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Practical use of skulls/Arena Master staff

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zenfur:

--- Quote from: Ashannar on April 16, 2013, 13:39 ---This is the best use of a shockwave pack I've ever seen. Read this post and the next one.

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Nice! Still pretty rare... Is it worth to keep it in backpack?

@Ashannar: btw, I was wondering who is the person who had name of my first ass kicking marksman marine :D [http://forum.chaosforge.org/index.php/topic,6359.0.html] Gotcha!

I know that use of Arena Master staff, but it is planned to have some utility before that imo, so I ask about the time before that.
Oh, also one use of Arena Master staff which is worth mentioning are AoB/Strongman runs when you want to kill those pesky sergeants in open space. Sometimes.

Oh, I recollected one important use of hatred skull. I consider it best one, and sometimes even useful, as 60% def on demand is a nice thing. Also it has one secret use... Spoiler (click to show/hide)muahahaha ]:-> can't tell, sorry So I keep it sometimes just in case.


--- Quote from: Klear on April 16, 2013, 13:46 ---When I find a blood skull and don't plan on using it in the mortuary, I treat it as a medkit. Fire skulls are dangerous, so I usually don't bother.

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How does it happen they are dangerous? They don't hurt ya.

I think that skulls could be useful at N! for perfect runs to destroy some random corpses, but I didn't play nightmare so can't tell.

I guess that hatred skull could be also possitively used at UC for clearing it without brute and getting badge - as you could zerk on those dead demons.

bwross:
My approach is that if you're not taking these sorts of things somewhere specific to use them or at least have some real plan for it, then you should feel free to pick them up and use them as soon as possible for whatever reasonable benefit you can get.  Preferably on the same level, because if you pick these up on the chance you'll use it later and then move on to the next level, there's a good chance that they'll be forgotten and never used, and so they'll just rob you of an inventory slot for the rest of the game.

zenfur:

--- Quote from: bwross on April 16, 2013, 14:44 ---Preferably on the same level, because if you pick these up on the chance you'll use it later and then move on to the next level, there's a good chance that they'll be forgotten and never used, and so they'll just rob you of an inventory slot for the rest of the game.

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Assuming you find a random one I guess. Using that at the City of skulls has little sense :) Yea I actually am trying to locate and terminate my inventory stealers, that's what this topic did stem from.

Thanks for the replies so far. I think we didn't deplete the subject, so please go on.

Fanta Hege:
Arena Master Staff has only one use and one use only currently to be completely honest.
The attack effect it makes isn't powerful enough to waste a good run on.

Blood and Hatred skulls on the other hand.. They can be truly handy, specialy hatred skulls.
Fire skull? It's a bit meh really. And I don't like risking items blowing up using it either.
I could imagine it could be handy for damage when trying UC with no brute when used tacticaly, but then again, so is hatred for similiar use situation.

Honestly it'd be pretty nice if the staff's damage could be buffed up or atleast made non fire so it could be used for killing lost souls.
I wouldn't mind if fire skull's effect was made to have bit more kick either

White Rider:
Never found much use for the Arena Master's Staff outside of using it to open up the Vaults. I used to think I could get myself out of a bad spot, like getting surrounded by Lost Souls at a place like the City of Skulls. Then again, I dumped that mindset back in 0.9.9.6 when Lost Souls never wandered around and instead made a beeline for you. I bet the damage dealt from the Arena Master's Staff can take out an unfortunately placed group of formers in one shot, but how often does that happen where you would prefer to use an item and drain your stamina...?

I prefer using Hatred Skulls at Unholy Cathedral, and Blood/Hatred Skulls at Mortuary/Limbo. It's been awhile since I've used a Fire Skull...I think why I don't use them is because enemies in the endgame/Hell tend to resist fire damage. Aside from those two stages actually, I don't see myself using skulls all that much.

Something I need to learn how to do more effectively is corpse disposal, and I suppose skulls do just that.

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