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sniffnoyFiguring, well, I just got a bunch of money in presents, I decided to buy some Kongai items - Necronomic Tome, General's Insignia, Stoneheel Totem, Caltrops, Scroll of Inner Focus.
I think the only possible changes I want to make are as follows: Scroll replacing Yellow Rock on Rumiko, Necronomic Tome (or maybe General's Insignia) replacing Phylactery on the Marquis, Caltrops (or maybe General's Insignia) replacing Healing Salve on Higashi.
A bit of testing shows that Scroll works much better than Yellow Rock on Rumiko. The Yellow Rock's main use is that you can switch out when they're at ≤6 health, and (assuming you don't get intercepted) kill them without risking your own health. It's kind of a corner case. Scroll, on the other hand, is much more useful. In particular, with the Scroll, she can do Eviscerate twice in a row. So if they switch out in response to the first one, they can't avoid the second one. Well, OK, they can't deterministically avoid the second one, obviously the attack can still miss, and you can still miss the proc - but YKWIM.
I think I want to stick with Healing Salve on Higashi, but I guess I'll just have to play a bunch of unranked matches to test this one. I hope there are good people playing unranked matches to test against...
Phylactery vs Necronomic Tome vs General's Insignia is interesting. General's Insignia increases your attacks by 4, while Necronomic Tome, I thought, does so by an expected value of 3. But there's a bit more to it than that. The thing is that the Tome also provides healing equal to damage on Vampiric Touch and Teleport, while the Insignia only provides half that on the Touch and none on the Teleport. And indeed a problem I've been having is playing against people who constantly go far against the Marquis to minimize his healing (and when they can't, manage to figure out when I'm going to attack and when I'm going to intercept... obviously they have to be really good to do that, but, well, some people are that good). (This is especially a problem when he's the only one left, obviously.) To get some healing off of Teleports would definitely be a good thing.
Oh but wait, there's a mistake in the Tome's item description. Its damage is actually typed (dark magic, duh). This reduces how much it'll actually help, and when it's only firing 30% of the time, it might not be worth it compared to the Insignia. (Especially as it's against those damn vampires that I seem to be having the most trouble right now.)
But then we've got to compare both of these to the Phylactery. Now I thought Tome would be better than Phlactery, because while the latter, when you die, gives you a 30% chance to restore 1 HP, the former gives you a 30% chance to restore more than that each time you attack! (Well, against another Marquis it wouldn't be more unless you'd cast Blood Burn, but...) So ideally the Tome should prevent a lot of those situations where the Phylactery would help in the first place, as you'd have more health and wouldn't die. But the little testing I've done favors the Phylactery... so, uh, I don't know. I'm sticking with Phylactery for now, but I want to test this further.
-Harry
I think the only possible changes I want to make are as follows: Scroll replacing Yellow Rock on Rumiko, Necronomic Tome (or maybe General's Insignia) replacing Phylactery on the Marquis, Caltrops (or maybe General's Insignia) replacing Healing Salve on Higashi.
A bit of testing shows that Scroll works much better than Yellow Rock on Rumiko. The Yellow Rock's main use is that you can switch out when they're at ≤6 health, and (assuming you don't get intercepted) kill them without risking your own health. It's kind of a corner case. Scroll, on the other hand, is much more useful. In particular, with the Scroll, she can do Eviscerate twice in a row. So if they switch out in response to the first one, they can't avoid the second one. Well, OK, they can't deterministically avoid the second one, obviously the attack can still miss, and you can still miss the proc - but YKWIM.
I think I want to stick with Healing Salve on Higashi, but I guess I'll just have to play a bunch of unranked matches to test this one. I hope there are good people playing unranked matches to test against...
Phylactery vs Necronomic Tome vs General's Insignia is interesting. General's Insignia increases your attacks by 4, while Necronomic Tome, I thought, does so by an expected value of 3. But there's a bit more to it than that. The thing is that the Tome also provides healing equal to damage on Vampiric Touch and Teleport, while the Insignia only provides half that on the Touch and none on the Teleport. And indeed a problem I've been having is playing against people who constantly go far against the Marquis to minimize his healing (and when they can't, manage to figure out when I'm going to attack and when I'm going to intercept... obviously they have to be really good to do that, but, well, some people are that good). (This is especially a problem when he's the only one left, obviously.) To get some healing off of Teleports would definitely be a good thing.
Oh but wait, there's a mistake in the Tome's item description. Its damage is actually typed (dark magic, duh). This reduces how much it'll actually help, and when it's only firing 30% of the time, it might not be worth it compared to the Insignia. (Especially as it's against those damn vampires that I seem to be having the most trouble right now.)
But then we've got to compare both of these to the Phylactery. Now I thought Tome would be better than Phlactery, because while the latter, when you die, gives you a 30% chance to restore 1 HP, the former gives you a 30% chance to restore more than that each time you attack! (Well, against another Marquis it wouldn't be more unless you'd cast Blood Burn, but...) So ideally the Tome should prevent a lot of those situations where the Phylactery would help in the first place, as you'd have more health and wouldn't die. But the little testing I've done favors the Phylactery... so, uh, I don't know. I'm sticking with Phylactery for now, but I want to test this further.
-Harry
