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Early gold dragon armour/negative EV
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Tuesday, 22nd March 2011, 18:01by Kokor Hekkus
So, found some +0 gold dragon armour just lying there on D4 (0.8). Unfortunately, I'm a level 8 SETm, with 0 Armour skill. Sludge Elves have such a sucky Armour aptitude, is it worth training it up at all for later in the game? If I wear it now, all spell success becomes 'Useless', and my EV goes negative, which I've never seen- does it mean monsters get a plus x to hit?
Re: Early gold dragon armour/negative EV
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Tuesday, 22nd March 2011, 19:33by gb
Kokor Hekkus wrote:So, found some +0 gold dragon armour just lying there on D4 (0.8). Unfortunately, I'm a level 8 SETm, with 0 Armour skill. Sludge Elves have such a sucky Armour aptitude, is it worth training it up at all for later in the game? If I wear it now, all spell success becomes 'Useless', and my EV goes negative, which I've never seen- does it mean monsters get a plus x to hit?
not worth it for a caster, it's the RNG teasing you :)
negative EV is the same as 0 EV, and only counts toward raising your EV above 0
Re: Early gold dragon armour/negative EV
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Wednesday, 23rd March 2011, 13:35by Jk
Yeah, the only viable thing to do if you wanted to wear the armor is to turn yourself from a Transmuter into a full on weapon-using melee-only character for the rest of the forseeable game, and that gold dragon armor isn't worth doing something quite THAT crazy (i.e. you wouldn't even make it that far).
Re: Early gold dragon armour/negative EV
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Wednesday, 23rd March 2011, 20:40by smock
I just tried such a conversion when my SETr found an amulet of rage and crystal plate mail on D:1. Yea, nutty.
Getting trapped by a MiHu ghost and a hungry ghost did me in. Having to fight/run from two large OOD killer bee swarms burned through the food, disallowing berserking.