Most people (I'm assuming anyway) are going to break the curse on the paladin shield. For those 250 battles, why not fight somewhere where you will get a lot of exp? That way you level up a lot, making the atma weapon very powerful. Yes, the added randomly casting pearl can make it do more, but in the time it takes for pearl to finish with its looooooong animation, your character could already be ready with another attack from the atma weapon.

Yeah yeah, +50% magic block, +7 all stats.

Who cares? Get hit every so often and heal! 1mp with an economizer. No big deal. But that's just me I suppose.

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