Artifacts that drain experience

[dhegler]

When an artifact says it drains experience, what does it actually do?

[d_m]

While wearing the artifact your experience slowly decreases.

[Mondkalb]

Most if not all artifacts which drain experience also aggravate. The kills will probably even out the loss of experience.

[Marble Dice]

Most if not all artifacts which drain experience also aggravate. The kills will probably even out the loss of experience.

Unless you're on dungeon level 5, but I hope that's not the case if you somehow found an xp draining artifact.

[dhegler]

Are they really that powerful, comparatively? I can't see ever using one, but it each kill nets you 20k XP at some point and each turn costs you 1 or 2 XP, maybe it is worth it.

[Mondkalb]

At least the Palantir is powerful enough.

Hm, there are only five:

http://angband.oook.cz/artifacts.php?q=drains&t=4&w=&v=Angband+3.0.6

Unless you are playing with randarts. Depending on game version there may be more.

[Djabanete]

I don't know how it is now, but when I played back in 3.0.4 the XP drain could safely be ignored. It was just so slow it didn't matter!

[pampl]

It looks like the XP drain effect has a 1/10 chance of going off every game turn (10 game turns = 1 player turn at base speed ~= 3 player turns at speeds around +30) and when it goes off it lowers current XP and max XP by a single point.