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From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Re: Staff of striking
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Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 21:48:20 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  4 21:48:20 1984
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The staff of striking indeed was a powerful weapon in Rogue 5.2 and earlier.
Wielded and used as an ordinary weapon weapon it did lots of damage and never
missed, which was especially useful against high armor class monsters like
Xorns.  It also lasted the whole game.  However in Rogue 5.3 it was
effectively taken away.  When wielded and used as a weapon each swap with
it uses up one (or sometimes two) charge(s), making wielding it not
advantagous any more.  I don't really feel that the wand of striking
all that useful any more.
-- 
Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
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