3 Things That Shouldn't Be Brought into the Game

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  • tamo
    Rookie
    • Apr 2020
    • 5

    3 Things That Shouldn't Be Brought into the Game

    Hi!
    I've been playing for about 7 years now, Dunadan, Palladin all the time.

    It seems that the game has a mechanism implemented at the start, in which in this session, with this character being played, there will not be any exactly auxiliary, but important things. For example, during the first 20-25 levels, you may never encounter a thing that protects against blindness, helps you see the invisible, Free Action, or a serious weapon. It seems that when the hero starts, he is randomly assigned those things that will not be encountered. It's good if it's a little-used thing, but it often happens from the above list, which makes further play impossible.

    There is also something like a curse or the fate of a hero — if that happens, then all the time there will be almost empty loot levels. And you can return to the levels below many times, endlessly replay them, trying to get at least something from weapons or equipment, without which it is pointless to move on. The only way out is to kill the hero and start over, unless he died for natural reasons in the dungeon.

    The third consideration is that in the latest version, there are often situations where you encounter an enemy who kills you in the blink of an eye and nothing depends on you. For example, there were several times The Maia of Mandos, which suddenly turns into a time vortex and immediately kills you in 2-3 breaths. Or The aether hounds at about level 55, which are not visible with the help of evil detection, abruptly burst into the crowd and instantly take you apart.
  • Sphara
    Swordsman
    • Oct 2016
    • 497

    #2
    Hi,
    You are not forced to delve too deep, you can try to hunt the items on shallower floors. Paladins do want all the intrinsic you mentioned, if you wanna get deeper than DL30. Get a staff of teleportation if possible, if blindness is a problem. It can be cured with any cure wounds potions.

    I'm not sure what you mean by the second complaint. It's a HUGE tactical advantage to get the level danger feeling and immediately leave. No need to start again.

    There have been monsters that kill you in one turn right from the birth of Angband. Drolems being a good example, as detect evil does not detect them. If you are playing a paladin, you probably do have bad stealth, so non-detect-evil -detectable monsters may wake up. As far as Maiar go.. just do not fight any Maia of <anything>. They sleep very deep, but if they wake up, they do have the transformation that has a VERY deadly breath attack. Just leave them be. Aether hounds at DL55 sound.. very deep. Time/plasma/nether hounds are more likely DL55 encounters. The difficulty of playing midgame paladins comes from two things: lousy stealth and reliance of other detection than Detect Evil. You'd want telepathy or rod of detection.

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    • Sphara
      Swordsman
      • Oct 2016
      • 497

      #3
      For me, the difficulty of modern vanilla Angband ramped up when dungeon level 30 huorns were introduced. For example, background like a necromancer does not have many ways of dealing with them, unless there has been a significant luck with the found loot.

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