Talk:Companions/@comment-2604:2D80:8005:C79B:2C3B:6A88:148D:B933-20171107050216/@comment-39369122-20190509081158

Advantages of Viconia vs Anomen

- 19 Dex (-4AC, -3Thac0 ranged) - AC is great early game, but useless late game. Anomen has the strength to wear heavy armors and gauntlets of dexterity to improve his AC. For ranged combat, Anomen can again wear gauntlets of dexterity and achieving grandmastery in weapons. Aside from slings, he can use a throwing hammer which has 2.5 APR if he grandmasters in hammers. He also has a higher strength so they deal more damage)

- 18 Wisdom (+1 3rd and +1 4th level spells) - At max levels, Anomen will have 9 level 3 and 4 spells vs Viconia's 10 spells. And they're faily low level spells. The wisdom advantage is insignificant.

- 65% magic resistance - Viconia will be played more as a spellcaster and will be at the backline, thus won't be targeted as much by spells. You can place Anomen at the backline too and he has more HP to absorb damage if he does get hit.

- Evil alignment allows her to use Human Flesh armor to bump up her magic resistance more.

Advantages of Anomen vs Viconia

- 3.5 APR with dual wielding as a fighter with grandmastery. He's a meat blender compared to her. Viconia can only be proficient and suffers greatly at dual wielding. She can't compete.

- 18/55 Str and grandmastery gives -5 Thac0, +8 damage for melee attacks naturally. High strength is useable from the start, and even if Viconia gets a strength belt, she can't match the benefits of grandmastery. Anomen has even more weapon proficiency points to spend.

- 16 Con and 7 fighter levels give Anomen potentially 32 HP more. Anomen can tank more hits and fireballs. Viconia is dependent on girdle of fortitude to be less squishy.

- Draw Upon Holy Might is fully utilized because of his high STR and CON ability. It's wasted on Viconia because the benefits of stat increase kicks in around 16 and her Str 10, Con 8 are way too low.

- High stats already make him melee capable. Viconia needs pre-buffing to engage in combat. Anomen with pre-buffing makes him even more scary.

- Neutral/Good alignment allows him the holy spells (Holy Smite/Holy Power) which are more useful than the evil counterparts. Viconia can change to neutral but it happens way way late in TOB.

- Turn Undead is better because it outright kills them instead of just controlling them.

- Fighter class enables him to use some nifty items like Helm of the Rock, Wong Fei's Ioun Stone, and Rod of Reversal. Viconia can't

- Gains the same amount of cleric spells despite dual classing from a fighter class.

In Summary, I fail to see how Anomen sucks versus Viconia.