Trying to do the Math: AC vs. -DFE?

[Hammerskjold]

So I gave the Hive a chance, cleared lvl1... lvl2... lvl3... The *very last* drop on lvl4 was a Shield of Brilliance – yay!!!

Nice. Speaking of which, my Barbarian did buy a shield of brilliance. About 30 minutes after writing I don't have one (or particularly want one) for him. My original intent was to have little to no spells, then when a book of TPortal dropped well...maybe just the basic utilities. That's when the brillo shield was offered. And a dreamflange dropped. I'm not going to play him as a magic user, but now I can see trying to get at least a usable TPortal slvl.

So, you said a couple of times a Barbarian is fun? Maybe that's one melee type I can get out of church...

Well Barbarians IMO are fun, but similar to a Warrior that needs a Ksos\Shirotachi to really show what they can do. Barbarians IMO benefits greatly from a 'damage target armor' weapon. Or a Ring of Engagement. I still have that Crystalline hammer, but what I'm using at the moment is a Soldier's axe of Puncturing.

Keep in mind this particular Barbarian has IMO, one of the luckiest streaks so far. And since this is SP, there are SP only items that greatly benefits him ie Veil of Steel. With that and a Nightscape robe he got off a Laz run, he's now a -60 light radius stealth raider.

I stupidly sold off an amulet of harmony forgetting that it stacks with Nightscape's faster hit recovery, but not a biggie at the moment.

Eventually he will need a High AC FPM if he wants to go to Hell\late church\cats\caves, those skeleton\goat arrows can be dangerous. But for Hell\Crypt it's most likely going to be -LR and fast hit recovery over AC.

PS: Any luck with multi?

Sadly nope. On the upside, with SP HF it at least gives me the option of NM\Hell games.