Just chatting about a game

[Mondkalb]

Lokkak can be rather dangerous, depending on your level.

Be careful with vaults, there can be very dangerous out of level creatures in there. Also, there is often a shrieker of breath monster like a hound or vortex that can wake others and get you in big trouble.

Don't ge greedy. There will be more treasures on other levels ...

[Petoften]

Found a ring of escaping, but it says it has fear of melee, so that won't work. Leaving it.

[Petoften]

Hm found a staff and scroll of identify rune doesn't even see it to identify, and using it didn't give any info.

[Petoften]

Found a leather shield of celegorm, which adds a bunch of duplicate resistances.

Also a shovel [+7, +7] {??} Not sure about that.

[Petoften]

Ignore a ring of acid [15] like the Ring of ice 15?

[Petoften]

Hm, Ring of Dexterity +1...

Oh, I'm on level 32 now for looking for those stat potions. Dropped a wand of hold monster, figured it might work on uniques and out of space as usual. But found a rod of slow monster.

[Petoften]

And a ring of dex +2 and a ring of Constitution +4...

[Petoften]

What sorts of hold/slow/scare monster tend to work for warriors on unique monsters, and which don't? For example, the rod of slow monster?

[Petoften]

That shovel is useless, right? No need for it though I haven't identified all its bonuses?

[Sideways]

And a ring of dex +2 and a ring of Constitution +4...

The +4 CON ring is a potential contender, depending on what your CON is currently like. Getting your constitution up is worth more if your constitution's already high (as long as it's not so high that extra CON is no longer needed). I'd guess that ring is probably not as good as the damage ring right now, but might be worth storing at home for later if you can spare a home slot.

(It's no big deal if you can't spare that slot right now; you will likely find another equally good or better constitution ring later, supposing you stay alive; and in the endgame, on a half-troll warrior, you will likely have enough +CON from your other equipment to not need a constitution ring.)

[Petoften]

CON is 18/30 with the ring on.

[Petoften]

Deciding whether to keep a staff of curing or detect evil.

Dropping the Dex ring.

[Pete Mack]

You'll want a good dex ring soon, when you upgrade to a heavier weapon. Curing is a waste of time if you have plenty of CCW/CSW. Detect evil is useful, especially past dl 40. Those rods of light will come into play too.

[Petoften]

Read a scroll - it was mass banishment but did nothing. Not sure what it does, it sounds similar to genocide.

[Pete Mack]

Mass banishment gets rid of all non-unique monsters within 15 square radius, at a cost of 1d4 damage per monster. It is the most valuable scroll in the game. Unfortunately, it is also very rare, so people generally save them for Morgoth (about 5 is normal to have then.) Other scrolls of note: Banishment (remove all monsters of a particular letter from the level; teleport level (immediate completely safe escape), *Destruction* (ditto--wrecks the entire dungeon for 15 square radius.)