A Zangband 2.7.5. question or two....
Paul & Victoria Heisner
Greeting All,
I have been playing VanAng @ FAng and thought I would try a little
ZAng. I have a CL18 Vampire Chaos-Warrior, patron is Balaan. On my
last level up (17), Balaan gave my char more xp which bumped him up to
18 and I don't remember what Balaan said, but my vamp was gifted with
a mutation "Your mind randomly expands and contracts".
Um....now I have an idea of what "Hypnotic Gaze" is (1st mutate) even
though I haven't used it yet, but what in the nine hells does that
other one do/benifit him? At one point in combat I got the msg "your
mind rapidly expands" or some such and nothing seem to happen.
Also, was gifted with a Three Piece Rod (Trump Weapon) (3d3) (+4,65%)
(+1 to perception): Activate for Teleport/*SLAY EVIL*/protection from
evil/Immunity to paralisys/rnexus/slow digest/speed regen. Now what
does the 65% mean? I know it goes to "Deadliness" but is it 65% of the
rolled hit in dam at that time or what?
Also #2, ran down (well swift walk maybe), to dlvl 9 to get store to
get in ? of WoR, didn't want to go too far and have to hike too far
back, and with the exception of a cloak of prot +12 (B gave me one for
+20), a stack of Flight arrows (came up excellent and id as Backbiter
-4,-20! why didn't they come up cursed?), a sm shield of Rcold (3,+0),
rings - RFear/Levetation and a amulet of Sustanance, everything else,
every weapon or armor found or dropped has been regular or cursed.
One Unique dropped some excellent pebbles which I sold early on and I
have seen very few unique re: one or two. I am currently at dlvl 13
am just now seeing an M, mostly its been
rat-things/worms/zots?/skeletons fairly low lvl things and not a whole
lot of them.
Just wondering am I missing something or is this normal for ZA? My kit
is crap for clvl18 IM-not-so-HO.
Thank you all for the help.
Paul C. Heisner
Otto Martin
>I have a CL18 Vampire Chaos-Warrior, patron is Balaan. On my
>a mutation "Your mind randomly expands and contracts".
>Um....now I have an idea of what "Hypnotic Gaze" is (1st mutate)
Actually, a racial power, but they're treated much the same.
>though I haven't used it yet, but what in the nine hells does that
>other one do/benifit him? At one point in combat I got the msg "your
>mind rapidly expands" or some such and nothing seem to happen.
It's short duration (turns equal to your character level) telepathy.
>Also, was gifted with a Three Piece Rod (Trump Weapon) (3d3) (+4,65%)
>Now what does the 65% mean? I know it goes to "Deadliness" but is it
>65% of the rolled hit in dam at that time or what?
It's +65% damage added to the base weapon damage. If you have no other
sources of deadliness, instead of doing 3-9 (3d3) points of damage
you'll be doing 4-14 (3d3*1.65, most likely rounded down).
Deadliness stacks additively, so if you had 65% + 20% + 15% = 100%,
you would be doing double your normal damage.
>I am currently at dlvl 13 am just now seeing an M, mostly its been
>rat-things/worms/zots?/skeletons fairly low lvl things and not a whole
>lot of them.
The town dungeons suck, around or after lvl 10 go find a wilderness
dungeon or kill stuff in the wilderness.
>Just wondering am I missing something or is this normal for ZA? My kit
>is crap for clvl18 IM-not-so-HO.
Buy equipment from the shops, (it's pretty cheap), and scrolls of
teleportation (to get away from nasties in the wilderness). Then go to a
wooden- or tiled-floor dungeon, or caves if you can't find either of
those two.
Or, buy a rod of light and kill troll camps by luring them away one by
one; that's pretty quick exp. Getting them to respawn is sorta cheating,
but I can tell how to do that if you want to.
Otto Martin - dang, looks like ?oArtifact creation can now lower PVAL
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