I recently compared the new Tortodrone 5* Wild Shell shield to the Snarbolax 5* Barbarous Thorn shield here, and decided that the Tortodrone shield would be better for the Snarbolax Shadow Lair mission.
Then I started thinking about what would be the ultimate best loadout for each shadow lair.
Although I've thought about this before and there have probably been a few threads about this already, let's see how our opinions match up.
Snarbolax: a poison environment with beasts and undead monsters.
Helm: Skolver for pierce defense with a max pierce or max poison UV.
Armor: Radiant Silvermail has defense against both Undead (shadow) and Beast (pierce) with additional medium damage vs. undead. I'll go with a max UV in shadow or pierce defense.
Shield: Savage Tortoise is a pierce shield with as much pierce defense as a Barbarous with a max pierce UV. In other words, it has more pierce defense than any other shield. The speed movement low penalty is hardly even noticeable, and you're not looking for speed in a snarbolax run anyway.
Sword 1: A needle sword with damage bonus vs beasts
Sword 2: Combuster with CTR VH
Gun 1: Argent Peacemaker for Undead
Gun 2: Polaris with ASI VH
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Roarmulus Twins: a fire environment with construct and gremlin monsters.
Helm: Vog for elemental defense and max fire UV resist.
Armor: Vog for elemental defense with a max elemental UV.
Shield: Dragon Scale has both pierce (for the considerable number of slimes) and elemental defense with max fire resistance. Grey Owlite and The Bitter End or also good elemental shields with max fire resist.
Sword 1: Acheron with damage bonus vs gremlins or ASI
Sword 2: Combuster with damage bonus vs constructs or CTR
Gun 1: Sentenza with damage bonus vs gremlins
Gun 2: Polaris with ASI or damage bonus vs constructs
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Ice Queen: a freeze environment with mainly slime and a few construct monsters.
Helm: Skolver for pierce defense and its freeze resistance.
Armor: Skolver for pierce defense and its freeze resistance.
Shield: Barbarous Thorn Shield is a pierce shield with a unique medium sword damage bonus. Royal Jelly would also be good if, you know, you get sleepy while playing.
Sword 1: Acheron with damage bonus vs slimes or ASI
Sword 2: Combuster with CTR
Bomb: Ash of Agni with CTR
Gun 2: Polaris with ASI or damage bonus vs slimes
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Vanaduke: a fire environment with mainly undead monsters.
Helm: Snarbolax for its shadow defense and sword damage bonus with a max fire UV resist.
Armor: Snarbolax for its shadow defense and sword damage bonus with a max fire UV resist.
Shield: Crest of Almire has shadow defense with max fire resistance. Grey Owlite and The Bitter End or also good elemental shields with max fire resist.
Sword 1: Divine Avenger with CTR or ASI
Sword 2: Glacius with damage bonus vs undead or CTR
Gun 1: Argent Peacemaker for its Damage Bonus vs Undead: Medium with ASI
Gun 2: Polaris with ASI or damage bonus vs undead
Grey feather for roarmulus.
Ice queen for ice queen
Divine for auFSC
Snarb looks good
Chaos for everything if ur pro