Either way, it's not a lot of money. A full set costs less than lvl 19 spells.
As I mentioned, I care more about fashion than stats with marginal utility like AC.
http://web.archive.org/web/200110032...pment/fashion/ is my friend. This is what a set of banded looks like on a male troll:
http://web.archive.org/web/200108160...ale_banded.jpg
Compare to blackened iron which you can get for yourself, if not at 29 then certainly at 34:
http://web.archive.org/web/200110291...roll_Male.html
Or mixed pieces of totemic and jaundiced bone which look identical afaik:
http://web.archive.org/web/200110291...roll_Male.html
http://web.archive.org/web/200108160...troll_male.jpg
Also bloodstained tunic for a better chain look:
http://web.archive.org/web/200110040...roll_Male.html
I've been reading this guide more closely thanks to my red troll shaman, now happily lvl 21 and just about ready to leave kurns. I want to play this character in a more fulfilling way than I played my barbarian. So I'm building a checklist of things I want to do that may not be the best money/hour or exp/hour but that are interesting on their own right. The list is pretty immature at this point, but some are relevant to the guide here.
For example, using kurns bone chips to fix cabilis faction to use their outdoor merchants (haven't done it yet, hoping it can be done with wolf form). And camping my own grim aura clicky in WW. And earning my OT hammer the hard way since there's no item recharge on red (no borrowing puppet string charge on the cheap).
One main point is to be more independent when traveling. Calling for ports is lame; we're a class with sow, lev, invis, and gate. Evil races can get OT hammer on their own. This means using Firepots! I've got two ideas that I need to check out. First, and first available, is binding at oasis dock and lev/run or swim either straight to firepots or from first island in TD. I obviously need to play around with this. The second is to use OT hammer, wait on boat to TD, then jump off boat and run to firepots as soon as zone in. Obviously second one has the advantage of being able to bind anywhere.
In order to make firepots trip safer, especially on red where dragons seem to actually live long enough to gank people unexpectedly (died to DL dragon a full day after server repop), working on Ring of Scale faction can be considered a small side-task. This can be done either by killing in mistmoore (risky at the appropriate level on red, overcamped on blue) or doing bard diet.
I killed some bards on my barbarian shaman and deeply regretted it. It's annoying as hell to have a couple of max kos npcs in cities where you're otherwise well liked. Does anybody have experience with bard faction from an evil race point of view?