Mass Identify question (ToME)

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Am 7 Sep 2005 02:36:52 -0700, schrieb pete mack:
>
> Is ToME "listen to the music" at prayer level 30, which IDs everything
> on the level", equivalent to Preserve Mode off? It's not the stuff on
> the floor that worries me; I can scan all the stuff on the floor from
> far away. It's the monsters that I never even see that are of concern.

It also identifies carried stuff. That's the danger of this spell...

> Is un-hero Legendary[2]/Legendary[37] enough for Archer, or do I need
> to spend more skill on fighting and shooting? I've been pretty much
> pure shooting so far, but that was because I was using Westernesse for
> the CON. The edged weapon was hell on accuracy, unless using artifact
> blessed ammo.

As an archer you *should* be mainly shooting.
If you invest most of your remaing skill-points into
'Crossbow-mastery' you should get another extra-shot at 48 and another
+1 to might at 50. That would be nice, don't you think?

Do you know the skill/spell/god-spoilers here:
http://www.killerbunnies.org/angband ?

Juergen

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Some ToME questions...

1 Is there any requirement to kill the Necromancer of Dol Guldur, or
destroy
the One Ring, or can I just go back to 4900' in Angband and kill
Sauron and
Morgoth?

If I actually were to take all the quests or finish the various
dungeons, the
game would be hopelessly mickey-mouse. And I really don't want to
scum for
the One Ring. I'd rather risk having ring-wraiths and Sauron be
summoned.

I kind of like all the little options and bonus magic stuff even for
a
non-magic-user, but there are just too many involved quests. Killing
Maeglin
and such is one thing: level quests are dangerous. Doing a whole
extra
dungeon or two, when I'm already level 50 is a bit extreme. I'm
already past
4M moves, though many of those moves were in town-scumming for ?Phase
Door,
and leaving useless stuff at various houses.

2 I still haven't figured out the magic device system. I've got Heroic
device
capability, but I have pathetic fail rates on staves & wands of
genocide.
They are only useful in preparing for big battles, not for banishing
summoned
stuff during battle. I gave up an extra shot for the low failure
rate on
devices. But that only seems to apply to rods & artifacts. Though
it's still
worthwhile to get low failure rate on rods and artifacts.

3 How is the spell level calculated for a non-caster? I've somehow
inherited
the disciplines of Divination and Mana. Very nice. I'd like to get
the
elemental protection mana spell, so I don't have to wait arond for
colluin.
But I don't know what stats get used for spell level.

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pete mack wrote:
> Sorry about the bad formatting in that last one. I did kill 'the
> necromancer', after realizing that I could recall to a level I'd never
> been to before. But now apparently I have to destroy the ring, which
> has rarity 100 :-(
>

ToME has changed the generation of the One Ring. There are a few monsters
that have 10% chance of dropping it. I once got it from Glaurung.

Sauron has about 30% chance of dropping it, and you now where to find him.
And Sauron will return, unless the One Ring is destroyed or wielded.
Same with Ringwraiths.

So kill Sauron, maybe a few times, and you have the ring.