First rogue past level 10 I think

[Petoften]

Hit escape and save it for later.

OK thanks - it kept it. When and what on would you suggest using it?

[Petoften]

rChaos protects you from the effects of hallucination.

Ah, that'd be convenient. Some recent things cause it, and it made it quite hard to target them to kill.

Guess I should probably keep it to swap for those things, though I'm not sure what does it until they do it.

[Petoften]

Rod of probing, not worth keeping?

[wobbly]

Its ok if you don't have full monster memory. Useless if you do. There's a file you copy to have it. Otherwise it's what you've seen since you installed the game.

Banish is either: An emergency & you want everything of a letter gone (doesn't work for uniques) or getting rid of annoying Qs, Zs, drujs or removing a tricky vault monster.

[Sky]

Rod of probing, not worth keeping?

Its generally considered acceptable to cheat a full "monster memory" file.

Back in the olden days, when Angband tried every trick to kill you, you would know nothing about mobs, if not things you experienced already. So you would not know that a Jabberwock breathes Chaos unless one did that to you (probably killing you).

Monster memory stayed when you started a new character, so eventually if you kept playing all your characters would have full knowledge of previous monsters.

The Rod Of Probing helped speed up this process, by telling you every detail about a mob, even if you dont wake it up and suffer all its attacks.

So once upon a time, yeah, Probing was a useful tool, for new players. Nowadays, not so much.





You should stash at home the following:
1. Potions of *Healing*
2. Potions of Life
3. Scrolls of Banishment
4. Scrolls of Mass Banishment

Mages dont need 3 and 4 because they can cast those spells. These items are otherwise instrumental in your last fight with Morgoth.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

The Rod Of Probing helped speed up this process, by telling you every detail about a mob, even if you dont wake it up and suffer all its attacks.

So once upon a time, yeah, Probing was a useful tool, for new players. Nowadays, not so much.

Yeah, until Nick made it so monster.txt could be copied and renamed to lore.txt, with every new version of the game (that broke savefile compatability), I would use probing, and a list of all uniques and monsters, slowly checking them off the list. The next @ would try to then leave uniques alive that hadn't been fully identified until getting probing, then go back and search for them, or farm the unpronouncable Q for them, and go back to the town and descend probing every unidentified regular monster. After three or four iterations I would again have a complete knowledge file. So, very, very, glad Nick made that painstaking process unnecessary!

[Petoften]

Found 4 scrolls of recharging - should I use them on the 2 wands of teleport other or is it too dangerous, just use one when they run out?

[wobbly]

I'd say risky with only 2 (as 1 could go to electric breathe) & riskier to let go below 3 charges. It's really a matter of opinion. I think the dungeon has more devices then I have pack space.

[Pete Mack]

Wait til you are down to 1 charge (or zero), then use 1 scroll. If a wand breaks, use the other. Otherwise save it til you have to use it again. Your odds of success are much lower if you try to charge an already charged wand. Another technique is to put all the wands on the floor ij a line, then recharge them one at a time as you walk over them. This is a particularly useful technique for damage wands, however, but less useful for TO.

[Petoften]

Your odds of success are much lower if you try to charge an already charged wand.

Someone posted that the game was changed so that the safety is the same however many charges it has?

[Petoften]

Thinking of dropping a wand of dragon's breath - I've been dropping damage wands. They're handy sometimes, but...

[wobbly]

Someone posted that the game was changed so that the safety is the same however many charges it has?

Code says charge_per_item

[Petoften]

Code says charge_per_item

What does that mean about the odds of it getting destroyed?

[Petoften]

Just noticed the scythe has an activation of recall, so I can put the rod of recall in storage - though the scythe recharge is a long 220 turns instead of 66.

[Adam]

Just noticed the scythe has an activation of recall, so I can put the rod of recall in storage - though the scythe recharge is a long 220 turns instead of 66.

You can always use a scroll for going down and the activation for coming back. You can even carry 2-3 scrolls for cases when you want to cancel a recall and drop them when you need the space (though activating a weapon by mistake is not a usual thing).