What are the odds?

[Gwarl]

Originally Posted by hyperdex

Has the idea of a museum ever been floated around here? It would be a building where you could donate objects. You'd never be able to use the object again, but you could stop by the museum and "see" the objects. I would use it for unwanted artifacts, and there's a part of me that would also like to have a room with a complete set of dragon scale mails. The museum could be a building like any of the others in town, or (even more fun) it could be a dungeon like set of rooms that allow for dropping objects (but not picking them up) so you could arrange your "exhibits" the way you want.

Some variants already have one.

[Sky]

Originally Posted by hyperdex

Has the idea of a museum ever been floated around here?

more times than you can imagine.

[Derakon]

Berserk Strength increases your to-hit at the cost of some of your AC. It also slightly heals you and makes you immune to fear effects -- though warriors already get protection from fear at level 30.

Berserk Strength does not actually increase your STR score or otherwise impact your stats

[Pete Mack]

If you add all the buffs together (Berserk, Heroism, Bless), you get +32 (internally +96) to_hit bonus. This would take a DL 50 warrior (~300 internal to_hit, and +150 bonus) from 450 to_hit to 542. Against Sauron, this corresponds to a 5% absolute increase in hit probability (74% to 79%) vs. Morgoth, or an effective damage increase of 7%. Against Sauron, it's +6% absolute hit probability and +9% relative damage.

For a priest (or Mage) in combat or with archery, the difference is much, much higher. I always felt Mage really should get Heroism at dl 40 or so, just as a convenience. (At that level, I am nearly always using a ton of archery, and end up with inventory management problems from carrying buffs.)

[Moving Pictures]

Originally Posted by hyperdex

Quick update: This character ended up a WINNER!

I made the Fingolfin/Narya change suggested here and accumulated about 35 potions of *Healing*/Life. I never found a better weapon than Aglarang, but it was enough.

For the final battle I read ProtEvil and sped myself up. I would use a potion whenever I was below 700 HP, and I used 4 banishment scrolls when Morgoth summoned demons/dragons. I ended up only needing about 10 potions to beat him.

What fun!

I have found that Rune really buggers Morgoth up.

[brbrbr]

Originally Posted by Pete Mack

If you add all the buffs together (Berserk, Heroism, Bless), you get +32 (internally +96) to_hit bonus. This would take a DL 50 warrior (~300 internal to_hit, and +150 bonus) from 450 to_hit to 542. Against Sauron, this corresponds to a 5% absolute increase in hit probability (74% to 79%) vs. Morgoth, or an effective damage increase of 7%. Against Sauron, it's +6% absolute hit probability and +9% relative damage.

For a priest (or Mage) in combat or with archery, the difference is much, much higher. I always felt Mage really should get Heroism at dl 40 or so, just as a convenience. (At that level, I am nearly always using a ton of archery, and end up with inventory management problems from carrying buffs.)

Oh, I did not know it, completely ignored these spells... Thanks Pete!