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[Mindmaker]

Oh, goddammit!
So after a couple dozen of tries, I get a decent human berserker going, just to have him die at a poison vault.

Question:
What do you usally use your scrolls of aquirement on?
I got two early with my berserker and wished for amor, which gave me boots of levitation (which I never got to use) and boots of sneaking (kind of useless).

[BishopX]

Oh, goddammit!
So after a couple dozen of tries, I get a decent human berserker going, just to have him die at a poison vault.

Question:
What do you usally use your scrolls of aquirement on?
I got two early with my berserker and wished for amor, which gave me boots of levitation (which I never got to use) and boots of sneaking (kind of useless).

I usually wish for jewelry.

[G-Flex]

Wand acquirement is good because it's weighted towards the Really Good Ones (teleportation/haste/healing) and towards ones you haven't seen before.

The others are usually pretty unpredictable, but armor acquirement isn't so bad.

[Mindmaker]

Oh, goddammit!
So after a couple dozen of tries, I get a decent human berserker going, just to have him die at a poison vault.

Question:
What do you usally use your scrolls of aquirement on?
I got two early with my berserker and wished for amor, which gave me boots of levitation (which I never got to use) and boots of sneaking (kind of useless).

I usually wish for jewelry.

Why's that?
Hard to complete a full set of resistances for certain branches?

[beorn080]

Jewelry isn't a bad choice. It rolls up to 5 times or something in an attempt to give you a piece you haven't identfied yet or a randart, so early on its a good chance of getting something you don't have yet. For a troglodyte, if you've managed to get decent evocations, a staff choice stands a good chance of netting you rod, which would nicely supplement your abilities.

[G-Flex]

Jewelry isn't a bad choice. It rolls up to 5 times or something in an attempt to give you a piece you haven't identfied yet or a randart, so early on its a good chance of getting something you don't have yet.

In my opinion, it's even better later; since it's weighted towards things you don't have yet, you can probably make good use of it if there's one amulet or ring you want but haven't been able to find yet, and have identified most others.

[beorn080]

Jewelry isn't a bad choice. It rolls up to 5 times or something in an attempt to give you a piece you haven't identfied yet or a randart, so early on its a good chance of getting something you don't have yet.

In my opinion, it's even better later; since it's weighted towards things you don't have yet, you can probably make good use of it if there's one amulet or ring you want but haven't been able to find yet, and have identified most others.

True. Its never a bad choice, unless you've identified every piece in the game.

[Mindmaker]

Two more little questions.

1.)Do you collect common weapons and armour, in hope it may have a hidden enchantment?
Randomly picking but a common chainmail, and finding out it's +2 is sweet.
Am I right in assuming they cant have egos that way?

2.)Also, not self induced berserk still does cost food, or am I wrong?
Hmm, that would make that Necklace of Bloodlust quite worthless.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   I go for jewelery if I don't have any good ones on and because I am generally always a mage of some type staff comes next.

Spoiler: jewelery acquirement (click to show/hide)

       1. Grabs a jewellery base type, this has a 1 in 3 chance of being a amulet and a 2 in 3 chance of being a ring. If you've already identified that base type it will try again. It will continue this until it hits a type you have not yet identified or until it has tried 10 times.
       2. Rings of hunger and amulets of inaccuracy have a 92.09% chance of being randarts. Other jewellery has a 28.85% chance of being a randart. This is independent from the base type calculation, otherwise.

Spoiler: weapon acquirement (click to show/hide)

For each weapon skill (out of SBl, LBl, Axs, M&F, Pla, Stv, Slg, Bws, Crb), chance to get a weapon of that skill: approximately (1 + that weapon skill level) divided by (8 + sum of all weapon skill levels). Chance to get an artefact weapon: approximately 21%.

Spoiler: staff acquirement (click to show/hide)

If your best magic skill is fire, ice, air, earth, poison, conj, necro, summ or ench, you will get the matching staff. If your best magic skill is evocations, you will likely (75%) get a random rod. Otherwise you get wizardry, channeling, power, or energy. If you already *are carrying* your skill's staff, or your skill is invocations, random staff.

Spoiler: book acquirement (click to show/hide)

In 0.5 book acquirement changed, gifts are non-deterministic (but weighted by your casting skills), you can get randart spellbooks and acquirement via scrolls has a chance of producing a manual.

Spoiler: armor acquirement (click to show/hide)

       1. Will only give armour that you can currently wear (factoring in feet, claws, horns, body size). Troll/dragon armours are possible, but are rare (and the better types even more so).
       2. Will also give shields, rather than just worn armour. Will never give an unenchanted hide, but loves giving unenchanted animal skins! (This is fixed in 0.6.)

Spoiler: misc acquirement (click to show/hide)

Equal chance of: elemental items, disc of storms, crystal balls (except for fixation), bottled efreet, box of beasts, lantern of shadows and the various decks (except for punishment).

Spoiler: gold acquirement (click to show/hide)

       1. Gives 10*(20+1d20+1d8*1d8*1d8) gold. (Min=220, Max=5520, Mean=1218, Std=911)
       2. (3:08:51 AM) m0ng: scroll of retirement

Spoiler: food acquirement (click to show/hide)

If you worship Fedhas, you get fruit! Ghouls get some chunks, vampires get potions of blood, everyone else gets rations or honeycombs or royal jellies.

Spoiler: wand acquirement (click to show/hide)

       1. Gives you a wand. Certain wands have much higher weights, including healing and hasting. Wands you haven't seen yet have double weight.
       2. Chance of getting healing with all others identified is 30%. (Same for hasting.)

[Antioch]

I usually go armour, as branded armour is always nice and it is rather rare.

[Dr.Feelgood]

I only pick jewelry, gold, or wands from a scroll of acquirement. Jewelry most of the time, gold when I really want to buy something, and wands if I don't need the other two or I'm playing an earth elementalist.

Two more little questions.

1.)Do you collect common weapons and armour, in hope it may have a hidden enchantment?
Randomly picking but a common chainmail, and finding out it's +2 is sweet.
Am I right in assuming they cant have egos that way?

2.)Also, not self induced berserk still does cost food, or am I wrong?
Hmm, that would make that Necklace of Bloodlust quite worthless.

1) If you're talking about glowing, shiny etc. gear, than yes. If you're talking about stuff that has no indication of being enchanted, than no. Plain, non-enchanted items can't have egos.

2) Yes, all forms of berserk makes you less satiated.

[G-Flex]

I think plain-looking items can have enchantments sometimes, but rarely, and it probably helps if they're racial (dwarven/elven/orcish).

[Mindmaker]

I think plain-looking items can have enchantments sometimes, but rarely, and it probably helps if they're racial (dwarven/elven/orcish).

That's what I meant.
Well, but this only helps with armour, since it will auto-id on equip.
So you can collect several pieces of the same armour, detect curses and then try it on.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   I do it with robes all the time.

[Mr.Person]

Ego items always have those light-blue descriptors on them.

It's time again for another inappropriately named artifact.