How to get a new BoH?

Adam Hartman

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Jul 20, 2012, 12:33:51 PM7/20/12

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Ok, I have an awesome Wiz game going, but I typoed and exploded my BoH w/ a wand of Cancellation (I know, I had it named and everything...stuff happens). I have a wand of polymorph in my main inventory. What items, if any, can I polypile to get another BoH? Sokoban is done and had an amulet of reflection.

Janis Papanagnou

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Jul 20, 2012, 2:14:38 PM7/20/12

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On 20.07.2012 18:33, Adam Hartman wrote:
> What items, if any, can I polypile to get another BoH?

Best from magical tools, I think; unicorn horns may be available in
sufficient quantities as polymorph fodder. Other magical tools are
too scarce I suppose. (There's a minor chance for a random finding,
and also for polypiling non-magical tools, AFAICT.)

Janis

Adam Hartman

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Jul 20, 2012, 2:43:32 PM7/20/12

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On Friday, July 20, 2012 1:14:38 PM UTC-5, Janis wrote:
> On 20.07.2012 18:33, Adam Hartman wrote:

> > What items, if any, can I polypile to get another BoH?

>
> Best from magical tools, I think; unicorn horns may be available in
> sufficient quantities as polymorph fodder. Other magical tools are

> too scarce I suppose. (There's a minor chance for a random finding,

> and also for polypiling non-magical tools, AFAICT.)
>
> Janis

Thanks Janis. I thought uni horns would go to BoH, but I wasn't sure. Is it worth blessing the horns first? Will that help my chances?

-Adam

Doug Freyburger

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Jul 20, 2012, 3:33:37 PM7/20/12

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Adam Hartman wrote:
>
> Ok, I have an awesome Wiz game going, but I typoed and exploded my
> BoH w/ a wand of Cancellation (I know, I had it named and
> everything...stuff happens). I have a wand of polymorph in my main
> inventory. What items, if any, can I polypile to get another BoH?

Polymorph works by object class. Tools get polymorphed into ther tools.
Gather every tool you've encountered so far into the piles. Reserve
tools you know you'll want or that you might want like a couple
unihorns, a couple pickaxes, a couple blindfolds. Otherwise toss in as
many tools as you can find. Untrap all landmines and bear traps to have
as many tools as possible for the polypile. I only keep one beartrap
for a couple of levels later in the game.

One thing I'm not sure about - With armor there are non-magical and
magical armor items. The magical ones are far more likely to polymorph
into other magical types so I put every elven cloak and elven boots I
can find into an armor polypile. Tools come in magical and non-magical
items as well. I don't know if they follow similar chances as armor.
Just in case I gather as many unihorns as I can and toss all but two in
the pile.

If you're going to polypile may as well do that with all other object
classes as well.

Zyanai

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Jul 20, 2012, 3:44:01 PM7/20/12

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On Friday, July 20, 2012 1:33:37 PM UTC-6, Doug Freyburger wrote:
> Adam Hartman wrote:
> >
> > Ok, I have an awesome Wiz game going, but I typoed and exploded my
> > BoH w/ a wand of Cancellation (I know, I had it named and
> > everything...stuff happens). I have a wand of polymorph in my main
> > inventory. What items, if any, can I polypile to get another BoH?

>
> Polymorph works by object class. Tools get polymorphed into ther tools.

> Gather every tool you've encountered so far into the piles. Reserve
> tools you know you'll want or that you might want like a couple

> unihorns, a couple pickaxes, a couple blindfolds. Otherwise toss in as
> many tools as you can find. Untrap all landmines and bear traps to have
> as many tools as possible for the polypile. I only keep one beartrap
> for a couple of levels later in the game.
>

> One thing I'm not sure about - With armor there are non-magical and

> magical armor items. The magical ones are far more likely to polymorph
> into other magical types so I put every elven cloak and elven boots I
> can find into an armor polypile. Tools come in magical and non-magical

> items as well. I don't know if they follow similar chances as armor.

> Just in case I gather as many unihorns as I can and toss all but two in
> the pile.
>

> If you're going to polypile may as well do that with all other object
> classes as well.

Elven boots are far too precious to poly'pile. Most of the levels I convene have elven boots lying in neat patterns around the floor in the shape of semicolons and capital Ps.

G-Mon

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Jul 20, 2012, 5:04:21 PM7/20/12

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On 20 Jul 2012, Zyanai <snakesblo...@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:5c78da84-d3d5-4bc4...@googlegroups.com:

> Elven boots are far too precious to poly'pile. Most of the levels
> I convene have elven boots lying in neat patterns around the floor
> in the shape of semicolons and capital Ps.

Meh, elven boots (and cloaks) are redundant with a number of roles
(Archaeologists, Rogues, and Valkyries, to name a few), and (esp. if
you're not an elf) there are usually more than enough to meet your
needs for any given game.
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