What's wrong with this battle?

[Vicious Love]

magnate said:
you are quite right that higher-damage weapons would be better, but my primary concern is def. So I'll replace the mains gauches once I've forged the Summit, Stone Sword

Watch where you point that thing! Only recommended for expendable, possibly immortal commanders. Ideally ones without any other artifacts.

[shovah]

if you want mass defence/prot go: 3 main gauches, accursed shield, black steel helm/spirit helm, that air armour that gives 3 defence (and possibly mirror image) chi shoes and cat charm/ring of regen

[Alneyan]

Well, he's going to forge some nice weapons (Magebane + Summit is awesome): that's more defence with some mean fighting power.

I have heard that area attacks completely bypass defence, so you might wish to make sure there aren't any such item in the game before going too high on defence. I think a couple artifacts have this effect, but I could be wrong (I have seen more of them in CB 5.2 or so). I haven't had the opportunity of checking that, though, but I know my 52 defence would have very much disliked that sort of trick.

[shovah]

demon whip is a cheap AoE weapon, some artifacts such as ember and sword of many colours are more potent (you could always get a nataraja with 4 demon whips, quckness, luck and astral weapon since the fire should also help vrs the devils)

[Oversway]

Whips don't add strength and they descrease defense, I believe... you usually want to do more damage than 40 a turn against 2 ID.

[shovah]

you could get a bunch of banelords or something with 2 whips and boots of quickness or something (or a bunch of guys with gatecleavers, boots of flying, burning pearls and rings of the warrior