Recent changes I like

[Mark]

I thought it would only be fair to Nick to list somethings I've noticed in v4 that I quite like (its too easy to only raise the complaints)

Changes I like.

• I'm less scared to try new/unID's items.
• Nexus stat-swap affect change is good.
• Drop rates/depths seem much improved, so I actually wear some items early on, these include
  - Feather Falling
  - Amulet of infravision
  - Weapon of Slay Orc
  - Lantern (Everburning)
  - Potions of stat swap
  - Wands of slow, stun, hold
  - Wands of polymorph
• Being a warrior lately, I'd hardly spend much time casting Detect Traps/Doors and Identify, but I guess this is now true regardless, which is pleasant.

Changes I'm not sure about

• With the new ID system, if an artifact is in the level and you consume a !Englightenment, does the artifact become apparent in the items list window? Nothing says (unidentified) next to it anymore, so that implies it would be...
• I still rarely try mushrooms, because they are (or used to be) 2/3 negative. Has this changed with the new ID system?
• I wasn't quite sure what Remove Curse did... ...could I have removed the negative aspects of the Crown of Berutheil ?

[Pete Mack]

No. You can't remove -3 INT/WIS or aggravation from Beruthiel, just the curse runes. And you can't remove Teleportation from rings of teleportation, though I don't understand how that works.

[wobbly]

No. You can't remove -3 INT/WIS or aggravation from Beruthiel, just the curse runes. And you can't remove Teleportation from rings of teleportation, though I don't understand how that works.

The teleport curse is power 100. You have to beat it with remove curse & *remove curse only goes up to 100 (50+d50). When you read ?remove curse or ?*remove curse it lists the curses with their power. Failing can cause an object to become fragile. Failing on a fragile item can destroy it.

[Sky]

slight derail here since we are talking about curses.

i dont like that you can *often* find curse items on low DL that have the stoneskin buff or whatever that other "makes you weak to X but strong to Y" curse is, because these can easily be sold for 1000gp or more.

I know you uberpros do not play with sell_on (like God intended) but those who do can exploit this. Just, the store should not buy cursed items, or at least should value curses differently than now. Because a rapier (+0,+0) *curse* should not sell for 1200gp.

[Derakon]

That's fair; curses in themselves should probably have at best no effect on the sale value of an item.

[Sky]

Also note that you cannot uncurse the Crown Of Beruthiel, but you CAN uncurse similar randards.

[Grotug]

Randards sounds like a hybrid of randarts and another word.