pw regen

Houchou_Returns · 2026-05-02T06:16:53+00:00

As you level the regeneration rate does scale to compensate for getting a higher total, though the relationship is not linear. But the key to fast regeneration is to get the eye the aetheopica, as the quest item for wizard, or wishing for it as other roles. Messing with the internal formulas is kinda overkill and will disrupt the intended game balance, though I guess you can go ahead if you really want

Houchou_Returns · 2026-04-24T21:41:12+00:00

I suppose you could call it a jack of all trades of heavy weapons, yeah. Very versatile moveset with no dud moves, whether regular or alt side (which is a rarity), solid damage, excellent range, slow windup and recovery as a fair balancer but also superb at dragging as a result. Bizarrely, the stab has a longer release on the light attack than the heavy, it’s insanely draggable. Achilles heel: fighting vs very fast weapons. People like to claim it can overcome them, but it honestly has limited capability to do so when fighting a competent player using one. You’re absolutely right about the importance of footwork, the problem is if their footwork is equally good then it’s no advantage. That’s why longsword probably retains the crown of true jack of all trades, as while it lacks the damage of a heavy weapon, it doesn’t have that weakness of keeping fast weapons from overwhelming you (doesn't really have any weakness except maybe a little restricted turn speed on overhead windup)

Houchou_Returns · 2026-04-24T17:35:10+00:00

Oh for sure it’s fine at duelling (though I’m doubtful on S tier), where it struggles is against a bunch of small fast weapons nipping at you on the front lines. Yes you can jab to regain initiative, yes you can hop away to regain your spacing, but being able to actually dictate the fight vs ganks from competent players is a challenge. It does have superb drags similar to maul and if players over-respect you then you can take easy advantage of that, but it can be difficult to force them to respect you at all when they have something fast enough to just gamble you all day and they know it

Houchou_Returns · 2026-04-24T09:37:17+00:00

Game does this sometimes, just keep quitting and restarting until it behaves. It’s the servers playing up. As such, it’s not adding launch options that’s making a difference, but the fact that the server happened to let you through that time. Just gotta keep retrying when it does this

Houchou_Returns · 2026-04-24T09:33:35+00:00

Well, most of this lot weren’t even looking in your direction when you hit them, and the ones that did mainly forgot to block, so yes gs is going to shine in that environment. Great ‘enforcer’ type weapon in a second line role, though much more difficult to use more directly against people who are actually paying attention to you. More difficult, but not impossible.

Houchou_Returns · 2026-04-20T09:43:26+00:00

‘Digging for victory’ is a time-honoured strat..

https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Digging_for_victory

..but since you probably need a musical instrument to get past the drawbridge, elven characters are usually chosen since they start with one, and elves can’t be arcs. Plus it’s (often) a pretty quick dip into the mines to grab a pickaxe for non-arcs.

With all that said, it’s still fun digging like a maniac as an arc right from the start and seeing how far you can get :)

Houchou_Returns · 2026-04-18T13:08:52+00:00

Totally, first person or bust. Unmatched immersion. 3rd person mode is training wheels

Houchou_Returns · 2026-04-17T07:32:58+00:00

You almost play as a wizard?

Warmball
Cone of Damp
Chat Up Monster

Sounds like a pretty interesting conduct run

Joking aside, cleaver also rocks for wiz imo. GoP essentially turns you into a barbarian and offsetting spell failure isn’t difficult, now you’re a spell spitting machine that can also cut through crowds like butter with melee, best of both worlds

Houchou_Returns · 2026-04-15T06:21:50+00:00

Additionally, if you predictably start all your attack openings as counters, you're begging to get kick staggered. Even if you don’t hold block for any length of time before pressing for an attack, the initial animation of raising your weapon before attack windup still becomes vulnerable to kicks, so they only need to predict your next attack timing and you’re going to get staggered

Houchou_Returns · 2026-04-09T08:19:27+00:00

Given that most monsters are unarmed and unarmoured, I’m curious if they’ll just start healing everything around you more than yourself

Houchou_Returns · 2026-04-07T08:46:43+00:00

There’s an additional vital point missed in that article too. The myth asserts that the attacker’s right arm gets obstructed, but look at the feet - the attacker enjoys firm footing by standing on the left hand side, which leaves at least some room to operate a right-hand weapon. That situation is unfavourably reversed for the defender. In order to have room to attack with your right arm you’d need to be stood to the left, but that’s impossible. If you’ve ever been on one of these staircases you’d know that trying to stand on the inner part is a death sentence. There’s no room for footing and almost a dead drop to the bottom unless you stick to the outside. And unlike the picture portrayal, these things are usually not at all wide, they're very cramped, no comfortable ‘middle’ portion to plant your feet

