Artifacts that drain experience

dhegler · September 25, 2009, 15:06

When an artifact says it drains experience, what does it actually do?

d_m · September 25, 2009, 15:08

While wearing the artifact your experience slowly decreases.

Mondkalb · September 25, 2009, 15:11

Most if not all artifacts which drain experience also aggravate. The kills will probably even out the loss of experience.

Marble Dice · September 25, 2009, 15:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mondkalb

Most if not all artifacts which drain experience also aggravate. The kills will probably even out the loss of experience.

Unless you're on dungeon level 5, but I hope that's not the case if you somehow found an xp draining artifact.

dhegler · September 25, 2009, 20:13

Are they really that powerful, comparatively? I can't see ever using one, but it each kill nets you 20k XP at some point and each turn costs you 1 or 2 XP, maybe it is worth it.

Mondkalb · September 25, 2009, 20:25

At least the Palantir is powerful enough.

Hm, there are only five:
http://angband.oook.cz/artifacts.php...=Angband+3.0.6
Unless you are playing with randarts. Depending on game version there may be more.

Djabanete · September 25, 2009, 21:18

I don't know how it is now, but when I played back in 3.0.4 the XP drain could safely be ignored. It was just so slow it didn't matter!

pampl · September 25, 2009, 21:46

It looks like the XP drain effect has a 1/10 chance of going off every game turn (10 game turns = 1 player turn at base speed ~= 3 player turns at speeds around +30) and when it goes off it lowers current XP and max XP by a single point.

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dhegler Swordsman Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 252	Artifacts that drain experience When an artifact says it drains experience, what does it actually do?

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d_m Angband Devteam member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA Age: 43 Posts: 1,517	While wearing the artifact your experience slowly decreases. __________________ linux->xterm->screen->pmacs

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Mondkalb Knight Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 982	Most if not all artifacts which drain experience also aggravate. The kills will probably even out the loss of experience. __________________ My Angband winners so far My FAangband efforts so far

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Mondkalb Knight Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 982	At least the Palantir is powerful enough. Hm, there are only five: http://angband.oook.cz/artifacts.php...=Angband+3.0.6 Unless you are playing with randarts. Depending on game version there may be more. __________________ My Angband winners so far My FAangband efforts so far

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September 25, 2009, 20:13	#5
dhegler Swordsman Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 252	Are they really that powerful, comparatively? I can't see ever using one, but it each kill nets you 20k XP at some point and each turn costs you 1 or 2 XP, maybe it is worth it.

September 25, 2009, 21:18	#7
Djabanete Knight Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 576	I don't know how it is now, but when I played back in 3.0.4 the XP drain could safely be ignored. It was just so slow it didn't matter!

September 25, 2009, 21:46	#8
pampl RePosBand maintainer Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Seattle, WA, USA Posts: 225	It looks like the XP drain effect has a 1/10 chance of going off every game turn (10 game turns = 1 player turn at base speed ~= 3 player turns at speeds around +30) and when it goes off it lowers current XP and max XP by a single point.

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