Dwarven Priests, Edged Weapons, and You

[fyonn]

I once survived an unresisted poison breath by Ungoliant.

what were you doing at ungoliant depths without res_pois?

dave

[Zappa]

I'm having trouble deciding on what weapon to use. I understand this is probably a common thing.

I've been using 'Osondir' that has nice stat bonuses and is Blessed, but I just found 'Nimloth' and I get 4 blows plus a speed bump.

[Jungle_Boy]

Nimloth is also Blessed, I used it for a long time with my priest winner, I'd go with the speed probably.

[Zappa]

Well I finally found rPois. The problem is, it's The Leather Shield of the Haradrim with an aggravates monsters nearby thing on it. Is that going to be a huge problem?

It sort of makes me a wrecking machine with 5 blows and 2 shots though.

EDIT: Bard is sweet. I've been giving 'D's the business

[Sirridan]

Well I finally found rPois. The problem is, it's The Leather Shield of the Haradrim with an aggravates monsters nearby thing on it. Is that going to be a huge problem?

It sort of makes me a wrecking machine with 5 blows and 2 shots though.

EDIT: Bard is sweet. I've been giving 'D's the business

That's a pretty winning shield, very useful for making things not be alive any more.

[Jungle_Boy]

That's a pretty winning shield, very useful for making things not be alive any more.

Including but not limited to the character wielding it

[fizzix]

what were you doing at ungoliant depths without res_pois?

dave

Heh, I've been at Ungoliant depths without rbase. Lost a character to Huan with a 1600 point frost breath once. Now that he's purple, that's less likely to happen.

[Atarlost]

Who decided Huan should be hostile? Turin I could buy, but Huan?

[PowerDiver]

Who decided Huan should be hostile? Turin I could buy, but Huan?

The @ is by far the most evil monster in the game. Why wouldn't Huan be hostile?

[bron]

Poison breathers breathe at (current hp)/3 capped at 850
Poison resist (permanent or temp) knocks it down by 1/3 (max 283)
You cannot double resist poison.

No, that's not right. Poison can be double resisted in the same way as acid/elect/fire/cold : one (or more) "permanent" resists and one (or more) "temporary" resists together reduce the damage to 1/9 of nominal.

The one that's odd in this regard is confusion: having both permanent and temporary confusion resistance does not seem to reduce the damage from a confusion breath attack any more than having only one or the other. (Of course, I always found to odd that confusion breath ever caused any physical damage in the first place.)

[fizzix]

The @ is by far the most evil monster in the game. Why wouldn't Huan be hostile?

I couldn't help it, the damn guy kept on slobbering over me, and getting in my way. I tried to leave him be but I accidentally bumped into him and he died.

[Derakon]

Incidentally, max damage from poison is 800, not 850. Max double-resisted damage is therefore a whopping 88.