Tomato Wrote:Species: Jetsam
Level: 24
Strength: 35
Defense: 20
Health: 35/35
I don't currently have a set.
Useful weapons in your safety deposit box: Von Roo Dice.
Budget you have to spend: None. I earn about 28k a day though.
1P or 2P: 1-Player only.
How do you train your pet?: Dubloons only.
Advise away,
Tomato.
First, sell those Von Roo Dice. My testing indicates that they're fractional and only average 6.46 real icons. And while I like dark and air for that level of 2p, in 1p, you're better served by upgrading to the 7 constant icons of
Battle Ready Pencil Box, or at your stats
Fighting Folder. Eventually upgrade first to
Enchanted Wooden Bow.
Earth Faerie Slingshot and/or
Tyrannian Lupe Tooth and then after that to
Ice Club and/or
Stone Club Unless you're doing 1p tournies, don't even thing about upgrading past those clubs until you're at least 85 boost. It will actually cost you over 10x as much to to get the same damage result by upgrading past clubs as it would be training with clubs equipped (looking at dual 9 iconers at the 35 boost and 85 boost)
Alternately, if you are still training Defense, you could go with one of the not-quite-as-good-as-scarab-ring dual duties. If you had even defense and were fighting 2p, I'd tell you to get
Jade Staff since it beats scarab ring in matchups there.
Superior Shovel and
Winged Hammer are similar and sell for reasonable prices. Not quite the bargains that those are, but still worth considering are
Tooth of Terrask,
Carved Sansetsukon,
Staff of Impenetrable Gloom,
Ice Dagger,
Thief Dagger,
Zapatron 2000, and
Brilliant Wing Amulet.
Since you seem to be planning for longer term, the higher-end buyable dual duties are also well worth it.
Cloudy Wand of Storms,
Frozen Wand of Crystals,
Sword of the Dead,
Amulet of Inevitable Betrayal,
Wand of the Moon and maybe even
Golden Compass if the price keeps slinding)
Next, get a freezer and a healer. At current prices,
Blue Scorchstone is a steal you can't pass up.
Having no budget, your best freezing option is the
Snowglobe Staff, which is pretty lame, but at least not a complete waste in 1p battling. Save towards upgrading this to a decent
Frost Cannon and eventually a 100% freezer.
At lower-budget 1p,
Purple Sticky Hand and
Downsize! are of course obvious choices.
I'm not a fan of shields in 1player, (unless they are full blockers or you have a pet with a substantial enough defense boost for blocked icons to matter once you get the opponents to 700 str) But if you must use a shield
Leaf Shield,
Earthen Scorchstone,
Shiny Shoal Shell Shield,
Patched Magic Hat,
Virtupets X-514 Super Shield are your options. There's also the chance that those rumors I keep hearing about
Sopies Magic Hat defending earth icons that aren't in the current IDB stats - if those rumors turn out true, it's worth considering once the price drops to buyable. As you indicate above, it's important to consider what icons your dual duties already block, as it's very easy to end up with redundant icons here. Those are only going to be useful when blocking snowballs or other large single shot attacks from 1p challengers, so go for defensive variety instead.
So here's my suggestion for the "starter set", you should be able to afford this with less than 3 days of income, and it will work well enough:
Snowglobe Staff
Blue Scorchstone
Downsize!
Fighting Folder
Fighting Folder
Shaken-up Can Of Neocola (since you already have it, and the random chance to hit high can help in 1p)
Leaf Shield
Purple Sticky Hand