Tartarus Sorceror
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Joined: Monday, 21st February 2011, 15:57
Location: South Carolina
Wand ID and consumable destruction
Zapping yourself with a wand is a good way to identify it. It uses up what might be a valuable charge, and it can hurt you and make noise, so you have to think before you do it, (IE, it's a well designed option,) but there's a decent chance of losing scrolls or potions if you end up zapping yourself with fire, flame, frost, cold, fireball, or random effects. So you kind of want to drop all of your potions and scrolls first.
I think it's inconvenient to do so, and grindy just like it was with the scroll of immolation.
Should wands be changed such that zapping yourself with them still causes damage, but can not destroy consumables?