First rogue past level 10 I think

[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?

[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.

[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.

[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?

[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!

[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.

[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.

[Petoften]

Rod of probing, not worth keeping?

[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]

Hit escape and save it for later.

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

[Sky]

rChaos protects you from the effects of hallucination. Chaos is also a rather nasty breath so later on you will need it (if you see a jabberwock just run away).
rDis protects your gear from getting disenchanted.
rSound used to protect against stunning, now you only need it against the Titans (Kronos i think breathes heavy sound damage).
rShards diminishes the heavy bleeding effect of shard damage.
rNether allows a saving throw against loss of XP for nether attacks.
rPois prevents poison per-turn damage. Many mobs have strong poison breaths.
rLite and rDark prevent blindness as a side effect of their attacks but not magic blindness, not sure if a saving throw is involved.
rNexus prevents the teleportation/phase/telelevel/scramble effects of nexus breaths.

There is no defence against gravity. Against time, you can save if you have HLife but still take damage. Against plasma you can avoid the stun with pStun.
Gravity,Plasma and Time are all seriously dangerous, worth avoiding the mob alltogether.

[Mondkalb]

Hit escape and save it for later.

Scrolls of Banishment and Mass Banishment are very useful (the latter to get rid of summons in the final battle).
Be aware though, that your character will loose some hitpoints per banished monster. If your char is at low health and you banish, say a room full of dragons, they could die in the outcome.

It is useful to get rid of vortices/hounds who would breath at you or shriekers in a vault, or very dangerous monsters also.

Rchaos is of limited use against some monsters.

[Petoften]

I read an unknown scroll and it's asking me to enter the first letter of a monster to banish.

This sounds like a good thing. Two questions.

1. If I hit escape, will it waste the scroll or can I use it later?

2. If I need to use it now, any recommendations what to banish?

[Petoften]

How important is that RChaos? Worth carrying the weapon with it for swap?

[Petoften]

Unique Aduphenal the dropped AC 8 mithril gauntlets...