Any tips for a newbie?

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  • Estie
    Veteran
    • Apr 2008
    • 2347

    Books have been moved upwards fairly recently, you might still be using the old version - I dont know.

    Dropping stuff you are willing to risk losing in a corner is a good plan, yes. Wether to drop ammo, I cannot say - it depends on how much you have and what else you are carrying. Just make a good guess. Identify staff is superfluous since you have the spell, SI I would keep.

    You dont lose artifacts when you see them, only when you identify them.

    Stat swaps: with mage I drink int and str, but dont go overboard; when you start getting fractional increases its time to stop.

    Diving is risky, especially if you are unexperienced. I dont know how you normally play - an ironman character is not a good idea to start learning how to dive with. One of the ideas of that high risk strategy is to accept losing a few characters, but speed up their development to the point where you end up winning eventually.

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    • Ingwe Ingweron
      Veteran
      • Jan 2009
      • 2129

      Originally posted by Sky
      not trying to derail thread, but speaking of mobs destroying things in your inventory .. i was thinking it would be nice if those items activated.
      for example, a potion of healing breaks in your inventory, you get healed for 150 dmg...
      Yeah, and when you have a cold do you just spill cough medicine on your hands?
      “We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”
      ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

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      • Derakon
        Prophet
        • Dec 2009
        • 9022

        Originally posted by Estie
        Stat swaps: with mage I drink int and str, but dont go overboard; when you start getting fractional increases its time to stop.
        Stat gain actually accelerates once your internal stat is higher than 18. You can go from 18 to 18/30 in a single potion, which is internally equivalent to gaining 3 points in the stat because every /10 is treated as a single +1. Note this is the internal stat, not the displayed stat as modified by race/class/equipment.

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        • Pete Mack
          Prophet
          • Apr 2007
          • 6883

          Those fractional stats used to be useful, since stat drainers could drain less than a full point

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          • Nick
            Vanilla maintainer
            • Apr 2007
            • 9634

            Originally posted by Ingwe Ingweron
            Yeah, and when you have a cold do you just spill cough medicine on your hands?
            I like to think that the character licks a small amount of the potion off their hands, but then the healing effect is balanced by the damage the glass slivers do
            One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
            In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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            • Sky
              Veteran
              • Oct 2016
              • 2321

              Originally posted by Ingwe Ingweron
              Yeah, and when you have a cold do you just spill cough medicine on your hands?
              MAGIC !

              it's magic dude. you need to believe.
              "i can take this dracolich"

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              • Ingwe Ingweron
                Veteran
                • Jan 2009
                • 2129

                Originally posted by Sky
                MAGIC !

                it's magic dude. you need to believe.
                Alchemy, now that's science in store 5. If I want magic, I'll head over to store 6.
                “We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”
                ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

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