Discovered that there was a Wand of BlastWave lying in the floor of floor 14 right as I was ascending with the amulet… Not that I needed it (got a good armor early on and just upgraded it and… Well, if you’ve ever played SPD with a +13 plate armor you know that hard doesn’t enter on its synonyms list) but still, the best wand in the game just laying around? A gnoll probably dropped it after I killed it without even noticing…

  • Drakokam665@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Just speculating, but maybe a gnoll shaman dropped it when you killed him without noticing (“you hear something die in a distance” in chat).

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      6 days ago

      Yes, a shaman dropped it, thats certain, but it couldn’t be while I was ascending, it must’ve been while descending; as monsters while ascending drop no loot. The chat log of an enemy dying isn’t related, as that happened while ascending. I must’ve missed it while descending.

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        6 days ago

        Oh, I actually didn’t know that enemies don’t drop loot when you are ascending… I ascended only a few times.

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    10 days ago

    Am I missing a strategy? I’ve always poured my upgrades into weapons with a few assigned to armor to enable access at lower strength. If your armor was boosted this high, what weapon is effective at hitting later enemies for any damage at all?

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      10 days ago

      Random weapons I find do the job. And the strat you’re missing is this one: you are pretty much inmortal with one of these, except if they hit you with magical attacks, which then becomes your whole objective, to minimize magical attacks