Weapon Choices for 1p Battling?

[Chobo]

Hi again guys. Now I still haven't figured out whether or not to train defense, but I'll decide later. In the meantime, I can figure out some weapon choices.

Price range: between 0-9 million.

Include effective icon or full blocking dual duties too

I barely play this game but when I do play I battle and participate in wars so a set that fits those purposes would be nice

Also if you could list out your sets so I get a idea of what people do. And whether or not you trained defense.

Money is limited with me unfortunately

Include more than just 8 items because I will be switching out weapons to fit my needs. Thanks

[Shattered Rift]

The words "price range" are throwing me off. Are you referring to weapons costing up to 9 mil, or a set costing up to 9 mil?

I know I should be assuming the latter. But my mind isn't sure whether or not you could make up for a lack of a 100% freezer given where the budget could go. And with a freezer, it would probably guarantee that you wouldn't be running any full-blockers. Which would mostly leave you with the mid-range dual-duties and weapons costing between 100K and 1 mil.

[Chobo]

Shattered Rift Wrote:The words "price range" are throwing me off. Are you referring to weapons costing up to 9 mil, or a set costing up to 9 mil?

I know I should be assuming the latter. But my mind isn't sure whether or not you could make up for a lack of a 100% freezer given where the budget could go. And with a freezer, it would probably guarantee that you wouldn't be running any full-blockers. Which would mostly leave you with the mid-range dual-duties and weapons costing between 100K and 1 mil.

Oops
Sorry I mean per weap.

I already have my freezer because at the time it was cheap and I took it to be a good buy so yah.

Instead, I wish I had bought a RotL or two at that time zz.

9 mill max np per weap

[Shattered Rift]

So I my confused mind was right.

Actually, I'd recommend you up your price cap by about 500K and replace H4KH (or whatever freezer) with Slumberberry Potion. It's a bit slower-going with the maxing out, but it lets you push much further. That said, it's still a pricey upgrade, and you might be better off picking up other things first.

As far as normal "weapons" go, they're technically less important than your freezer and blockers/reflectors. The only thing I'm personally running that deals more than 10 icons is Ghostkerbomb. Without factoring in Sword of Skardsen, Ghostkerbomb on its own is potentially greater than any other weapon upgrade you could make.

If you care about pure weapons, you already know about Bow of Destiny and Wand of Reality. I'd recommend dual-Bows (as it can allow you to fall back on dual-Scuzzys Comb), or dual-Prickly Potions (I keep forgetting what your Strength Boost is).


As far as dual-duties go, Mask of Coltzan (stacks with Bow), Dusty Magic Broom (stacks with Bow), and Kaylas Magic Hat (which stacks with Comb/Wand, I'm pretty sure you're already running a specific species, but can't recall which: the Hat is Zafara-only) are all I can think of in the way of "powerful" dual-duties.

As far as weaker dual-duties go, Ethereal Sword (stacks with Bow/Wand), Sword of the Dead (stacks slightly with Bow/Wand), Thief Dagger (stacks better with the Bow, but also stacks with Wand/Comb), Frozen Wand of Crystals (stacks best with Wand, next best with Bow, then with Comb), Cloudy Wand of Storms (stacks with Bow), Winged Scarab (stacks with Wand/Bow), Scarab Ring (stacks very slightly with Wand), Golden Compass (stacks equally with Bow/Wand, stacks less so with Comb).

I listed something that blocked each icon in the above paragraph. Several of those also stack to some degree with each other.


In the way of full-blockers/reflectors, there's Winged Scarab (also listed as a weaker dual-duty for its Air defense: as I recall, you already own one), Illusens Silver Shield, Clawed Shield/Flame Reflectozap, U-Bend of Great Justice, Ultimate Dark Reflectorb (I'm not sure on the price, but logic would price it cheaper: though logic rarely matters in the Neopian economy), and Shadow Shield/Superior Reflection Shield/Combo Battle Mirror. There is no Air defense in this range at the moment, as you're already aware.

It should be noted that reflectors are preferably since they deal twice as many net icons (they defend X icons and also deal X icons). However, most opponents deal a spread of icons rather than a concentration, often making reflectors more annoying to use.


In the way of good shields, there are Ghostkershield, Faerie Tabard, and Leaf Shield. I know I'm forgetting one or two others here.

The lesser shields arguably don't matter until your Defense Boost is high enough to properly utilize them. That, and I'm nowhere near familiar enough with them. In any case where you're going to use a pure shield, you really want to know that every icon is going to matter, since you probably need to be using the "good" shields in order to gain more net icons than a dual-duty or weapon offense would.

::.Sighs as he goes to add in the IDB tag to each weapon.:: I think I just listed every decent weapon in Neopia.

[Chobo]

Are there any other dual-duty + full blockers besides RotL and I guess you can count winged scarab?

Oh yeah since I'm probably going to go dual BoDs why can't I fall back on ramtor's either?

Doesnt stack with BoD?

Also what is the significance of slumberberry potion? All I see is a unreliable constant+freezer?

Edit again:
If I were to sell my freezing potion, what kind of weapons should I go for first? in terms of their price rising? I'm looking at RotL and a couple of the full blockers eh?

[Shattered Rift]

Very few, and less that are affordable. Yooyuball Player Sling and Jhudoras Bewitched Ring are the "good" ones (other than RotL). The weaker ones are Winged Scarab, Greater Staff of the Earth Faerie (which is probably too expensive by now), Shield of Pion Troect, and Battle Plunger (also too expensive by now).