Re: Dagger of Darkness

From: drhj@v1.astro.cf.ac.uk (Dean Johnson)

Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1993 19:30:46 +0000

In article 406@netcom.com, dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig) writes:
> drhj@v1.astro.cf.ac.uk:
> > 1229 Dagger of Darkness (ROI 1, UK)
> >      USA+UK: Spells 90, 229 at STR 25
> >      Obs UK: +590%AF (approx) on Favoured of Vlanadaran High Elf with Mark
> >              of Evil, +5MAR, when equipped, above spells not available.
>
> As ever, it's the hidden features that matter.  I had a character who
> had the Dagger of Darkness:  It's a nice weapon, but I never got any
> free spells or spell points out of it.  I never did figure out whether
> I needed to be a particular race or religion or status for those
> benefits.  (It just isn't practical to cast three runespells on every
> interesting item.)
>
> I'd consider the +590% figure suspect, btw.  A runeknowledge on this
> item reveals it to have +500% AF and +250% MiAF, with 0% terrain bonuses,
> so the extra 90% is most likely to consist of non-weapon modifiers.
>

Yes, I suspect that there is some AF coming from the Favoured status
but I have not worked it out.  I also agree that the interesting objects
always drop into your hands miles from the characters with the Rune
spells.

Dean

P.S.  Thanks for clearing up the cleared land conundrum, sure makes life
simpler.

References

Re: Legends ROI MEGA items list
dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)
Mon, 05 Jul 1993 23:01:17 +0000