Slime Squisher
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Consumables you never use
tasonir wrote:n1000 wrote:Even though I disagree with almost everything you've proposed I think this is a discussion worth having in general. I'm curious whether others could point out which consumables they hate
Consumables I almost never use (note this doesn't mean I hate them or they aren't useful, just that I tend to never use them):
Scrolls
Fog
Fear
Holy Wrath
Vulnerability
Silence
immolation
enchant weapon (when doing my usual unarmed builds - obviously it's good if you have a weapon!)
This isn't counting the generally bad scrolls like noise, torment, random uselessness, even if those have positive edge cases.
Potions
Berserk rage
Flight (prefer the ring; may use this if I can't find the ring)
cancellation
I have a harder time adding things to this list than scrolls, because there's some rarely used potions, I still have once in a while saved my life with potions like lignification and ambrosia. It may only come up in <10% of games, but it comes up, so I'll just list those three. I'm sure I've used berserk rage a few times, but generally not (conflicting with chei is probably at fault here).
Wands
Magic dart
frost
flame
disintegration
confusion
paralysis
polymorph
slowing
random effects
Again, I'll grant that paralysis/confusion/disintegration etc have some good power, and should probably be used, but I generally don't bother, and usually it's because I have pretty low evocations as I'm trying to overcome how crappy unarmed is until it gets higher up. I'll use an unidentified zap or two of these wands before dropping them when I run out of inventory space; it's not like I've never zapped these, just that I don't consider them worth carrying once 52 slots becomes an issue. This overall list is intended to be subjective, although there's some in here which could be fairly objectively cut - flame/frost/magic darts are pretty weak and if not all cut, at least replaced with a single "minor destruction" type wand.