Boots of speed everywhere

Timo Pietilä · May 14, 2014, 19:18

Is it just me imagining things or has the ratio of speed boots gone up in 3.5? I seem to find those more often than any other ego-boots. I think I haven't seen any boots of FA yet, but I have seen 10+ BoS (+7 is the best, three of those). All of this before 3000'.

AnonymousHero · May 14, 2014, 19:54

How many different games/lives have you played? (What I'm hinting at is that it may just be a fluke.)

Timo Pietilä · May 14, 2014, 20:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by AnonymousHero

How many different games/lives have you played? (What I'm hinting at is that it may just be a fluke.)

Maybe it is a fluke. That's why I'm asking. Like me finding Ringil in pretty much every game for about a year when I started playing angband.

"Why is everyone saying Ringil is rare? I find it in every game"
"You lucky bastard"

Derakon · May 14, 2014, 20:16

I don't feel like they're any more common now than they used to be, for what it's worth. I've played a few games on 3.5 nightly builds...though, ironically, none after it actually got released.

AnonymousHero · May 14, 2014, 21:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by Timo Pietilä

Maybe it is a fluke. That's why I'm asking.

Of course. Being the "proprietor" of possibly one of the luckiest characters in Angband history I can certainly understand

.

I just wanted to point out the (potential) fallacy of expanding one's own experience to everybody.

(Btw, doesn't the game collect stats these days?)

debo · May 14, 2014, 21:35

I played 3 comp characters up to about DL50 / CL30 and didn't find a single anything of speed

(The last two were very hard divers, though.)

Thraalbee · May 14, 2014, 21:40

I have played two and a half comp characters and found more boots of stability than speed. And speed only quite late. Boots of FA least common of the three but that may be due to the quick descent before BoS become in depth

Estie · May 14, 2014, 21:57

They are more common at deep levels. Fizzix changed that by making the better egos more common at depths (or the low egos less common which amounts to the same).
At levels 90+ ego boots will most likely be speed, ego helms telepathy and ego weapons HA or Gondolin etc.

Edit: before 3000 ? Thats a frequency spike.

Timo Pietilä · May 15, 2014, 06:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by debo

I played 3 comp characters up to about DL50 / CL30 and didn't find a single anything of speed

(The last two were very hard divers, though.)

OK, balance has been restored

Zane314 · May 15, 2014, 19:26

On my current character I've found two Boots of Speed in shops - +3 and +6, and I just found a +8 in the dungeon (around 2600').

Definitely a lot of variance in availability.

May 14, 2014, 19:18	#1
Timo Pietilä Prophet Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Climbing up from hole I just dug. Posts: 4,096	Boots of speed everywhere Is it just me imagining things or has the ratio of speed boots gone up in 3.5? I seem to find those more often than any other ego-boots. I think I haven't seen any boots of FA yet, but I have seen 10+ BoS (+7 is the best, three of those). All of this before 3000'.

May 14, 2014, 21:35	#6
debo Veteran Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 2,393	I played 3 comp characters up to about DL50 / CL30 and didn't find a single anything of speed (The last two were very hard divers, though.) __________________ Glaurung, Father of the Dragons says, 'You cannot avoid the ballyhack.'

May 14, 2014, 21:57	#8
Estie Veteran Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Germany Posts: 2,077	They are more common at deep levels. Fizzix changed that by making the better egos more common at depths (or the low egos less common which amounts to the same). At levels 90+ ego boots will most likely be speed, ego helms telepathy and ego weapons HA or Gondolin etc. Edit: before 3000 ? Thats a frequency spike. Last edited by Estie; May 14, 2014 at 22:03.

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