Ok.. is this common?

* With strength, a granite gargoyle bites at you. **Severely damaging your tower shield on its teeth, you block with an emblazoned tower shield.**
[You're incredibly balanced and in excellent position.]

slice

Fluidly, you slice a broadsword at a granite gargoyle. A granite gargoyle fails to evade. The broadsword lands a strong hit that wounds it deeply across the upper left arm.
A granite gargoyle grumbles and falls over with a THUD.
[You're incredibly balanced]
[Roundtime 6 sec.]

I was shocked... I was doing pretty good with my balance, but those gargs hit my shield several times and just banged it all to hell. Do I need to be using a goblin shield while in gargs? Are they just THAT hard on armor and stuff?

~Izabeta~

normal, yes. Gargs can bury a shield in a few attacks.

bst way to protect it is to cast a nice DA while wearing your shield. I would also suggest using DA perminately anyway while hunting. just keep recasting when it falls. Even when it doesn't, its stackabout up to 35 minutes or so


Wait we can't stop here! This is bat country!

That's incredibly normal. Gargoyles are after all made of granite so they tend to break metal thingies like shields. Just a heads up the Rock Guardians do the same thing just so yanno for future reference.


Umatos, Player of

I use an ironwood buckler and steeds can't damage it. Gargs are the only things so far that can put dents in it, but it holds up better than a tower shield there too.

"The path of light necessarily leads through the dark"

Caneghem Urathi

Gargs are stupid critters.

My advice would be not to even fight them. They're not worth it. They hit too hard and don't train high enough for their difficulty. And they trash shields. Not a loved critter by me at all.

My suggestion: Fight vines. Teach better, don't hurt NEARLY as bad, don't affect equipment. Or at least find something better than gargs.

Gargs are a paladin's not-friend.



Cavalier Calemnon

Just returned a couple weeks ago from quite awhile away....really sucks to be a 25th circle TB pali, but oh well.

While trying to figure out what to hunt with all the changes and now the new combat changes, I tried gargs, lost a tower shield, a blue shield(no idea what type it actually was) and 4 gob target shields all within bout 4-6 strikes from a garg each.

Switched to ironwood from Shard and while its taken a few dings, it's still in my hand.....now I just gotta figure out if theres a difference between the ironwood shield and ironwood buckler.

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Just train the damn skill. It won't break if you are good.


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I gotta agree with Calemnon, gargs stink.

Samsaren Remlane
Remember those that came before, remember honor.

Gargs damage weapons too.


Cavalier Calemnon

or if ya do buy ironwood

would enjoy a tipoff then...after about 18 months out I've been back about 4 weeks...lotta changes, found I could hunt young ogres (not scouts), but then with the combat changes I couldn't hit ogres, so am now back to crocs, they've been teaching armor very well..am getting used to having to swim in there, and my FA is just enough I can handle the blood worms usually on the first try to remove them.

Crocs don't really generate enough for me to work multi which I definately need work on, after seeing the critters threads I was considering dusk ogres...how do those compare to crocs/young ogres/scout ogres?

Gate of souls, before the boulder. Up the NTR to the muck, and a few rooms north is a path. Try that first. If you do well, go past the boulder, but be careful down there.

Serpents and vipers out Riverhaven's east gate might be fun for you... better bring your shield though.

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