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gameguard
Korea (South)2132 Posts
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myopia
United States2928 Posts
You'll want a robe. They give magic cancellation 3, take your cloak slot, and boost your spellcasting abilities. Priests have a good chance of carrying one though, you should be able to find one without wasting a wish. Helm of brilliance will raise any char's stats above their max. Power gauntlets are always metal, so they interfere with spellcasting. Dex gloves don't BUT with a robe and max attributes you may be able to get 0% failure rate on your spells anyways. Getting a skill unrestricted only allows you to bring it to basic. If you don't have these, they may be good to wish for: blessed greased bag of holding blessed fixed greased +2 robe blessed fixed greased +2 helm of brilliance amulet of life saving ring of conflict ring of free action ring of levitation magic marker On September 24 2011 23:24 gameguard wrote: so im stuck in the Rogue level. I think something is wrong with my nethack. I cannot see any walls or anything on this map. The only indications are like food that i drop, ocasional monsters, and gold that i can see using detect treasure. How the hell can i find the stairs up.... cus for down i just dug down but i gota go up to get my stuff from minetown Yeah the rogue level bugs out on me too. You could just levelport with the eye. | ||
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gameguard
Korea (South)2132 Posts
 oh, I have almost all the rings. I was polypiling a bit in minetown. Actually i got ridiculously strong early cause of my bones file lol. I exploded my bag with so many scrolls so im low on enchantment... I somehow found 2 more bags of holding though. I was planning on using cloak of protection, robe would be the better choice? I got 3% spell failure with no robe and maxed attack spells. But then, i think the % is bugged and it fails more than that lol. I guess robe + power gloves... or COP with dex gloves might me good combos? What about displacement? What do you think is better helm of brilliance or the Cornthean (sp? lol) | ||
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crate
United States2474 Posts
If you don't have any ideas for wishes, save them. You can wish for a cockatrice corpse (unless you've genocided them) if you get into a bad situation. One-hit-kills the vast majority of enemies in the game. Otherwise magic markers are always good unless you managed to blow up all your blank scrolls too. Or jumping boots, since they're crazy overpowered (the only "balancing" factor really is that they're annoying to use) ... though I guess if you have speed boots jumping is maybe not a big enough improvement to be worth a wish. Helm of brilliance is the best helm unless you think helm of telepathy is better (which in some cases it probably is). | ||
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Jonoman92
United States9105 Posts
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gameguard
Korea (South)2132 Posts
Just cleared out castle level. Couple floors ago, I exploded a fireball on myself and lost 2 blessed genocide scrolls that i was saving (also burning my helm and COP in the process) ... damn im making so many mistakes but overall still in good shape somehow. I think i still have 1 or 2 blessed genocide and 2 cursed genocide. There was some nurse that was refusing to leave my minetown lol but due to being naked for her heals, I lost 2 lvls to some random wraith .... Also I must have dried out like 20 fountains without a single good outcome from it. I got mass cursed from fountain 2 times which almost got me killed once when my blessed bag of holding got cursed (made me stressed and i didnt know what became so heavy all of a sudden). So I can finally get a wish. I guess ill just wish for helm of brilliance and save the rest. I have one blessed charging scroll so no need to waste a wish for taht. Also i tried to erodeproof something I was wearing and endedup removing the proof from my speedboots. I thought it was blessed scroll of destroy armor lol. I seriosuly need enchant armor scrolls, god i have so many scrolls but none of these. Polypiling didnt give me any also. Edit: Oh i didnt know polying spellbooks made them unreadable for refreshing ur spells. Oh god, Im losing all my early spells with no way to learn it again | ||
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myopia
United States2928 Posts
Getting most of your inventory cursed is just as likely as summoning a water demon - which, should you get a demon, it's very unlikely they'll give a wish. I never drink from fountains, it's infinitely safer to #dip some item you don't really care about. | ||
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gameguard
Korea (South)2132 Posts
