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|[[Cold resistance]] || White || White || ''Many'' || Many "cold" monsters | |[[Cold resistance]] || White || White || ''Many'' || Many "cold" monsters | ||
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| − | |[[Disintegration resistance]] || Black || Black || None || | + | |[[Disintegration resistance]] || Black || Black || None || (baby) black dragon |
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|[[Fire resistance]] || Red || Red || ''Many'' || Many "hot" monsters | |[[Fire resistance]] || Red || Red || ''Many'' || Many "hot" monsters | ||
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| − | |[[Magic resistance]] || ''None'' || Gray || [[Cloak of magic resistance]]<br>Many [[Quest artifact]]s || | + | |[[Magic resistance]] || ''None'' || Gray || [[Cloak of magic resistance]]<br>Many [[Quest artifact]]s || (baby) gray dragon |
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| − | |[[Poison resistance]] || Green || Green || Ring of poison resistance || | + | |[[Poison resistance]] || Green || Green || Ring of poison resistance || Undead, demons, many "poisonous" monsters |
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|[[Shock resistance]] || Blue || Blue || || | |[[Shock resistance]] || Blue || Blue || || | ||
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| − | |[[Sleep resistance]] || Orange || Orange || || | + | |[[Sleep resistance]] || Orange || Orange || || Undead, elves |
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|[[Hallucination]] resistance || ''None'' || ''None'' || [[Grayswandir]] || | |[[Hallucination]] resistance || ''None'' || ''None'' || [[Grayswandir]] || | ||
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| − | |[[Level drain]] resistance || '' | + | |[[Level drain]] resistance || Deep<br>(''[[SLASH'EM]] only'') || Deep<br>(''[[SLASH'EM]] only'') || [[Excalibur]]<br>[[The Staff of Aesculapius]]<br>[[Stormbringer]] || Any undead or demon |
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| − | |[[Stoning]] resistance || ''None'' || ''None'' || || | + | |[[Stoning]] resistance || ''None'' || ''None'' || || Acidic or stone-based creatures (e.g. [[gargoyle]]s, [[stone golem]]s) |
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| − | |[[Sliming]] resistance || ''None'' || ''None'' || || [[Green slime]] | + | |[[Sliming]] resistance || ''None'' || ''None'' || || [[Green slime]], firey (not merely "hot") creatures |
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[[Category:Resistances| ]] | [[Category:Resistances| ]] | ||
Revision as of 03:09, 12 December 2008
Resistances protect you against several harmful effects that you may encounter in the dungeon. A resistance can be either intrinsic, meaning a natural resistance, or extrinsic, meaning a resistance gained by wearing or wielding a certain item. Many intrinsic resistances can only be gained by polymorphing into a certain creature, which is not very convenient.
Intrinsic resistances
One of the most common ways to gain intrinsic resistances is through the eating corpses. Of special note are dragon corpses, as they are guaranteed to give resistances based on their color as specified below, with the exception of yellow, gray and silver. Other monsters also provide intrinsic resistances if their corpses are eaten, details of which can be found in the individual monster descriptions.
Extrinsic resistances
Extrinsic resistance is obtained, by definition, through items. Dragon scale mail and the lower dragon scales provide reliable methods for many resistances. Artifacts also often provide resistances, some of which are hard to obtain otherwise.
Summary
A non-exhaustive table of the resistances and methods to obtain them is as follows:
| Resistance | Dragon corpse | Dragon scales | Item | Polymorph form |
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| Acid resistance | None | Yellow | Alchemy smock | Any acidic-corpse monster (e.g. acid blob) |
| Cold resistance | White | White | Many | Many "cold" monsters |
| Disintegration resistance | Black | Black | None | (baby) black dragon |
| Fire resistance | Red | Red | Many | Many "hot" monsters |
| Magic resistance | None | Gray | Cloak of magic resistance Many Quest artifacts |
(baby) gray dragon |
| Poison resistance | Green | Green | Ring of poison resistance | Undead, demons, many "poisonous" monsters |
| Shock resistance | Blue | Blue | ||
| Sleep resistance | Orange | Orange | Undead, elves | |
| Hallucination resistance | None | None | Grayswandir | |
| Level drain resistance | Deep (SLASH'EM only) |
Deep (SLASH'EM only) |
Excalibur The Staff of Aesculapius Stormbringer |
Any undead or demon |
| Stoning resistance | None | None | Acidic or stone-based creatures (e.g. gargoyles, stone golems) | |
| Sliming resistance | None | None | Green slime, firey (not merely "hot") creatures |
