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- From: dif@bhprtc.scpd.oz.au (David Faulkner)
- Subject: Re: Wish for 1st levl mage
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.231105.27847@bhprtc.scpd.oz.au>
- Organization: BHP Steel, Sheet & Coil, Research & Technology Centre
- References: <1992Nov13.222024.15794@oz.plymouth.edu> <XoBDuB1w164w@cellar.org> <glock.97@chip.cba.ufl.edu> <1992Nov17.221110.24968@cbnewsi.cb.att.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 23:11:05 GMT
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- buie@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (willie.j.buie..jr) writes:
-
- >(David R. Jaracz) writes:
- >
- >>> What do you think is the best wish for a 1st level wizard (or any
- >>> other character)
- >
- >For a starting wizard, I'd *never* wish for gray dragon scale mail. Look,
- >the only reason you wanted gray was so you could have magic resistance,
- >right? And a starting wizard already has magic resistance! Best to go
- >for another dragon intrinsic. I'd take *black* dragon scale mail.
- >
- >Yeah, yeah, flame breath, I've heard all the arguments about cloak of
- >displacement & gray dragon scale mail vs. cloak of magic resistance &
- >black dragon scale mail, but in my playing experience, I've found:
- >
- > 1) if you don't cheat or do "abuses", you can't always count on
- > getting everything you need
- > 2) magic resistance and disintegration resistance are *mandatory*
- > intrinsics, and displacement is not (actually, I'm usually
- > invisible and so heavily protected by the time I hit the
- > castle, I don't even miss displacment if I don't have it).
-
- Disintegration resistance is *NOT* mandatory. REFLECTION is mandatory.
- You need not worry about disintegration if you have reflection, and
- reflection does have benefits beyond protection from disintegration.
- The ideal is magic resistant (via gdsm), displaced, permanently
- invisible and reflective (via shield).
- If you are short on wishes you can do without displacement. So, already
- having gdsm from your early wish, and invisibility being no problem to
- get, all you need is one wish for the shield.
-
- Your black dragon scale mail isn't much good against my flame breath,
- is it! What you need is a shield of reflection. Then again, if you were
- displaced, I might have missed.
-
- -dif-
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- Dave Faulkner, Research Engineer (dif@bhprtc.scpd.oz.au)
- BHP Coated Products Division, Research and Technology Centre
- Port Kembla, New South Wales, Australia.
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