Eye Shield

sector24 · #1 December 9th, 2007, 11:53 AM

What I first registered on the forum, a thread exactly the same as this one was going around. It's definitely a good shield, although probably not overpowered. The more a player relies on a few powerful units, the more Eye Shields hurt. But it's really more of an annoyance than the kind of thing that can turn the tide of war.

Mildly related question: If a unit loses and eye and you give them an artificial forged eye, do they put it in the empty socket or do they poke their other eye out?

sum1lost · #2 December 9th, 2007, 01:44 PM

They poke their eye out. Magic eyes have the 'eyeloss' effect.

BigDisAwesome · #3 December 9th, 2007, 02:17 PM

I thought I remembered reading on here a long time ago that it was random which eye they replaced.

So they could just replace the bad eye with it, or you might get screwed when they replace the good eye.

sum1lost · #4 December 9th, 2007, 06:34 PM

Ah. I probably should have done that test with more than 3 units, then.

Serenity · #5 December 11th, 2007, 11:58 AM

Heh. The fight earlier reminds me of my Monolith with astral shield on. Surrounded by petrified units until they ran away or round limit got to em.

Falkor · #6 December 11th, 2007, 04:04 PM

I found the eye schield not that effective against strong opponents. In my last game (sp) I equiped the bean sidhe assasins with them. Mundane commanders got blinded if stayed long enough, but I had several battles against Nifel Jarls, every battle pretty long (for an assasination attempt) but none lost even one eye.
I thought the mistform and mirror image were preventing hitting the schield for the effect to take place but as I said common indy commanders got blinded almost every time when they last longer than one combat round.

Kuritza · #7 December 12th, 2007, 02:48 PM

It has nothing to do with thug's MR, it just works every time you block an attack. So having a very high attack and a flail (+6 vs shield) should work more often than not.
Put it on something with defense 30 or more and watch all attackers get blinded in two hits.
In the example with bean sidge vs Nifel Jarl, Jarls were hitting your mirror images. Images dont block, hence no eye loss.
Its an extremly powerful item for lvl2 construction and 10 gems, when used properly it does turn battles. In my opinion it should be lvl4 or even lvl6 (its more useful than many lvl6 items) and probably cost more.