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N.geNuity
United States5112 Posts
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
On September 18 2011 11:03 N.geNuity wrote: holy shit congrats! I've never really played nethack, but my brother has and I know its tough as anything. And seems like you won even without a full moon for luck . Full moon grants luck all right, it's just all bad. | ||
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gameguard
Korea (South)2132 Posts
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myopia
United States2928 Posts
On September 19 2011 23:11 gameguard wrote: so i copied u and picked ranger. On the first floor i drank from some well and got a wish. Being the noob that i am, i wished for a normal Magicbane. No enchant, no rustproof, no nothing... is that bad? Fountain wishes haha, you're so lucky. You should've wished for 'blessed fixed +2 magicbane', but that's a moot point now. Magicbane will still do what it does best - scare monsters with Elbereth. Read more about it here: http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Elbereth. | ||
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CaptainPlatypus
United States852 Posts
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Perguvious
United States1783 Posts
good job though~ | ||
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Diggity
United States806 Posts
I just finished up another wizard and I am working on ascending with an archeologist now. There is something strangely calming bout nethack despite its inherent frustration factor. I think it reminds me of life. Sometimes you just lose. There is nothing you can do about it but recreate another character and try again. But with perseverance you can eventually accomplish your goal. | ||
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Perguvious
United States1783 Posts
On September 20 2011 08:25 Diggity wrote: Congrats! Ranger is a really entertaining class too! I just finished up another wizard and I am working on ascending with an archeologist now. There is something strangely calming bout nethack despite its inherent frustration factor. I think it reminds me of life. Sometimes you just lose. There is nothing you can do about it but recreate another character and try again. But with perseverance you can eventually accomplish your goal. do more nethack youtube vidssssss  | ||
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Diggity
United States806 Posts
You know I get a surprising amount of requests for nethack vids. If I ever get some time opened up maybe I will do another. | ||
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polgas
Canada1762 Posts
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gameguard
Korea (South)2132 Posts
btw, is there reliable ways to identify stuff without blindly eating/reading stuff? I know i can see curse/blessed from altars but thats about it. | ||
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myopia
United States2928 Posts
ID'ing stuff - pets will never pick up something that is cursed, and will avoid moving onto a square with cursed items. They'll 'move reluctantly' if they do. The other method of soft identification is price identification (http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Price_identification) , which is most useful for finding scrolls of ID, because they'll always cost around 26 gold. Make sure to #name the item class (call) when you're sure you know what type of item it is. There's also a small trick with artifact naming (http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Artifact_naming), which I mostly use on gray stones to see if they're luck stones. you can dip unicorn horns into potions. if they're harmful they'll turn into juice or water. you can drop rings into sinks and you'll see messages depending on the ring type (http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Sink) but I never do this because you lose the ring. Engraving with wands is the best way to ID them (http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Wand#Engrave-identification) | ||
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gameguard
Korea (South)2132 Posts
I picked a wizard, and got a fountain wish. Didnt know what to wish for so i looked at some wish priority list and just got silver dragon scale mail thinking ill find an altar and get magicbane for resistance and i still had my cloak.... But i duno if this was good? I seem to be able to cast spells with same % failure. The problem is minetown altar was cross aligned and im too scared to kill that priest... I might poly him and try it soon though. My question for now is... why does my int keep going down? Im pretty sure i started with 17 int.. right now its 15 and i didnt fight any mind flayers. AFAIK int cant be abused? Ive been wacking stuff with my stupid +1 staff and it sucks. I really need magicbane... or magic missle/magic marker T_T. I got good defense but my offense is so bad | ||
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Zorkmid
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myopia
United States2928 Posts
On September 22 2011 02:04 gameguard wrote: thanks alot. I was trying to avoid spoilering everything but i got such a good run going right now that i want to learn some basic stuff to survive lol. I picked a wizard, and got a fountain wish. Didnt know what to wish for so i looked at some wish priority list and just got silver dragon scale mail thinking ill find an altar and get magicbane for resistance and i still had my cloak.... But i duno if this was good? I seem to be able to cast spells with same % failure. The problem is minetown altar was cross aligned and im too scared to kill that priest... I might poly him and try it soon though. My question for now is... why does my int keep going down? Im pretty sure i started with 17 int.. right now its 15 and i didnt fight any mind flayers. AFAIK int cant be abused? Ive been wacking stuff with my stupid +1 staff and it sucks. I really need magicbane... or magic missle/magic marker T_T. I got good defense but my offense is so bad SDSM is a great early wish for a wizard. are you playing NetHack or Slash'EM? Polying someone to kill them doesn't work in Slash'EM, because they just revert to normal form after losing all HP. (which is why were-monsters are stupidly broken, my #1 complaint about slash'em). Also, trying to play NetHack without spoilers is virtually impossible. The game just doesn't lend itself to figuring things out on your own. You can try it, but know that I studied pretty much every page on the wiki in detail before I was able to ascend. I have no idea why you would be losing intelligence. Try continually applying a unicorn horn or drinking a potion of restore ability. If you've lost any stats they'll be restored. (*slash'em adds one other way to ID your stuff: shopkeeper services. Try paying a shopkeeper when you don't owe him anything.) | ||
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gameguard
Korea (South)2132 Posts
 Right now, I had a great run going, until i met some ghost. I was meleeing it and killed it eventually, but it turns out so many of my items got cursed. I didnt know ghosts can curse ur items .... I found out my items got cursed when magicbane became too dull to engrave... fml.. This is screwing up everything Edit: Lol i found minetown in a new game and it was JUST like the one i died in last time and dropped the silver dragon mail. So i got a bunch of my good stuff back. I offered until i got a gift from the god.... which turned out to be sting wtf??? it was my first gift.. i thought all wizards get magicbane for the first gift. I should have named sting fml | ||
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myopia
United States2928 Posts
If your character doesn't get their guaranteed sacrifice gift, that means it's already been generated somehow. If you found your own bones file, you know Magicbane has to be around somewhere. One of the gnomes or guards probly picked it up. | ||
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gameguard
Korea (South)2132 Posts
But im still alive and doing decent i guess. I wish i can find some freaking enchant weapons to get my magicbane to +2. Serioosly couldnt find any yet. Right now i dont even have any good magic, Im playing like a warrior with +0 magic bane powergloves and dragon armor. .. . . | ||
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Air2gear
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gameguard
Korea (South)2132 Posts
Is helm of brilliance worth it for a mage? Can it push my int/wis over the max of 20? Oh and since i got werebane which unrestricts sabers, would it be good to wish for grayswandir? But i already got expert on daggers, so maybe it would be a waste to max 2 weapon trees. Can i bring it to expert if it gets unrestricted? | ||
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