Uncursing Iron Helm of Gorlim

[credeiki]

I realized I'm not sure how to uncurse items. I have the Helm of Gorlim, I had a *Remove Curse* scroll, I put them both in my inventory and read the scroll, and nothing happened. Do I have to be wearing the cursed item for the scroll to work? Do *Remove Curse* scrolls have 100% effectiveness? (If not, I don't want to voluntarily put on a cursed item)

I'll just put the helm in my house for now...

[d_m]

I realized I'm not sure how to uncurse items. I have the Helm of Gorlim, I had a *Remove Curse* scroll, I put them both in my inventory and read the scroll, and nothing happened. Do I have to be wearing the cursed item for the scroll to work? Do *Remove Curse* scrolls have 100% effectiveness? (If not, I don't want to voluntarily put on a cursed item)

I'll just put the helm in my house for now...

Yeah, unfortunately you just hit a big gotcha.

The remove curse scroll removes curses from all items you are wielding. So... it didn't do anything when you read it and had the helm in your pack.

The good news is that you can try to use enchant armor scrolls to break the curse (independently of whether they increase the helm's bonus or not).

Sorry.

[debo]

lol I can just see a confused warrior failing to uncurse his helmet, and then just saying "ummm... I gonna just put this in my house for now..."

[credeiki]

Hah, sadly, it was a confused mage (who has never found himself unexpectedly having to uncurse anything because he identifies everything first).

Sadly, the confused mage died soon after this helm dilemma under a pack of Inertia hounds.

In general, if you have a remove curse or, if appropriate, *remove curse* scroll, is it a good idea to put on the cursed item and use the scroll, or better to just try to use scrolls of enchant armor or weapon on the cursed item?

[Malak Darkhunter]

The scrolls of enchantment are your best bet to use against cursed items.