03-08-2003, 04:57 AM
jet,Mar 7 2003, 07:30 PM Wrote:i just found a thinking cap and equiped it, saw a red helm in corner of my screen and then found out that it is 1/1 durablity item???>and everyone has been telling me that you need the thinking cap to be a good sorc...
need to hunt hidden shrines i guess...
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maybe it's just my lucky day but... i now have 2 thinking caps and civerbs cudgel :)
Actually, you dont' NEED any item to be a good sorcerer :)
>if i unequip everything apart from the thinking cap will it be guarenteed to increase in durability?
No. The best way to use a hidden shrine is to equip an item in every slot. With a shield/weapon setup, this will result in a net gain of 20 dur. - which speaks for iteself. By removing gear, you lower the number of items that can be targeted for duribility decrease, thus increases the chance that a given item will be selected (i.e. equiping the TC and a one handed weapon will result in a <roughly> 59% chance to choose either, whereas equiping all four slots brings that chance down to 25%). Also note that an indestructable item will be ignored by the shrine, so don't equip those when you use it.
If you really don't want a certain item to lose/gain duribility, you can take them off, but its best to replace them with some other low quality item. You are going to want to do this for items that are already indestructable, or for items that have a greater duribilty than 245. If it above this, the game could potentially increase it OVER the max, and it will loop over the next game to a painfully low dur. An item having 246 dur. could be increased to 256, which is 1 dur. over the 255 limit, and it will loop over.