Dwarf Priest RiP

[dhegler]

I was having a decent game with my recent dwarf priest after dying a few times in low levels on the nightlies (which I never seemed to do before). However, I get to DL 50 and get the superb feeling. Use !enlighten, see a vault. Cool, I think... Also has purifications and healing, which I needed. Cleared out this infinity sign vault around the exterior. Detected evil, didn't see anything too nasty, a master lich, etc... Had to dig the granite. Voila, greetings Tarrasque! How is that thing NOT evil? Didn't have a chance to do anything, got killed in the turn after I cleared the granite. Talk about serious OOD - I thought he was about 80+. Only had speed +6 since it seems randarts are tough to find speed that is useful (at least for me). I have even been playing "safe", had a stack of -TO, _teleport, and have been making use of fleeing, which I rarely do. Just never got the chance here. Oh well.

[Timo Pietilä]

I was having a decent game with my recent dwarf priest after dying a few times in low levels on the nightlies (which I never seemed to do before). However, I get to DL 50 and get the superb feeling. Use !enlighten, see a vault. Cool, I think... Also has purifications and healing, which I needed. Cleared out this infinity sign vault around the exterior. Detected evil, didn't see anything too nasty, a master lich, etc... Had to dig the granite. Voila, greetings Tarrasque! How is that thing NOT evil? Didn't have a chance to do anything, got killed in the turn after I cleared the granite. Talk about serious OOD - I thought he was about 80+. Only had speed +6 since it seems randarts are tough to find speed that is useful (at least for me). I have even been playing "safe", had a stack of -TO, _teleport, and have been making use of fleeing, which I rarely do. Just never got the chance here. Oh well.

How deep were you? Some monsters in greater vaults are generated as 40 lvl OoD (+ possible OoD checks).

[Derakon]

Speed on randarts is highly variable, and seems to me to be one of the big dictators of how hard your game will be. Sometimes you find it on a bunch of early randarts, sometimes your first source is a ring or standard ego boots.

Shame about the character. Now you know, vaults can hold serious nasties!

[Starhawk]

Speed on randarts is highly variable, and seems to me to be one of the big dictators of how hard your game will be.

No joke. I'm at +48 base speed in my current randart game and could be higher if I wanted to be. (But I read somewhere on here that I'm at, or over the 'useful' speed cap already.)

[Derakon]

You start hitting diminishing returns after +26 speed; from that point on each additional point of speed gives you less and less extra energy per game turn. For example, +10 is 2x faster than normal; +20 is 3x faster; +25 is 3.5x faster; +30 is 3.8x faster; +40 is 4.2x faster; +50 is 4.5x faster; +70 is 4.9x faster, and that's where it maxes out. As long as you can get temporarily over +30 speed, no monster in the game can double-move you, and that's the most important thing.