I didn't consider the STR factor. I am a wimpy bard in regards to STR, with
mine barely being over 100. If I didn't have some weight reducing bags, I
could never loot FS weapons to sell for cash without exceeding my weight
capacity. If I switched to the SS arms, not only would I lose the STR bonus
for the SotA, but the extra weight from the SS arms would make my situation
even worse. So guess I will stick with SotA for now.

Galtin of E'ci

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey Sue [mailto:jsue@...]
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 10:25 AM
To: eqbards@egroups.com
Subject: Re: [eqbards] SS Arms vs Sleeve of the Ancient

It really depends on your bard. are you hurting for strength? the 6ac by
itself
is really negligible and you won't notice the difference. that dar knight
in sebilis
won't all of a sudden start hitting you for 90 instead of 110, for example,
heh.
but the singing steel will weigh more, so if you have a low base strength,
you may
not be able to go full singing steel. i put all my spare points in the
beginning into
strength because i knew in the teens/20's i'd need it for bronze armor.
lambent and
imbrued isn't too heavy, but then singing steel is pretty weighty again. so
it worked
out pretty good. i've got full singing steel except for hero bracer and
ebbp and i run
into weight problems every now and then even with an abukar box.

on the other hand, 2k is just plat, and easily replaceable. just go farm
unrest
or cazic or lower guk for fine steel weapons.

At 09:40 AM 1/22/01 -1000, you wrote:

>I currently have SotA but someone offered to sell me SS arms for 2K over

the

>weekend. The AC for the SS is 6 better than SotA, but the SotA provide STR
>and CHR bonuses while the SS has no stat bonuses. I have been waiting

until

>I dinged 50 before I started to hunt in Sebilis. Well I dinged 50 this
>weekend so plan to start going there soon. Now I have heard that SS arms
>are not that hard to acquire in Seb. So I am debating if I should buy the
>SS arms now or wait until I can loot them for myself. The 2K will clean me
>out so would prefer to loot them instead of buying them. But if they are
>harder to acquire than what I was told, then I may decide to fork out the
>cash. For those of you with a lot of experience fighting in Seb, would

>to hear what you have to say.
>
>Thanks
>Galtin of E'ci
>
>
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