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  • Derakon
    Prophet
    • Dec 2009
    • 9022

    #31
    Meanwhile, I tend to recommend the opposite: a half-troll warrior. Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead! You may well die quickly from an undetected monster, but getting a new character to the deeps is very fast.

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    • Sky
      Veteran
      • Oct 2016
      • 2321

      #32
      Hmm ... i find half-orc rogue to be the easiest class to level up. And maybe half-orc warrior.
      On 4.1.3 then half-orc blackguard is really all you need to win. Maybe. Depends on the shield bash nerf, i havent played in 5 months.

      Mage is the class i most easily die with when high level; tele self, gravity hounds, #ded.

      Dunedain Ranger 4.1.2 or earlier is the easiest win character: buy 40 CLW, 10 food, and 5 Mage1. Grind DL5~10 until you find a red worm mass.
      Drop your recall scrolls, let them breed, kill 3000 of them. BAM! CL20+ and double bow damage.

      Buy a longbow of power, and you are ready for morgoth.
      "i can take this dracolich"

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      • Pete Mack
        Prophet
        • Apr 2007
        • 6883

        #33
        Oh, ugh. Farming is just a hopelessly boring way to level up (if you must farm, use black oozes to get a bit of loot out of the process.)
        You are better off using magic devices to do damage. A few light rods will take out tons of trolls and orcs.

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        • Thraalbee
          Knight
          • Sep 2010
          • 707

          #34
          FrogComponsband weaponmaster Polearms. As usual drops are wrong weapon type. I played with a +2 then +6 standard weapon until I found this.
          Five brands, resist fire and poison, and light. Quite an upgrade!

          a) a Broad Spear (Craft) (2d11) (+7,+2) {FiPo;Lu|AEFCoP}
          Dropped by an Algroth on level 27 of Orc cave.
          Identified: Day 8, 11:00, at CL 24.

          Code:
          Hand #1: a Broad Spear (Craft) (2d11) (+7,+2)               Accuracy
           Weight : 10.0 lbs                                            AC Hit
           Profic : Beginner (+8 To Hit)                                25 88%
           To Hit : 7 + 21 = 28                                         50 80%
           To Dam : 2 + 14 = 16                                         75 73%
           Blows  : 3.90                                               100 66%
           Damage                                                      125 58%
           Crits  : 1.07x (5.4%)                                       150 51%
           Normal : 111 [1.07x]                                        175 44%
           Acid   : 180 [2.56x]                                        200 36%
           Elec   : 180 [2.56x]                                        
           Fire   : 180 [2.56x]                                        
           Cold   : 180 [2.56x]                                        
           Poison : 180 [2.56x]

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          • Ugramoth
            Adept
            • Mar 2017
            • 121

            #35
            What are the chances of this:

            Dagger of *Slay Animal* (+3, +7) <+2>:
            Dropped by a battle-scarred veteran in town

            +2 intelligence
            Slays animals
            Speeds regeneration


            I did not bring that up from deep and drop it for him. He really had it

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            • Derakon
              Prophet
              • Dec 2009
              • 9022

              #36
              That's pretty good, and not at all common! Reminds me of the time that Farmer Maggot dropped a Holy Avenger dagger for me. I still remember it, 20-odd years later.

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              • Grotug
                Veteran
                • Nov 2013
                • 1634

                #37
                Wow, I did not know townspeople could carry things better than 24gold pieces or scrolls of darkness.
                Beginner's Guide to Angband 4.2.3 Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9c9e2wMngM

                Detailed account of my Ironman win here.

                "My guess is that Grip and Fang have many more kills than Gothmog and Lungorthin." --Fizzix

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                • Nick
                  Vanilla maintainer
                  • Apr 2007
                  • 9633

                  #38
                  Reminds me of this.
                  One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
                  In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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                  • fph
                    Veteran
                    • Apr 2009
                    • 1030

                    #39
                    Originally posted by Grotug
                    Wow, I did not know townspeople could carry things better than 24gold pieces or scrolls of darkness.
                    Farmer Maggot has a guaranteed good drop (=at least armor with a plus to AC).
                    He can be killed even at very low level, but it takes a while; it's maybe the only situation where I recommend holding a key down, and even if you do that when he's at one star he'll start running away and circling through stores.
                    --
                    Dive fast, die young, leave a high-CHA corpse.

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                    • Grotug
                      Veteran
                      • Nov 2013
                      • 1634

                      #40
                      Originally posted by fph
                      Farmer Maggot has a guaranteed good drop (=at least armor with a plus to AC).
                      He can be killed even at very low level, but it takes a while; it's maybe the only situation where I recommend holding a key down, and even if you do that when he's at one star he'll start running away and circling through stores.
                      I meant other than Farmer Maggot. I kill him all the time for some useless "good" item. But I don't recall a non-unique townsperson every dropping anything useful.
                      Beginner's Guide to Angband 4.2.3 Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9c9e2wMngM

                      Detailed account of my Ironman win here.

                      "My guess is that Grip and Fang have many more kills than Gothmog and Lungorthin." --Fizzix

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                      • Ugramoth
                        Adept
                        • Mar 2017
                        • 121

                        #41
                        Currently
                        speed +32
                        AC 281
                        Thanks to these ego items that put most artifacts to shame:

                        Balance Dragon Scale Mail (Dwarven) (-2) [50 +29] <+1, +2, +3>
                        Found lying on the floor in a vault at 4900 feet

                        +1 strength
                        +2 constitution
                        +3 infravision
                        Provides resistance to sound, shards, chaos, disenchantment.
                        Prevents paralysis

                        Mithril Shield of Preservation [16 +44]
                        Dropped by a master mystic at 4800 feet

                        Provides resistance to shards, disenchantment.
                        Sustain strength, dexterity, constitution
                        Sustain your life force

                        Highest AC from shield I've ever seen, but all resistances are redundant, including sustains.... Could replace it with:

                        Wicker Shield 'Tancar' [2, +9] <+9>
                        Found lying on the floor in a vault at 1850 feet

                        +9 speed
                        Provides resistance to lightning

                        speed +32
                        AC 281
                        or
                        speed +41
                        AC 232

                        Either way, I think Sauron will be very dead soon (grinding at DL98 for elusive Wrath of God. Maybe I don't even need it)

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                        • emulord
                          Adept
                          • Oct 2009
                          • 207

                          #42
                          Bring potions of speed and take the one with more AC. Saving turns required to heal is effective speed, and speed gains drop off rapidly after +30.

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                          • Estie
                            Veteran
                            • Apr 2008
                            • 2343

                            #43
                            g) Leather Scale Mail of Resist Cold (-1) [20,+8] {cursed}
                            Taken from a chest found at 300 feet (level 6)

                            It makes you vulnerable to cold attacks, but resistant to fire.
                            Provides resistance to cold.

                            More fancy than a simple armor of resist fire!

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                            • fph
                              Veteran
                              • Apr 2009
                              • 1030

                              #44
                              Originally posted by Estie
                              g) Leather Scale Mail of Resist Cold (-1) [20,+8] {cursed}
                              Taken from a chest found at 300 feet (level 6)

                              It makes you vulnerable to cold attacks, but resistant to fire.
                              Provides resistance to cold.

                              More fancy than a simple armor of resist fire!
                              And strictly worse, because it has the net effect of removing rCold from the rest of your equipment if you have it.
                              --
                              Dive fast, die young, leave a high-CHA corpse.

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                              • murphy
                                Adept
                                • Sep 2009
                                • 101

                                #45
                                PCB I remember finding a cursed helm that had activation for "remove curse"

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