Advice

[Sky]

but i do

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nAVk2AodMHloqhLBzZm7p_s4mne3My4Kyo9wODJWAFQ/edit#gid=1756990203

[DavidMedley]

So take a step back how much does a resistance help with breath weapons?

I put this in my Angband 4.2 Google Sheet, but I don't have the link handy

[Pete Mack]

I'd rate it
Fire
Cold
Lightning
Acid, poison

I keep !rFire for most of the game, and !rCold if I can--especially if Scatha is a likely target. (And why Tolkien gave the name Scatha (Sceatha) to a cold drake, I don't know. It so much implies fire.)

[Selkie]

So take a step back how much does a resistance help with breath weapons?

With the primary elements (fire, cold, acid and lightning) resistance is massive. You can't survive a single breath without. Poison is somewhere in the middle, it's necessary and gives good resistance. Nether, shards, chaos, sound, disenchantment resistance reduces less damage but crucially stops the negative effects of reduce XP, cuts, hallucination, stunning etc. The four primary elements and poison can all be double resisted, which practically reduces all damage but won't stop potions getting shattered, scrolls getting burned etc. Then there is immunity (more common in randarts) which means no damage and no negative effects.

Most important resistances in this order:
Fire,
Cold,
Lightning, Acid, Poison,
Light, Dark,
Nexus,
Nether, Sound,
Chaos (but beware the Jabberwock my boy)
Shards, Disenchantment (but you'll need it if you ever meet Tarrasque)

[Pete Mack]

If it's a monster you don't really recognize, look at it's lore! And yeah, that guy surely came out of a vault. He does big shards or cold damage.

[Nicodimas]

Well while wandering made it to DL level 40 before being killed by a Gelugon with a breath weapon of shards. This guy seemed to be really low for where he should have been.

So take a step back how much does a resistance help with breath weapons?

[Sky]

the rings of Ice are pretty good against early hydra, with the added bonus of being able to protect your potions against cold hounds. AND they are a decent source of money for those who play with selling.

[Nicodimas]

Back at it! My goal this run is to actually make it to DL 97 this time around for sure

Also using spells way more often..maybe. I had the stats so total bummer , just got to remember be careful on what you pick a fight with past dl 70.

OK a little salty.lol

[DavidMedley]

I do that ring trick, too. It's not a game changer, but it's satisfying on the rare occasions it proves useful.

[Pete Mack]

double rAcid isn't worth much, since damage is already down to 1/6 nominal from armor.

[wobbly]

Double elec and acid are also possible via the elemental ring activations. While I wouldn't go out of my way to get these I often use them at a stage of the game where I haven't found anything better for the ring slots. Sometimes I'll have spares inscriped to quick swap. They show up before wands/rods of foo ball and do pretty decent damage for their depth.

[Pete Mack]

Correct. I sometimes carry a stack of !rPois, if I don't have permanent resistance. But only rFire and sometimes rCold are worth carrying for double resistance. There's just not room in the pack for more.

[Selkie]

The only resists that stack are temporary elemental and permanent elemental. Redundancy just makes swapping stuff around easier.

Poison also stacks, right?

[Nicodimas]

I dived ! And died. Kinda a inglorious death too /bummed

Sadly when I swapping gear I swapped off all my poison resist. I didn’t note it. I thought I had one of it . I remember always write down what your missing. This was totally a experience thing too of remembering what each mobs ace attack does. I had quite a bit of poison resist earlier and fought certain mobs and thought not too bad. Well if you have no resist..

When I dumped my character I had that head slap moment when I saw nothing on poison and my gear at home too.

A *bile demon* got me and a bit suprising the damage it hit me with that quick. I kinda thought he was a *trash mob* at that point as I thought no problem I got this guy. /confidence.. Ouch. Must have been a offscreen one too 1k to 300 health and the one in front of me breathed poison again...

(Make sure you track your weaknesses)

[Julian]

Saruman was way easy..I did encounter him on a level with something of chaos it hit me and I think something breathed and killed it. So was hallucinating the whole fight..which wasn't very fun. Found him in a ..or around a lesser vault the fight got a bit weird as I ran around it due a few time hounds ..again. I have 11 T/O rods at this stage. I have made my peace and just T/O stuff all the time now. No point in picking a fight with some of these mobs.

...ok time to venture DEEP and see how I do. Found the small shield of thornin in that lesser vault which I think is really good.

I have double immunity Acid and Lightning. 240AC.. I think Shards is my big gap on weakness and only one resist to nether...Can't really fix those unless I find something.

So see how low I can go!!

The only resists that stack are temporary elemental and permanent elemental. Redundancy just makes swapping stuff around easier.