Ashenzari piety mecanic

[Gartch]

Hello everybody

Sorry for the noob question but I could not find information about this, searching both on this forum and on other sites.

Here is my question:
according to dcss wiki
"Ashenzari likes it when you explore the world (preferably while using cursed gear).
You have four equipment categories: armour, weapon, shield and jewellery. A category is considered "partially bound" if more than half of its slots in use are cursed, and "fully bound" if all slots in use are cursed. The more bound you are, the faster you'll acquire piety, and the more powerful several of Ashenzari's gifts will be."

What are exactly the definition of the "slots" the above sentence refers to?
For example for weapon: is it only one slot for a contact weapon? Or 2 slots for contact and ranged weapon? (if so, how does it work if I don't have ranged weapon) Or any weapon in my inventory is qualified for this?
More precise example: suppose I have a character with a cursed sword wielded, and in my inventory 10 uncersed maces and nothing else. Does the game consider that for the weapon category I am "fully bound" (the weapon in my hand is cursed), or partially bound (I don't have a ranged weapon cursed), or not bound at all (one cursed weapon on a total of 11, is less than 50%)?

Thank you in advance for your help, and sorry again for the probably very noob questions
By the way if some page answer my question, a link would make the trick:)

[Siegurt]

You only have one (ranged or melee) weapon wielded at a time, it's either one or two handed, there's one "slot" for each hand, (your second hand could be occupied with a two handed weapon, or with a weapon and a shield.

Your armour is pretty straightforward, there's slots for: body, boots, gloves, cloak, helmet

Your jewelry has three slots, two rings and an amulet.

Races can change the number of slots (for example, felids have no armour or weapon slots, octopodes have only one armour slot (helmet) and 8 ring slots (for a total of nine jewelry slots, etc.)

Generally you can see your 'slots' by hitting [ in game, anything that's not 'unavailable' counts for ash's counting purposes.

[Gartch]

Thank you very much for your answer.

I still have one question:
when I hit [ : I can only see information for armors.
So for weapon, if I have a cursed weapon in my first hand and nothing in my second hand, is the weapon category considered as partially bound or totally bound?

[Sprucery]

So for weapon, if I have a cursed weapon in my first hand and nothing in my second hand, is the weapon category considered as partially bound or totally bound?

Fully bound, if it's a two-handed weapon. Partially bound, if it's a one-handed weapon (in this case cursing a shield in the other hand would make you fully bound).

[chequers]

There is information on bound status in the ingame ^ menu.

[Gartch]

Ok thank for your answer:)

From what I understand, if you don't use a slot (empty hand or no rings, etc...) these empty slots still counts for Ashenzari and prevent you to be bound
for example with a cursed amulet and 0 rings used, you are not bound for jewellry category (at first I thought that in this situation you would be bound because I only have amulet and no ring, so it was 100% of used slot), am I right?

[chequers]

Right. An empty slot is unbound.

[Gartch]

Ok Thank you all for your help