Blue dragon scale mail - Revision history

Umbire the Phantom: /* Strategy */ be more specific

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‎Strategy: be more specific

Umbire the Phantom: /* Strategy */ word choice

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‎Strategy: word choice

Umbire the Phantom: pothole

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pothole

Umbire the Phantom: note spheres

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note spheres

Umbire the Phantom: /* Generation */ playermon

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‎Generation: playermon

Umbire the Phantom: /* dNetHack */ man

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‎dNetHack: man

Umbire the Phantom: why me

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why me

Umbire the Phantom: I'm gonna die bro

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I'm gonna die bro

Umbire the Phantom: fucking---

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fucking---

Umbire the Phantom: forgot a pothole...

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forgot a pothole...

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 ==Strategy==
 {{main|Dragon scale mail}}
-Blue dragon scale mail is rarely used by most characters, since [[reflection]] is sufficient enough to protect a character against many forms of [[shock]] damage, and ranged attacks or another source of shock resistance can protect from many of the rest. [[Pudding]]s and [[gelatinous cube]]s in particular may confer shock resistance to a character before they meet a source of non-reflectable shock damage, and other sources of the property (e.g. the [[ring of shock resistance]]) will often be encountered before blue dragons or their scales.
+Blue dragon scale mail is rarely used by most characters, since [[reflection]] can protect a character against the [[wand of lightning]] and the [[Lightning (monster spell)|lightning]] [[monster spell]], and ranged attacks or another source of shock resistance can help avoid or protect from many other types of shock damage. [[Pudding]]s and [[gelatinous cube]]s in particular may confer shock resistance to a character before they meet a monster that deals non-reflectable shock damage, and other sources of the property (e.g. the [[ring of shock resistance]]) will often be encountered before blue dragons or their scales.
 {{upcoming|NetHack 3.7.0|Blue dragon scale mail is much more likely to be considered for characters since it confers extrinsic speed and shock resistance: they both gain a valuable source of shock damage protection for their inventory, especially against revamped [[shocking sphere]]s, while also potentially freeing up their [[boots]] slot for other options; blue dragon mail may be the best option for certain builds that do not use body armor for reflection or [[magic resistance]] and/or are not as concerned about [[magic cancellation]].}}

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 ==Strategy==
 {{main|Dragon scale mail}}
-Blue dragon scale mail is rarely used by most characters, since [[reflection]] is sufficient enough to protect a character against many forms of [[shock]] damage, and obtaining shock resistance can protect from the rest. [[Pudding]]s and [[gelatinous cube]]s in particular may confer shock resistance to a character before they properly encounter non-reflectable forms of shock damage, and other sources of shock resistance (e.g. the [[ring of shock resistance]]) will often be encountered before blue dragons or their scales.
+Blue dragon scale mail is rarely used by most characters, since [[reflection]] is sufficient enough to protect a character against many forms of [[shock]] damage, and ranged attacks or another source of shock resistance can protect from many of the rest. [[Pudding]]s and [[gelatinous cube]]s in particular may confer shock resistance to a character before they meet a source of non-reflectable shock damage, and other sources of the property (e.g. the [[ring of shock resistance]]) will often be encountered before blue dragons or their scales.
 {{upcoming|NetHack 3.7.0|Blue dragon scale mail is much more likely to be considered for characters since it confers extrinsic speed and shock resistance: they both gain a valuable source of shock damage protection for their inventory, especially against revamped [[shocking sphere]]s, while also potentially freeing up their [[boots]] slot for other options; blue dragon mail may be the best option for certain builds that do not use body armor for reflection or [[magic resistance]] and/or are not as concerned about [[magic cancellation]].}}

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 ==Strategy==
 {{main|Dragon scale mail}}
-Blue dragon scale mail is rarely used by most characters, since [[reflection]] is sufficient enough to protect a character against many forms of shock damage, and obtaining shock resistance can protect from the rest. [[Pudding]]s and [[gelatinous cube]]s in particular may confer shock resistance to a character before they properly encounter non-reflectable forms of shock damage, and other sources of shock resistance (e.g. the [[ring of shock resistance]]) will often be encountered before blue dragons or their scales.
+Blue dragon scale mail is rarely used by most characters, since [[reflection]] is sufficient enough to protect a character against many forms of [[shock]] damage, and obtaining shock resistance can protect from the rest. [[Pudding]]s and [[gelatinous cube]]s in particular may confer shock resistance to a character before they properly encounter non-reflectable forms of shock damage, and other sources of shock resistance (e.g. the [[ring of shock resistance]]) will often be encountered before blue dragons or their scales.
 {{upcoming|NetHack 3.7.0|Blue dragon scale mail is much more likely to be considered for characters since it confers extrinsic speed and shock resistance: they both gain a valuable source of shock damage protection for their inventory, especially against revamped [[shocking sphere]]s, while also potentially freeing up their [[boots]] slot for other options; blue dragon mail may be the best option for certain builds that do not use body armor for reflection or [[magic resistance]] and/or are not as concerned about [[magic cancellation]].}}

