Ver 3.09 to?

[Tregonsee]

Having a 'Legendary' savings throw, is there any circumstance where I would lose a savings throw? (Even if highly unlikely)

[Timo Pietilä]

So I can swap the boots I have for Boots of Speed and not have to worry about carrion crawlers because I have a high savings throw?

You get saving throw against all paralyzing attacks including melee-attacks. Slowing spells also, but inertia and gravity still slow you down.

Also all of the damaging curse variants will fail (it yells DIE! You die -more-)

[Tregonsee]

So I can swap the boots I have for Boots of Speed and not have to worry about carrion crawlers because I have a high savings throw?

[Timo Pietilä]

Dump again http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=14858

I feel like I can dive some more, or am I missing something? Of course speed would be nice.

Do a crash-dive to 4000' and stop for speed. 4000' is where RoS hide.

You no longer need anything giving you only FA, you have Legendary saving throw, which means it is over 100% (don't remember how much over, but over nevertheless).

[Tregonsee]

Dump again http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=14858



I feel like I can dive some more, or am I missing something? Of course speed would be nice.

[Tregonsee]

I just got The Great Axe of Eonwe, so I think it is ok now. Swapping HA for Eonwe only drops Wisdom by 2, and the plus 2 to Con really helps. Now if I can only find a den of White Dragons...

[Timo Pietilä]

Here is my new dump:

http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=14858

I just got Totila, but this is 3.09b, so I cannot tell if it is better to use it over my
HA Broad Axe. I know I would love Aule, but is this a good substitute for now?

Not really. You lose zero failure if you remove your HA weapon and if you switch to Thranduil instead of Dor-Lomin you lose too much from combat stats. OTOH it could free a ring slot: Belegennon instead of Rohirrim.

It does more damage, but failure rate drop is too big sacrifice for that.

Keep at home for now.

[Tregonsee]

Here is my new dump:

http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=14858

I just got Totila, but this is 3.09b, so I cannot tell if it is better to use it over my
HA Broad Axe. I know I would love Aule, but is this a good substitute for now?

[Timo Pietilä]

Like Wyrms and Draco-_____?

Those are few of them.

[Tregonsee]

Like Wyrms and Draco-_____?

[Timo Pietilä]

BTW, is a dragon's breath dependent on its original HP or the HP it has when it breathes?
Does having a high saving throw help? It just seems that Ancient Dragons don't seem to be all that dangerous, or maybe I have been extremely lucky...

Ancient single basic element dragons are quite harmless, but anything that resembles a basic ancient dragon and is not is anything but harmless.

[Derakon]

Good. Hitting the Ancient Dragons from far away with OoD is a common tactic with me. They seem to want to close to engage rather than use breath weapons.

You're imagining complexity where none exists. The Angband monster AI is almost literally:

if (one in monster's spell frequency) {
  pick a spell at random and cast it
}
else if (adjacent to player) {
  attack player
}
else {
  move towards player
}

Ancient dragons only cast spells 1 time in 6, and three of their four spells are Blind, Confuse, and Scare. Thus they only have a 1 in 24 chance of using their breath attack on any given turn. They're mostly threatening because they're fast and have strong melee for when you first start encountering them; if you have speed parity and a decent ranged weapon then they aren't very dangerous.

[Tregonsee]

Good. Hitting the Ancient Dragons from far away with OoD is a common tactic with me. They seem to want to close to engage rather than use breath weapons.

[AnonymousHero]

Current HP. Don't think save has any effect.

[Tregonsee]

BTW, is a dragon's breath dependent on its original HP or the HP it has when it breathes?
Does having a high saving throw help? It just seems that Ancient Dragons don't seem to be all that dangerous, or maybe I have been extremely lucky...