DoNotAnnoyMe

if you want to monetize your points straight away, I'd recommend some lower end prizes, namely Bewitching Sorcerers Bonnet and Thieves Hood. They're buyable, so you can just toss them in your shop, and are ETS while still getting you quite some bucks for your points. I'd def. not go for the petpets as they're really HTS, so meh. If you want to bother with unbuyables, go for the background or foreground - stay away from the BD weapons as A Shovel is super situational and even that not overwhelming and accordingly HTS and the only other good one is Rejuvenating Jar of Brains, but the market is flooded with those, so they don't net that many NP for the points they cost

So is that weapon theft thing still happening?

 

Edit: oh, interesting thing--draws count for about half as much as a win, it appears.

nobody really confirmed it happened to begin with.

there were only 2 users claiming to have lost one once-per-battle item - one was a kacheek life potion and one was a heavy robe of thievery. the KLP one just went silent on the board and never confirmed he re-checked in his BD equip, etc. that it's actually gone and the HRoT one found his item in the BD equip and it continued working shortly afterwards.

An issue that did appear with that challenger at the beginning (got it myself) was that he semi-bugged out - i.e. the battle didn't end properly resulting in your once-per-battle items/abilities you used already in that fight not being useable, however it fixed itself after continuing that fight/a few fights later.

So in a nutshell: there was never a confirmation by anyone that there actually was a glitch that'd cause you to permanently lose your items, but there was one that temporarily prevented you from using your once-per-battle items (possibly also semi-fragile ones) again which fixed itself, though, and doesn't seem to occur anymore (at least I didn't get it again).

the difference used to be that between overhealers (such as scorchstones) and normal ones (like greater healing scroll, short sleeved yellow tunic, eca, ...) - anyway there's no difference between them in the new BD atm (all healers are normal ones, there's no overhealing) which was listed as "known issue" in the beta news before the "war" started, so it may be changed back to the way it was.

for clarity it was like this:

normal healers healed you *before* receiving damage

overhealers healed you *after* receiving damage

example:

you currently have 40/50 HP, get 30 damage that round and use a healer that heals 50 HP

if it's a normal healer you heal up to 50 and then take 30 damage, so you have 20/50 HP afterwards

for a overhealer you first take 30 damage, so you have 10/50 HP now and then get healed up the 50 HP, so you end with 50/50 HP

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