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Rookie
Join Date: Nov 2016
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I'm so dead..
So I just started a character today and found Dethanc as a level 4 on DL 2 with only 1800 moves under my belt. I've just found the Phial of Galadriel as a level 16 on DL 13. I know an insta death is right around the corner..
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Prophet
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 4,457
Donated: $40
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Those are nice. Speed boots are nicer.
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Veteran
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 1,331
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#4 |
Prophet
Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 8,205
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You know, it used to be an unusual game that you didn't find the Phial just sitting around by 500' at worst, and usually by 300'. This would have been back in the 2.8x days, IIRC.
The 'thancs are a different story, not so much because their rarity changed but because they're much more powerful now than they used to be. |
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Knight
Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 578
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I remember more or less stair-scumming for the phial when I first started playing.
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Prophet
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Seattle, WA
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When the detection radius was arbitrarily large, and detect objects wasn't just a rogue spell, it was a lot easier to find wheat among the chaff. I suspect the creation rate is roughly the same, but the discovery rate is significantly lower.
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#7 |
Knight
Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 578
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"You have a special feeling about this level" or something like that- there used to be a level feeling specifically for artifacts. When you were around 3-500 feet, that was pretty much the only artifact you were likely to find. So you enter a level, get the level feeling, rest for 200 turns or whatever it took, then go back up the stairs. Repeat. If you got the feeling, search the whole level.
If the level feeling didn't trigger after a few tries, skip to step 2: get ready to save-scum Wormtongue for that gold dragon scale mail or Glaive of Pain. |
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Prophet
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 4,457
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There still is that feeling if you have preserve mode off.
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Apprentice
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Finland
Posts: 51
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About that special feeling, I do not remember ever finding other artifact on early levels but the Phial. "Special" message was always, "ah, the Phial" for me. |
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Prophet
Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 8,205
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Special level feelings also triggered for jelly pits. Just putting that out there.
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