Forum:Boomerang as ranged weapon?

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I picked up a boomerang yesterday, while playing a archeologist. I think about using boomerangs ranged weapon(although that c was aleady dead :-P).

I think 1d9 damage of boomerangs is nice. Instead they can't be multishot, and using them in melee can break them. In NetHack, to survive, doing 1 on 1 fight on hallway is main strategy, but their tricky track make them use difficult. They can be effective only on fields and corners, not a hallway. And they are quite rare, so training and fighting serveral monsters by few boomerangs are hard!

Do anybody know how to use boomerangs well? their high damage and to-hit bonus are always seduce me!

The trick to using boomerangs effectively is to wish for 20 of them and throw them liberally. Name them "Q" and put AUTOPICKUP_EXCEPTION="<*Q" in the config file, since 99% of them will hit a wall and need to be picked up. If you're in an open area and low on HP and DEX, don't throw them because they'll probably hit you. Boomerangs do only about 1d3 damage in melee (plus STR bonus) regardless of enchantment, because they're coded as a projectile, not a melee weapon, just like wielding a +7 arrow. Yhelothar (talk) 19:52, 25 August 2014 (UTC)