Amulet of Wisdom

[Rast]

FR: new base amulet type. Increases earned xp by 3%. Applies drain on removal

[mattlistener]

So... if you lucked into one on D1 and wore it until someone without the amulet would've hit level 10, you'd be... at level 10 around 30% of the way toward level 11. Yay?

http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Experience# ... e_Required

[Rast]

Fine, 5%

[Tumalu]

Seems like an amulet that only a character strong enough to not care about their amulet slot would want to wear.

Or someone who hasn't found anything actually useful.

Either case sounds like an item not worth having in the game. For the most part, the farther in the game you get, the easier it is to not die (with decent play), so you don't need to sacrifice your amulet slot now to have slightly more exp later; you're either reducing your chance to GET to later, or strong enough it really doesn't matter. Not only that, perhaps even more importantly; because of the EXP curve, the benefit from wearing this amulet for the first half of the game would be almost nonexistent in Zot. 5% of the exp you get in the first half of the game is not much compared to the EXP you're getting late in.

I guess if it was like 10% it'd be paying off enough in the short-term to consider wearing it. (Not that I'm arguing it should be added, but if it was, it'd need to be closer to that point for me to actually -want- it)

[duvessa]

Is this an oblique rag on the xp penalty for using allies

[Rast]

Is this an oblique rag on the xp penalty for using allies

It's more about amulet of the acrobat. Sorry, Lasty.

[Shtopit]

I don't really like items of "you'll thank me later", we already have spellsbooks for that, and they don't take up useful slots. I also dislike the drain punishment.

[tasonir]

Is this an oblique rag on the xp penalty for using allies

It's more about amulet of the acrobat. Sorry, Lasty.

It's super OP for the minotaur headbutt challenge conduct, though.