Twilight Forums

A new item! Exciting. The Hero's Cape from November will still be in the store for this month only as it was the very first IotM for TH.

Discuss away!

Personally, I love it a lot. It's shiny WITH light analogues and it's a shield! I LOVE shields!

It makes me wish I hadn't bought the Hero's Cape.

I'm going to get this and be 1337 with my cape AND this.

_________________
Part Spock, part Yoda... a bit of a freak, to be sure!
Of only one thing can you be certain...
He DEFINITELY has pointy ears.

With this, my Cape and my Abaddon charm it will make adventuring quite easy... yay...

I think I may have to donate and grab this. Shiny.

_________________

To be honest, I think it has too many effects ... it makes me wonder what kind of items to expect a few months from now.

Well, the damage reduction was supposed to cap at 20 and isn't presently, so I need to fix that. (If that's a complete dealbreaker for anybody, I'll perform a refund.)

But I'm not sure that the quantity of bonuses is necessarily a thing to focus on, at least not for me. Not that it's the only standard to go by, but a number of KoL donation items in recent months have a wide range of effects (bottle-rocket crossbow, pilgrim shield, navel ring). I think I'm likely to alternate between lots of mid-level effects and a few really good effects. My belief, which may be completely off base, was that these were 4 moderately good bonuses, whereas the cape's 2 bonuses are quite good in my opinion. It of course depends on your goals whether this is true, and maybe I calculated badly.

The cape represents my intended level of quality for a 10-star donation item, and what I think most future items ought to come close to. If the shield overshot that mark, that's my mistake, and I'll try to balance better in the future.

The Cape's +10 PP/turn and +item are great. They pretty much let you cast spells at will and the +item% is twice as good as the next two pieces of equipment combined.

As for the shield...
+20 to maximum HP -- half of a silver star
Attacker takes 5 damage -- close to a Paradox Naught
+20% resist fire, ice, electric, and acid damage -- 4x forcegloves
(1 x your level) damage absorption -- offhand, the only place I remember DA is kneepads, and they give +2

Can discharge elemental attacks after charging for a couple rounds.
Rounds as in rounds, or rounds as in turns? Or both? I mean, higher level characters don't get involved in too many long-round battles.

[edit: Rounds as in both, apparently. And you get to choose the element to fire off. But it costs 5 PP to use the elemental attack, and while that's a reasonable amount, it's not obvious that it would cost anything; I figured it'd do random elemental damage randomly. But I suppose that's the price you pay for being able to choose.]

I haven't actually used it yet, but it looks pretty cool. Maybe not "holy crap, that's awesome" cool like the Cape, but that's a nice mix of effects. Hell, this + a Paradox Naught, and anything that hits you will take 11 damage. A few rounds of that would knock a lot of enemies ass over tea kettle.

I said "ass over tea kettle". I'm so proud of myself.

_________________
Jesus (#229) | Solitude (#257)

That's supposed to be turns, not rounds. I tend to be really bad about mixing those two up.

I respect your response. Also, I've never played KOL or any game like this, so this is pretty much gibberish to me. Thanks.

The Cape is good for everyone. If you've got one, there's no reason why you wouldn't use it.

The shield is good for low level characters, for the HP and damage.
It's also good for high level characters taking on enemies who scale with level. That being said, it's almost a must-have for powerleveling.

But for anywhere you can kill things without trouble, you might as well use a Flashlight instead.

_________________
Jesus (#229) | Solitude (#257)

I shall donate, as I've said before Ryme, ASAP!

_________________
TheK3vin- #325

http://soundcloud.com/thek3vin

Donated. Enjoying

You got another 10$ from me, 11$ actually, because it looks like the market could bear some more silver stars, and I want to drink Brays.

Hope it helps keep this place going.

Donated again, now sporting a nice cape and shield

I think it's a nice item although I'd personally prefer higher resistance in place of absorbption (well, I'm only taking elemental damage in the highest level zone so I confess to being egoistic)

I'll admit, I'm a bit sad that you have to manually choose when the shield goes off. The description suggested random discharges, and that's what I was really hoping for.

I can live with it, though. I just won't use that feature much.

_________________
Alexander Cherry
Twisted Confessions

Same here, actually. If it got overloaded every so often and released a blast, I'd be very entertained.

...or blew off your arm?

"You acquire an effect: Needs neurosurgeon"

_________________

The churches are empty / The priest has gone home / And we are left standing / Together alone
--October Project: "Dark Time"

Man, I already need one of those in real life. I hope I don't get that in game too.

Anyway, if it gave off a blast automatically, but less often than if you did it consciously, I think it could be balanced out somehow.

_________________
Alexander Cherry
Twisted Confessions

hey guys how about a shield that doubles your exp but sometimes makes your arm explode

It looks good except for it being a shield. Everything else is nice.

_________________