Re: I need some help lowering my AC in the mid-game
- From: "Doug Freyburger" <dfreybur@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 21 Nov 2005 12:01:06 -0800
James Of Tucson wrote:
>
> You don't need gold. You can lower your AC much further by sacrifice.
> You just need to make a whole lot of sacrifices. And it helps
> immensely to do it before you're crowned.
>
> One admittedly abusive trick I have used, together with sacrificing
> black puddings (hardly a "sacrifice"), is to manage luck.
>
> #offer just to "reconciliation". Drop the luckstone. Then do
> something that will lower your luck by 1. Then #pray. The chances are
> much better that you'll get a point of protection. You can get your
> naked AC down to -127 or -128 this way. You can get less spectacular
> numbers without really spending all that much time doing it,
> particularly if you can avoid being crowned.
The formula for prayer results uses your current luck number to seed
a random number and divides the result by 2. So consequative pairs
of luck have the same result chances: 1/2, 3/4, 5/6, 7/8 and so on.
The key is knowing the exact list of results (nothing, golden glow,
light blue aura, intrinsic that ends up being protection after a bunch
of entries, blessed spellbook, crowning IIRC) and their exact order
and when crowning becomes possible. Once you know the luck
number that makes crowning possible you have your target luck
number. Count clovers to know your exact luck.
It's hard because you can leave the altar to fetch a monster, be gone
long enough for your prayer timeout to reach zero, and see an extra
clover. So not only do you need to know how to chose your target
luck you need to know how to *reduce* your luck deliberately.
> Because of this exploit, I consider an altar near the sokoban entrance
> with a sink on the same level to be too tempting to pass up. Maybe
> better than finding a wand of wishing on the first square. I'm totally
> serious.
I don't get why that particular combination, in agreed in general.
Once
you know create-monster spell or other source of vast numbers of
corpses any level with an altar becomes an AC decreasing machine
as easily as it becomes an artifact-vending machine. Interesting that
those two take completely different strategies. One limiting luck, one
ignoring luck and letting it peg at max.
.
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