Scroll of enchant armor
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| Name | enchant armor |
| Appearance | random |
| Base price | 80 zm |
| Weight | 5 |
| Ink to write | 8-15 |
| Monster use | Will not be used by monsters. |
The scroll of enchant armor allows you to raise the enchantment on armor which you are wearing. The scroll chooses at random which armor receives the enhancement. Thus, before reading the scroll, most players normally remove all of their armor except for the piece that they want to enchant.
An uncursed scroll normally raises enchantment by 1 (for example, changing a +0 iron helm into a +1 iron helm), while a blessed scroll can sometimes raise enchantment by 2 or 3. For example, a blessed scroll might raise a +0 iron helm to +1, +2, or +3, and it might raise a +3 iron helm to +4 or +5. However, to avoid vaporising your armor, do not overenchant it. Armor currently at +3 or below is safe to enchant; if you try to enchant armor currently at +4 or more, you might vaporise the armor instead of enchanting it. For some elven armor, the boundary is between +5 and +6. In practice, this means that players with enough scrolls of enchant armor will enchant up to +4 (or +5 if a blessed scroll enchants from +3 to +5). If the message received when enchanting indicates that the item glows for 'a moment', it has received only an enhancement of +1, whilst an increase of 2 or more is signified by glowing for 'a while'.
Reading a noncursed scroll while confused will repair erosion on one piece of armor, and make the armor erodeproof.[1] Reading a cursed scroll when confused will not heal your armor, and will remove erodeproofing if present. Reading a cursed scroll of destroy armor while confused will erodeproof but not repair your armor.
A cursed scroll of enchant armor will actually harm your armor (decrease its enhancement bonus). This is useful if you just have to have that +5 armor but don't want to risk vaporization. However, it's usually better to reduce armor enchantment using the spell of drain life, since the spell doesn't require using up a scroll.
A scroll of enchant armor may also change the BUC status of your armor. A cursed or blessed scroll will cause the armor it affects to become cursed or blessed respectively. An uncursed scroll will uncurse cursed armor.
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References
- ↑ Read.c#line683
