Boots of speed in armory?

[Wrath]

I've been playing Angband versions off and on since Moria about 40 years ago, but just came back to try 4.2.

My character just purchased boots of speed <+9> from the armory for 38K gold.

Is that normal, or just lucky rng?

[Wrath]

And of course, next trip down to the dungeon, found boots of speed <+7> lying on the floor. On an anxious good treasures level.

[Nick]

That's just lucky

[Jbone]

I found boots of +8 speed in the armory on my last run, couldn't believe it lol So now I always make sure to stop by for a quick look.

Imagine finding those early in a run o_o

[Sky]

I've never been happy about having high-power items in the regular, non-BM shops, but it's quite rare and it's not a lot different than finding the same as drops in the dungeon. Just yesterday i had a longbow of lothlorien as a ranger, but did not have the 11k needed to buy it. I tried to rush the dungeon for 7k worth of drops but ended up dying instead ...

But i have otherwise occasionally found boots of speed - both high value, like +9, and low value, like +2 or +3, which is still very useful - and helms of ESP, sometimes i've had luck enough to get a weapon with ESP from the weaponsmith, and of course various potions of EXP and Aug from the BM.