I pick up and id almost everything, but I guess it's possible for it to slip by (particularly the shield). If I get to extremely close and the prayer fails I'll just give up, I don't have a viable means of jumping three levels.
That's what I thought. I don't even know why I'm torturing myself with this, when I already have protector and hammerhead, and the mino maze and greater vaults are right in front of me. But I feel like I can't stop now...I recall Ln wasting two hours precrowning for the second or third time and getting the black thumb for his efforts.
*UPDATE Got hammer of the gods. Meh. Well at least that's a piece of crap that can't be generated in other places, now.
Good to know.I noticed this as well, which is why I try to avoid more than one precrown, unless the altar is on a cavernous level. I think this sudden and unexplained drop of piety might be related somehow to alignment as I've seen N and C chars lose it faster than L chars.
It might be just an observation inaccuracy though.
Hmm, it just twigged that I have acid ball spell and book. Oops.I always had trouble training mana as a mindcrafter and I think just regenerating PP isn't enough.
It's good to booze up some wands of wonder and cast random spells until you learn something that you have a spellbook for.
Although mindcrafters pretty much can't learn spells, they are quite proficient at bookcasting them and that definitely trains mana.
Also with some luck you might actually get a useful spell and train mana at the same time.