Acid

[Narvius]

Originally Posted by guanlongwucaii

Having multiple monsters breathe = more keystrokes.

If you have a large enough screen simply open up a term window with messages and enable auto-more. It's how I play, and it seriously makes the game better. Especially once you start tossing Meteor Storms into dragon pits.

[Timo Pietilä]

Originally Posted by Derakon

However, whenever a piece of armor is hit by acid (and one will be by every acid attack, assuming you've filled all equipment slots and each piece of armor still provides some AC), the damage you yourself take by the attack is halved. Thus, a full set of armor is effectively a form of acid resistance.

That is assuming it actually inflicts damage to that gear or would have inflicted if it didn't have ignore_acid flag. A metal shield [5,-5] does not reduce acid damage (and it will not get damaged any further either. You wont get [5, -6] as result of acid damage).

[Derakon]

Originally Posted by Timo Pietilä

That is assuming it actually inflicts damage to that gear or would have inflicted if it didn't have ignore_acid flag. A metal shield [5,-5] does not reduce acid damage (and it will not get damaged any further either. You wont get [5, -6] as result of acid damage).

That's why I said the armor must still provide some AC. Alchemist's Gloves [0, +0] also won't take any acid damage and won't halve your HP damage, oddly enough.