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So, I'm signed up for munsterpoo's RAWR invitational*, which starts in a week.

I'm entering my lab pet, who will have 300 Str, something like 16 def and around 760 hp.

As they are the weakest part of my battleset, I'm thinking about upgrading my offensive constants. Currently I use a dual Wand of Reality set up as they get through burrow and sink stack enough icons to punch through both Ghostkershield and Faerie Tabard, even when used together on pets with higher Defense than my Strength.

I'd really like to upgrade the wands into Pirate Captains Cutlesses but for budget, I only might have barely scraped enough together to upgrade one of those wands into a Sword of Skardsen, but SoS is very easy to block in 2p.

This means my other options are:

• Don't upgrade
• Ultra Bubble Gun
• Werelupe Claw Necklace
• Asparachuks
• Sword of Skardsen
• Something I'm missing??
  

Things to keep in mind

• Due to my hit point advantage, I'll be battling pets who are higher Str boost than me.
• I'm also going to be fighting uphill setwise. I have to expect that all of my opponents will have at least PCC + SoS for their constants.
• I already have adequate defensive options for a lab pet. I'm not posting them out of "set paranoia", but rest assured that I'm not looking to add more reflectors or full blockers to my set at this time. (unless you want to offer me rediculously low prices)
• With the current roster for braket 10, 3 of the 5 of the pets I will be fighting against also have low defense. This means that G-Shield and Tabard are nowhere near the considerations they've been in past tournaments, where the NCW league calculator rewarded people for overtraining defense.
• The empirical test results for my weapons options listed on the grephun petpage. I think I probably trust those numbers better than the stats given here.
  

So with all that in mind, what are your thoughts on what I should do?


*tourney details on the woogle_the_wise petpage

Oh yay! Helping an Set Advisor with his set is very fun for me.

Anyway, I personally think you should upgrade one wand into a UBG and the other into an Asparachucks. Now if you have budget constraints, please tell me and I'll modify my advice. But with A-Chucks, you can't be reflected by reflectors and nobody will expect you using them since they're so rare in the 2-P bd. You're probably going to have to tower it though, since the rareness works against them. UBG is also good because if you get the 20 hit, it can help you defeat some people with Swords and Cutlasses.

Another thing you could do, though, is buy a SOS and combo that with a BOD. I know the BOD has the same total amount of icons the WOR has, but it'll get through sink a heck of a lot easier then a WOR. Besides, it gives you options to get all sorts of defensive shields.

That's my opinion. Tell me whether you like my ideas or not, and if not, I'm sure somebody else will be here in a few minutes to advise you.

I say you get a Ring of the Lost for the full if you are scared that your opponents have a Sword of Skardsen. An Ultra Dark Reflectorb may work just as well, but that would greatly decrease the amount of icons you deal, so you should also get a Pirate Captains Cutlass or Ultra Bubble Gun with your money.

I am not sure that this is the best advice, but that should be able to help you. Your main attackers would therefore be Pirate Captains Cutlass or Ultra Bubble Gun and Wand of Reality. With the Ring of the Lost, you might want to replace it with another one of your weapons. Stating your full set might be able to help us give more advice.