What's a couple of centuries. The Dwarf golden age is coming
Very meta logic for NPC orgs to be using though.
Note that Snorri only fights some of the time. While he does go on campaigns he doesn't actually go on all of them. Examples being Otreks treks to clear out the lands which he does pretty often. Such examples include excursions to clear out trolls, beastman and daemons along with that fight against the dragon. He does not in fact go out on most campaigns.
Another thing is that Snorri being a craftmans first and foremost does the most for his hold making things. Even during the incursions our best contributions were our creations. While we lost some walls making the Kings and princes armor and cloaks those proved to be instrumental in holding the line, keeping the king and prince alive and our ability to fight Kholek with him delivering the killing blow. We created an anti magic banner that saved countless lives. Our greatest contribution to the battle against Kholek was designing the anti dragon ogre bolt thrower and the botl designed specifically to kill him which actually let us wound and kill him.
Also again, the only 2 times that Snorri was seriously injured was against 2 extremely unique creatures that were super combatants and again we fought against them nearly 20 turns apart, we fought the Greedy One around turn 2-3 and Kholek on turn 19, and this quest is 21 turns in. Us meeting more enemies like that are going to be extremely rare considering the 20 turn gap with said fights.
In regards to Ghal Maraz the argument was that such items are better used in the hands of people who are the absolute best fighters and the ones going out all the time and getting shit done through combat. We really are not the best and we get shit done mostly through making epic artifacts.
When Snorri says he isn't the best fighter he means that he isn't at the upper tiers. Yes he is high tier lord level but there are just people flat out better fighters in him out in the world. Kind of like how the QM outright stated that there are runelords that are just flat out better than Snorri by very large degrees due to skill and experience who could do what Snorri can with Adamant with just wood and steel. Just like how we just are not beating any of the best and oldest runelords in runecrafting there are just far better fighters out there in the world. Like how Otrek is a far better fighter than Snorri while even Gloin is likely better than him combat wise.
The main thing Snorri has going for him is his anti magic skills he has as a runelord. Again, not to say that he isn't one of the best fighters. It's just that as a Runelord he isn't meant to be the absolute best among fighters compared to other dedicated warriors.
Also still don't think we can justify using the heart on solely personal gear when the argument is keeping Snorri alive since a banner using the heart accomplishes the same thing if not even more so. What with it doing a much better job of keeping the army that he is fighting with alive including other high level combatants and even super combatants. Not to mention that it would also seriously help Snorri as well since he doesn't need to use the heart to get T4 Adamant armor with the unyielding master rune on top of the super banner. In fact said T4 armor would likely actually combo with the effects of the hypothetical banner, the QM did mention that combos can combo, especially if we add Grimnir runes to said banner.
Ya got me. 75% of the time is indeed a smaller % than 100%.
Snorri didn't bother attending the years of ranger work and minor skirmishes against small packs of trolls in which victory was basically guaranteed and we didn't even get given a vote to join in it was so low a priority. Lib cucked. Atheist checkmated.
But lets not pretend that 75% is an insignificant amount. And perhaps you should think that maybe the fact that we've come across two super combatants in twenty turns and consider that, maybe in this time period they're more common than you realise, for example do you include the Greater demon that Grimnir killed in the campaign of the valiant?
Perhaps the thing to take away is that we don't bother with combat turns unless there is the sort of supercombatant enemy to fight? But just to check do you mean that if we only ever fight one every ten turns anyway and we've never sat one out then thats an argument against making legendary armour and weapons for anyone at all?
I don't know why you're bringing up Ghal Maraz in response to me unless you're trying to make the 'if its not big its not worth making' argument.
Similarly it is silly to bring up Dragons Spite or the Reckoner. They were created under specific cirumstances for a specific purpose and I haven't argued that they were a poor idea. However it would have been impossible for us to plan ahead and make grudge runes for the next fight until we know its going, improving our armour will never go wrong regardless of the future threat though.
As for there being better fighters, where are they? I pointed out that its seems to be Otrek and Snorri seem to be crucial in all our fights and yes Gloin did a fantastic job in the underway but that was a feat of command more than combat and his equipment is better than ours already, so that offsets his being better even if he actually is.
Snorri is at worst the fourth best fighter, this relies on both counting the KoS, assuming that Gloin is better than him, and assuming that we're not in a situation where his passive bonuses apply. So let me pose yet another question, would you spend the Greedy Heart on a banner that gives a -30 to all enemy magic attempts across an entire battlefield? If so, I think its worth spending the greedy heart to ensure that Snorri survives, because thats just one of the many things he does.
Jeez no need to have that tone. It's just unfair to assume that everyone can remember every single exact detail all the time in a quest that has dozens of updates with each update having thousands of words.
Besides that doesn't dispute my point that it the banner would likely stack with a T4 Adamant armor that had all the runes using T4 to make them including the unyielding rune.
You can use logic though. If a banner was as good or better than armour, Dwarves would go into battle in togas.
