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  • Degrading Scepter of Might?

    From Chris Bowers@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 17 14:50:12 2022
    In nethack 3.4.3 I acquired two early wishes for my lawful priest. I already had GDSM and reflection from sokobon. So I wished for Scepter of Might and it was wonderful.

    HOWEVER

    It got rusty and thouroughly rusty. I thought this wasn't possible, I thought all artifacts were rustproof and corrodeproof. Looking at the wiki though it states if you are GIFTED an artifact it is rustproof and erodeproof.

    Can artifacts erode and get rusty if they are not gifted? What about quest artifacts?

    Elven ranger can name sting on turn 0. If it's named does it erode? What about named vs gifted orcrist?

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  • From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to Chris Bowers on Tue Jan 18 03:11:25 2022
    On 17.01.2022 23:50, Chris Bowers wrote:
    In nethack 3.4.3 I acquired two early wishes for my lawful priest. I
    already had GDSM and reflection from sokobon. So I wished for Scepter
    of Might and it was wonderful.

    HOWEVER

    It got rusty and thouroughly rusty. I thought this wasn't possible, I
    thought all artifacts were rustproof and corrodeproof. Looking at the
    wiki though it states if you are GIFTED an artifact it is rustproof
    and erodeproof.

    Can artifacts erode and get rusty if they are not gifted? What about
    quest artifacts?

    Elven ranger can name sting on turn 0. If it's named does it erode?
    What about named vs gifted orcrist?

    In your case of wishing for artifacts, just wish for "rustproof ...".

    If you find one lying around, use a confused scroll of enchant weapon
    to make it rustproof or fix any existing rust.

    If you name a weapon then the weapon (so I suspect) will get the base
    items status, so I'd just fix it once it gets necessary.

    Janis

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  • From Chris Bowers@21:1/5 to Janis on Mon Jan 17 19:27:27 2022
    On Monday, January 17, 2022 at 9:11:28 PM UTC-5, Janis wrote:
    On 17.01.2022 23:50, Chris Bowers wrote:
    In nethack 3.4.3 I acquired two early wishes for my lawful priest. I already had GDSM and reflection from sokobon. So I wished for Scepter
    of Might and it was wonderful.

    HOWEVER

    It got rusty and thouroughly rusty. I thought this wasn't possible, I thought all artifacts were rustproof and corrodeproof. Looking at the
    wiki though it states if you are GIFTED an artifact it is rustproof
    and erodeproof.

    Can artifacts erode and get rusty if they are not gifted? What about
    quest artifacts?

    Elven ranger can name sting on turn 0. If it's named does it erode?
    What about named vs gifted orcrist?
    In your case of wishing for artifacts, just wish for "rustproof ...".

    If you find one lying around, use a confused scroll of enchant weapon
    to make it rustproof or fix any existing rust.

    If you name a weapon then the weapon (so I suspect) will get the base
    items status, so I'd just fix it once it gets necessary.

    Janis

    Of course. I thought it was ALWAYS rustproof if it was an artifact. That turns out not to be the case! I will wish for rustproof artifacts from now on. I guess this means that "n"aming Sting doesn't create erodeproof artifact weapons either.

    I guess from vanilla D&D I always assumed that artifacts are nigh indestructile.

    -Chris

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