Swamp Slogger
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How to make copy of an artifact (instruction)
One of the numerous chaos weapon effects is duplicating your enemy (its copy will have same equipment).
Here is the detailed instruction:
- Find some chaos weapon with low base damage and of a type you aren't skilled with.
- Make this weapon have +X,-5 enchantment by engaging lots of jellies (you can breed them beforehand).
- Put on as many items with negative slaying bonus as you can (but try not to hurt your accuracy much).
- Pick a monster interested in picking up the item you'd like to duplicate, let's call it Gordo (Gordo should be tough enough so you couldn't one-shot him with some unlucky effect of your weapon).
- Make Gordo pick up that item and some heavy armour to make him more durable.
- Fight Gordo (heal Gordo when he's damaged severely (by wand or by dropping healing pots) or leave him so he could regenerate) until he gets duplicated. I think fighting Gordo in the Temple will be the best:
- Temple is small, you'll have no problems finding Gordo there after letting him to regenerate;
- you won't be annoyed by shafting effects of your weapon;
- you won't be screwed much by OOD monsters on D:4-7 when Gordo is regaining health in Temple.
- Temple is small, you'll have no problems finding Gordo there after letting him to regenerate;
- Kill both Gordo and Gordo. Get your items.
What to duplicate? First of all, what kind of items do monsters pick up?
- Surely, armours and weapons. But do you really want to have two Plutonium swords or two Maxwell's Patent armours? No, unless you worship Beogh or Yred (or have a mercenary). (Though I like mental image of orcish army of clones roaming the dungeon.) Still, you can double your bundle of rare penetration or steel bolts or ammo of dispersal.
- Potions. No use here, since Gordo is likely to finish all of them before you clone him.
- Wands. Same, but at least you will have two empty wands.
- Scrolls. Only scrolls that monsters do pick up are blinking and teleportation. They use tele only when critically wounded and I never saw them using blinking one. So possible here.
- Jewellery. The main reason you may want to try to pull this, especially as an octopode. I do not know which monsters will be willing to pick up which jewellery, so if you have some experience with this, please share.
I made some calculations based on numbers got from code diving:
As been said this idea is crazy, so it shouldn't be tried in normal circumstances unless you want to have some scumming fun.
Edit: It looks like Gordo has to be some unique for not to get killed by banishment. Preferably Maurice, who can steal any of your items.
Also my theory explains this log: http://crawl.develz.org/morgues/0.9/xom ... 165025.txt