The Tavern

This one was only $200 or something (unidentified).

From acquirement:



Thanks, game.

Individually, each piece is pretty darn good, but together they make an amazingly balanced set of jewelry:

All of these were from the same DEAE game, sadly none got used:

not so sure about this

Got it from a trove on a SpAs.

shield for Formicid
minotaur, wearing a +3 plate armour of magic resistance and wearing the +8 large shield of Surprise (*Slow rF+ Regen+ Dex+10)

https://postimg.cc/DSdnJFC1

Nothing like finding your endgame weapon on d:5

From a recent splat, I really enjoyed the third one because Gozag was the patron for my now dead EE.

Well, now that's an impressive amulet.

I like it because it's kinda a +13 plain cpa which helps you to wear itself.

Hmm, these must be two of a set

Man it's been so long since i saw both to-hit and damage enchantment numbers that it looks weird to me

additional gauntlet loot:



+ shield of the gong.

My Fo likes his new toys!

Best caster armor EVAR.
Unfortunately my GnFi had already picked up chei so he swapped for heavier armor later on.
But Jesus that would be insane for any other char.

here's another +14

False advertising.


Courtesy of Golubria.

Worn by a daeva in holy Pan.

Found this around 60th ziggurat and died shortly afterwards. I wish I'd got a chance to see eight of those.

Good for a Felid, no?
You don't need starts off nothing can see you

Found it on Cerebov's level, very funny.

Transporter vault (that one with 20+ Zot traps) loot, for a dedicated caster:

Erf, it has *Contam... But why the hell would you like to swap it

+5 trident "DeepDeath's Doom" {antimagic, rPois rF- rN+ Str+3}

Random name?

Haven't seen one of these in a while. Yes, the game sometimes generates loot with the character name - {Charname}'s Evisceration / Doom / Demise etc.

Perfection is overrated.

Replaces a +10 plate armour of magic resistance (arguably a smallish improvement, although it gives me more flexibility with jewelry and I have MR+++ without the plate)

Any En dream ! All of his stats are what you could expect !

Pff, not +9? elec instead of speed? drop it in lava!

Minotaur in Gauntlet on D:12 wielded this, and took most of my health with it (one hit!) until I berserked him:


But I chose the dirtiest path through the gauntlet (neqoxec, chaos spawn; then 2 wizards and 4 imps) to earn my troll this:



Actually I care about the stealth malus, the troll worships Dithmenos. My stealth goes from ++++ down to ++. Still worth it. By the way I had no MR+ gear, luckily neither neqoxec nor wizards see invisible. I ran from them, 50% chance of Paralyse or Banishment is no joke for a XL14 troll.

Guess I'll give slings a try.

What a lovely amulet to troll people with! Especially that it seems to be named after a lost Marx brother.

That was worth a double post !

I had the following dilema:
Playing offline as a Merfolk Ice Elementalist, hybridized to a fairly heavy polearm user. Beyond that, no especially decent weapons, armour or artifact jewelery.
So, this was a tough choice from my first acquisition scroll:


I nearly posted this as a question: What should I choose?
My weapons slot was an early halberd of freezing enchanted up to +4.
My rings were Wizardry and Ice.

I was at a point where I needed rF+ and wanted rElec, so that doesn't help.
I have to swap rings for rPois, which is super-annoying, but at least I have that option.
After a pause to think that lasted longer than some people's speed runs, I went for the ring. I'm still not sure if that was the right choice...
I think if the bardiche had had just a few more +'s I would have taken that, but I'll probably hope for the option of a demon trident + buckler of reflection later.

This question is more suited in "advice" area than this topic. I'd hope a mod can split it up.
Have you a dump? At which point of the game you were?
It's a bit different if you were at D:8 before Lair instead of later.

Anyway. That bardiche is kinda okay, because str+5 is like a little more +slay depending on many factors I don't know well. I'd consider it a +7/8 bardiche that helps cast in heavier armor, which is good but nothing extraordinary.
I don't know why you say you needed rf+ because unless you were entering Zot and you had exactly 0 rf+ source, that statement is wrong.

My 2 cents:
I suppose you were at early game (Lair at most). A +4 halberd of freezing is still a good weapon and glaive and bardiche are common so finding a weapon "similar" to that bardiche ins't so hard.
I would have chosen the ring because it would be the better item in the long run - but mostly for the str +3 slay +3 part - while theorically having to problem in the short run to proceed in the game with that halberd.

If for any reason the char was very weak - e.g. terrible god, terrible armor, few\no consumables ecc - I would have chosen the bardiche. Better survive more easily now than bringing a good ring in the grave.

Well, *this* game is on easy mode now..

bought this from a shop on a short-blade specialist:

ez

Feeling ready to post YASD.

A truly magnificent randart plate coffin.

I'm definitely using (and dying in it) as I'm exploding things with Punk and +12 slaying - 6 of which coming from necklace of bloodlust.

This was from a jewellery shop of Gozag, right after doing lair and mines and before going to the lair branches - kind of five rings in one.

And MP+9 and Int+6 is really nice for an air elementalist who relies on airstrikes at this time.

It remained my armour troughout the game till I won. The slaying was extra good for my quickblade, I had 40/40/12 defense at the end with hat of the alchemist.

Maybe not the best/worst, but maybe the most ironic?

Also I thought holy items couldn't generate cursed(?) Maybe I was mistaken?

All in a single game: