I've been doing some thinking and research about an "Ultimate" RJP loadout, and this is what I've come up with. This will be quite valuable to those of us (I included) who often do runs of the Palace for its heat and crowns, as well as the Jelly Gems at the end.
So this is what I came up with:
Armor (I may have many skeptics on this):Chaos Set
Charge time reduction either High or very high (can't remember which) to spam weapons' charge attacks.
Almost no status effects in the Palace (except stun) and decent players should be able to avoid or deflect with their shield most lumber attacks.
Decent players should be able to keep enemies at bay with spammed charge attacks and/or shield well enough to deflect most attacks (no piercing resist).
Thanks to Chawkthree and his GamePlayFlick videos on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUzmEgPXEsc (chaos set review)
Shield: (I have two good ones, you decide:) )
Royal Jelly Shield: resists piercing and normal and stun.
Aegis: Resists piercing, has more normal resist than RJS.
Weapons: (2 slot)
Acheron: Muy slimes.
Elemental Brandish: Good versus lumbers and silkwings.
(I'm a swordie by trade, so my weapon arsenals are for swordies for the most part)
If you have more slots, you might want to bring along a leviathan blade (uber knockback charge) and maybe a dark retribution if you have one.
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