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First thing first, you really need a healer, i dont even think SSYT is fit for you, you need a 50% healer or CBT.

If you can raise your intel to 1000, and get Crisp Blue Tunic

or buy a Bag of Healing Dust , since you're reluctant on changing species

SmH=Sophies Magic Hat?

If it is take out Ugga Marbleshield, which is just a complete waste

I could give you more info, but I dont know if you play 1p or 2p
Or how much you are willing to spend

I do more of 1pl but looking to do a bit more 2p and I have a hard time earning nps other than sniping from auctions and that is not that profitable. As it stands right now after buying a WoR I have just under 150k. 65k will have to go towards the notice board ad and to stock up my shop.

I think the main/easiest thing you need to do with your set is get a second main constant. At your level, Steaming Skeem Potion is a backup weapon against defensive battlers/g-shield users. You need another weapon that deal the 9+icon standard in ALL cases, which should replace your marble shield, considering you have SmH. I'm sure you know what 9/10/11 iconers there are to choose from, so i'm just going to recommend for your set. Ideally, i'd replace WoR with BoD and get a Ramtors Spellbook- that way you only have 1 weapon that deals light vs those pesky Dusty Magic Brooms/Air Faerie Crowns and your backup works well to get around them. Otherwise, i'd pair your WoR with a 9 or 11 iconer (because light defence is so common and you already have light)- Goo Blaster from the 11-iconers would pair nicely, and i think either Essence of Esophagor, Pike Pike (awesome with your species ability) or Stone Club would deal icons that pair nicely with WoR (GoC has light so i won't recommend it here).

And you need to look into your healer. With your strength, GHS is worse than any of your weapons each turn so at the moment there isn't much point in having it. You've outgrown non-percentage based healers too, so all i can recommend with your species is Bag of Healing Dust. Crisp Blue Tunic may work- but you're soon going to outgrow even that

Finally some sound advice now then how do I go about earning the nps to obtain that bohd? and for now it seems that the short sleeved yellow tunic should be a good buy until I can ever earn enough nps for a BoHd

From PM

Think of your healer in terms of "swing" (damage+heal+defence=swing)- this way you can compare it to your weapon and crisp blue tunic and not just have a healer for the sake of having a healer. I'll just assume your a 300-booster for these purposes- no point calculating if your just gunna change soon . So, with 300 strength, an icon deals 6.5 icons and with 200 defence, your defending 4.5 damage per icon. So the Short Sleeved Yellow Tunic, with 75 HP and 0-27 defence for a total swing of 75-102. Your Wand of Reality deals 13 icons- for a swing of 84.5. So the short sleeved yellow tunic is very slightly better depending if you can actually block icons and considering that the swing from the tunic is "unblockable" whilst icons from WoR ARE blockable. Is it worth it to you?

Whilst if you consider the Crisp Blue Tunic you have a (potential but usually achievable at your hp) of 200. That's a "healer" that will help you in battles. And a 50% healer is going to give you a swing of 157++ as you grow. That's I say the SSYT will soon be outgrown/is outgrown.

As for your question as what to do whilst you save up for that BoHD/CBT, Bzzt blaster is another light dealing weapon. Sure it's icon types are "good" but as i said you may be facing a bit of light defence, possibly less so at your level. So it's your choice whether to get the Bzzt or just skip straight to BoD.

Hope that helps!

Eep, I think it's only fair to warn you that venturing into 2P might not be the wisest course of action right now, you're somewhat outmatched at this level. In fact, selling the G-Bomb would be a step in the wrong direction, you're going to need it to stand a chance.

Healer-wise, rylix subscribes to a very interesting school of thought, take his points seriously. Needless to say, it's another strike against your 2P competitiveness, seeing as SSYT simply will not cut it at this level (though chances are, it'll suffice for 1P use). I'd recommend packing Jade Elixirs if you really intend to 2P effectively, cost is prohibitive but *shrugs*.

Get your defence up to your strength, and I'd look to dualling WoRs in the long run, as well as looking to turn that SMH into one of the big 2 shields. I understand your issues with budget, but if you're looking to get into the 2P front, then you need to upgrade accordingly. Believe me when I say games will help with your earning power immensely.

Hmmm...well I thank each of you that have given me some advice and thought it out throughly. Again here is where I had taken a lot of my opponents off guard with the strategies that I had used, yes I know I don't always win, but I have win quite a few 2pl challenges as well as lost quite a few. For the longest time my main battle pet has always been a peophin with the exception of a period of time. While some had used a g-bomb+their main+ some type of defend (since we were both successful in freezing on the first turn while I had snowglobe staff) I had defended against it rather nicely and from what I was told by my challenger, "How did you manage to defend so effectively against that?" Believe me when I say this, I do understand that a lot of this battling has to do with timing of perhaps the right ability, the right shield+main or perhaps shield+main+species ability.

For now I will just do 1pl challenges and continue to save up for that BoHd. I still have WoR, Ppot and steaming skeem potion if I don't sell my ppot that is. Again I would like to thank those that have offered some very solid advice and don't think that I don't appreciate it just understand that I suck at both games and rsing Thanks so very much for all your input.

Tip on making nps:

RESTOCK!!!

I beleive restocking is the easiest way to make a lot of nps, all you have to have is fast internet and good haggling skills, there is a very good restocking guide on someone's webpage I'll try to figure out the link.

Restocking is sort of hard in the 1st week, but after that it gets extremely easy, in the 2 weeks I easily got 1 mil, just restocked Golden Compass. In the first month got about 3 mil restocking. Try going for the wasy places first, MAgical Marvels is great, dont try Royal Potionery until you get more advanced
Here is the rsing guide I was talking about:

http://www.neofaerie.net/index.php?page=...k&screen=0

Hey thanks so much for that, I did take the time to look that link out and will give rsing a try once more although not sure that my dsl has a real fast speed like I had when I had cable internet but I have rsed a few things before and will try it again.

That restock guide is well written, helped me out even though i've done it before