Angband 3.1.0 beta released

[Pete Mack]

The ring of Fire gives you an ordinary fire brand: that is, it does triple dice damage to creatures that are vulnerable to fire. If your melee weapon is a 9d6 Glaive, it does an extra 63 damage. If it's a 2d5 Pike, it does +12 extra. If your opponent is immune to fire, or is already vulnerable to an x3 slay or brand on the weapon, there is no extra damage.

NOTE: the "best" brands are Lightning, because more monsters are vulnerable, and Acid, because Sauron is vulnerable.

[Zikke]

So I have a +14 Ring of Acid and a +16 Ring of Lightning on "Sting". Figure that should cover it.

Thanks for the input

[Pete Mack]

You probably shouldn't wear more than one of those rings at any time. And they don't do much good with Sting; only about +7 damage at the most. A Ring of Damage would be better.

[Zikke]

So when one says "triple dice damage", what exactly does that mean?

[Nick]

So when one says "triple dice damage", what exactly does that mean?

It triples the damage from the dice. In V a dagger(1d4)(+5, +5) will do between 1+5 and 4+5 damage per hit, and the first number is the dice damage. So with a brand these damages against something which doesn't resist them will be between 3+5 and 12+5.