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Way to kill the buzz.

Pteri is now bombarding the thread with decent if not spectacular artifacts, it seems... But I thought this was meant to be Best/Worst?

Let's just take "Best/Worst" as meaning "top and bottom quartiles"

So let's retitle the thread "Half of all artefacts".

Code:: The +1 -3 hammer Hammer (god gift) {-cast stlth- rC+}

Thanks Trog, my long blade minotaur is jumping with joy over this marvelous ancient artifact.

eharper256 wrote:Just got this beauty from my first scroll of acquirement on this game:

I was like:

Especially since I just started training Necromancy (got Regen from a Book of War Chants that was lying around). Bit of a step up from my old +1/+3 Falchion of Slicing!!

Screw Okawaru - I want to worship Taehiot now!

Zicher wrote:
Screw Okawaru - I want to worship Taehiot now!

Which leads to the silly idea of Taehiot, god of Enchantments and Greed (or Treasure Hunters?).

Gives 3 Scrolls of Acquirement as the 6* piety gift
Increases the chances of Enchant Scrolls working passively, allows them to reach higher levels (+12/+12?)
Biases Acquirement to be slightly better
Allows you to use Apportation, Insulation, Identify and Resist Poison as Invocations abilities.
Pray over weapons to automatically use a short duration Tukima's Dance on them (longer with higher piety), after which they dissapear into your gods treasure vault for eternity and you gain piety.
Also gain piety by discovering new item types and brands.
Mimics are friendly if your piety is high enough, and join your side like Beorgh and Orcs, and follow you around on the current level. Possibly, praying over a non-weapon item turns it into a mimic instead of invoking Tukima's Dance.
Possibly a means to disarm and disrobe (?!) enemies with a targeted ability.

Anyway, the god is really just interested in all of the treasure that is interred in the dungeon and needs you to liberate it, and give it to him/her. In return, he/she offers their subjects fortune in wealth and the ability to get more of it as well as the means to make their shinies even shinier. Personal greed to an extent is fine, but Redistribution of Wealth is the big byword.

In fact, what else is your quest for the orb if not a means to drag the ultimate shiny to the surface and ensure its power is distributed to the surface; these underground monsters have hogged it too long and this clashes with Taehiot's agenda.

Golden, Shiny, Larger than life, an imposing figure; that is Taehiot.

Huh, that somehow ended up mildly convincing.

Kinda mildly clashes with Ash and Nemelex, but not a huge amount.

the -5 buckler of the Ancient Deaths {god gift, int-2, dam-3}

I guess Okawaru really wants me to use 2-handed weapons this game.

amulet of Suanoi {rMut rF++ rC+ MR Acc+6}

TwilightPhoenix wrote:amulet of Suanoi {rMut rF++ rC+ MR Acc+6}

This, the blade of Taehiot, and some Ice Dragon armor and you go go naked in the rest of your slots....

Jeremiah wrote:the -5 buckler of the Ancient Deaths {god gift, int-2, dam-3}

I guess Okawaru really wants me to use 2-handed weapons this game.

Yes he really wants you to use the -4 +3 scythe of the Five Planets. (rC-, noisy, mut)

Code:: the +7,+4 giant club "Beothyc" (weapon) {god gift, crush, -CAST +Rage +Inv rF+ Dex+1 Int+3 SInv}

Okawaru's gifts are rarely good, but then ...

thanks for finding the thread for me, sorry about creating the new one. Anyways, there were some critics, but I honestly think this is good.

-3 ring mail {rF+ rC+ rN+ MR str+1}

Sure it would need a better base type/enchantment to be the best, but I have a hard time saying 4 resists is not a notable randart

the +10,+11 halberd "Monuyl" (weapon) {slay drac, Str-4 Stlth++}

Probably not the best weapon of all times, but for a light armour polearm naga gladiator quite good, especially in Vaults/Zot with all that dragons around.

X - the ring of Cowardice {*TELE +Tele +Blink +Inv rN+}

So many ways to run away. :lol:

+3, +9 demon trident of Night (venom, rF++, rC++)

I had the Singing Sword and Transfered Knowledge from Long Swords to Polearms immediately.

sir_laser wrote:+3, +9 demon trident of Night (venom, rF++, rC++)

I had the Singing Sword and Transfered Knowledge from Long Swords to Polearms immediately.

Seems like a good idea

Hmm, a set of Failmail:

Guess it has a decent slaying bonus at least. :lol:

the ring of Owekan {Hunger- +Inv rElec rPois rF++ MR}

Yeehaw, I found this in Slime after complaining to the RNG about not having a nice source of rF.
And to think I was pretty happy with it when I though it was Hunger+ instead of Hunger-. :oops:

That's a decent damn ring.

Code:: the +9,+5 executioner's axe "Siefid" {god gift, speed, *TELE rPois rF+ rN+}

ONE brand away from being god-awesome.

Found that on D4, carried it 4 levels around until i found an identify scroll. I guess Sif Muna will be displeased when i remove my amulet of faith, but...

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Love these gloves:

Code:: i - the cursed +1 pair of gloves of Tiywn (worn) {+Blink +Lev rF+ rC++ Acc+5 Dam+1 Curse} (You found it on level 26 of the Dungeon) It affects your accuracy (+5). It affects your damage-dealing abilities (+1). It protects you from fire. It greatly protects you from cold. It lets you levitate. It lets you blink. It may recurse itself. It has a curse placed upon it.

