Rookie dark knight

Apr 27, 2008, 5:30 pm

#1

giant spider

Joined: Apr 26, 2008
Posts: 14

I found a ring of polymorph and decided to wear it after few messages I got polymorphed into a rookie dark knight, hp 110 str 24 only ch and wiz drop down.

I"ll try continue wear the ring, at least this game is a little fair play and balanced!

Apr 27, 2008, 7:46 pm

#2

angel

Joined: Dec 2, 2007
Occupation: Big Daddy
Location: Under a pile of my own offspring
Interests: Caves
Posts: 612

you're gonna die soon

Apr 27, 2008, 8:59 pm

#3

giant spider

Joined: Apr 26, 2008
Posts: 14

Yes an no, yes as always, no, not because of this. I enjoyed the morphing only during one fight the became a sort of frog and came back to normal and removed the ring. I didn't really died of fighting, just lost the 2 arms from f... ill, couldn't pray nor fight (well I hadn't realized I had kick) and died soon.

I don't think this game can be win but with a lot of luck or with crap and very very special tactics and no hints to find them but blind attempts.

Apr 27, 2008, 11:33 pm

#4

angel

Joined: Dec 2, 2007
Occupation: Big Daddy
Location: Under a pile of my own offspring
Interests: Caves
Posts: 612

The game can be won but it takes a while to learn all the tricks. Challenging and fun. I love this game. I just wish the developers would contiue with the project.

Apr 28, 2008, 9:05 am

#5

kobold lord

Joined: Dec 18, 2007
Location: Vault 42
Posts: 129

The game scales its difficulty based on your stats, so getting poly'ed into something you consider powerful (like your dark knight) will spawn something that will probably own you in a couple of rounds. In extreme cases, this will spawn Ischaldirch (Izzy), IVAN's own version of the Wizard of Yendor.

I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. -- Steven Wright.

Apr 28, 2008, 3:05 pm

#6

hedgehog

Joined: Apr 26, 2008
Posts: 9

Lot of things other than polymorph also do that... Named weapons and I believe certain amulet/armor pieces (the upper ones, dragon hide, AoLS) can alter the scales upwards dramatically as well. I always notice a significant change in the monsters upon finding an AoLS, though they don't seem to get much stronger <_<;

Apr 28, 2008, 6:39 pm

#7

skeleton warrior

Joined: Apr 7, 2008
Location: USSR
Posts: 258

If you poly into something and get a couple of levels and poly back, i say u have to man up and go as far as you can.

Apr 29, 2008, 6:06 pm

#8

giant spider

Joined: Apr 26, 2008
Posts: 14

I feel that body parts damages higher a lot the random. It divides number of damages you can receive. If that's all along the game because the game applies a strict scaling of the difficulty that should rise a lot the whole random.

Ha well.