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Hello all, Can any one help me please? I cannot work out the praying ie when, how often and so on! I try praying around every 500 turns and the result seems...
Ian
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Jun 3, 2003
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... you're right, it's not very random. pray less. there is what is called a 'prayer timeout': every time you pray successfully, your prayer timeout goes up to...
(an)drew s
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Jun 4, 2003
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I almost never pray unless: My enlightment list says I can safely pray or... I am lawful, or.... I am about to die Normally I play as a neutral human valkyrie...
Wendy D
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I did not know that you could get an arty farty weapon by killing things and offering them!!! Guess what I am going to do now? Ian the looney Wizard....
Ian
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Jun 5, 2003
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To me it's a must to sacrifice everything in sight at th shopping mall, in the dwarven halls. It's quite hard time if you're not neutral, since I remember that...
TR
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Jun 5, 2003
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Now own one **** of a 'pig sticker' its magic too!!! Still cant work out the praying thing but enjoying the mayhem and destruction all the same. Another...
Ian
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... Stops floating eyes from paralysing you, among other things :) __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus - For a better Internet...
Jane Williams
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... mall, in ... since I ... priest ... artifacts ... quaranteed ... it might ... wishing ... it sounds to me like you're not playing vanilla nethack; there...
(an)drew s
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Jun 5, 2003
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... it keeps you from getting frozen by floating eyes, gelatinous cubes, etc.; insanely useful, far more that you would guess, because it protects you from...
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Personally I like an amulet of reflection. Or a silver shield. The floating eye's gaze freezes it. Or something. Very Zen. Works against wand of death. ... ...
Wendy D
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Jun 9, 2003
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Hello all. Have done the quest. Visited Vlad and conquered. I simply cannot work out what to do next! The level will not allow teleportation - There is a large...
Ian
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Jul 13, 2003
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... go down a few levels until you find one with two up staircases. ... they're the first things i genocide--everything that's an L, if i can manage it. good...
(an)drew s
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Jul 14, 2003
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Does anyone play as a wizard that wants to talk to my daughter about wizard issues? Me I play as a valkyrie, not a magic user, so I am clueless....
Wendy D
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Just sent you an email and it bounced back!...
Wendy D
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... I play wizards: I also die a lot :( Happy to talk about them, though. Maybe we're doing the same things wrong? ...
Jane Williams
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Aug 6, 2003
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... I will talk to her if you like. I am not very experienced but always play wizards. I know a few tricks. Larry...
Larry W. Irwin Sr.
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Aug 6, 2003
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... about ... for general information, you can always read some spoilers: http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~eva/nethack/spoilerlist.html otherwise, if you'd like...
(an)drew s
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Aug 6, 2003
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Wizard... A character of nethack ( among many others ) easily killed ( very easily killed in my case ) Not good at guns or sharp things. Very good at spells...
Ian
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... Me too. ... Can be good at Daggers. Since the first Artifact you get by offering is a dagger (Magicbane), practising before-hand is a Good Thing. Also,...
Jane Williams
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Aug 10, 2003
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... wizards do very, very well with a cornuthaum or a helm of brilliance; either way, a hefty + will help a lot, too....
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... <phenomenologischeontologie@...> wrote: > --- In thenethacklair@yahoogroups.com, Jane Williams ... All very true, but I was thinking of the earlier...
Jane Williams
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Aug 11, 2003
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... oh, yes, then you're right for sure. falling rock traps can be very nasty when you're at low levels without a metal helmet. an orcish helm can be a real...
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Hi, I'm Lord Absinthe, from Spain, and I'm glad to meet you all. I got a question for you, please: 1) I'm playing, in Falcon's Eye Nethack, a Chaotic Wizard...
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Aug 15, 2003
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... Hi, ... I don't play Falcon's Eye, only vanilla, so can only answer on that basis. ... What melee or missile weapons do you have? And what's your armour...
Jane Williams
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Aug 16, 2003
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Hello nethack denizens, I guess here comes my annual (about :) message. Falcon's Eye looks very much like having a regular nethack of the according version...
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Aug 19, 2003
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Hi All, I've decided I need to improve my game strategies. Can anybody offer tips on: Lowering your AC? I tend to get to about -1 and not much lower. This ...
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Hi Justin, ... I guess until you get to the scrolls of enchant armor your best bet is to try *every* uncursed armor you can find. Pets and altars are a great...
flamewise
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... find ... find ... how about a cloak? a shield? you're right to think that scrolls of enchant armor are going to be very useful to you--they're maybe the...
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Aug 24, 2003
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Ok, so I've been fascinated by Nethack since about 1990, but have only regularly played now that I have it on my Toshiba PPC handheld. I'm still relatively new...
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Aug 24, 2003
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Well... I died. Ate a gnome, got food poisoning, died. That'll teach me. Poor lichcat. I had even managed to have my life saved by an amulet. Well, at least...
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