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I just found my second Ringil in about a year. I wasn't playing for most of that year so I suppose it's more like 4 months. Now I have to somehow not die with this pathetic CON'd but 18/210 INT gnome mage. Most monster's psionic attacks/mortal wounds around dlev 40 will kill him if he doens't save. Pathetic hit points, but boy can he cast!
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Ringil is super amazing and super rare..I've only seen it once in about 20 years of playing
As for the CON, you want to make it a priority, rings of constitution can be worth using a ring slot for, and you'll want to keep an eye out for other gear with CON bonuses such as the shield of Thorin, helm of Hammerhand, Dor-Lormin and so on. -
Found it once. On a kobold rogue, my only character to ever make it to DL99 and kill Sauron.
Now that I think about it, that character never did die, the save should be on that hard drive sitting on the shelf. I might dig it up and go visit Morgoth.Comment
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I have found The One Ring but not Ringil.Comment
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Luckiest character ever.
(Only thing "missing" is Fëanor, I think. Also check out the Speed Ring +23
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Wow! Do rings of speed still go that high? I think I've seen +16 with 3.5.0Luckiest character ever.
(Only thing "missing" is Fëanor, I think. Also check out the Speed Ring +23)Comment
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Rings of speed can go arbitrarily high. They get a semi-random depth-dependent bonus, and then start flipping coins. As long as the coin comes up heads they get another +1 and a reflip; the first tails they get stops the process. Getting a +23 would require probably at least 13 successful flips (assuming a starting bonus of +10, which is probably overgenerous of me), for odds of 1 in 8192.Comment
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In the original thread, I think there was one other poster who had (at one point) got a +23 ring. There were no takers on +24, I don't think.Comment
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I wonder if the chances of getting these rarities have changed over the years. I had 3 winners over the 3.0.6 to 3.0.9 versions and 2 of them found Ringil and the One Ring. Of course I take a lot of turns to win.
I've been playing 3.5.1 and I know the *thanc daggers are a lot easier to find.Comment
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Yep, artifact rarities have absolutely changed over the years. I don't know about specific artifacts, but plenty have been made more/less rare as the devs refined the allocation algorithms and tweaked the balance.Comment
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I have found it bazillion times, but Fëanor only once. To me it was as common as Thorin when I started to play. I found it nearly literally every game, most of time at or right after stat-gain.
When I found Fëanor first (and only) time I didn't even realize what I had found and thought "new type of ego, I wonder what this does...". And that was in a version where, due a bug in object creation, it was like walking in a shoe store, so I'm not sure I should count it.
I think I have found every artifact now at least twice, except that Fëanor.Comment
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In all the years I've been playing, I've never once found Ringil or The One Ring. I "found" Bladeturner once, but I wasn't even able to pick it up.Comment
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I think I've found feanor once. Thorin pretty much every single game that goes beyond stat gain. I've found Dor-Lomin several games in a row now after not seeing it for a while, and suddenly Thranduil is nowhere to be seen in many games.
Found the Golden Crown of Gondor recently and it was a great find. I think stun resistance has got to be about the rarest in the game. Found a Cloak of the Magi with resist stun in my recent gnome mage win and never took it off.
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