Re: Another soon-to-be-dead char

Hiedran wrote:
> On Mar 3, 8:51 pm, Eddie Grove <eddiegr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Timo Pietilä <timo.piet...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>>> Antoine wrote:
>>>> On Mar 4, 3:54 pm, Timo Pietilä <timo.piet...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>> David J Richardson wrote:
>>>>>> Not as dead as if you were a Mage.
>>>>>> (My latest mage just found Purifications at 150 feet -- 20,000 gold
is
>>>>>> a VERY handy boost-up to a new character!)
>>>>> This is very good argument of keeping selling as a feature in
vanilla.
>>>>> It becomes irrelevant later in game, but early it makes huge
difference.
>>>> You can get the same effect in a non-selling game by putting in
>>>> occasional very large gold drops...?
>>> Those should then be occassional 30000gp at dlvl 50'. And found onto
floor
>>> sometimes. Othervise it is not the same thing.
>> It would have been precisely the same if he found a 20K gold drop
instead of
>> the dragonscale mail.  We had this discussion a month or two ago. 
Everyone
>> agreed that if given the option to sell a single-base-element DSM it
was
>> usually an automatic choice to do so.
>>
> <snip>
>> Eddie
> 
> I'm going to semi echo The Wanderer and say that the single element
> DSM is nice early on because of the activation.  It's also nice
> because it doesn't get its AC reduced by acid.
> 
> *After* I have armor that isn't affected by elements then I would
> probably sell the DSM, but before that I pop on the DSM even if it
> affects my movement.

Which also means that you have 20k gp "in reserve". That you can't have 
with money drop. Money drop can't be simultaneously money for buying and 
useful equipment for a while.

Timo Pietilä