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Was read-identifying scrolls and discovered a Scroll of Enchant Armour. Had nothing better to throw it on than an un-ID'd shiny ringmail.

Later I put on the ringmail and found that it was +1...and still cursed.

Intended?

le_nerd wrote:Short reminder, someone some time ago suggested that dropping stuff with D removes that stuff from autopickup. Would be awesome to patch in as well!

I would hate, hate, hate it if you did that. I routinely use D as a convenience to juggle around a single inventory slot when I'm full up.

Make sure you have someone ready to post bail, and don't fight stadium security when they catch you.

...I'm tired of splatting gladiators, per my usual bad play, and decide to start a zealot. Sure, a Hill Orc Abyssal Knight, that sounds good. First item I see, 10 turns into the game, sitting in the Abyss: the +9 plate armour of the Hidden Vale {*Drain rElec Str+3} Yes, please! Hail the mighty Lugon...

Amulet of regeneration
+ armor with +regen
+ powered by death 3 mutation
+ Makhleb
= FUN FUN FUN

KoboldLord wrote:
Siegurt wrote:I
I don't think generated items need to have a stupendous effect to be worth generating, but I do think they should generate at least a noticeable effect. Many of the lower value rings fail this test.

Agreed - rings of evasion/protection/slaying/stat that are only +1 are sooooo boring.

Got Cerebov one-on-one on another floor and managed to kill him -- hooray!

Alas, Lom Lobon managed to drown me.

Well, getting the abyssal rune was more tedious than dangerous - I hope that speaks well for my ability to do more extended.

edit: OH MY GOD CEREBOV AAAAAAAH -- stole his rune and ran like hell, stumbled onto the demonic rune 100 turns later.

I've never gotten 4 runes before, but this character was strong enough to beat TRJ like a punching bag on my first-ever visit to the Slime Pits. This is despite being not as lucky with OP gear as I have on other characters (even the many shops have been lackluster) - but my DS mutation set has been ...

So I managed to stumble across TWO manuals of Fighting. I understand the learning bonus doesn't stack. But if I carry both in my inventory, am I 'burning' them both up while only getting a single benefit? Or is it safe to keep carrying the second manual, knowing it will kick in when the first one is...

Beware the Flying Vampire Pizza! (I think that cheese might be out of date...)

I ran into one on D:12 in my last game and had no idea what was going on until I was in the middle of that hellish cloud... managed to escape but basically had to treat it as a mid-game boss and go do branches to power up so I could fight it. (The level was a fairly open construction, so I couldn't ...

Found unguarded on D4 by my latest MiGl:

A - the ring of Ohyegoat (left hand) {EV+6 Str+6 Slay+5 Stlth-}

I didn't really want to be a stabber anyhow.... :mrgreen:

I don't love it when Mara summons a clone of my MiBe and he's berserking, too...

As an alternative, I wish you could target items you're standing on top of with an identify scroll, or perhaps even read scrolls and quaff potions that are under your feet.

What's the point of some (mostly) valedictory jaunt, dangling worthlessly off of the end of the real game? I've only won the game once, and I still remember the boundless, bubbling JOY of the orb run. (I never saw any pan lords; didn't even know at the time that they might appear.) I was hustling t...

Or recall them, for that matter... was just thinking that a warlord would do obscene buckets of damage with that thing.

Is there any reason not to gift the Obsidian Axe to one of my named orc followers?

Too bad; I usually discard them as trash on my melee characters unless I can cover the resist malus they give.

i.e., does wearing a ring of fire increase the damage on a flaming weapon?

I don't love it when I find the Mask of the Dragon sitting unguarded on the ground and realize that despite being a mask rather than a hat, it still won't go on my Demonspawn with Horns 3.

YASD. Orbs of fire are very, very serious business and one dot of rF is not enough. Lesson learned.

I really appreciate the useful feedback from everyone so far. I've cleared Zot 1-4 and I'm wondering if I should go for my 2nd winner or not. It's very tempting to try and see some of the game's extended content, but I'm not sure this character is powerful enough to even monkey with it. Seems like t...

I agree that as cool as the triple sword is, it's a lost cause XP-wise. I haven't actually used the enchant weapon scrolls yet - so my choice is between a +6 broad axe of freezing OR a +5 battleaxe of freezing. I love the extra defense from shields, although I hear elsewhere on the forum that it's n...

Thanks to both of you. I was leaning toward sticking with Axes and it's nice to hear confirmation from folks who are better players than I. By 'replacing the instrinsics' I meant finding similar qualities on other pieces of gear, thus making me more comfortable in swapping it out. The +Inv +SInv in ...

