Lantern of Shadows and the Abyss

[XuaXua]

According to the Knowledge Bot, but not according to the Crawl Game Wiki, the Lantern of Shadows is "rumored to be useful for escaping the abyss".

Can anyone provide any details on this? I have a couple distortion-branded weapons and just got the lantern, so I'm curious.

[Kate]

In theory it's useful to reduce your LOS so that you'll have less enemies in sight chasing you, smiting you and generally being nasty. It also means you're less likely to spot the exit though (unless you worship Ash).

[gb]

also the shadows it generates get in the way of enemies chasing you

[joellercoaster]

I like it, and the shadows are cool anyway.

It's not a game-changer in the Abyss by any means, but I've found it (once!) helpful in keeping the number of things chasing me into corners down. And if you're at the point where your character may or may not make it depending on the breaks, every little bit helps.

It helps more in levels where you know the layout alreay