"The damage is reduced by armor and most damage reduction effects like herbal armor and rock armor, but not by glyphs."
So, will blocking weapons (Rapier, Q Staff, Shield, Katana, G Shield) help reduce the pricking damage received from upgrading the chalice?
Edit : Sorry, seems like my bad english strike back. To make it clear, I did not mean the blocking enchantment but weapons with blocking capability (as listed in previous paragraph).
For this to works, one of the similar equipment must be LOWER in level. Haven't tested for thrown/wands and for items with same level. So if one of LOWER leveled equipment are CURSED and EQUIPPED (can't be unequipped), for some reason it will not be destroyed by reforging process.
First case I encountered was with Displace Plate +2 (equipped) and Anti-Magic Plate +3. Reforging result was Anti-Magic Plate +4 but somehow the cursed Plate +2 were still intact and equipped. Then I tried again with Curse Infused RoW +0 (equipped) and RoW +9. I was able to get RoW +11 by reforging twice using the same cursed RoW + 0, and it was still intact after the second reforge! Proof for the second case below via imgur.
In my recent "Ultimate RoW" run, the reason why I ended up with so many excess +12 equipment was because I want to get grim on bow. After maybe 100+ stones later and I ended up settling with vampiric.
What I observed was the enchant keep looping around several enchantment and not totally "random", not really in fixed order so I guess that is the random element. So if grim are not in that particular loop then I will never be able to get grim from stone enchant.
Is this observation true? If yes, then how I change or break out to another different loop?
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