Recursing was actually a very nice perk for me, since I follow Ashenzari and am short on scrolls of curse armour. Handy for when I need to swap out a ring. And this goes nicely with it:

Code:: a - the +6,+5 falchion of the Hells {drain, rElec rF++ Dex+4} (You found it in Pandemonium) A truly terrible weapon, it drains the life of those it strikes. It affects your dexterity (+4). It greatly protects you from fire. It insulates you from electricity.

Not bad for my caster. With both artefacts and Lichform I have rC+++, rF+++ and rElec. Drain if I'm cornered and out of MP. I haven't played long enough to know if these are "top of the line," but they are the best of my randarts.

Grimm wrote:
Code:
the +9,+5 executioner's axe "Siefid" {god gift, speed, *TELE rPois rF+ rN+}

ONE brand away from being god-awesome.

In my opinion speed is a very good brand on large weapons. Have fun with hydras.

Thanks, but that guy's long since dead.

I'd take that exec axe over any holy wrath one in a heartbeat.

Okay so, it's not the best weapon I've ever found, but if you take into account where I found it...

(Playing a NaWz, hoping to get my second win as a streak from my first. Found troll leather armour on D1 and a ring of magical power on D2, then this on D4. Things are going worryingly well... Edit: and then found Pikel on D4, and he dropped a +2 robe {MR}. The RNG has got to be planning something...)

The -5 leather armour of the Loofah. (rPois. Dex -1)
It looks pretty but it's quite useless.

Jabberwocky wrote:The -5 leather armour of the Loofah. (rPois. Dex -1)
It looks pretty but it's quite useless.

It'll keep your skin clean and exfoliated.

Just found this little diddy on dungeon level 8 on my new spriggan enchanter, also, first time i have tried spriggan enchanter, why have I not tried this sooner?!

+4, +4 sabre "fihutaf" (weapon) {holy, +blink, +Inv, rElec}

Oh and I found as I was running away from about 5 rotting devils, what luck. Shame I had just learned invisibility though.

gruber wrote:Just found this little diddy on dungeon level 8 on my new spriggan enchanter, also, first time i have tried spriggan enchanter, why have I not tried this sooner?!

+4, +4 sabre "fihutaf" (weapon) {holy, +blink, +Inv, rElec}

Oh and I found as I was running away from about 5 rotting devils, what luck. Shame I had just learned invisibility though.

I just found a book of transmutations too... what to do what to do... This is my first spriggan enchanter, is transmutations a viable route to get to the end game? Only going for a 3 rune run if I ever get that far.

Probably the strongest non-artifact I've ever found.

Yeah, only one god would benefit from it and only a few species wouldn't go below high run speed, but it's still a pretty nice suit of armor considering it came like that. If I didn't need my spells on that character, I might have used it (was a Centaur, so ponderous wouldn't have been that big of a deal).

Ponderousness is horrible.

minmay wrote:That is worse than a +0 plate mail of not-ponderous.

This is my reason for existing. :lol:

Continuing the theme of redefining best/worst, here is my best artifact so far this game:
B - the ring "Jiyk" (left hand) {rC+ Str+5 Int+3 Acc+5}
Which gives me my first useful source of rC, on a draconian with a longbow and then dragon form, so I think the Str and Acc are more useful than usual.

Just found this:

+3/+12 spear of Optimality {holy, rF++, SInv}

Thinking it's time to switch weapon types

Southpaw wrote:Just found this:

+3/+12 spear of Optimality {holy, rF++, SInv}

Thinking it's time to switch weapon types

Not bad. It would be better if it wasn't a spear though. What is your skill investment in your main weapon type and were are you?

Code:: L - the ring of Interdependent Arising (left hand) {rElec MR SInv} (You found it on level 4 of the Dungeon) u - the ring "Ufoh" (right hand) {Regen +Blink rN+ MR} (You acquired it on level 7 of the Dungeon)

Not the most awesome randarts I've ever seen, but just look at the depth!

Mix ice, swamp and storm dragons, and you get this:

Code:: T - the +2 ice dragon armour "Twuntom" (worn) {+Rage rElec rPois rF- rC++}

WANT.

the -6,+1 hand axe "Nakan" {venom, +Inv SInv}
(You found it on level 7 of the Dungeon)

Of course i hadn't identified its bonuses and got hacked to death first combat with it...I was like "wtf?? RNG hates me 5 miss in a row!!!"

Baine wrote:the -6,+1 hand axe "Nakan" {venom, +Inv SInv}
(You found it on level 7 of the Dungeon)

Of course i hadn't identified its bonuses and got hacked to death first combat with it...I was like "wtf?? RNG hates me 5 miss in a row!!!"

That's pretty seriously terrible.

Okawaru just gave me this:

Code:: g - the +0 plate armour of Khuejial (worn) {god gift, Str-5 Int-2} (Okawaru gifted it to you on level 5 of the Vaults) It affects your strength (-5). It affects your intelligence (-2).

Considering that I also have +6 artifact fire dragon armor and +4 artifact troll leather armor, I think I'll pass.

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