Talk:Dragon scale mail

This article suggests making money by reverse genociding for dragon scale mail to sell in shops. From my experience as a player, I can't imagine any situation when this strategy would make sense. Early in the game, the dragons are likely to kill you, and late in the game, money is not very useful, whereas a scroll of genocide is an extremely valuable item with many potential uses other than getting dragon scale mail (to say nothing of scrolls of enchant armor, which are also more valuable than gold in the mid game). If nothing else, you can always reverse genocide wraiths (for experience) or nurses (for hit points), and either one is likely to be more useful than money.

Even if you do desperately need money for some reason, a character who can kill a dragon can almost certainly engineer any number of ways to part a shopkeeper from his money. Perhaps the most straightforward method is to have a pet strong enough to kill shopkeepers. That way you get all the gold and all the items, and suffer no penalties for murder. Other methods easily come to mind as well (selling gems, robbing the shop, killing the shopkeeper, etc.). Again, this entire paragraph is purely hypothetical, because I can't imagine any realistic scenario where a character is both strong enough to kill dragons and desperate for money from shops, given the vast quantities of gold that are available in vaults and (in most games) in Fort Ludios. Djao 06:05, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

I agree. I wonder why it was put there in the first place. It makes no sense to reverse-genocide dragons for gold, no matter how you look at it. --Someone Else 09:44, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I removed the sentence advising to sell dragon scale mail for profit, since it isn't good advice. Djao 05:03, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Polymorph Question

I drank a potion of polymorph while wearing Silver Dragon Scale Mail, and the result was that the mail embedded itself into my skin and I became a silver dragon. I haven't been playing long enough to know if this is always (or probabilistically favorably) the case when wearing dragon scale mail, or if I just got "lucky" and polymorphed into a silver dragon by chance. If the former, perhaps we should mention that here?

Thoughts?