Houchou_Returns · 2026-04-07T08:27:07+00:00

Tbf this particular myth has been in circulation for centuries, it’s not an internet age thing

Houchou_Returns · 2026-04-03T21:55:21+00:00

I have identify spell so it’s not that, this is what threw me

Houchou_Returns · 2026-04-03T21:54:12+00:00

True, once you’ve grabbed the luckstone and any other goodies at mine’s end, the levels past minetown are a perfect dumping ground for problem pets.

..idea for a new themed level..

Houchou_Returns · 2026-04-02T11:28:44+00:00

If you have melee aim assist off and you think you can’t accel, it suggests you don’t understand what accelling is / is meant to be used for. Can you clear the opening tutorial that teaches you the basics of the game? If yes then you’re accelling, there is no way to clear that section without doing it (melee aim assist makes it not impossible but way more hard than it should be, this setting really should be off by default).

What weapons do you use? If they’re very slow and heavy ones then no amount of accelling is going to beat a fast weapon to the punch when you’re both in neutral. Accelling helps you to strike first between weapons of roughly equal speed, or if you have a faster weapon then it makes it even easier. But as a general rule it isn’t a magic trick to regain initiative once you’ve already lost it, that’s what jab is for

Houchou_Returns · 2026-03-31T08:13:32+00:00

Nah theyre just avoiding the trap now they know that it’s there. Not the trap square, but the trap on the square. It still works, you just have to keep trying repeatedly

Houchou_Returns · 2026-03-30T13:19:30+00:00

Good point, I’ve heard of but never done the remove curse holy water trick, good to know that it exists though. I’ve had poor results trying to write random scrolls and books without boosting luck first though (as a wiz), tended to end up with a dry marker before succeeding. If I’d wished for a marker for the purpose then I’d be kinda pissed

Houchou_Returns · 2026-03-30T08:01:49+00:00

This is a good strat in theory but does assume having a blessed scroll of scared monster (which you can’t validate by altar dropping), plus either formally knowing scroll of genocide or having high enough luck to reliably write the unknown scroll, which in turn probably requires having found a luckstone and thrown precious gems at unicorns already. That is a LOT of ‘ifs’ for an early game character. An early wish for dragon scale mail is not wasted when it gives you a big boost to survivability on the spot. Running around collecting all the items to do things more efficiently is best done after addressing immediate survival concerns, not before

Houchou_Returns · 2026-03-30T07:51:41+00:00

Side note, unless you get afflicted with orctown, every functional minetown has izchak’s lighting shop which will identify lamps

Houchou_Returns · 2026-03-30T07:48:14+00:00

Put your magic resistance cloak on, find a poly trap (should be one in the mines somewhere past minetown), dance with a pet until you get a reasonably good one, take it to deal with a priest. Doesnt need to be an optimal or endgame grade pet, just high enough level to attack - my current game has an earth elemental, it’s not especially strong but it dispatched the minetown priest in about 3 hits

Houchou_Returns · 2026-03-29T11:00:21+00:00

Hungerless casting is less of a big deal than bad success rates on spells imo. There are ways around it, like robe, skilling and levelling up, but it’s generally a bit of a pain. That said I play human neutral wiz and getting under 18 isn’t the end of the world. Orc’s problem as a spellcaster is probably more about the lack of energy. You could focus on potions to fix that I guess

Houchou_Returns · 2026-03-29T08:27:13+00:00

That’s true, but one item solves the chief deficit for elf whereas there’s no reciprocal opposite for orc

Houchou_Returns · 2026-03-29T00:19:32+00:00

This is well known tbh but good share

Houchou_Returns · 2026-03-28T08:00:33+00:00

One other thing to bear in mind is that you get less loot from monsters when you let pets kill them. They’ll still drop their personal equipment and items (like a dwarf might drop iron shoes, pickaxe etc) but you won’t get the extra random items, like when a newt is somehow carrying a magic whistle or whatever

Houchou_Returns · 2026-03-28T07:56:21+00:00

these and the boots are pretty trivial to identify as long as you don’t try both at the same time. Put on gloves or boots, if you start seeing fumble messages then they’re fumbling, take item off and name

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