Acquirement scrolls

[UglySquirrell]

I'm kind of curious how these work, are the items you get, or the quality of them affected by the level you read them on? Or is it completely random. I read a lot in my last game at around 90+ feet and didn't notice much difference, if any, from reading them when they first show up.

[LostTemplar]

It seems to give you mace of slay troll most of the time.

[Derakon]

They are affected by the level on which you read them. However, if I recall correctly they are exactly equivalent to getting one DROP_GREAT effect (or 1-3 such effects for *Aquirement*). In the deeps, so many items are getting that effect already that getting one more is not particularly impressive, nor likely to yield something useful compared to your already-powerful equipment.

Thus, I always read them as soon as I find them. A sword of Slay Troll might actually get used at 1000', thereby helping me reach the deeper levels; that same sword at 4500' is merely a disappointment.

EDIT: amusement! LostTemplar mentioned maces of slay troll. I hadn't read his post when I made mine.

[fizzix]

The big difference is that ACQ spells get a guaranteed DROP_GREAT flag meaning they're 4x more likely than other objects to be turned into an artifact. There are not too many monsters with DROP_GREAT and they are all Uniques (i think) so this is actually a benefit.

As to whether to read them immediately or save them, I think this goes to play style. If you are a slow player and do a lot of clearing, you probably have pretty decent gear and you only really care about uber gear. In that case, saving them until dlevel 99 is a pretty good strategy. If you diver fairly strongly *or* have trouble with dying in the middle game, then you should probably read them immediately.

[UglySquirrell]

Lol, slay troll or robe of resist fire, although I got the last spellbook on level 47 once on my ironman mage so I always have high hopes.

[awldune]

Depth increases your odds of getting certain "deep" items, and your odds of getting high "plusses" on ego items.

As other have mentioned, there is still a relatively good chance that you will get some junk item like a shield of resist electricity.

[NotMorgoth]

"Lol." I've obviously been playing too much Dungeon Crawl. I read the above post and thought "wow, a shield of resist elec is an awesome item."