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Darren Grey wrote:
> "Stephen White" <fake_email_address@fake_domain.com> wrote:
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>>Michal Brzozowski wrote:
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>>>A mithril warhammer of devastation (+2, 6d3+9) (unpaid, 3496gp) (48s) is
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>>>Not a very devastating damage dice. Why is it so low?
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>>Perfectly normal. A mithril warhammer is (+0, 2d3+3) normally, and then
>>"of devastation" gives +4 damage dice, +6 damage.
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>>Something like an eternium mace, base (+0, 2d6+8), would be much more
>>deadly if it had the "of devastation" suffix.
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> Or a "wicked staff of smiting of devastation" if the game let named weapons
> have the prefixes and suffixes - that would do 8d37 + 8 damage - that's
> somewhere between 16 and 296 damage each round before modifiers... Alas, I
> can but dream...
It doesn't. Daggers of deaths, whips of the snake, maces of destruction,
none of that kind of thing can get any ego modifiers.
> Being realistic the best non-artifact weapon the game could generate would
> be a "wicked large eternium warhammer of devastation" (I think that's
> possible - I may be wrong) - 9d10 + 16 damage - it would on average cause
> about 8.5 points of damage per hit more than the ToTRR (though obviously
> without having the Mana and slaying bonuses) and could of course be
> dual-wielded. *drools* Of course, the chances of a large eternium warhammer
> having this combination of suffixes and prefixes is 1 in 48000 if you're
> level 50, but it's likely to happen to someone at some point...
I think that would be possible. See this page:
http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~houeland/adom/
In particular, the "Wishing for eternium spears" link.
IIRC, they wished for 50000, and amongst the results are:
4 wicked eternium spears of devastation (+2, 6d11+14)
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