Do you remember the side quest about the stubborn merchant brothers in Kaupangr ?
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You made the right choice, sure ?
Because if you favored Tryggbord against Ulfgrim, you will be lucky, say one time over 3, with a MI shield of the restless king which is not bad at all.
A fontain is next the shop, so you can make quick runs and maybe find a MI-shield on sale with good perks:
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(https://i.imgur.com/01qFkw2.jpg)
With a turtle shell socketed, you can reach the 80% chances to block cap and the 90% recovery rate cap if you play a defender or a runemaster.
You may find a better shield indeed, but this one is effortless ;)
I made a lot of runs to the armorer because i have a toon here to farm the ichthian zone next to the shop. Only the MI shield was on sale. Maybe it depends on the seed generated when launching the game. Regarding weapons, i tried with another char on legendary about ten times and no MI was on sale. It's not enough to conclude, so yes maybe MI weapons are also on sale.
only thing is there is no portal there right? so if you want to do it again and again, you have to portal to scandia, walk to the fir cone liquor guy, teleport to Kaupangr.. do it over and over again.. long walk farming
There is no portal but you have a rebirth place in the village. So if you place a toon here for a farming session, you can make quick merchant runs. About the Ichthian zone, it's worth the trip for the icescale armor. Bring a Xmax char and you can gather all the set (with the Endymion patch). Although the visual aspect is ugly, it is useful in some situations
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perhaps you can get a veteran's dvergr item.
ooch, oh
(https://i.postimg.cc/SN8pttmz/newveterans.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/x13V9JJf/vetnouveau.jpg)
Its all good except there are no good shields of the Restless King, like all MI shields in Ragnarok, they drop with weapon affixes only
Just to be clear: weapon affixes are flat damage, physical, elemental, poison, vitality. Life leech, mana leech, of the winds, of immortality. Thats what can roll there. Armor or shield specific affixes like sentinel's (+2 defense), rune sage's (+2 rune), herculean, cyclopean, resistances, of focus (-18% recharge) can not roll on them. Nope. Never. These shields you will buy there are auto garbage by their stats.
Why weapon affixes would not be worth it on shields ? The aim of this thread is not to find MI shields that compete with high-end legendary shields indeed. But to find items that is helpful for toons when leveling.
Restless King only has death ward for it, but it will come at the cost of not being able to roll resists or skills. Its block is on par with top act 5 shields on respective difficulty, so not sure how they are more helpful there too. If only they have much better rarity - common act 5 vendors are pretty terrible selling white items en masse.
Herculean
Nope, no herculean.
By the way, if it rolls ADCTH, I suppose it should affect all weapon attacks, not just shield attacks, right?
I got to see tyrants of the betrayer, or even just betrayer once. Can betrayer even roll on a shield? Not a normal one perhaps, maybe on one of the act 5 MIs by the same affix table that does it all. While sitting on a pile of common green shields with excellent stat combinations. Good luck looking for betrayer I suppose. :)
This is wrong. Look at the spoiler below.
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(https://i.imgur.com/NKoZZT0.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/LW2t4p0.jpg)
Before you ask, of course this was modded : I sky-rocketted the odds for those rare affixes to appear. However, ALL OF THEM WERE ALREADY PRESENT IN THE TABLE. Nothing was added, only their appearance odds have been increased.