Item Stacking and Equipment Usage

I do know that you can stack each type of item as many times as permitted by the game (for example you can buy 5 breastplates), but do you guys recommend this, or is 1 of each type better? Also, is the first thing you buy an item or something else like mana/health pots? I'm Oak so the first thing I buy is Monks - I need 'em.|||I buy two items right at the start:



1. Banded armor.

2. Scaled Helm (I have to usually wait several seconds until I get the cash).



These are excellent generic items to get at level 1.



In general, stack health out the wazoo. I usually stack health far more than I stack armor, due to the fact that direct damage bypasses armor. It's not unusual to see level 1 demigods running around with 2.5k-3k health. Unbreakable boots and Hauberk of Life are two cost-effective health items. Narmoth's Ring is also good.



There's a cool trick you can do with the whole monks thing. Buy an idol, summon monks, then sell the idol back to the store. You'll get 80% of your money back. It's a really inexpensive way to get monks. You should have enough money to buy banded armor after doing that, and both of these will help increase your survivability.|||Stacking health is recommended. However, make sure you have at minimum scalemail or nimoth armor for the +armor bonus. Also, it's fairly easy to test out if someone's monks are sellbacks and you're even able to tell by their demigod hp sometimes. So if you do sellback beware of good players sniping the monks and leaving you monkless.|||Didn't Stardock declare sellback an exploit on the official forums?|||That would be incredibly crappy and sucky if they did; it's a perfectly legit tactic.|||can someone enlighten me as to what a sellback is? it is just where you sell an equipped item to fund a citadel upgrade?



or is there something more to it?|||Sellback is when you buy an idol, summon the minions, and then sell the idol back for a portion of it's cost. Basically you get 2 free minions, but they cannot be replaced if they die.|||AgentSmith16|||PheonixIV|||The healing does go nuts when you do that. So wrong IMO. Definitely an exploit. Only time I come close is when I switch from lvl 1 to lvl 4 minions and I have some lvl 1's still alive. I saw someone playing oak who just Minion stacked all the Siege and Healing minions. He was taking down towers so fast, with none of them dying (16 minions...) it was utter crap.



Then he grabs minion buffing items and the minions do more damage than most upgraded DG's. But hey that's what some of the experts do to win...|||Winning is winning, motherf.|||& Exploiting Is Exploiting|||Well, there's no such thing as ranked, so meh.|||It's true that ranked does not exist, but that doesn't make an excuse for exploits.|||I have to admit; stacking all 4 levels of minions is more iffy than selling your monk idol back at the start.



I wouldn't call it an exploit, but it's definitely a potential balance concern.







Although i personally feel that's more how the Generals should play |||Sellbacks aren't a big deal. Minion stacks with a bunch of +hp/dmg minion items however, can get quite ridiculous.|||AgentSmith16|||An exploit is taking advantage of an unintended bug to get an unfair advantage over the other players.



I doubt that selling your idol after summoning minions is a bug, stacking all 4 levels of minions may be a bug, hard to tell.|||imho, the generals should have been balanced with this right from the start. buy more idols and summon more critters of higher level so that you have your army at full size around midgame o.o|||It's not so much that as it is that the Generals are too assassiny and their army sizes are too small.





This is the MoHo engine for chrissake! MAEK IT BIGGAR!