So I'm working through my first rune branch (Swamp). I'm XL 16 and have Axes skill 16. Mara just dropped a +2 demon blade of electrocution. I've heard endlessly on these forums about how wonderful demon blades are. Is it worth the XP loss to train up Long Blades and switch at this point in the game?...

Sandman25 wrote:I would keep using that MR plate. I hope you wear ring of protection by default, walking with rC- is dangerous.

Echoing this... my last two rune-grabbing characters were both lost to sudden bursts of cold damage while wearing rC-. Learn from my awful play.

... I find a +10 executioner's axe with firebrand and rC- for my miGl and forget that the casters in the Shoals will happily kill me stone dead with ice spells.

I was thinking earlier today that a branding scroll that could re-roll the numeric bonus on a branded piece of jewelry could be fun as a very rare item. For instance, a ring of protection +1 or strength +1 is not worth your time unless you are an octopode... Something like what you're describing mig...

since I usually wait a couple of levels to mass-ID by quaffing and reading all at once. This is wrong approach IMHO. It's better to have a single scroll of blinking and nothing more than 2 scrolls of DWKVCVEKE. I usually read even scrolls when there is only 1 in the stack, it helps to know that I d...

As I suspected -- Duvessa and Dowan came around a corner just after I was taken down to half hp by an orc priest's smite, and I didn't have any escapes or heals ID'd yet. Curse you, RNG! Curse yoooooou! I can't even blame myself for my usual sloppy play on this one... since I usually wait a couple o...

I'm a terrible Crawl player (mostly through button-mashing lack of patience). I have splatted hundreds, nay thousands of characters since my first and only 3-rune win. I just fired up the game with yet another MiGl and my first three item finds on D:1 were, in order... +0 pearl dragon armour +4 ring...

Does your advice to stick with Axes still hold if I found the +14 Plutonium Sword on Shoals:5? My choices now are a +6 draining broad axe, a +6 battleax of electrocution, or the Plutonium Sword. It's time for me to tackle Depths and Vaults so probably time for me to stop juggling kit and make a toug...

Thanks for the input. I've been stomping hydrae with that demon trident of freezing (i'm playing 0.16 trunk, so have half-skill with Polearms) and it's been working just great. Per your advice I'll keep an eye out for big axes... I must admit to a little trepidation about ditching my shield though. ...

So I've got a HOGl of Ash, the farthest I've ever gotten an Ashenzari worshipper. Currently trained up to ~14ish in Axes, got through the early game with a lucky find (+2 hand ax of electrocution). After some recent finds, I'm in Lair:5 with a dilemma of what weapon to move forward with to try and s...

GlassGo wrote:Next thing - we should be able to play gosts, huh?

Our characters are already ghosts, that just happen to be stuck temporarily in meat.

So do worshipers of Oka and Makh get piety more slowly now that piety-for-corpses is gone? Or were other sources of gain buffed to compensate?

So, followup question - how do I make my skills start in manual mode, with everything turned off?

Soooooooooooooo my understanding from skimming forum bantering was that if you go in and select/turn off/emphasize skills you are in manual mode. Your responses in this thread led me to question this and AHA, it appears that I was not. Actually. Ugh. This game's opacity continues to make me crazy. I...

Is there a way to stop a skill from beginning to be trained when I pick up a weapon in that group? I splat an enormous number of characters and it is super annoying to have to open the skills menu every time I pick up a backup weapon that isn't in my main skill group. edit: to clarify, i am on manua...

After getting so many casters and stabbers killed, I decided I wanted a second win at this game and started a MiFi. Stumbled onto a large shield of reflection on D14 and WOW - it has made the mid-game so damn easy. Centaurs and yaktaurs just melt away, impaled by their own missiles, before I even ha...

And here I thought that this thread was going to be about getting cool effects from the meat you butcher/eat. (Kind of like ADOM except temporary effects rather than permanent.)

Instead it's about licking oneself clean. Hm, that's enough Internet for today.

Bah - triple swords should be evokable as a ranged weapon....

And of course, @ will be played by:

Energy randomisation definitely doesn't make getting Abyssed any easier. Aaargh. :evil:

Can we call them lobstrosities instead?

...Dad-a-chuck? *snip snip*

I was still hemming and hawing about going back for Gong, but found a +9 large shield with STR and DEX bumps. Yup, I'm good!

Aha - I hadn't looked at the store description and didn't realize it was a noisemaker. Not that I am at all stealthy now, but.... whole levels at once could be painful. Especially with an EV of 1...

I'm playing a sword-and-board MiFi. Saw this artifact in a shop: the +18 shield of the gong {rElec rN+ MR+ EV-5} (1264gp) I have the money. i've completed Orc and am halfway through Lair. XL 14, AC 29, EV 6, SH 13. The +18 on shields goes toward SH value, right? So does a highly inflated SH make up ...

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