First rogue past level 10 I think

[Petoften]

I cast a scroll of *destruction* in town when it was unknown and found another - I assume they're worth keeping for nasty situations?

[Petoften]

How useful is a scroll of protection from evil? Full inv.

[Petoften]

Wow. I found a ring of accuracy 18. When I replace damage +11, bow damage only goes from 82 to 83, but melee from 115/54 to 91/29 (dragon/normal).

[Petoften]

How is an ancient red dragon so hard? Something made a noise and woke it up - my arrow didn't even take one star but he almost took all my HP in a round.

[Petoften]

Posted him to the ladder.

[Petoften]

Doesn't an item with Rpoison totally block poison damage?

[Petoften]

Carrying teleport other, hold monster, confuse monster, deciding is staff of slow monster worth it (I just dropped a rod of slow monster) in case of no mana.

[Pete Mack]

Petoften-
Please dont post so many single questions--it is hard to follow and hard to respond.
Resist poison is just like the base 4 resists: it cuts damage by a factor of 3, so (eg) a drolem will do 269 damage instead of 710. Ancient red dragon shouldn't be much trouble for you, with double fire resistance from Scarabtrices. It does have a cause wounds spell that can ding you for up to ~150HP, so you need to be a little careful. It also does big melee damage, but that shouldn't be a problem for a ranger.

As for why you do more damage vs dragons wearing Ring of Mouse: your weapon has enough dice and slay (or *slay*) dragon, so more blows counts for more than more damage. (This is not common.)

[Petoften]

Petoften-
Please dont post so many single questions--it is hard to follow and hard to respond.
Resist poison is just like the base 4 resists: it cuts damage by a factor of 3, so (eg) a drolem will do 269 damage instead of 710. Ancient red dragon shouldn't be much trouble for you, with double fire resistance from Scarabtrices. It does have a cause wounds spell that can ding you for up to ~150HP, so you need to be a little careful. It also does big melee damage, but that shouldn't be a problem for a ranger.

As for why you do more damage vs dragons wearing Ring of Mouse: your weapon has enough dice and slay (or *slay*) dragon, so more blows counts for more than more damage. (This is not common.)

That's the only real way for me to do it as I run across things, other than keeping a text file or something to wait to post.

The ancient red dragon seemed to be mainly melee damage, that took almost all my HP in one round.

Why wouldn't that be a problem for a ranger? He moved to me fast so I couldn't get more than one shot off before he did (small room).

[Petoften]

I was surprised how little the ring of accuracy helped bow damage, but maybe it's because with high dex, accuracy is already near the max.

[Derakon]

That's the only real way for me to do it as I run across things, other than keeping a text file or something to wait to post.

Keep the text file and wait to post. Seriously. I'd wager that more than half the community is ignoring your threads because they get updated so frequently with such low-density content.

[luneya]

That's the only real way for me to do it as I run across things, other than keeping a text file or something to wait to post.

The ancient red dragon seemed to be mainly melee damage, that took almost all my HP in one round.

Why wouldn't that be a problem for a ranger? He moved to me fast so I couldn't get more than one shot off before he did (small room).

Yeah, ancient dragons have pretty strong melee in addition to their breath weapons. And once you start seeing ancient multi-hued, watch out. All the multi-hued dragons are nastier than their monochromatic kin, but the difference in strength is really significant for the ancients. Don't assume you can fight an AMHD just because you've survived against other ancient dragons; it will kill you dead without breaking a sweat.

[Petoften]

Found a ring of DEX 4, similar to accuracy it barely nudged range damage, and raised dragon damage while greatly lowering normal melee damage.

[Pete Mack]

Well yes. Hobbit ranger has good dex anyway, so pumping it up further won't do much good. And nothing makes much difference in base archery damage except total enchantment level, and arrow dice.

A ring of accuracy might help you in melee by making it more likely to hit the monster. Just look at the to_hit probability on a known enemy. Overall damage is probability times nominal damage, and hobbit ranger has really lousy melee skill.

[Petoften]

Well yes. Hobbit ranger has good dex anyway, so pumping it up further won't do much good. And nothing makes much difference in base archery damage except total enchantment level, and arrow dice.

A ring of accuracy might help you in melee by making it more likely to hit the monster. Just look at the to_hit probability on a known enemy. Overall damage is probability times nominal damage, and hobbit ranger has really lousy melee skill.

Ya, I don't really care about melee except when it's needed or to finish off 1 shot things. Still looking at what rings to use, but one I use is mouse.