Shouldn't there have been an artifact on this level?

[Chogall86]

So, I was in level 2 of the Dwarven Halls and came across this sucker:

Pasiatrius.jpg


Pasiatrius, the Great Black Wyrm. Doesn't a named monster like that denote an artifact on the level? I didn't find any, at least. There was a tension room of hill giants and ettins and the best loot was like quarrels of construct slaying... What's up with that?

I did end up sacrificing him at that chaotic altar after fighting him for quite some time. Was that artifact lost when he was sacrificed?

[Chogall86]

And that pic is uselessly small X-) Ignore it.

[Spellweaver]

No. Great Wyrms are always named.

[anon123]

When a guarded artifact is generated on a dungeon, you'll see the very rare message "you feel a surge of power". That's a reliable way to tell.

I did end up sacrificing him at that chaotic altar after fighting him for quite some time. Was that artifact lost when he was sacrificed?

If it had actually been a surge of power, no. There is a bug in the game that disables fixed drops (e.g. the black torc) when a monster is sacrificed, but artifacts generated in this manner are lying on the floor as regular items - just with a beefed-up monster on top of them.

[Chogall86]

Cool, thnx for the info. We should all do some fucking tournament or something. Hell I'm bored.

[BrianL]

I had a named Barbarian Leader on PC2 the other day without a surge of power message. He equipped the jet-black glaive and I got caught between him and some ants on level one. What a mess.

[Roarke]

That's pretty brutal. I had a doppelganger king in the first level of High King's. I never saw what artifact he was guarding.

[Silfir]

I had a lightning vortex. He didn't survive our encounter, but predictably, neither did I.