Category:Gear In Kzinti Spire Of Knowledge

Gear

See Gray Staff and Katar Forged From Kzintium for directions to their respective runs.

Which one should you pick? Both are t1 AC wields, but the Gray Staff gives a 5% bonus to hp/mana regen, and the katar is a 17/17 piercer. Quite frankly, both of these secondary stats are completely pointless. Since this is the case, I would recommend doing Katar every time, simply because it is a shorter run, with a less irritating key mechanic. If the key breaks on Katar, you know exactly where to find it. If the key breaks on Gray Staff, you do not know where to find it, leading to many extra headaches. The path to Shunned World's Elder is also significantly longer than the path to the Kzinti Sergeant for Katar, meaning that Gray staff, on top of having the more irritating key, is also longer. The gear room difficulty for Gray Staff is slightly easier because it doesn't go nospell, but if you have a lot of sorcerers available to you, the gear room in Katar is not that much of an issue.

Tabulated List:

Gray Staff:

• + Easier gear room
• - Quite a bit longer than Katar
• --- Key mechanic will make you want to break your face if your key breaks

Katar:

• + Quite a bit shorter than Gray Staff
• - Harder (more finicky) gear room
• - Key mechanic will make you want to break only your hand if your key breaks.

A peaceful kzinti says 'I wasn't expecting to see anyone else venture into this place.'

A peaceful kzinti says 'My meditation has kept this spot relatively calm,'

A peaceful kzinti says 'keeping the chaos behind barriers I have erected.'

A peaceful kzinti says 'If you were to venture anywhere except back where you came from'

A peaceful kzinti says 'you will be facing aspects of the test that once was part of this spire.'

A peaceful kzinti says 'Everything else was obliterated when the Evolutionary ascended.'

A peaceful kzinti says 'If you insist on pushing forward I can lower the barrier.'

A peaceful kzinti says 'This can only be in one direction of your choosing.'

A peaceful kzinti says 'I can even tell you a little bit about the dangers you would face.'

A peaceful kzinti says 'But understand this,'

A peaceful kzinti says 'once you have chosen it can not be changed until the world is reborn once again.'

• REBOOT ONLY

A peaceful kzinti says 'To the NORTH you would be facing danger with only what you take with you.'

• noregen

A peaceful kzinti says 'To the EAST you will win some, but lose some.'

• det -- only clouds it seems?

A peaceful kzinti says 'SOUTH all is lost.'

• maze

A peaceful kzinti says 'If you go UP power is everything, but I wouldn't suggest that one.'

• swarmy...?

A peaceful kzinti says 'and finally, if you head WEST might makes right.'

• nospell

A peaceful kzinti says 'Let those who come after know what I have said because I will not repeat myself.'

A peaceful kzinti says 'Choose a direction or leave me to my meditation. The choice is yours.'

Final room contains:

• Research Documents for a Gray Staff (Elder) or Katar Forged From Kzintium (Sergeant) depending on path chosen
• Kzintium Circlet (15/-15; t1 Archer)
• Pair Of Simple Gloves - not found on east path