July 19, 2009, 01:55
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Advice Request: Slime Pits
I've lost way more characters and items to slime pits than I care to admit.
Can you provide me with some advice on how best to deal with these? |
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July 19, 2009, 01:59
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July 19, 2009, 02:04
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July 19, 2009, 03:14
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I don't think you're even missing out on much in the way of lame items. No ijm, except the gelatinous cube has ever carried anything at all in Vanilla AFAIK, and gelatinous cubes don't carry anything special.
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July 19, 2009, 03:27
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July 19, 2009, 04:13
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At best: Jelly pit gives some xp
At almost worst: Jelly pit damages your armor, lowers your stats and level, and burns up your books and scrolls. (EDIT) and freezes some potions and shocks some wands/rods. At worst: You're rolling another @. |
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July 19, 2009, 04:42
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July 19, 2009, 05:09
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I would also like to add that for high level characters like my LCC3, animal zoos are also not worth the bother. I just skipped one.
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July 19, 2009, 07:58
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If you absolutely must lower your turns/xp, turns/gold, and turns/cool items ratios, the simplest way to handle these is ball spells. It is critically important not to release anything mobile prematurely. Wands of Heal Monster actually have some use in this respect. Wands do not count. A large stack of rods of ball spells does count, but the plausibility of acquiring such while the time spent on a jelly pit doesn't cause worse monsters to spawn is pretty minimal. All of this assumes that you actually can open the door without exposing yourself to unacceptable risk, such as magic mushroom line of sight. Do include monster hockeypucks in these calculations. |
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July 19, 2009, 16:05
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