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wizard polearm skill question

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SteveYo

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Aug 9, 2022, 8:57:19 PM8/9/22
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Long-time vanlla nethack player here.
I've been playing an extinctionist wizard. The character is long-since level 30 (4700 HP), but I still have at least one skill slot (attempting to enhance shows three choices offered).

I want to become skilled or a least basic in polearm (currently unskilled). So I'm wielding a halberd, and have scored many more than the requisite 20 hits, but the game is not showing the polearm skill as enhance-able.

I even used drain life to increase the number of open skill slots, but polearm is still not enhance-able.

What am I missing?

Michael Meyer

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Aug 10, 2022, 6:05:28 PM8/10/22
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SteveYo <steven...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to become skilled or a least basic in polearm (currently
> unskilled). So I'm wielding a halberd, and have scored many more than
> the requisite 20 hits, but the game is not showing the polearm skill
> as enhance-able.

Are you using the polearm in the intended way (wielding it, then
'a'pplying it and selecting a spot to hit) or are you just wielding it
and moving into a monster, like you would to attack with most weapons?
The latter doesn't train the skill I think, only if you are actually
applying it and going through the special polearm attack sequence.

By the way, I see five subtly different copies of your post on rgrn,
it's like a spot the differences puzzle. I just picked one to reply to
more or less at random.

- Michael


Janis Papanagnou

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Aug 10, 2022, 6:06:11 PM8/10/22
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On 10.08.2022 02:57, SteveYo wrote:
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> I want to become skilled or a least basic in polearm (currently
> unskilled). So I'm wielding a halberd, and have scored many more than
> the requisite 20 hits, but the game is not showing the polearm skill
> as enhance-able.

Has your polearm proficiency status meanwhile changed?

Janis

SteveYo

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Aug 12, 2022, 2:41:08 PM8/12/22
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Yes! That was it, thank you. I knew I was missing something!
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