• Good early (non-magical) armor for drow priest

    From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to All on Sat Oct 15 05:43:31 2022
    My drow priest just reached minetown and completed his pre-enchanted
    ordinary armor by some leather gloves. From the armor below the only
    piece that I had enchanted myself was the shield (originally also +2).

    A - a +0 dwarvish mithril-coat (being worn) {150}
    B - a +4 pair of iron shoes (being worn) {50}
    C - a blessed +1 dwarvish cloak (being worn) {10}
    G - a +2 pair of padded gloves (being worn) {10}
    H - a blessed +4 orcish helm (being worn) {30}
    S - a blessed fireproof +5 small shield (being worn) {30}

    13 points of AC From the resulting AC:-17 stems from pre-enchantment.
    Crazy early game.

    Janis

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  • From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to Janis Papanagnou on Fri Oct 28 16:07:53 2022
    On 15.10.2022 05:43, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
    13 points of AC From the resulting AC:-17 stems from pre-enchantment.
    Crazy early game.

    The opposite in my current Knight late game. Just reached Demogorgon's
    lair (Slashem) at dlvl:48 and still only AC:-24.

    Armor
    A - a blessed +1 gray dragon scale mail (being worn) {50}
    B - a blessed fireproof +1 pair of speed boots (being worn) {20}
    C - a blessed +4 dwarvish cloak (being worn) {10}
    G - a blessed +0 pair of leather gloves (being worn) {10}
    H - a blessed +2 dwarvish iron helm (being worn) {40}

    To have a few more points of AC from the ordinary armor most magical
    armor still in my bag.

    an uncursed +0 cloak of displacement named fireproof {10}
    an uncursed rustproof +0 helm of brilliance {50}
    an uncursed +0 shield of reflection named Perseus' {50}
    a blessed rustproof +0 helm of telepathy named Grund's {50}

    One exception was the switch of my +2 iron boots for speed boots; lost
    a few points of AC and gained carrying capacity (and speed, of course).
    I would change my armor if I'd only find some scrolls to enchant them.
    But only two scrolls in the dungeons thus far; one to create the GDSM
    and one provided the (only) +1 enchantment for the speed boots.

    One thing I noticed is that my conduct is still wishless:

    Voluntary challenges: You have genocided 65 types of monsters. You have
    never changed form. You have used no wishes. You have remained celibate.

    Maybe I should polypile for scrolls of enchant armor? Or wish for them?
    A wish for markers and writing them is costly in Slashem (12-23 instead
    of 8-15 in Nethack).

    Other options might be visits to some of the branches that I skipped;
    the Giant Caverns, Moloch's Temple, the Tomb. There's some loot there.
    But I don't have many scrolls of teleport so that's a bit cumbersome.

    Janis

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