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 Blue dragon scale mail is rarely used by most characters, since [[reflection]] is sufficient enough to protect a character against many forms of shock damage, and obtaining shock resistance can protect from the rest. [[Pudding]]s and [[gelatinous cube]]s in particular may confer shock resistance to a character before they properly encounter non-reflectable forms of shock damage, and other sources of shock resistance (e.g. the [[ring of shock resistance]]) will often be encountered before blue dragons or their scales.
-{{upcoming|NetHack 3.7.0|Blue dragon scale mail is much more likely to be considered for characters since it confers extrinsic speed and shock resistance: they both gain a valuable source of shock damage protection for their inventory, while also potentially freeing up their [[boots]] slot for other options; blue dragon mail may be the best option for certain builds that do not use body armor for reflection or [[magic resistance]] and/or are not as concerned about [[magic cancellation]].}}
+{{upcoming|NetHack 3.7.0|Blue dragon scale mail is much more likely to be considered for characters since it confers extrinsic speed and shock resistance: they both gain a valuable source of shock damage protection for their inventory, especially against revamped [[shocking sphere]]s, while also potentially freeing up their [[boots]] slot for other options; blue dragon mail may be the best option for certain builds that do not use body armor for reflection or [[magic resistance]] and/or are not as concerned about [[magic cancellation]].}}
 ==History==

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 ==Generation==
 Blue dragon scale mail is not randomly generated. Reading a non-cursed [[scroll of enchant armor]] that targets worn [[blue dragon scales]] will convert them into mail, with a blessed scroll adding a point of [[enchantment]].
 ==Description==

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 ===dNetHack===
 {{main|Dragon armor (dNetHack)}}
-In [[dNetHack]] and [[notdNetHack]], worn blue dragon scale mail additionally confers drain resistance.
+In [[dNetHack]] and [[notdNetHack]], worn blue dragon scale mail additionally confers speed.
 ===FIQHack===

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 ===UnNetHack===
-In [[UnNetHack]], dragon scales and dragon scale mail have randomized powers each game - to [[wish]] for dragon armor or scales by its corresponding power, either type of armor must be formally identified first, e.g. by using a [[scroll of identify]] on dropped dragon scales (which identifies the matching scale mail along with it) or by witnessing the dragon use its breath weapon. Only wishes from a [[wand of wishing]] can create dragon scale mail directly.
+In [[UnNetHack]], dragon scales and dragon scale mail have randomized powers and [[Randomized appearance|appearances]] in each game - to [[wish]] for dragon armor or scales by its corresponding power, either type of armor must be formally identified first, e.g. by using a [[scroll of identify]] on dropped dragon scales (which identifies the matching scale mail along with it) or by witnessing the dragon use its breath weapon. Only wishes from a [[wand of wishing]] can create dragon scale mail directly.
 Blue dragon scale mail is effectively replaced by '''electric dragon scale mail''', which confers only 5 base AC like all dragon scale mail in UnNetHack.

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 ===FIQHack===
-In [[FIQHack]], worn blue dragon scale mail additionally confers extrinsic speed and [[Slowing resistance|protects against sources of slowing]].
+In [[FIQHack]], worn blue dragon scale mail additionally confers extrinsic speed and [[Slowing resistance|protects against sources of slowing]]. It also weighs 300 aum like all dragon scale mail in FIQHack (which is halved while worn).
 ==References==

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 ===SLASH'EM===
-In SLASH'EM, [[gnoll chieftain]]s have a {{frac|10}} chance of generating with blue dragon scale mail.{{refsrc|makemon.c|705|version=SLASH'EM 0.0.7E7F2}}
+In [[SLASH'EM]], [[gnoll chieftain]]s have a {{frac|10}} chance of generating with blue dragon scale mail.{{refsrc|makemon.c|705|version=SLASH'EM 0.0.7E7F2}}
 ===SporkHack===