Talk:The Claw of Kazgaroth/@comment-50.72.253.114-20150925213427/@comment-83.254.40.172-20160409095200

A slight disagreement here: The constitution drawback really doesn't require a high con to offset it. After all, Con only gives bonus HP at 15 and above, and only provides negative HP at 6 or lower. Currently I am using it on Shar-teel. Her abysmal 9 Con already means she gets +/-0 bonus hit points, and lowering it to 7 doesn't change any effects except % chance to be succesfully resurrected, which I generally handle by reloading anyways. The only negative effects she actually gets is the -4 saving throws on poison and disease, which means keeping her off the front lines against spiders, various undead and the like... but after all, I was keeping her behind Kagain anyways.

A character like Dorn (14 con) could also use it without any additional drawbacks, and the fact that he generally uses 2h weapons gives him some extra reach.

Ranged characters with 14 con or less like Kivan or even Faldorn also get great use out of it. Sure, they may not get attacked as often, but since it does provide extra missile defense it's potentally more powerful for someone like that, as they're less likely to be hit by melee attacks (which means a lot of poison bites and disease touches) anyways.