Adamantine options

[slquoue]

For a paladin, Shadowheart, Gale and Karlach, which two Adamantine options would you craft?

[Detective Costeau]

The weapons actually are remarkably useful for smashing open doors and breaking stuff in general, but there's enough other ways to accomplish that it's not really worth spending one of your two chunks of mithril on.

[Mike Garrison]

Postat inițial de Pat Fenis:

2 shields for shadowheart and gale. Grym helm on paladin

Yup. That's just what I was going to say too.

[TruXurT]

On my first playthrough I did heavy and med armor. On second 2 heavy armors. On third, 2 shields.

I guess it greatly depends how you play and what is you party composition.

One thing about shields, as long as you have few shield users as your regulars, you will probably have use for them till the end of the game. Med and heavy armor eventually will get supplanted by better stuff.

Then of course question is, do you like to rotate equipment to active members of a party? If not, then adamantine may still be valid for some party members in act 3. I mean it is never bad, it starts as the best you can get at this point of the game and ends as being still a good till the end of the game. It's just that in Act 3 there are so many really great ones.

[dancing.in.the.web]

IMHO, medium and shield is the most universal option cause the most useful thing you get from adamantin is crit negation
There are no many heavy armor users and you will get heavy head anyway (and you'll get lots of good heavies later).
You can use shield in pair with staff or onehand melee to protect you caster or shooter (rogue, ranger, wizard etc).
You can use medium on cleric\bard\ranger\druid\barbarian.

So having medium and shield will provide you crit protection for 3 party members (including heavy helm).

[TowerWizard]

Why should you not consider the weapons? Every hit is a critical hit, on Astarion (dual classing into Fighter for the proficiency), so that his sneak attack damage is doubled every time?

Although they seem to be bugged, and not upgrading hits.

Edit: Oh my god. "hits an object". That is the worst ability ever... How did I miss that... I am so angry right now...

[Bru]

The medium and heavy armours

They can be worth until you finish the game, immunity to crits is nice and their AC values are good

Spending your adamantine on something else will be eventually a waste, specially weapons, since there are much better options in ACT 3

The shield is a honorable mention, but at the cost of forging only one of the armours, the shield&armour adamantine combo make a character pretty much unkillable, lastly the shield is a universal choice, if you want to equip it in a spellcaster, but again, for that you have better options, like positioning and the "oh ♥♥♥♥ button" Misty Step, however most importantly, whatever fits your playstyle, have fun

[LordNibbler]

Postat inițial de TowerWizard:

Why should you not consider the weapons? Every hit is a critical hit, on Astarion (dual classing into Fighter for the proficiency), so that his sneak attack damage is doubled every time?

Although they seem to be bugged, and not upgrading hits.

Edit: Oh my god. "hits an object". That is the worst ability ever... How did I miss that... I am so angry right now...

And now you know why

[Kappa]

Shield is the only S tier choice, then Heavy armor, Medium armor and last weapons.

[jonnin]

the shields are very hard to replace. I don't recall the next time you can upgrade it, but its not until act 3 I believe. weapons are already obsolete in act 1. The armors will be replaced by end of act 2 for most characters but the replacements are mostly side-grades.
one tactic is to get 1 item on everyone you can so most of your team can't be crit hit.

[Gaius]

I always craft either the 2 armor sets or one armor and the shield. Not being crit is really good and you'll use those armor pieces until close to the end or the real end if all your party comp use med/heavy armor.

[[TG] zac]

Postat inițial de id795078477:

For all the trouble it entails, adamantine items are really meh. Armor is passable, but if you aim to not get hit in the first place - tough luck, its effects are almost useless. And armor is quickly replaced later on anyways.

I ended up just modding recipes for upgrading those adamantine items to my liking, so that they stay at least somewhat relevant end-game.

This ^ is sadly a 5e & DND problem over all.

Earlier editions had a whole list of materials armor/weapons could be made out of that gave them extra effects before enchantments were even taken into effect.

Sadly this carried over into the game and anything you make will be quickly outpaced by other stuff.

Medium armor isn't worth it because you can get a set at the last light in that has no dex cap and another at moonrise towers.

Shield is kinda eh because again you can get one at the inn that is just as good,

That leaves heavy armor as the best choice and it will be outclassed soon enough.

[Vox Maximus]

Shield and plate armor. And don't listen to the posters above: shield and heavy armor are the top choices even for the end of Act 3 and the game therefore.

[alanc9]

Postat inițial de TG zac:

Medium armor isn't worth it because you can get a set at the last light in that has no dex cap and another at moonrise towers.

Not necessarily better, depending on builds. There's only one set of Gloves of Dex in the game.

That leaves heavy armor as the best choice and it will be outclassed soon enough.

A whole Act and then some later is soon enough?

[alanc9]

Postat inițial de Vox Maximus:

Shield and plate armor. And don't listen to the posters above: shield and heavy armor are the top choices even for the end of Act 3 and the game therefore.

I can see not going for two heavies if Tav doesn't wear heavy armor. But why the shield rather than a medium set?

[Kappa]

Postat inițial de alanc9:

Postat inițial de Vox Maximus:

Shield and plate armor. And don't listen to the posters above: shield and heavy armor are the top choices even for the end of Act 3 and the game therefore.

I can see not going for two heavies if Tav doesn't wear heavy armor. But why the shield rather than a medium set?

The shield is stronger because the effect that gives a malus on hit triggers on a miss rather than when the wearer gets hit.

Which means that assuming a character with high AC, the more they get attacked, the more they'll be missed ( while at some point, the armor won't trigger because the target won't be hit ).

Anyway, for a barbarian is a good choice ( other classes can use the helm grym drops. There would hardly be 4 classes requiring critical hit immunity or heavy armors / shields ).