How easy are these pits?

[Talharim]

So i have this char and these pits:



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Should I bail out? Or are they doable? I think I killed a bunch of mobs from the lower pit, a bunch of hydras and two spirit nagas. The spirit nagas seemed tough.

[Pete Mack]

Ant pits are always doable. But they are also a total waste of time. (Midlevel undead pits used to be similar. Nowthey are utterly deadly as they're still full of no-longer-harmless white wraiths.)

[Sky]

walk around until you get the full level feeling - is there anything worth looking for ? Because if you get idk LF 9-4 then you can just leave.

[Estie]

Even with a good item feeling I would probably leave, unless I had some way to quickly get to the items like a ? of mass banishment.

[Talharim]

What is the preferred way then? Only explore levels with what kind of level feelings? x-y with y at which minimum value? So you want to maximize y whilst keeping x at a minimum?

I have found very good objects (one of the thanc daggers at very low levels) with a LF of *-5

[Estie]

5 is indeed an important value, as it is the minimum if there is an artifact lying around.

The value that decides whether I stay or take the stairs depends on the dungeon depth. On lvl1, a 3 will do it - a cloak of stealth for example may cause a 3 and is worth exploring for.

Later on, its 5 or higher; in the lategame, I am looking for vaults and look mostly at the monster feeling. 8+ means I am going to investigate.

[mrfy]

Should I bail out? Or are they doable? I think I killed a bunch of mobs from the lower pit, a bunch of hydras and two spirit nagas. The spirit nagas seemed tough.

Doable. Hydra pits can be tough unless you can freeze them, I like to lure them out a few at a time and destroy them. Ants can be worth a lot of XP depending on your character level.

[ewert]

Floor finds yeah you could just explore until you get level feeling, and leave if it is 4 or less. However one of my somewhat recent winners I think only had one single gear that was a floor find, everything else was drops.

Certain level ranges and certain monster types are very valuable, a pit of demons that you could easily handle (with a 1-1 LOS cranny tunneled) for example is definitely worth doing in my opinion. A pit of low level demons unless you happen to be carrying a teleport stop curse item early on is a definite nono usually, summon-to-them confusing blinding demons, yeah, no. XD Pits of dragons you have immunity to is awesome. In stat gain, just packs of humanoids/orcs/trolls is nice to mow through. Etc.

[Sky]

Even with a good item feeling I would probably leave, unless I had some way to quickly get to the items like a ? of mass banishment.

the LF doesnt work 100% well in angband. if you get 2 pits you will often get a very high rating that does not reflect the risk of the level. Ants for example are pretty easy, if you have sSTR they are almost trivial. When you have the chance to pick up an artifact or OOD item for very little work, you should take it.