Re: Legends: Item Info (given and wanted)

From: griffith@xcf.Berkeley.EDU (Jim "The Big Dweeb" Griffith)

Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1993 19:24:12 +0000

In article <1993Feb28.231532.15171@ifi.unizh.ch> aiko@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (aiko gieskens) writes:
>Id 806 Staff of the Dead
>  +720% AF  SA ?? Inv +1/Dam +12, Only for followeres of Gorgoroth.
>ID 1036 Collar of the Unicorn
>  Spell Charm Monster (id has slipped me) at str 30.
>Id 607 Bracelet of the lion.
>Id 1136 Curse of the Dracon.
>Id 562 Ascension of Power {book}
>Id 831 Sceptre of Volkanar

A couple of notes on this list.  First off, it's apparently for COA (Gorgoroth
is a COA deity, and the stats on #0806 are significantly different from RTI's
#0806 Staff of the Dead).

Second off, INV/DAM is *NOT* an additive quality.  The weapon does *not* give
+1 INV and +12 DAM.  For INV/DAM, you get whatever gives you the highest INV
and whatever gives you the highest DAM.  So for instance, if you have a
netherworld character (INV/DAM 2/2) with a Shield of Vol (INV 3) and a Sword
of Flame (DAM 10), your character's INV/DAM would be 3/10 (shield gives highest
INV, sword gives highest DAM).

Also note that while there are exceptions, by and large, weapons give DAM,
armor gives INV, and statuses give both.  I would doubt that the Staff of the
Dead gives any INV bonuses - you may have just equipped with better armor right
then.  But like I said, there are exceptions.

Also FYI, supernatural statuses are treated as if they were items.  So if you
are keeping an item database, item #0373 is "netherworld status".  Races are
also stored this way (item 0204 is "dwarf").  My guess is that there's a
hidden "status item slot", as well as a hidden "race item slot", which allows
MG's code to figure out things like MR, SAR, INV, and DAM by running through
the character's items list.  At least, if I were MG, that's the way I'd do it
(well, not really - I'd do it in C++).

Jim

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References

Legends: Item Info (given and wanted)
aiko@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (aiko gieskens)
Sun, 28 Feb 1993 23:15:32 +0000

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Legends: Item Info (given and wanted)
aiko@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (aiko gieskens)
Sun, 28 Feb 1993 23:15:32 +0000