Shtopit wrote:I think cursed items should blend in better, or come in more often. With amulets it's especially true: "Pfff, it's the amulet of inaccuracy, the one cursed amulet, who cares, the procedure of identifying it is done, no more cursed stuff from now on". It's the Smurfette of amulets, only it's cursed instead of being female.
Anectdote... Granted it was D:1 but I just picked up all of the following on D:1. Yes, I was feeling bullish enough to equip them all then too.
Ring of Strength -4.
Ring of Strength -2.
Some cursed blade -1 or -2.
And then I fell down a shaft for 2 floors.
I was playing a HESk btw.
So back to your point, I still managed to survive for a couple OOD dungeon levels (searching out stairs back up) and finally get a remove curse scroll. But that's not to say it was easy.
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It's not just Amulet of Inaccuracy. There is also Amulet of Harm (drain is not exactly nice), Ring of Loudness, Ring of Teleportation, Amulet of Faith if you don't want it at the moment. These can be downright frustrating if you don't have a Remove Curse, or get yourself drained say, especially around D:3 to D:6 or whenever you're just starting to beef up and the monsters are too.
If anything, I'd pick about the frequency of Identify and Remove Curse scrolls. I feel like there used to be fewer Identify scrolls (or is it just me)? I
usually -- though not always! -- have plenty of Remove Curse scrolls by about Lair. If those were far tighter, then the cursed items would be downright difficult to deal with. As it is, they're more of a short-term bother... Unless that's just the moment you needed a little more oomph or run into some terrible unique. Hardly negligible.