YASD: first go with a paladin, got killed by an angel - lol

**Pete Mack** · March 2, 2009, 15:13

Looks to me like you were killed by a combination of Uriel and Dreads, not so much carrying to much stuff in your pack. Your STR is down 7 from it's max, which is quite a lot. (That's ~13 strength-draining blows from a group of Dreads.)

Rods of Light might of helped, too.

(I too find Paladins to be a frustrating class, because of bad stealth, bad DEX, and late detection.)

**bebo** · March 2, 2009, 16:42

Originally posted by Pete Mack

Looks to me like you were killed by a combination of Uriel and Dreads, not so much carrying to much stuff in your pack. Your STR is down 7 from it's max, which is quite a lot. (That's ~13 strength-draining blows from a group of Dreads.)

I think it was a single ninja/dagashi/whatever, they move at high speed and have lots of strength draining attacks; i had some previous encounters with death quasits that proved even more annoying, considering they move through walls, although they drain 'only' DEX.

**Magnate** · March 2, 2009, 20:53

Originally posted by bebo

I also decided to try randarts, which proved to be quite interesting - i don't know if i was particularly lucky, but i found quite a few at depths i normally almost never found any, even though they were not that powerful; if this is an unintended side effect of randarts, it's a good one - finding more early low power artifacts makes the game more interesting.

It is intended - I'm glad it's working.

g) The Metal Scale Mail 'Halda' (-2) [12,+18] (+3) {!!}
+3 wisdom, dexterity, charisma.
Provides resistance to poison, fear, light, confusion, nether.
Cannot be harmed by acid, electricity, fire, cold.
Sustains strength.
Feather Falling.
Stops experience drain.
When activated, it creates a frost ball with damage 100.
It takes 24 turns to recharge after use at your current speed.

Judging from the activation, this is based on a fairly powerful artifact (Aeglos, I think). Five high resists would seem to bear that out. So this is a fairly lucky find (where did you find it?).

i) The Wicker Shield of Agalval (+1,+0) [2,+21] (+1)
+1 intelligence.
Provides resistance to acid, lightning, fire, fear, disenchantment.
Cannot be harmed by acid, electricity, fire, cold.

l) The Pair of Leather Boots 'Ostar' [2,+16] (+3) {!!}
+3 intelligence.
Cannot be harmed by acid, electricity, fire, cold.
Stops experience drain.
When activated, it fires a magic missile with damage 3d4.
It takes 1 turns to recharge after use at your current speed.

t) The Robe of Aurufin [2,+18]
Provides resistance to blindness, sound.
Cannot be harmed by acid, electricity, fire, cold.

These are all exactly the kind of early finds that I was hoping to see - the boots are based on Cammithrim, I think. Perhaps not quite as nice as Cammithrim, but not bad.

h) The Sling of Echar (x2) (+9,+13) (+2) {!!}
+2 shooting power.
Cannot be harmed by acid, electricity, fire, cold.

When activated, it creates a fire bolt with damage 9d8.
It takes 6 to 11 turns to recharge after use at your current speed.

This, on the other hand, is almost powerful enough to count as broken, since it's based on Narthanc, which is way less useful. Mind you, it has +2 might and nothing else, so it's not that awesome. I had no idea a 'thanc could produce a launcher like this - very encouraging.

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**bebo** · March 2, 2009, 23:56

Originally posted by Magnate

Judging from the activation, this is based on a fairly powerful artifact (Aeglos, I think). Five high resists would seem to bear that out. So this is a fairly lucky find (where did you find it?).

I found it just a couple dlvls earlier in a minor vault if i remember correctly (i used up the -TelOther i just found seconds before, thankfully i bought some ?recharge in town before) - and you are right, it's an excellent (ie very lucky) find - which probably spelled my chars doom

YASD: first go with a paladin, got killed by an angel - lol

YASD: first go with a paladin, got killed by an angel - lol

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