What was the item on your early x-9 level ?

[Sky]

no no no.

I have once found a superb Adamantium Plate Mail and wore it; yes, it did shield me from most orc blows, but my base Spd was -2 and i could not carry anything. As a warrior.

AC is nice to have but carrying weight, speed and SP are a far more important consideration. I would only discard an armor based on AC when it's near endgame - i wouldn't wear a Robe [1, +8] unless it had some really obscene bonus, like +2 blows.
Also because by that time you can wear pretty much any weight of armour.

[Pete Mack]

Yep. Adamantine armor existed only as an expensive deadweight to sell to the store. Mithril armor is another story.

[will_asher]

That early the high AC may actually be useful

but wearing 42lb armor isn't worth it.

[Thraalbee]

That early the high AC may actually be useful

[will_asher]

4-9 feeling on dL15, was excited to see what I'd find. Turns out to be a Adamantine plate mail (+0). another disappointment.

[Sky]

Found some boots of speed +9 on DL21 and the level feeling was 2-6.

I also found the dream of every nerd here, a Ring of the Mouse (0,-3) {+3,+4}
even with +3 DEX is still didnt raise my DPS, but hey.

[Estie]

8-9 isnt great news, for two resons:

1. It probably means a vault and early on that is not something you want to deal with early, unless you happen to have accsess to (a good amount of) TO.

2. It is also more likely to comprise of a multitude of items with rating which individually might not be all that great.

[will_asher]

Last time it was the last Nature spell book. And I'm a druid, so that's nice, but I can't use it for a while. (and I have never gotten far enough as a druid to be able to use it, but I am doing pretty good this game. -knock on wood. EDIT: nevermind, I died.)

Then I found another 8-9 level, but an imp told me to go to another level before I found what was there. (Did they always have telelevel?)

[Estie]

Rod of healing is a disappointment. I might store it for later use.

[will_asher]

A rod of healing.
not bad, but I was hoping for something more fun (like that speed ring), when I saw the 9 treasure feeling.

[Ugramoth]

This got insane:
Level 19, the opposite numbers, 9-2. Don't know yet what the 9 is, probably a pit and I don't know if I want to hang around to find out because this happened:

Ring of Speed <+10>:
Dropped by an orc archer at 950 feet (level 19)

[Pete Mack]

a +6 speed early is huge. It lets you hack and back, or it increases your damage (of any type) by 60%. Stealth while walking goes up, too.

[Ugramoth]

Ring of speed +6
Not mind-blowing but good start.

[Ugramoth]

My first game in 4.2.2 and just got 2-9 on DL 5.
Let's see what it is...

Hopefully something that helps me recover from Ungolianth literally hacking the game and taking revenge beyond grave on my CL49 paladin in my last 4.2.1 game (I kid not...)

[Sky]

i think we can agree that getting Wrath of God, which gives a level feeling of -8 on DL98, from Maggot, in town, is probably the most ridiculous dice roll we've seen insofar.