Holy f***ing moly!!!

[Pete Mack]

Wow. You can use =CON for sure with that ring on one hand. And "Weaponmastery for damage and free action.

[PowerWyrm]

u) a Rhodonite Ring of Speed <+24>
     Found lying on the floor in a vault at 4500 feet (level 90)
     
     +24 speed.

Now drool...

[Sky]

i just found an amulet of weaponmastery.

on DL3.

dungeon. level. three.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

It's a coinflip system -- the ring starts with a level-dependent bonus, and then starts flipping coins. Every time it comes up heads, the ring gets +1 and the coin is flipped again; if it comes up tails, then it stops. At 4450', I'm pretty sure you hit at or near the cap on the level-dependent bonus, which I think is +10. Which means that to get to +23 you need to pass 13 consecutive coinflips, at odds of 1 in 8192. So, pretty rare, but by no means impossible.

What would be really impressive is getting that ring at 50'.

I've quoted this before, but here it seems even more perfectly apropos:

Rosencrantz: Hmmm. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads.

[Guildenstern grabs the coin, checks both sides, then tosses it back to Rosencrantz]

Rosencrantz: Heads.

[Guildenstern pulls a coin out of his own pocket and flips it]

Rosencrantz: Bet? Heads I win?

[Guildenstern looks at coin and tosses it to Rosencrantz]

Rosencrantz: Again? Heads.

Guildenstern: Consider: One, probability is a factor which operates *within* natural forces. Two, probability is *not* operating as a factor. Three, we are now held within un-, sub- or super-natural forces. Discuss.

Rosencrantz: What?

[Derakon]

I think the maximum + depends on the variant.

MAngband used to have(and maybe still does, I'm not sure) some kind of infinite generation process, with each step becoming progressively rarer. There was a player who had dual +18s, which were obscene.

It's a coinflip system -- the ring starts with a level-dependent bonus, and then starts flipping coins. Every time it comes up heads, the ring gets +1 and the coin is flipped again; if it comes up tails, then it stops. At 4450', I'm pretty sure you hit at or near the cap on the level-dependent bonus, which I think is +10. Which means that to get to +23 you need to pass 13 consecutive coinflips, at odds of 1 in 8192. So, pretty rare, but by no means impossible.

What would be really impressive is getting that ring at 50'.

[PowerWyrm]

I think the maximum + depends on the variant.

MAngband used to have(and maybe still does, I'm not sure) some kind of infinite generation process, with each step becoming progressively rarer. There was a player who had dual +18s, which were obscene.

In current TomeNET, to the best of my knowledge at least, Speed rings are capped at +15, and they're super rare... my best at the moment is an 11, and I haven't found anything bigger then a +9 the entire time I've been back, within the last month or so.

That 23 must have been on the infinite process, but the odds have to be astronomical against it. The RNG must have taken pity on you in your quest to win without egos, lol.

Bet you won't try that over on TomeNET, though

I confirm that MAngband uses the same process as Angband, and someone also found a +23 speed ring not long ago (and died minutes afterwards heh). Rings of Speed in TomeNET use the same process, but the code puts a hardcoded cap of +15 (and rarity is 3 instead of 1).

[Avenger]

I think the maximum + depends on the variant.

MAngband used to have(and maybe still does, I'm not sure) some kind of infinite generation process, with each step becoming progressively rarer. There was a player who had dual +18s, which were obscene.

In current TomeNET, to the best of my knowledge at least, Speed rings are capped at +15, and they're super rare... my best at the moment is an 11, and I haven't found anything bigger then a +9 the entire time I've been back, within the last month or so.

That 23 must have been on the infinite process, but the odds have to be astronomical against it. The RNG must have taken pity on you in your quest to win without egos, lol.

Bet you won't try that over on TomeNET, though

[Grotug]

crap .. i came here to brag about my RoS +18, dropped by a summon on DL73.

Wow, I thought my +15 was good.

[Sky]

crap .. i came here to brag about my RoS +18, dropped by a summon on DL73.

[bron]

Years ago, I also found a +23 speed ring:

http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=10647

Seems like its some weird artifact of the RNG, since my *second* biggest ring ever is +16

[PowerWyrm]

The funny thing is... I never equipped the ring with that character. Feanor + Aglarang + trickery amulet to get over +20 base speed, using a pair of INT/CON rings to get both stats to 18/200 (for half-troll mage).

[Estie]

My best one is only 22

http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=19390

Grats

[Pete Mack]

49 base speed I see. That is fast enough for ToME Void

[nppangband]

A third +23, back when NPP was just Vanilla with a couple patches.

http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=1420

[AnonymousHero]

I think that's a new record for biggest speed ring ever found on these forums. Congrats! Don't waste it.

*Ahem*. Joint record: http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=10456

(... but, actually IIRC someone mentioned a +24 in the thread when I posted about it. Not sure if that was ever posted anywhere, though.)