Which bracers do you recommend? + a few ?'s.

[Berserker]

FOOD SHORTAGE IN THE TOTHK!
Ok, so lately my little dude seems to be tearing through food. I got the spell, "Strength of Atlas," and it seems like it's going to help me out, unfortunately I have no food and my guys food intake seems to have jumped up considerably, even though I stay below burdened 90% of the time. Does food intake go up as the game progresses? Anyway, I have no food, I am basically staying on UC 4 and UC 5, as they have decent regen rates and I am just able to avoid starvation with the random corpse or food stuff that gets dropped. Now, I used to save myself from the no food crisis by casting, "Summon Monster," but it is all the way at "W" when I go to my spell list, and for some reason spell "W" can NEVER BE CAST! The "W" key on my computer works, as you can see, but not when I am casting spells. It works when I want to check my weapon skill levels or see my melee damage, but not in the spell menu. It is killing me, and leaves me depending on corpses and food drops, as I stated above, which BARELY keeps me alive. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can do here? I don't have any more prayers left to use for divine satiation and I am out of ideas. Please, please, please, please, please advise/assist. Thank you ahead of time!

Your close attunement to corrupted astral space allows teleportation.
Your corrupted tissue seems to heal much faster.
You have become extremely thin and nimble (1/2 weight, DV: +6).


Total weight: 3671 stones Carrying capacity: 40150 stones

Head : uncursed hat [+0, +3] [4s]
Neck : uncursed ankh [3s]
Body : uncursed red dragon scale mail (-1, -4) [-1, +13] [220s]
Girdle : eternium girdle [+0, +4] [12s]
Cloak : blessed cloak of defense [+3, +0] [20s]
Right Hand : blessed lead-filled mace "Big Punch" (+1, 8d5+3) [-6, +0]
Left Hand : uncursed tower eternium shield (-1) [+13, +4] [70s]
Right Ring : ring of the High Kings [+2, +3] [1s]
Left Ring : uncursed ring of ice [1s]
Bracers : uncursed bracers of regeneration [+0, +0] [18s]
Gauntlets : uncursed elemental gauntlets (-1, +0) [+0, +3] [10s]
Boots : boots of sneakiness [+0, +0] {Dx+2} [20s]
Missile weapon: blessed long bow of accuracy (+8, +2) [30s]
Missiles : bundle of 41 uncursed arrows (+0, 1d6) [82s]
Tool : blessed stethoscope [5s]


Total weight: 2375 stones Carrying capacity: 40150 stones

Shields ('[')
uncursed tower eternium shield (-1) [+13, +4] [70s]
Gauntlets ('[')
gloves of dexterity [+0, +0] {Dx+2} [6s]
Cloaks ('[')
cloak of defense [+3, +0] [20s]
Girdles ('[')
uncursed girdle of strength [+0, +0] {St+1} [15s]
Boots ('[')
uncursed boots of speed [+2, +0] (+8 spd) [20s]
Necklaces (''')
amulet of perseverance {Wi+3} [3s]
pendant of mana {Ma+2} [3s]
amulet of perseverance {Wi+3} [3s]
One-handed weapons ('(')
uncursed pick axe (+0, 1d6+1) [75s]
uncursed pick axe (+0, 1d6+2) [75s]
adamantium mace (+0, 1d6+6) [72s]
uncursed pick axe of surrendering (+3, 1d6+1) [75s]
knife of endurance (+6, 1d3+6) {To+7} [8s]
Missiles ('/')
bundle of 5 uncursed arrows of slaying (+0, 1d6) [10s]
bundle of 12 uncursed arrows of undead slaying (+3, 2d4+3) [24s]
bundle of 2 blessed arrows of undead slaying (+3, 2d4+3) [4s]
bundle of 17 uncursed arrows of jelly slaying (+3, 2d4+3) [34s]
bundle of 10 uncursed arrows of construct slaying (+3, 1d6+3) [20s]
bundle of 3 uncursed arrows of dragon slaying (+3, 1d6+6) [6s]
bundle of 4 arrows [8s]
Tools (']')
blessed strange item [10s]
uncursed round key [1s]
blessed waterproof blanket [10s]
blessed fireproof blanket [10s]
uncursed small key [1s]
uncursed hexagonal key [1s]
heap of 12 strange items [120s]
climbing set [180s]
heap of 5 fluff balls [10s]
fluff ball [2s]
box with flint and steel (17) [5s]
heap of 4 strange items [40s]
holy symbol [5s]
fireproof blanket [10s]
heap of 2 strange items [20s]
Instruments ('{')
fiddle [15s]
Rings ('=')
uncursed ring of mental stability [+0, +1] {Le+1} [1s]
uncursed ring of invisibility [1s]
uncursed ring of the fish [1s]
ring of slaying (+6 melee damage, +6 missile damage) [1s]
ring of damage [1s]
Wands ('\')
uncursed wand of digging (0 charges) [3s]
uncursed wand of digging [3s]
blessed wand of digging [3s]
uncursed wand of cold [4s]
uncursed wand of digging [3s]
wand of digging [3s]
wand of cold [4s]
Potions ('!')
heap of 2 uncursed potions of cure poison [4s]
heap of 2 uncursed oils of rust removal [4s]
blessed potion of carrot juice [4s]
heap of 11 blessed potions of extra healing [22s]
heap of 6 blessed potions of ultra healing [12s]
uncursed potion of water [4s]
potion of holy water [4s]
uncursed crystal phial [2s]
oil of rust removal [2s]
potion of exchange [4s]
heap of 2 potions of carrot juice [8s]
potion of booze [4s]
potion of potential dexterity [4s]
potion of extra healing [2s]
Scrolls ('?')
scroll of power [2s]
Books ('"')
spellbook of Acid Ball [100s]
spellbook of Bless [100s]
spellbook of Darkness [100s]
spellbook of Knock [100s]
spellbook of Light [100s]
spellbook of Light [100s]
spellbook of Magic Missile [100s]
spellbook of Magic Missile [100s]
spellbook of Scare Monster [100s]
spellbook of Strength of Atlas [100s]
spellbook of Strength of Atlas [100s]
Food ('%')
heap of 17 blessed alraunia antidotes [34s]
heap of 13 uncursed alraunia antidotes [26s]
heap of 2 uncursed herb seeds [4s]
uncursed lump of bee wax [5s]
heap of 2 uncursed seeds [4s]
Valuables ('$')
10071 gold pieces [100s]
Gems ('*')
blue gem [1s]

