{"id":395,"date":"2009-06-26T00:52:01","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T06:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=395"},"modified":"2010-01-04T11:45:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T17:45:49","slug":"iotm-review-but-they-cancel-each-other-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"IoTM Review: But they cancel each other out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey! Twilight Heroes had an IoTM. Well, two, really. What happened to them, eh?<\/p>\n<p>Item number 1: <a href=\"http:\/\/th.blandsauce.com\/wiki\/Hobbes%27_nail_boots\">Hobbes&#8217; Nail Boots<\/a>. Yay!  An IoTM boot that isn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/th.blandsauce.com\/wiki\/Roderick%27s_Boots\">Roderick&#8217;s Boots<\/a> which is one of the few IoTMs I don&#8217;t have! Victory, or something!<br \/>\nBut seriously, besides Roderick&#8217;s, there just isn&#8217;t a shoe in the same caliber as this thing. (The exception maybe being the <a href=\"http:\/\/th.blandsauce.com\/wiki\/Treader_of_the_Dust%27s_Sandals\">Treader of the Dust&#8217;s Sandals<\/a>, but that&#8217;s a high level only item.) There is never, ever a time when you don&#8217;t want an extra added boost of +item, so they&#8217;re worth it just for that. The additional melee damage is just icing on the cake, and the pounce attack is nice to have access to, even if it doesn&#8217;t seem to trigger ALL that often. Depending on what you&#8217;re doing, though, I could almost see the +combat being a hindrance. +noncombat does tend to almost always be more useful. Still, I certainly don&#8217;t mind it, and since you simply can&#8217;t get +item on any other boot in the game, this is almost certainly worth your stars.<\/p>\n<p>The item number 2 would be the <a href=\"http:\/\/th.blandsauce.com\/wiki\/Mummers%27_gloves\">Mummer&#8217;s Gloves<\/a>. Yay! An IoTM set of gloves that isn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/th.blandsauce.com\/wiki\/Roderick%27s_Gloves\">Roderick&#8217;s Gloves<\/a>, one of the few IoTMs I don&#8217;t have! If you are a person who is ever going to be thinking of speed-running the eventual versions of this game, these gloves are clearly for you. +noncombat is going to get you far. Very, very far. That alone makes them worth having around, but the occasional stat boosts put it over the top. It&#8217;s nowhere near as good for that as the <a href=\"http:\/\/th.blandsauce.com\/wiki\/Virtual_Reality_helmet\">VR Helmet<\/a> of course, since the VR Helmet boosts your basic XP gains too, but then again, it&#8217;s in a different slot, so they don&#8217;t have to compete. You can wear both!<br \/>\nThe part I like the most, though, is the creating of the Invisible Box. This isn&#8217;t a combat skill or anything. You just use your gloves from your inventory to create a scaling defensive buff five times a day. I don&#8217;t know why that makes me so happy. I guess it&#8217;s just because, usually, such things give you an item that you can use for the buff? And then I never use the buff, or just give the items to other people. Somehow, having it just be used on yourself makes it more novel to me, because I will actually use it. If I don&#8217;t buff myself with it, I&#8217;m just wasting my uses, you know? And I do love extra defense. I&#8217;m a defensive kind of person.<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, two pretty powerful, half-priced items. Pretty nice stuff. I would bet that the non-combat and stats of the Mummer&#8217;s Gloves would make it the better investment, but really, you can&#8217;t go wrong with either. Or both. I have both.<br \/>\nYep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey! Twilight Heroes had an IoTM. Well, two, really. What happened to them, eh? Item number 1: Hobbes&#8217; Nail Boots. Yay! An IoTM boot that isn&#8217;t Roderick&#8217;s Boots which is one of the few IoTMs I don&#8217;t have! Victory, or something! But seriously, besides Roderick&#8217;s, there just isn&#8217;t a shoe in the same caliber as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,24,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":914,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}