Zapping wand noise discussion

[le_nerd]

Zapping wands does make noise, its not a lot, I cant find any numbers anywhere, but monsters in sight that have not noticed a stealthy char yet will invariably notice if zapping teleport/heal wounds/haste wands.

This leads to strange and micromanagment-heavy behaviour: if your character is at all stealthy, you want to use scrolls of teleportation and potions of haste/heal wounds preferably in sight of monsters that have not noticed you yet, rather than zapping wands. This does seem rather uninteresting and tedious.

Could something be done about that? Not sure what, theres a couple of pro/cons for current behaviour.

Pro current behaviour:

All wands behave the same way, no need to differentiate noise levels in wand description.

[sanka]

Add the same noise to scroll reading and potion drinking?

[KoboldLord]

Best solution is to remove wands of haste/teleportation/heal wounds, and adjust spawns of other consumables accordingly. It isn't like there's any useful and desirable difference between the wand version of the consumable and the potion/scroll version.

[Shtopit]

Best solution is to remove wands of haste/teleportation/heal wounds, and adjust spawns of other consumables accordingly. It isn't like there's any useful and desirable difference between the wand version of the consumable and the potion/scroll version.

Mummies for haste and heal wounds, silence for other wands, rachargeability for deep dwarves.

[Dioneo]

There are also mutations which interact differently with scrolls or wands, and Ru has separate sacrifices for each category of consumable.

[tabstorm]

How is this micromanagement? The point of stealth is to make as little noise as possible. Reading scrolls makes less noise than zapping wands, so you read scrolls instead. This can be blocked by silence, blurry vision, or whatever, it is not a completely trivial distinction. Also, as a stealthy character, even with 27 stealth and Dithmenos, monsters will notice you because stealth is garbage.