Difference between revisions of "Wide-angle disintegration beam"
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If you are still engulfed, the disintegration beam will hit the engulfing monster instead. This occurs when the monster is shock resistant. In vanilla NetHack, the only engulfing monsters with shock resistance are [[energy vortex|energy vortices]], which are also disintegration-resistant, so the disintegration beam will have no effect. | If you are still engulfed, the disintegration beam will hit the engulfing monster instead. This occurs when the monster is shock resistant. In vanilla NetHack, the only engulfing monsters with shock resistance are [[energy vortex|energy vortices]], which are also disintegration-resistant, so the disintegration beam will have no effect. | ||
| − | Otherwise, the beam will strike you. First, your shield, cloak, body armor | + | Otherwise, the beam will strike you. First, your shield, cloak, and body armor will be disintegrated, unless they provide reflection or disintegration resistance. Then, if you are wearing a shirt and no body armor or cloak, it will be disintegrated (a shirt worn under [[silver dragon scale mail]], for example, would not be disintegrated). |
If you do not possess [[disintegration resistance]] the beam will then kill you outright, though you will survive if you have life saving. Note that reflection will ''not'' save you, though it might save some of your armor as described above. | If you do not possess [[disintegration resistance]] the beam will then kill you outright, though you will survive if you have life saving. Note that reflection will ''not'' save you, though it might save some of your armor as described above. | ||
Revision as of 05:45, 26 February 2015
A wide-angle disintegration beam is the most powerful attack that an angry god can make against you.
When you anger a god, he/she will sometimes strike you with a lightning bolt from the heavens (see Anger#Smiting). This attack would normally kill an adventurer outright. However, if you have shock resistance, reflection, life saving, or are engulfed by a monster, you will survive the bolt. If this occurs, the god will follow up with a wide-angle disintegration beam.[1]
If you are still engulfed, the disintegration beam will hit the engulfing monster instead. This occurs when the monster is shock resistant. In vanilla NetHack, the only engulfing monsters with shock resistance are energy vortices, which are also disintegration-resistant, so the disintegration beam will have no effect.
Otherwise, the beam will strike you. First, your shield, cloak, and body armor will be disintegrated, unless they provide reflection or disintegration resistance. Then, if you are wearing a shirt and no body armor or cloak, it will be disintegrated (a shirt worn under silver dragon scale mail, for example, would not be disintegrated).
If you do not possess disintegration resistance the beam will then kill you outright, though you will survive if you have life saving. Note that reflection will not save you, though it might save some of your armor as described above.
