Blowing Dust Off Vanilla 3.0.9 Character (Mac)

[TannyJ]

Hey folks,

I just recently started up again with a Vanilla Dwarf Ranger that I
was working on more than I year ago and I'm looking for suggestions.
I'm at dungeon level 52/53 right now and I'm starting to run into
those 'very quick' uniques that summon (not deadly, just becoming more
and more irritating).

Could I get any recommendations based on my equipment/home inventory
(and dungeon level) if I should be wearing something else? My
equipment based speed is +6...I keep thinking I should swap one of my
rings for the Speed +5...

Any suggestions are appreciated! Here's my dump...

[Angband 3.0.9 Character Dump]

 Name   Pimp McPimp                              Self  RB  CB  EB
Best
 Sex    Female            Age        44   STR! 18/100  +2  +2  +4
18/180
 Race   Dwarf             Height     44   INT! 18/100  -3  +2  +2
18/110
 Class  Ranger            Weight    125   WIS:  18/99  +2  +0  +2
18/139
 Title  Ranger Lord       Status     42   DEX! 18/100  -2  +1  +3
18/120
 HP     926/926           Maximize    Y   CON! 18/100  +2  +1  +9
18/220
 SP     199/199                           CHR! 18/100  -3  +1  +0
18/80

 Level           46       Armor   [28,+101]     Saving Throw
Heroic
 Cur Exp    4286702       Fight   (+28,+35)     Stealth
Superb
 Max Exp    4286702       Melee   (+40,+50)     Fighting
Heroic
 Adv Exp    4500000       Shoot   (+39,+20)     Shooting
Legendary
 MaxDepth    Lev 53       Blows      5/turn     Disarming
Superb
 Turns     18242850       Shots      3/turn     Magic Device
Heroic
 Gold       1228837       Infra       50 ft     Perception     Very
Good
 Burden   139.2 lbs       Speed           6     Searching      Very
Good

 You are the only child of a Dwarven Miner.  You are a credit to the
 family.  You have dark brown eyes, straight black hair, a three foot
 beard, and a dark complexion.

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 Acid:+.....+.+.... Blind:.........+..+
 Elec:........+.... Confu:.........+...
 Fire:+.......+.... Sound:.............
 Cold:........+.... Shard:......+......
 Pois:............. Nexus:.......+.....
 Fear:............. Nethr:.............
 Lite:........+.... Chaos:.............
 Dark:+.......+.... Disen:.............

      abcdefghijkl@       abcdefghijkl@
S.Dig:....+........ Stea.:.......+...+.
Feath:............. Sear.:.........+...
PLite:+............ Infra:.............
Regen:............. Tunn.:.............
Telep:............. Speed:......++.....
Invis:.........+... Blows:.............
FrAct:..........+.. Shots:.............
HLife:....+........ Might:.............

  [Character Equipment]

a) The Beaked Axe of Hurin (3d6) (+12,+15) (+2)
   It increases your strength and constitution by 2.  It slays trolls
   and dragons, and is especially deadly against demons.  It is
branded
   with acid.  It provides resistance to acid, fire, and dark.  It
   usually provides light of radius 4.  It activates for berserk rage
   (50+d50 turns) every 80+d80 turns.  It cannot be harmed by the
   elements.
b) a Long Bow of Power (x3) (+11,+20)
c) an Engagement Ring of Constitution (+5)
   It increases your constitution by 5.  It sustains your
constitution.

d) a Lapis Lazuli Ring of Damage (+13)
e) an Amber Amulet of Sustenance
   It provides resistance to life draining.  It sustains all your
   stats.  It slows your metabolism.  It cannot be harmed by the
   elements.
f) The Phial of Galadriel
   It usually provides light of radius 3.  It activates for
   illumination every 10+d10 turns.  It cannot be harmed by the
   elements.
g) The Leather Scale Mail 'Thalkettoth' (-1) [11,+25] (+3)
   It increases your dexterity by 3.  It increases your speed by 3.
It
   provides resistance to acid and shards.  It cannot be harmed by the
   elements.
h) The Cloak 'Colannon' [1,+14] (+3)
   It increases your stealth and speed by 3.  It provides resistance
to
   nexus.  It activates for teleport every 45 turns.  It cannot be
   harmed by the elements.
i) The Large Leather Shield of Celegorm [4,+20]
   It provides resistance to acid, lightning, fire, cold, light, and
   dark.  It cannot be harmed by the elements.
j) The Iron Helm 'Holhenneth' [5,+10] (+2)
   It increases your intelligence and wisdom by 2.  It increases your
   searching by 2.  It provides resistance to blindness and
confusion.
   It grants you the ability to see invisible things.  It activates
for
   detection every 55+d55 turns.  It cannot be harmed by the
elements.