Ive actually got 2 wishes so far from the first 5 floors. Both times i died shortly after because I didnt know wtf i was doing. But yea, water mocasins and angry water demon got me killed so many times, but those chars were just starting out so it doesnt matter. Anyways... right now my biggest problem is that Ive spent so much time doing random shit and farming and micromanaging my damn inventory that Im losing all my spells lol. I literally lost 70% of it. I dont even have magic missle any more T_T... I didnt know how spellbooks worked so i read them once and polied all of it in the early game. So i had a bunch of spells that i couldnt use due to being low lvl. Now im high enough to use them but im losing them all lol. I will probably wish for magic markers next time i play on this guy. | ||
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gameguard
Korea (South)2132 Posts
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crate
United States2474 Posts
On September 26 2011 04:14 gameguard wrote: i might have to wish for a magic flute,... thats sad. Stupid unicorn horns dont ever turn into something useful :/ Why do you need a flute? You've already cleared the castle, so just go blow up the drawbridge with a wand of striking or force bolt. (The only real use for instruments is to just kill everything in the castle via drawbridge-crushing, except for their wand-like effects.) | ||
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gameguard
Korea (South)2132 Posts
oh i ment magic whiste | ||
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
And there's an epic thunderstorm outside. I'm terrified of loading my save. | ||
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myopia
United States2928 Posts
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gameguard
Korea (South)2132 Posts
Im crusing through gehemon right now. Went down to the last floor but i missed the invocation stuff cus i couldnt find the tower and vlad's place lol. 2 big mistakes though. I thought umber hulks can dig through all walls but that wasnt the case. So i wished for magic whistle and reverse genocided them to try and make a path in nonteleport maps to ease my ascention. It turns out they cant break non diggable walls... One time i got weak in gehemon and was lazy so i prayed, and my +5 robe got disintegrated. Wasted another wish for a new robe cus i didnt feel like poly piling, 2 wishes left now lol. Im pretty much invincible right now, I totally overprepared but I just want to make sure i ascend. On a side note, I started a new game with a monk, and started quaffing fountains, got a wish on first floor, wished for orb of fate at lvl 1, got blasted and died lol | ||
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
Uhm, sadly I've never gotten this far in the game, since I used to be pretty impatient when I was playing as a kid. (Still am, really, but better.) Any suggestions aside from having a blindfold before thwacking her? Oh, and how do I reduce my blasted weight? I'm not really carrying around that much stuff that's actually heavy, but even with my bag of holding and gauntlets of power, I'm running pretty close to burdened. | ||
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myopia
United States2928 Posts
 Medusa is useless if you have reflection. No blindfold needed. Is your BoH blessed? Are you carrying a ton of gold? Gold is useless by this point in vanilla nethack, as long as you've bought 9+ protection. Ditch it all. Spellbooks are also really heavy, so stash them and give them another read before your start the ascension run. | ||
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
My BoH is just uncursed. Hmm. I think my gold and my 20ish food rations may be eating up a decent portion of my carrying capacity. And maybe my huge stock of potions and scrolls. When you've had so many YASD's in your life, it's easy to packrat. Holy hell, Mjollnir+GoP is godly for this castle drawbridge. -22 AC, with resistance and reflection, just hit lvl 14, cleared the mazes above the castle properly, still have a wish left on my old wand of wishing and I'm about to get the castle one... I might actually beat this bloody game finally. After something like 15 years of playing it off and on. Damn game... my dad was playing it back when he was in college and hasn't beat it either. Bah. Score:1,115,366. Valk, Lawful, Wizard's Tower Treasure Zoo, Petrified by a frigging sergeant waving around a cockatrice corpse. Ran out of Lizard. Think I'ma start playing on the NAO server now that I've got a good run under my belt. | ||
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myopia
United States2928 Posts
If you're looking for good config files, I really like mine: http://alt.org/nethack/userdata/f/forklift/forklift.nh343rc Particularly the curses interface. 100% slicker than your standard tty. Also, I give up on DCSS. I've been playing it on and off for a year - I just don't find it half as fun as NetHack. Back to Slash'EM for me - gonna ascend a lawful human flame mage next. | ||
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
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PassiveAce
United States18076 Posts
On September 28 2011 13:31 JingleHell wrote: If I slap up a sports and games OP for Nethack tomorrow, will you gents give it some love? yes sir I will take a look, but I would appreciate some pics. | ||
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