Wisdom

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Wisdom is an attribute in NetHack.

Effects

Healers, Knights, Monks, Priests, and Valkyries use Wisdom to cast spells. Wisdom is not particularly important to other classes, though it affects how fast your power regenerates (which is fairly important for roles like the Wizard in particular) and how much power you gain when leveling up.

Wisdom is one of the easiest stats to maximize, with many activities that exercise it, including engraving Elbereth (with correct capitalization) and successful searching. It can also be increased by sleeping with a foocubus. ("You will always remember the <foo>cubus..."')

Messages

You feel wise! You must have been very observant.
Your wisdom has increased through exercise.
You feel foolish! You haven't been paying attention.
Your wisdom has decreased through abuse.

Exercising and abusing wisdom

Wisdom is exercised by the following:

Wisdom is abused by the following:

References

  1. spell.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 336
  2. spell.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 355
  3. spell.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 808
  4. priest.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 472
  5. priest.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 493
  6. attrib.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 327
  7. attrib.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 353
  8. zap.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1862
  9. spell.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 859
  10. spell.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 869
  11. zap.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 2454
  12. zap.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1802
  13. polyself.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 340
  14. polyself.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 565
  15. polyself.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 918
  16. quest.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 90
  17. quest.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 249
  18. quest.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 261
  19. quest.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 266
  20. trap.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 3504
  21. trap.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 3570
  22. potion.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 480
  23. potion.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 529
  24. fountain.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 243
  25. potion.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 647
  26. potion.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 653
  27. detect.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 282
  28. detect.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 384
  29. detect.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 951
  30. potion.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 858
  31. potion.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 878
  32. potion.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1824
  33. potion.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1855
  34. rumors.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 129
  35. rumors.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 170
  36. rumors.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 373
  37. dokick.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 918
  38. dokick.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 988
  39. fountain.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 561
  40. write.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 179
  41. o_init.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 319
  42. shk.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 3919
  43. read.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 655
  44. mhitu.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 2342
  45. pray.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1116
  46. pray.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1170
  47. pray.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1383
  48. pray.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1481
  49. fountain.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 384
  50. pray.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1690
  51. uhitm.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1180
  52. uhitm.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1560
  53. fountain.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 145
  54. fountain.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 487
  55. fountain.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 225
  56. fountain.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 305
  57. fountain.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 311
  58. teleport.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 536
  59. engrave.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 373
  60. music.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 541
  61. detect.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1136
  62. detect.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1232
  63. detect.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1193
  64. detect.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1203
  65. detect.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1211
  66. eat.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1635
  67. end.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 373
  68. spell.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 989
  69. spell.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1017
  70. priest.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 661
  71. attrib.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 322
  72. attrib.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 357
  73. steed.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 93
  74. sit.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 75
  75. trap.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 3066
  76. potion.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 508
  77. potion.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 519
  78. potion.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 878
  79. potion.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1824
  80. potion.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1838
  81. rumors.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 373
  82. write.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 105
  83. read.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1119
  84. mhitu.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1114
  85. mhitu.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 2300
  86. artifact.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 545
  87. pray.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1173
  88. pray.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1407
  89. pray.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1680
  90. uhitm.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 799
  91. fountain.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 373
  92. fountain.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 450
  93. fountain.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 469
  94. dig.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 770
  95. engrave.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 541
  96. pickup.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 1324
  97. music.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 424
  98. music.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 429
  99. music.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 462
  100. rumors.c in NetHack 3.4.3, line 129