k) The Set of Leather Gloves 'Cambeleg' (+8,+8) [1,+15] (+2)
   It increases your strength and constitution by 2.  It grants you
   immunity to paralysis.  It cannot be harmed by the elements.
l) a Pair of Metal Shod Boots of Stealth [6,+9] (+3)
   It increases your stealth by 3.

  [Character Inventory]

a) 3 Books of Magic Spells [Magic for Beginners]
b) 3 Books of Magic Spells [Conjurings and Tricks]
c) 3 Books of Magic Spells [Incantations and Illusions]
d) 3 Books of Magic Spells [Sorcery and Evocations]
e) 4 Books of Magic Spells [Resistances of Scarabtarices]
   It cannot be harmed by the elements.
f) a Book of Magic Spells [Raal's Tome of Destruction]
   It cannot be harmed by the elements.
g) 3 Books of Magic Spells [Mordenkainen's Escapes]
   It cannot be harmed by the elements.
h) 6 Dark Green Potions of Speed
i) 5 Red Speckled Potions of Healing
j) 4 Hazy Potions of Restore Life Levels
k) 3 Scrolls titled "factus tus" of Teleportation
l) 3 Scrolls titled "vervadia illo" of *Identify*
m) 2 Scrolls titled "deo raientus" of Protection from Evil
n) a Scroll titled "atus utotia" of *Destruction*
o) a Nickel Rod of Recall
   It cannot be harmed by electricity.
p) a Chromium Rod of Teleport Other
q) a Corundum Ring of Speed (+5)
   It increases your speed by 5.
r) 15 Arrows (1d4) (+5,+8)
s) 27 Arrows (1d4) (+6,+4)
t) 22 Mithril Arrows (3d4) (+6,+3)
   It cannot be harmed by acid or fire.

  [Home Inventory]

a) 20 Dark Green Potions of Speed
b) 22 Red Speckled Potions of Healing
c) 3 Silver Speckled Potions of *Healing*
d) a Hazy Potion of Restore Life Levels
e) 73 Scrolls titled "factus tus" of Teleportation
f) 70 Scrolls titled "prateria clido" of Teleport Level
g) 27 Scrolls titled "vervadia illo" of *Identify*
h) 96 Scrolls titled "deo raientus" of Protection from Evil
i) 3 Scrolls titled "dennato" of Rune of Protection
j) 7 Scrolls titled "cedo acaltus" of Dispel Undead
k) 5 Scrolls titled "for pror utia" of Banishment
l) a Dogwood Staff of Banishment (3 charges)
m) a Marble Ring of Resist Poison
   It provides resistance to poison.
n) a Corundum Ring of Speed (+4)
   It increases your speed by 4.
o) an Ivory Amulet of the Magi [+2] (+2)
   It increases your intelligence by 2.  It increases your searching
by
   2.  It provides resistance to confusion.  It sustains your
   intelligence.  It grants you immunity to paralysis and the ability
   to see invisible things.  It cannot be harmed by the elements.
p) The Jewel 'Evenstar'
   It provides resistance to cold, dark, and life draining.  It
   sustains your intelligence, wisdom, and constitution.  It activates
   for restore life levels every 150 turns.  It cannot be harmed by
the
   elements.
q) The Star of Elendil
   It usually provides light of radius 3.  It grants you the ability
to
   see invisible things.  It activates for magic mapping every 50+d50
   turns.  It cannot be harmed by the elements.
r) a Cloak of the Magi [1,+11] (+1)
   It increases your intelligence by 1.  It increases your stealth by
   1.  It provides resistance to life draining.  It sustains your
   intelligence.  It cannot be harmed by acid.
s) The Set of Leather Gloves 'Cammithrim' [1,+9]
   It provides resistance to light.  It sustains your constitution.
It
   usually provides light of radius 4.  It grants you immunity to
   paralysis.  It activates for magic missile (2d6) every 2 turns.  It
   cannot be harmed by the elements.
t) a Pair of Hard Leather Boots of Free Action [3,+13]
   It grants you immunity to paralysis.
u) The Bastard Sword 'Calris' (5d4) (-20,+20) (+5) {cursed}
   It increases your constitution by 5.  It slays trolls, demons, and
   all evil creatures, and is especially deadly against dragons.  It
   provides resistance to disenchantment.  It aggravates creatures
   around you and is heavily cursed.  It cannot be harmed by the
   elements.
v) The Broad Axe 'Barukkheled' (2d6) (+13,+19) (+3)
   It increases your constitution by 3.  It slays orcs, trolls,
giants,
   and all evil creatures.  It grants you the ability to see invisible
   things.  It cannot be harmed by the elements.
w) a Long Bow of Extra Shots (x3) (+20,+9) (+1)
   It increases your shooting speed by 1.
x) a Light Crossbow of the Haradrim (x3) (+12,+11) (+1)
   It increases your shooting speed and shooting power by 1.  It
cannot
   be harmed by acid or fire.

