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yes and no, after about the 2nd game through yes (for something a little different).
I personally think this contains considerably more "cheese" than taking a level in rouge for the stealth AC bonus. After all you could easily have come up with idea on your own (and the game isn't balanced on AC versus hit rate), but how on earth could you have known that the cane of corpus was even available - let alone available for a specific race and class? I think this is what people are talking about when they use the "meta" term, (it reeks bad).
On the other hand you don't want to be dissapointed either (which seems to be all to familiar with inconsistent chest "drops"). I have no problem looking at other sites to see what is available by name and damage (and hopefully weapon type). The list I use doesn't tell me where the item is or who can use it or even what special effects it has - it just gives me heads up to say you have several choices or not for a type of weapon and that a particular weapon is more likely to be more powerfull or not. For example: I like extended reach weapons so I look in that category both to "uber" weapons and simple weapons to see if I want to specialize in a particular type of weapon (polearm is a no-brainer here, but mace and staff look decent to). Additionally I also choose at least two and usually 3 weapons to speacilize in to extend my options (typically they will be trained up into the 80's). Of course then there is the whole "training" issue...
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