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  • Petoften
    Knight
    • Jun 2018
    • 566

    #16
    Originally posted by Pete Mack
    More generally: dont clear levels as a rogue. Go deep, and pick off the occasional dragon or demon for EXP. Get loot from vaults and the floor. Hold off on uniques til you can kill them easily.

    If you want to clear levels, play warrior or paladin.
    Ya, I've been leaving some levels that look too hard - I left one recently because it had a 5 headed hydra I didn't like.

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    • fph
      Veteran
      • Apr 2009
      • 1030

      #17
      Ulfang and Ulfast (or whatever they are called) always come together. Nothing strange in it.

      Also, the order of the bonuses is (accuracy, damage). You were told (or remembered) wrong.
      --
      Dive fast, die young, leave a high-CHA corpse.

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      • Petoften
        Knight
        • Jun 2018
        • 566

        #18
        There's a new one - emperor wight. Steering clear.

        Two more uniques, Sangayahando and Angamaite, but running out of arrows.

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        • Petoften
          Knight
          • Jun 2018
          • 566

          #19
          Originally posted by Petoften
          You were right, I made a mistake on the boots, they're lost now.
          Oops! They were in my bag _ have them, wearing them now. Lost PNexus.

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          • Petoften
            Knight
            • Jun 2018
            • 566

            #20
            Why is a damage ring showing no more damage from arrows? Is that only melee?

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            • Petoften
              Knight
              • Jun 2018
              • 566

              #21
              I got a second scroll of acquirement. When are those good to use?

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              • Petoften
                Knight
                • Jun 2018
                • 566

                #22
                Found a rod of recall. Wonder if it's safe to take that instead of scrolls. If it gets destroyed...

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                • Ingwe Ingweron
                  Veteran
                  • Jan 2009
                  • 2129

                  #23
                  Originally posted by Petoften
                  Why is a damage ring showing no more damage from arrows? Is that only melee?
                  Damage ring is only melee to-damage, not missiles. Accuracy ring will help both melee and missile to-hit.
                  “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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                  • Ingwe Ingweron
                    Veteran
                    • Jan 2009
                    • 2129

                    #24
                    Originally posted by Petoften
                    I got a second scroll of acquirement. When are those good to use?
                    Some people save them to read deep, but I think conventional wisdom is to read ?Acquirement immediately. You can hope for something that will improve your @ right now, rather than risk the scroll being burned up, producing something deeper that is useless because by then @ has found so much great stuff, or, worst of all, scroll being worthless because @ has died and always wondering, "if I'd just read that acquirement scroll earlier, maybe I'd have gotten lucky."
                    “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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                    • Ingwe Ingweron
                      Veteran
                      • Jan 2009
                      • 2129

                      #25
                      Originally posted by Petoften
                      Found a rod of recall. Wonder if it's safe to take that instead of scrolls. If it gets destroyed...
                      Rod of Recall is a special rod, it is immune to fire and electrical damage, i.e., it can't be destroyed. However, like anything in @'s pack, it can be stolen until @ DEX is high enough to prevent stealing, so be careful around other thieves. Getting stranded deep in the dungeon because your rogue's rod of recall was stolen would be kind of poetic though.
                      “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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                      • Sky
                        Veteran
                        • Oct 2016
                        • 2321

                        #26
                        Scrolls of Acquirement will drop good treasure native to your depth (plus the usual dice rolls) so i figure it's better to read at DL20 rather than DL19 (and so on - the "native to" list tends to go in -5 and -10 increments). If you hold on to them too long, they become useless, so unless you got lucky and found one on DL5 or so, read them right away, assuming you already are deep enough to get artifact drops.




                        *****

                        It is A GOOD IDEA to carry 2-3 rods of recall, in case A) you accidentally zap yours unintentionally but want to stay on the level, or B) you recall to the dungeon and find yourself immediately in a certain-death situation.
                        "i can take this dracolich"

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                        • wobbly
                          Prophet
                          • May 2012
                          • 2631

                          #27
                          I tend to read them straight away but usually it's because I have a full pack. I'd say if you lack Free Action or Rpois read it. Getting them will count more then a better item later

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                          • Pete Mack
                            Prophet
                            • Apr 2007
                            • 6883

                            #28
                            Never read acquirement in town. Otherwise, any time after dl 20 is OK. And no: damage bonus on other equipment does not apply to bows.

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                            • Petoften
                              Knight
                              • Jun 2018
                              • 566

                              #29
                              Originally posted by Pete Mack
                              Never read acquirement in town. Otherwise, any time after dl 20 is OK. And no: damage bonus on other equipment does not apply to bows.
                              So does that mean the rings of accuracy I've been ignoring, I should have used - darn. Not sure what best rings are for rogue, I use a mouse ring.

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                              • Petoften
                                Knight
                                • Jun 2018
                                • 566

                                #30
                                Originally posted by wobbly
                                I tend to read them straight away but usually it's because I have a full pack. I'd say if you lack Free Action or Rpois read it. Getting them will count more then a better item later
                                Luckily, I have both, and even things like PConfusion woo hoo.

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