Memorable ego items

[Derakon]

Meanwhile, I tend to recommend the opposite: a half-troll warrior. Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead! You may well die quickly from an undetected monster, but getting a new character to the deeps is very fast.

[Sky]

Hmm ... i find half-orc rogue to be the easiest class to level up. And maybe half-orc warrior.
On 4.1.3 then half-orc blackguard is really all you need to win. Maybe. Depends on the shield bash nerf, i havent played in 5 months.

Mage is the class i most easily die with when high level; tele self, gravity hounds, #ded.

Dunedain Ranger 4.1.2 or earlier is the easiest win character: buy 40 CLW, 10 food, and 5 Mage1. Grind DL5~10 until you find a red worm mass.
Drop your recall scrolls, let them breed, kill 3000 of them. BAM! CL20+ and double bow damage.

Buy a longbow of power, and you are ready for morgoth.

[Pete Mack]

Oh, ugh. Farming is just a hopelessly boring way to level up (if you must farm, use black oozes to get a bit of loot out of the process.)
You are better off using magic devices to do damage. A few light rods will take out tons of trolls and orcs.

[Thraalbee]

FrogComponsband weaponmaster Polearms. As usual drops are wrong weapon type. I played with a +2 then +6 standard weapon until I found this.
Five brands, resist fire and poison, and light. Quite an upgrade!

a) a Broad Spear (Craft) (2d11) (+7,+2) {FiPo;Lu|AEFCoP}
Dropped by an Algroth on level 27 of Orc cave.
Identified: Day 8, 11:00, at CL 24.

Hand #1: a Broad Spear (Craft) (2d11) (+7,+2)               Accuracy
 Weight : 10.0 lbs                                            AC Hit
 Profic : Beginner (+8 To Hit)                                25 88%
 To Hit : 7 + 21 = 28                                         50 80%
 To Dam : 2 + 14 = 16                                         75 73%
 Blows  : 3.90                                               100 66%
 Damage                                                      125 58%
 Crits  : 1.07x (5.4%)                                       150 51%
 Normal : 111 [1.07x]                                        175 44%
 Acid   : 180 [2.56x]                                        200 36%
 Elec   : 180 [2.56x]                                        
 Fire   : 180 [2.56x]                                        
 Cold   : 180 [2.56x]                                        
 Poison : 180 [2.56x]

[Ugramoth]

What are the chances of this:

Dagger of *Slay Animal* (+3, +7) <+2>:
Dropped by a battle-scarred veteran in town

+2 intelligence
Slays animals
Speeds regeneration


I did not bring that up from deep and drop it for him. He really had it

[Derakon]

That's pretty good, and not at all common! Reminds me of the time that Farmer Maggot dropped a Holy Avenger dagger for me. I still remember it, 20-odd years later.

[Grotug]

Wow, I did not know townspeople could carry things better than 24gold pieces or scrolls of darkness.

[Nick]

Reminds me of this.

[fph]

Originally Posted by Grotug

Wow, I did not know townspeople could carry things better than 24gold pieces or scrolls of darkness.

Farmer Maggot has a guaranteed good drop (=at least armor with a plus to AC).
He can be killed even at very low level, but it takes a while; it's maybe the only situation where I recommend holding a key down, and even if you do that when he's at one star he'll start running away and circling through stores.

[Grotug]

Originally Posted by fph

Farmer Maggot has a guaranteed good drop (=at least armor with a plus to AC).
He can be killed even at very low level, but it takes a while; it's maybe the only situation where I recommend holding a key down, and even if you do that when he's at one star he'll start running away and circling through stores.

I meant other than Farmer Maggot. I kill him all the time for some useless "good" item. But I don't recall a non-unique townsperson every dropping anything useful.