None

Azure Shield
Badjeera's Black Relic
Flax's Thirsty Vial- Vampire priest build staple, even despite it's lousy name. Why associate yourself with a deplorable personality like Flax when you could get Wuuna's Vampiric Shroud instead?