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For a battlemage, hitting with a warding staff will heal all wards. That can make a high-level warding staff quite fun to play with, but it does require a bit of strategy and luck.
I think it’s there just to give you one more option. Besides, it looks pretty cool B-)
When playing with a duellist-champion, though, the runic blade has a very attractive ability: it increases the power of its enchantment by a ton. Once I got a projecting runic blade, and I could hit enemies all the way across large rooms. Very entertaining!
Nice! Congratulations.
Yes! That’s what I did. I needed to upgrade the leather armor to survive the jail and the first few levels of caves. Once I got the ring, I used the SoU on the ring and my thrown weapon (to activate the sniper shot). With the shared enchantment talent, the fishing spear became grim as well!
Thanks!
Upgrade scrolls: actually I haven’t upgraded my weapon at all (I found the sword +1 somewhere in the jail). I’m hoping to find a +2 or +3 tier-3 weapon. I also have an enchantment stone, waiting for the right weapon. Also, I’ve only spent two SoU on the armor (found at +2, another +2 from the troll).
Interesting idea to use a freerunner. That’s a class that I’ve never tried, though, and it seems difficult to use well (like the duellist monk).
Regarding rings and wands, I don’t put any restrictions on them, since (as you said) they don’t have a tier, so they’re fair game.