Talk:Balanced antler
From my testing, it does not reduce the amount of turns it takes to get the 'cabin' adventure in the canadian wildlife reserve. My best guess is that it acts like a reverse trancendent olfaction that reduces the amount of 'beast' style monsters spawning, this obviously does nothing in the canadian wildlife reserve because its only beasts there.--Tombot (talk) 13:35, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
Meager spading
So, I decided to spade a bit, here's the method and results:
I did 25 turns in the Palindrome, that's one place we'd like to banish beasts. First of all I boost +combat to 32% (and of course still get a few noncombats.) I try first with brimstone bludgeon/brimstone bunker, then try replacing with balanced antler. I try 25 turns, that's kinda a low number, but really, we're only interested in the effect if the effect is huge.
25 Turns, brimstone bludgeon/brimstone bunker
Bob Racecar 3 Drab Bard 3 Evil Olive 2 Flock of Stab-bats 6 Racecar Rob 3 Taco Cat 2 Tan Gnat 2 ==> 9 humans, 12 beasts
25 turns, wield antler/bunker
Bob Racecar 3 Drab Bard 4 Evil Olive 3 Flock of Stab-bats 3 Racecar Rob 1 Taco Cat 4 Tan Gnat 3 ==> 8 humans, 13 beasts
25 turns, dual wield antler Bob Racecar 4 Drab Bard 3 Evil Olive 4 Flock of Stab-bats 3 Racecar Rob 2 Taco Cat 4 Tan Gnat 1 ==> 9 humans, 12 beasts
25 turns, off-hand antler Bob Racecar 4 Drab Bard 5 Evil Olive 3 Flock of Stab-bats 3 Racecar Rob 2 Taco Cat 3 Tan Gnat 1 ==> 11 humans, 10 beasts
Seems to me, the effect on beasts is minimal, if existent at all--Arkcon (talk) 09:03, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
OK, so the above test was post-level 11 quest, let's see if in quest there's a difference. No blocking non-coms, because we need them.
14 turns spent, dual wield antler
5 non-coms (counting Dr Awkward combats)
Bob Racecar 2
Drab Bard 3
Evil Olive 0
Flock of Stab-bats 1
Racecar Rob 2
Taco Cat 2
Tan Gnat 2
==> 7 humans, 5 beasts
But at tiny sample size, there's no way to tell.
Yay. Fixed
So my spading up above can be ignored.--Arkcon (talk) 15:39, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