[nathrakh]

Regeneration if you need to regenerate hp (duh), otherwise use the bracers of toughness.

Also, blessed weapons do x1.5 dmg against demons and undead (same with missiles).


edit: Corrupted tissue corruption also causes scars which reduce your dexterity heavily over time. Farm some moss roots (uncursed/blessed train Dex till 25) for the future too if you plan to keep the corruption.

[Berserker]

Thank you so much for the heads up regarding the tissue corruption. I thought I had lucked out big time with my corruptions, but I can see the loss of dexterity being a problem down the road. I have 10 blessed scrolls of chaos resistance, should I just wipe out all my corruptions? I don't really need them. I believe I will, thanks again. As for regeneration, I restore 1 hp per 61 turns, that is what it says when I cast revelation anyway, is that adequate? Please advise/assist, thank you.

[fazisi]

Keep those corruptions, they are all good as long as you have teleport control and moss to restore the lost Dx.

[Berserker]

All right, I will have to find some more herbs, I ran out at this point, I'll come across some sooner or later, hopefully sooner. My storage spot for all my loot, atm, is the spot you have to teleport to in Dwarftown, to get that artifact axe (I didn't get it this time, perhaps because I'm a wizard?). I'm assuming this spot is safe to leave my loot in, as the guy who gives you the axe left after giving me some goodies, is it? Anyway, I am at this moment retrieving the dead puppy's corpse for the little girl, so any more advise, especially regarding my regen rate, is appreciated. Thanks again.

[nathrakh]

Only lawfuls get the axe.

This is why I like neutrals, they can get the 4 SoCR's like chaotics but don't have the nasty side effects chaotic have (stupid crowning etc.)

[Berserker]

Yeah, with Big Punch, I'm not missing the axe too badly, and the SOCR are much more useful in the long run, how is my regen, btw, 1 per 61 turns? Please let me know, thank you. I need to get food preservation too, that is going to be a side goal of mine for the immediate future. My guy is starving too often, I have had to summon monsters as a tactic to get food all day today. As a matter of fact, I headed east to buy out the village food supplier, but it never lasts long enough now that I'm run out of stomafillia.

[JellySlayer]

Well, considering that you have a healing spell, I think it makes more sense to do toughness, myself.

1 per 61 turns is misleading, that is just your natural regeneration rate due to being an elf. It doesn't include the bracers or the healing skill IIRC. Healing skill at 100 alone is 1 per 8 turns.

[edit]Honestly, you'd probably be best off dual wielding shields on coward and using magic for the rest of the game. There's really no reason for you to ever fight in melee at this point unless you want to. It's fine for clearing out weak mobs, but anything serious you should be using spells.

[Berserker]

I used to always play dual shield on coward setting, with wizards, but not anymore. I enjoy having the ability to melee, use bows and use spells if I run into any trouble. Also, if I play on normal, my shield skill goes up, which it doesn't if I'm running around on coward. Trust me though, if I'm going against some beast of a monster, I can easily throw on another shield switch to coward and blast away with my spells, I just rarely find the need to do so. I like saving my spells also, as much as possible, unless going against a stat drain monster or as I said earlier, some huge adventurer eating beast of a monster.

[Berserker]

Ok, just counted for myself, I gain 1-2 hp per turn w/ the bracers of regen and 1-2 hp per every 2-4 turns without the bracers of regen. Perhaps it is more worth it to keep the bracers of regen on, rather than use the bracers of toughness to gain 20 or so hp.