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  • Starhawk
    Adept
    • Sep 2010
    • 246

    Finally, Wormtongue drops something useful

    Thanks, buddy! (Playing one of the 3.3RC nightlies from a couple weeks ago). What a great upgrade from my starting main gauche...


    the Cutlass 'Olinweth' (2d8) (+7,+12) [+9] <+3>
    Dropped by Wormtongue, Agent of Saruman at 450 feet (level 9).

    +3 intelligence, dexterity, charisma.
    Slays undead, orcs, giants.
    *Slays* demons.
    Branded with weak venom, lightning, frost.
    Provides immunity to lightning.
    Provides resistance to acid, cold.
    Provides protection from fear.
    Cannot be harmed by acid, electricity, fire, cold.
    Speeds regeneration. Grants the ability to see invisible things.


    When activated, it sleeps all non-unique creatures within line of
    sight.
    Takes 65 to 72 turns to recharge.
    Your chance of success is 85.0%

    Combat info:
    2.0 blows/round.
    With +1 STR and +0 DEX you would get 2.3 blows
    With +0 STR and +1 DEX you would get 2.3 blows
    Average damage/round: 74.4 vs. creatures not resistant to poison,
    93.2 vs. undead, 93.2 vs. orcs, 93.2 vs. giants, 93.2 vs.
    creatures not resistant to electricity, 93.2 vs. creatures not
    resistant to cold, 130.6 vs. demons, and 55.8 vs. others.

    Radius 1 light.
  • JohnCW9
    Adept
    • Jul 2009
    • 118

    #2
    That quite a weapon.
    My first legit winner http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=5114

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    • Zikke
      Veteran
      • Jun 2008
      • 1069

      #3
      I always seem to get the Phial or nothing at all...
      A(3.1.0b) CWS "Fyren_V" NEW L:50 DL:127 A++ R+++ Sp+ w:The Great Axe of Eonwe
      A/FA W H- D c-- !f PV+++ s? d P++ M+
      C- S+ I- !So B ac++ GHB? SQ? !RQ V F:

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      • dos350
        Knight
        • Sep 2010
        • 546

        #4
        look , wormtongue is legit!
        ~eek

        Reality hits you -more-

        S+++++++++++++++++++

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        • Starhawk
          Adept
          • Sep 2010
          • 246

          #5
          Originally posted by dos350
          look , wormtongue is legit!
          Ha! If Wormtongue was legit, he'd have used that weapon on me. And I'd be posting in the Instadeath thread instead.

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          • Narvius
            Knight
            • Dec 2007
            • 589

            #6
            I just got a robe of permanence off him... Neat.
            If you can convincingly pretend you're crazy, you probably are.

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            • Jungle_Boy
              Swordsman
              • Nov 2008
              • 434

              #7
              Originally posted by Zikke
              I always seem to get the Phial or nothing at all...
              Me too, but the last Phial I got activated for mass banishment which was cool until I used it next to a vault
              My first winner: http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=10138

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              • bulian
                Adept
                • Sep 2010
                • 163

                #8
                When to kill wormtongue is a strategic decision. Killing him when he first starts to appear (DL8-10), if the player is able to, limits his potential to drop an artifact. Waiting and killing him later (after DL15, preferably after DL20) seems to almost guarantee an artifact. I tend to wait, but he is a fun challenge at DL8-10 and close to being a pushover by DL20.

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                • Timo Pietilä
                  Prophet
                  • Apr 2007
                  • 4096

                  #9
                  Originally posted by bulian
                  When to kill wormtongue is a strategic decision. Killing him when he first starts to appear (DL8-10), if the player is able to, limits his potential to drop an artifact. Waiting and killing him later (after DL15, preferably after DL20) seems to almost guarantee an artifact. I tend to wait, but he is a fun challenge at DL8-10 and close to being a pushover by DL20.
                  Problem with waiting is that getting an artifact then might not be any better than getting an good ego earlier. And you might still get just a sword of slay orc.

                  I prefer killing early, because early good ego-item when you don't yet have much anything usually helps more than Yet Another Artifact later.

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                  • Estie
                    Veteran
                    • Apr 2008
                    • 2347

                    #10
                    Usually I tend to avoid early uniques, but not with a warrior. Those want the Phial asap and any unique is a good shot at getting it. Other classes are happy with a lantern of everburning eventually, and there have been games where I have found one of the two big lights - Arkenstone or Palantir - before the Phial. For an early warrior, Phial means two more inventory slots: no oil, no rods of illumination.

                    Edit: and that sword Starhawk got is sick. Congrats and envy.

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                    • Magnate
                      Angband Devteam member
                      • May 2007
                      • 5110

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Jungle_Boy
                      Me too, but the last Phial I got activated for mass banishment which was cool until I used it next to a vault
                      That's quite a serious bug - you don't happen to have the randart.log file from that randart set, do you?
                      "Been away so long I hardly knew the place, gee it's good to be back home" - The Beatles

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                      • Jungle_Boy
                        Swordsman
                        • Nov 2008
                        • 434

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Magnate
                        That's quite a serious bug - you don't happen to have the randart.log file from that randart set, do you?
                        I don't think so but it was a 3.2 savefile playing 3.3, there were a couple other issues too, like after I died I started up the savefile again and I was alive at the beginning of the level I died on. If I have it it's on my other computer, I'll check Monday.
                        My first winner: http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=10138

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                        • UglySquirrell
                          Swordsman
                          • Jul 2011
                          • 293

                          #13
                          Wormtongue just dropped his boots that's a first for me.

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                          • Starhawk
                            Adept
                            • Sep 2010
                            • 246

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Estie
                            Edit: and that sword Starhawk got is sick. Congrats and envy.
                            Teehee, thanks. I'm on DL75 with this character and still using it, although I occasionally swap to a randart mace for fire immunity.

                            I'm kind of hoping to be able to put it through Morgoth's black heart, then take it home and mount it over the mantel.

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                            • UglySquirrell
                              Swordsman
                              • Jul 2011
                              • 293

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Starhawk
                              Teehee, thanks. I'm on DL75 with this character and still using it, although I occasionally swap to a randart mace for fire immunity.

                              I'm kind of hoping to be able to put it through Morgoth's black heart, then take it home and mount it over the mantel.
                              Good luck on a side note wormtongue just dropped a Law Dragon scale mail of resistance on level 10 for my warrior lol he's breathing shards/sound for 250 damage. Gonna see a tombstone soon I'm sure.

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