would you ?

[Sky]

gentlemen, (and ladies)

i present to you:

the Metal Brigandine Armour 'Arwaiquen' (-5,-3) [48,-5] <-3, -5, -4, -2,
+2, -1
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It makes your skin harder to damage, but conduct electricity.
It makes you vulnerable to cold attacks, but resistant to fire.
It prevents you from teleporting.
It makes you slow to recover hitpoints.
It paralyses you every now and then.
It makes you hallucinate sometimes.
It occasionally makes a loud noise.
It poisons you from time to time.
It attracts opponents and weakens the defences.
-3 strength.
-5 wisdom.
-4 dexterity.
-4 constitution.
-2 tunneling.
-3 speed.
+2 attack speed.
-1 light.
It brands your melee attacks with weak acid.
Provides immunity to acid, fire, cold.
Provides resistance to lightning, poison, light, dark, sound, shards, nexus,
nether, chaos, disenchantment.
Provides protection from fear, blindness, confusion.
Cannot be harmed by acid.
Slows your metabolism. Feather Falling. Speeds regeneration. Grants the
ability to see invisible things. Prevents paralysis. Prevents teleportation.
Aggravates creatures nearby. Drains experience.

When activated, it restores your wisdom.
Takes 65 to 72 turns to recharge.
Your chance of success is 93.0%


Min Level 51, Max Level 127, Generation chance 5, Power 317, 17.0 lbs
Random hard armor of power 317.




would you?

would you stick with this thing, try to find enough *Remove Curse* (most curses are of power 80~90, some are power 60) to wear this?
the stat penalty shouldn't be too much of a problem, seeing as how this kit protects you from EVERYTHING ELSE, including its own xp drain ...

[Ingwe Ingweron]

I didn't see hold life in the list, so I don't see how it protects you from its own experience drain. I'd probably pass, just because the energy required to hunt down enough to make this worthwhile could be better spent descending and hunting down the Big Bosses.

[Sky]

darn, i was sure it had hold life.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

darn, i was sure it had hold life.

Hold life doesn't prevent experience drain anyways, it just limits it to a lesser amount. The One Ring has experience drain, but is still eminently wearable.

[kandrc]

I'd definitely haul it up and store it. Maybe I'd get lucky and put together a kit that makes it useful. But I wouldn't focus any more attention on it than that.

[debo]

When you find something like this, the question is not about whether it will be good for your character's survival to wear it. It's all about style.

[Estie]

I would stash it and gather *remove curse*, but not hold my breath. Even if you manage to uncurse it, the stat mali are likely to be a dealbreaker.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

I'd definitely haul it up and store it. Maybe I'd get lucky and put together a kit that makes it useful. But I wouldn't focus any more attention on it than that.

If your play style is to lay siege to Angband, then certainly haul it up and store it at home. If your play style is to dive fast, then drop it on the floor and move on.

[Philip]

Eh, all you really need to get rid of, as far as I can tell, is no_teleport. As long as it has that, it's useless. The moment it doesn't have it, it's perfectly usable. -4 CON is sort of nasty, and a Priest would have trouble making up for the -5 WIS, but 3 immunities, half the resistances and pBlnd pConf is pretty damn good. A shame it doesn't have lightning immunity as well. +2 attacks more than makes up for the maluses to STR and to DEX and the combat maluses.

[Estie]

Eh, all you really need to get rid of, as far as I can tell, is no_teleport. As long as it has that, it's useless. The moment it doesn't have it, it's perfectly usable. -4 CON is sort of nasty, and a Priest would have trouble making up for the -5 WIS, but 3 immunities, half the resistances and pBlnd pConf is pretty damn good. A shame it doesn't have lightning immunity as well. +2 attacks more than makes up for the maluses to STR and to DEX and the combat maluses.

Aggravation. Combat wise it might come out ahead, but its like Gorlim - store at home and only use for the final stage (for me). Ymmv of course.

[Philip]

I've had characters gear up with their aggravation stuff for the dungeon before. A mage can do it if they're liberal with Banishment, for example. But yeah, aggravation does make it impractical for characters who rely on stealth to pick their fights.

[Pete Mack]

It's also worth noting that the hot ad cold curses conveniently cancel each other out. If you manage to find a useful item for each one, you can ignore them. That said, I agree it's purely a stylistic decision on whether to use it killing Morgoth isn't *that* hard that you need to rely on items like this.

[fph]

Does removing the curse get rid of the anti-teleportation flag too?

[Pete Mack]

Endgame Paladins and rangers have little problem with aggravating either. The former can just stand in a corner and let the monsters break like waves on a rock. The latter has Rune and Destruction to get through overwhelming assaults. And even CLW is enough to break even in a sea of lesser enemies.

[Sky]

Does removing the curse get rid of the anti-teleportation flag too?

i dont know because im still looking for enough *removecurse. and it's now fragile, too.