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Ask fellow adventurers how to stay alive in the deep, dark, dangerous dungeon below, or share your own accumulated wisdom.
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Happy Corner wrote:Did you know you can enchant arrows? You can wield them and read scrolls of enchant weapon to increase their bonus, which in turns makes them less likely to mulch. You can also work on your melee skills a little and bash some of the low-level dudes instead of shooting them.
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ClefAria wrote:And don't I need certain scrolls to enchant my arrows? I don't know if I've even found any of either of those types. And wouldn't they end up enchanting my bow instead of my arrows?
ClefAria wrote:Also, assuming I had some piles of arrows and the scrolls, would it be more cost-effective to enchant each pile once, or to enchant my best pile as much as possible?
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eharper256 wrote:Whilst I'm here... Am I the only one who thinks that X-Bows seem to be vastly superior to normal bows?
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TehDruid wrote:x-bows let you use steel and silver ammunition while bows only have one type of arrows, wooden. Do you really think nobody has noticed that other than you? (no offence)
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Grimm wrote:Also, if you enchant your +0 arrows to +1, you can then drop and consolidate those with any +1 arrows you already had, wield the new large stack and enchant that to +2. Rinse and repeat until all your arrows are being wielded and enchanted together.
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omegasean wrote:An idea is to hit CTRL+F and search for "arrow" - it will give you the location of any arrows spotted in the dungeon. maybe theres a big stack hiding under a corpse somewhere.
Also you can auto travel through the CTRL+F interface which is pretty darn convenient.
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ClefAria wrote: Also enchanted the pile once--how much does each 'level' of enchantment reduce the 'mulch' odds?
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TehDruid wrote:eharper256 wrote:Whilst I'm here... Am I the only one who thinks that X-Bows seem to be vastly superior to normal bows?
x-bows let you use steel and silver ammunition while bows only have one type of arrows, wooden. Do you really think nobody has noticed that other than you? (no offence)
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njvack wrote:Crawl should probably actually automatically consolidate ammo on enchantment. The "drop and pick up the ammo you just enchanted" trick seems unnecessary; I can't think of any case where you wouldn't want to do this.
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njvack wrote:njvack wrote:Crawl should probably actually automatically consolidate ammo on enchantment. The "drop and pick up the ammo you just enchanted" trick seems unnecessary; I can't think of any case where you wouldn't want to do this.
Hooray!
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galehar wrote:njvack wrote:njvack wrote:Crawl should probably actually automatically consolidate ammo on enchantment. The "drop and pick up the ammo you just enchanted" trick seems unnecessary; I can't think of any case where you wouldn't want to do this.
Hooray!
You're welcome. I also changed the wield menu to make it show missiles when you're carrying scrolls of enchant weapon.
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