Royal Guards attack you now I guess...

[StViers]

Was dwarf barbarian (crowned with lightening immunity and grod) exploring the sinister cave (along with my GEE companion from DH2). Was able to one-shot literally everything I came across. I heard the step of the royal guard, found the gold and dug to him, and picked up a stack of gold (he used to not turn hostile unless you talked to him after picking it up.

He walked over to me and killed me without a chance for me to do anything. Guess this is what I get for trying to stay unspoiled for the newer releases XD.

[Dogbreath]

You're welcome. (It always makes me happy whenever one of my RFEs kills somebody)

[plllizzz9]

At the moment royal guards are oddly balanced, seemingly even more dangerous than shopkeepers for some odd reason, so robbing the treasuries isn't even a matter of a good fight - either grab the biggest stack and teleport, or just cheese it.

[AlterAsc]

Royal guards are insanely strong. They have multiple attacks and either ignore armor, or just have high damage, but they can rip to you shreds even if you have high PV. Fighting them in melee is not worth the risk.

[plllizzz9]

It's a decent pass-time for high level duelists, at least

[anon123]

Similarly, I had a really good wizard going recently. 38 Learning from having eaten Keethrax and gotten a Le-boosting corruption from it, lots of spells, some good items. I found a royal vault in the PC and thought I'd teleport in for some quick gold. Picked up one of the piles, the guard called me up on it, then brought me to -83 HP in one hit

Anyone knows if you can teleport them away without making them hostile?

[mjkittredge]

What are they equivalent to now, for frame of reference? Quickling Kings?

I recall crushing one in 1.20 with zero trouble.

[plllizzz9]

Casino Shopkeeper/Cat Lord

[boat]

So I just finished a game with a DE beastfighter and found a vault on D47. I had a stethoscope and blessed it:

You examine Gustav, the royal gaurdian. Diagnosis; Level 61, DV:112, PV:31, Hits:333, Attacks: 7, Damage: 25-43, Speed 120.

Couldn't snipe him with humanoid slaying so I used wand of acid/magic missile/stunning. I got about 160k gold.

[mjkittredge]

Wow that DV is massive. Damage doesn't seem too bad but unless I'm mistaken people are reporting they get PV penetrating hits