Difference between revisions of "Ring of sustain ability"
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You could use it to fix your stats if you abuse them a lot (bad idea). A similar effect can be had by saving and restoring every 800 moves. | You could use it to fix your stats if you abuse them a lot (bad idea). A similar effect can be had by saving and restoring every 800 moves. | ||
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| + | This ring can also be used to raise your [[Strength]] to its racial maximum, provided that you have a large number of low-nutrition comestibles (such as [[meatball|meatballs]]). You first get your [[Nutrition]] status to Hungry, and then: | ||
| + | 1) Put on the ring of sustain ability; 2) Wait until your hunger status changes to Weak; 3) Remove the ring of sustain ability; 4) Eat a meatball (or enough meatballs to go from Weak to Hungry); 5) Repeat steps 1 through 4 until your strength reaches its racial maximum. | ||
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| + | This works because step 2, which would normally reduce your Strength by one, will not affect your Strength because of the ring, and step 4 will increase your strength by one. | ||
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| + | This might be especially useful for characters who start with low Strength and the [[Spellbook of stone to flesh|Stone to Flesh]] spell, such as [[Healer|Healers]], and may be considered a form of [[farming]]. | ||
==Identification== | ==Identification== | ||
Revision as of 08:28, 19 August 2011
Wearing a ring of sustain ability gives you the sustain ability property, which means that your base attributes cannot go up or down, except by polymorphing into your own race. It is not a good idea to wear this ring for long periods, because it prevents your attributes from being increased through exercise, but if you lack poison resistance, it is useful to wear a ring of sustain ability while eating poisonous corpses to avoid the Strength loss. It can also be used to protect against death by brainlessness caused by a Mind flayer's attacks, though it won't keep you from forgetting maps and item ID's.
You could use it to fix your stats if you abuse them a lot (bad idea). A similar effect can be had by saving and restoring every 800 moves.
This ring can also be used to raise your Strength to its racial maximum, provided that you have a large number of low-nutrition comestibles (such as meatballs). You first get your Nutrition status to Hungry, and then: 1) Put on the ring of sustain ability; 2) Wait until your hunger status changes to Weak; 3) Remove the ring of sustain ability; 4) Eat a meatball (or enough meatballs to go from Weak to Hungry); 5) Repeat steps 1 through 4 until your strength reaches its racial maximum.
This works because step 2, which would normally reduce your Strength by one, will not affect your Strength because of the ring, and step 4 will increase your strength by one.
This might be especially useful for characters who start with low Strength and the Stone to Flesh spell, such as Healers, and may be considered a form of farming.
Identification
A ring of sustain ability can be identified by dropping it down a sink (losing the ring in the process), or by wearing it and doing something which ought to change your attributes like eating a poisonous corpse without poison resistance, eating a tin of spinach, quaffing a non-cursed potion of gain ability, #sitting on a coaligned altar, or applying a cursed unicorn horn. Alternatively, zap a wand of enlightenment and look for the line "You have fixed abilities".
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