User:Chris/dNetHack/Pointers
Monsters
Watch out for team B! Crows are dangerous for the same reason ants are: they come in large numbers and are relatively fast.
Vampire life drain is much more dangerous than in vanilla: It ignores MC. Use the Circle of Acheron to keep Vampires out of melee.
Armor
Remember that there is a guaranteed set of crystal plate mail in Vlad's Tower.
Robes now only grant MC2, not 3.
Plate mail and bronze plate mail grant MC3, and can be enchanted to +7.
Crystal plate mail grants MC2, but can be enchanted to +14.
Wards
Ward off team 'a' with the Sign of the Scion Queen Mother.
Ward off team crow with the Cartouche of the Cat Lord or a Dreprun stave.
Protect yourself from gaze attacks with the Hamsa Mark.
Counter Enemy Spells
Keep at least two lizard corpses in your open inventory. Keep as many as possible in your bag of holding.
Keep a means of removing heavy iron balls on hand at all times.
Alignment Quests
Quests start easy and get harder. It is always safe to explore the first level of an alignment quest branch as soon as you find it.
The Neutral quest is harder than the other two.
Lawful and chaotic players will find their own quests to be somewhat easier.
The Chaos quest has a big jump in difficulty at the very end.
Ranged Attacks
Unlike in vanilla, some form of ranged attack is highly recommended in dNethack. Here is a selection of ranged attack options for each role (does not include darts, javelins, or spears).
- Archeologist: Basic attack spell, Skilled sling, Expert boomerang
- Barbarian: Skilled dagger, Skilled bow
- Binder: Any
- Caveman: Skilled bow, Expert sling, Basic attack spell, Expert boomerang
- Convict: Skilled dagger, Skilled sling, Basic attack spell
- Healer: Skilled dagger, Skilled sling, Skilled shuriken
- Knight: Expert polearms, Expert lance, Skilled crossbow, Skilled attack spell
- Monk: Expert shuriken, Basic attack spell
- Noble: Skilled bow, Skilled attack spell
- Elf Noble: Skilled bow, Skilled lance, Skilled attack spell
- Drow Noble: Skilled crossbow, Skilled attack spell
- Dwarf Noble: Skilled dagger, Skilled bow
- Priest: Skilled polearms
- Drow Priestess: Skilled polearms, Expert attack spell
- Pirate: Skilled dagger, Expert crossbow, Basic attack spell
- Rogue: Expert dagger, Expert crossbow, Skilled shuriken
- Ranger: Expert dagger, Skilled polearms, Expert bow, Expert sling, Expert crossbow, Skilled shuriken, Expert boomerang
- Samurai: Expert naginata, Skilled polearms, Skilled lance, Expert bow, Expert shuriken, Skilled attack spell
- Tourist: Expert boomerang, Lots of wand charges
- Valkyrie: Expert bow, Expert attack spell, Mjolnir
- Wizard: Skilled crossbow, Expert attack spell
