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I'm neither asking for how to improve my set nor how my set should be created.


Question : Which weapon should I put into the first slot?
Other suggestions are also welcome.

I'd say the purple sticky hand (and later the heavy robe of thievery). If your opponent steals the sticky hand as you use it, that's okay; if you'd used it against them and it didn't miss, they would have gotten it anyway. If they steal it before you get it to work, that's also fine because it doesn't work every turn, so they may waste a weapon turn using it against you and having it fail. And later with the robe, if they manage to steal it, they probably won't have the agility/intelligence required to use it.

I'm going to agree with Cran on that.

Even if they do have the move/int to use HROT, they are now taking 2 turns to steal, and if they have similar weapons to you, that means they're passing up on dealing 17-21 icons to you in order to steal a weapons that's not likely to be much better than theirs.

However, if you put an item that doesn't last the whole battle in your first slot, then you need to consider what to put in your second slot, and that's a a much tougher call. I'd probably lean towards the Frost Cannon as Hobans Hat defends against the damage it deals well, and I wouldn't expect most opponents to use a stolen BFC, but that is risking giving your opponent a second chance to freeze you. Golden Compass might be a safer bet, although it does cut into your remaining offense by blocking the dark done by your AFC.

I'm going to agree about the Sticky hand. Replacing that later with the Heavy Robe of Thievery. After that I would put either your BFC in the 2nd slot. Freezes are nice but they don't always work and your opponent might not use it just because of that fact. You've got a really nice set imo.

3rd slot I would put in your Kacheek Life potion. It'll probably be safe there, but if for some ungodly reason it's not and it gets stolen, well then provided they aren't a kacheek they can't use it. On top of that, I believe if you have the ability to steal after that, such as getting their stickyhand from them, that the item you'll steal will be the item they stole from you.

Now I could be wrong about that. It's been a long time since my last 2-player battle, but in one of those we kept stealing each other's sticky hands because as I recall, we'd both placed them in our first slots. So I assume that the item they steal from you would go to the slot where their stickyhand was.

IF you put the cannon in the seccond slot, you might want to think carefully about what goes in the third slot if you might use the cannon. Then the kacheek life potion, and incase you've used that, downsize!, and then the compass.

Thanks for all the suggestions guys
Cheers!

Conclusion (From first slot to last slot)

Purple Sticky Hand (Will change to heavy robe of thievery soon)
Black Frost Cannon
Kacheek Life Potion
Downsize!
Golden Compass
Hobans Hat
Air Faerie Crown
Honey Potion

I think is better to use your Compass on the third sloth because it will be less helpful to your enemy and a not so tactical lose on your side.

With your set is exemplified one the potential problem with a one-use gear but i feel that your main concern should be that you may end with 3 weapons if the battle is large enough.