  [Options]

Adult: Maximize effect of race/class bonuses : yes (adult_maximize)
Adult: Randomize some of the artifacts (beta): no  (adult_randarts)
Adult: Auto-scum for good levels             : no  (adult_autoscum)
Adult: Restrict the use of stairs/recall     : no  (adult_ironman)
Adult: Restrict the use of stores/home       : no  (adult_no_stores)
Adult: Restrict creation of artifacts        : no
(adult_no_artifacts)
Adult: Don't stack objects on the floor      : no  (adult_no_stacking)
Adult: Preserve artifacts when leaving level : no  (adult_no_preserve)
Adult: Don't generate connected stairs       : no  (adult_no_stairs)
Adult: Monsters chase current location       : no  (adult_ai_sound)
Adult: Monsters chase recent locations       : no  (adult_ai_smell)
Adult: Monsters act smarter in groups        : no  (adult_ai_packs)
Adult: Monsters learn from their mistakes    : no  (adult_ai_learn)
Adult: Monsters exploit players weaknesses   : no  (adult_ai_cheat)
Adult: Monsters behave more intelligently (broken): no
(adult_ai_smart)
Score: Peek into object creation             : no  (score_peek)
Score: Peek into monster creation            : no  (score_hear)
Score: Peek into dungeon creation            : no  (score_room)
Score: Peek into something else              : no  (score_xtra)
Score: Know complete monster info            : no  (score_know)
Score: Allow player to avoid death           : no  (score_live)

[Marble Dice]

I would probably carry the ring of poison resist with you as a swap, and I'd use the ring of speed +5 over the damage +13, especially since the extra speed will take you up to +11 and the damage bonus from the ring doesn't apply to ranged attacks anyway. Other than that, I don't see any obvious room for improvement.

[dhegler]

I agree with MarbleDice... If you get an extra half turn, you effectively get to attack .5 times more than you did before, which should be much greater than +13 damage. Let alone, it makes it easier to escape and maneuver.

However, why would you use the Long Bow of Power over the light crossbow of the Haradrim? The crossbow will give you x4 damage on bolts, which do inherently more damage, and you get a bonus to your shooting speed, which is huge for uniques you may want to take down with ammo. Or, you could even use your long bow of extra shots... Won't do as much damage as the crossbow, but it gives you 2x the number of shots you can get off at a monster, and even though the damage may not be as high per shot, getting 2x the number of shots in should be better...

[Marble Dice]

However, why would you use the Long Bow of Power over the light crossbow of the Haradrim?

I almost gave him the same advice before I realized he's playing a ranger, which gets extra shots with short and long bows. Compare:

Long bow of power = (2.5 ammo + 20 bonus) * 3 mult * (1 base shot + 2 class shots) = 202.5 dam/turn
Long bow of extra shots = (2.5 ammo + 9 bonus) * 3 mult * (1 base shots + 1 bonus shot + 2 class shots) = 138 dam/turn
Crossbow of haradrim = (3 ammo + 11 bonus) * 4 mult * (1 base shot + 1 bonus shot) = 112 dam/turn

For any other class, the light crossbow would be the best choice.

[TannyJ]

Thanks for the advice...am enjoying the extra boost in speed