What was the item on your early x-9 level ?

[Ugramoth]

Ring of speed +6
Not mind-blowing but good start.

[Pete Mack]

a +6 speed early is huge. It lets you hack and back, or it increases your damage (of any type) by 60%. Stealth while walking goes up, too.

[Ugramoth]

This got insane:
Level 19, the opposite numbers, 9-2. Don't know yet what the 9 is, probably a pit and I don't know if I want to hang around to find out because this happened:

Ring of Speed <+10>:
Dropped by an orc archer at 950 feet (level 19)

[will_asher]

A rod of healing.
not bad, but I was hoping for something more fun (like that speed ring), when I saw the 9 treasure feeling.

[Estie]

Rod of healing is a disappointment. I might store it for later use.

[will_asher]

Last time it was the last Nature spell book. And I'm a druid, so that's nice, but I can't use it for a while. (and I have never gotten far enough as a druid to be able to use it, but I am doing pretty good this game. -knock on wood. EDIT: nevermind, I died.)

Then I found another 8-9 level, but an imp told me to go to another level before I found what was there. (Did they always have telelevel?)

[Estie]

8-9 isnt great news, for two resons:

1. It probably means a vault and early on that is not something you want to deal with early, unless you happen to have accsess to (a good amount of) TO.

2. It is also more likely to comprise of a multitude of items with rating which individually might not be all that great.

[Sky]

Found some boots of speed +9 on DL21 and the level feeling was 2-6.

I also found the dream of every nerd here, a Ring of the Mouse (0,-3) {+3,+4}
even with +3 DEX is still didnt raise my DPS, but hey.

[will_asher]

4-9 feeling on dL15, was excited to see what I'd find. Turns out to be a Adamantine plate mail (+0). another disappointment.

[Thraalbee]

That early the high AC may actually be useful