Improve amulets

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Amulets are fairly weak items for intelligence based casters and warriors.

* The artifact amulets only raise wisdom.  Maybe the necklace of the dwarves 
should increase int instead of wis?
* Improve amulets of magical protection
* Add amulets of trickery or weaponmastery

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jmidd...@gmail.com on 6 Nov 2010 at 12:04

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Evidently I'm confused regarding the artifact amulets. Ingwe raises int/wis, 
and necklace doesn't raise either.

Original comment by jmidd...@gmail.com on 6 Nov 2010 at 5:30

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This issue was closed by revision r191.

Original comment by jmidd...@gmail.com on 6 Nov 2010 at 5:30

• Changed state: Fixed

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Actually, looking at artifact.txt, Ingwe raises wis/chr - and I still think it 
ought to be better. Even for a wis based caster, I would almost certainly 
choose an Amulet of Wisdom with a higher pval, or something else (like Magi or 
Mana) over Ingwe.

Maybe Ingwe should get the int/wis bonus, but also get some more useful resists 
- by the time it is found, the basic resists are unlikely to be lacking. Maybe 
give it rDark or rNether instead. I can't remember what Ingwe's activation is 
(if any) but do remember it being an amulet that I always think ought to be 
useful but usually just ends up gathering dust in my home.

Original comment by pla...@googlemail.com on 27 Feb 2011 at 6:24

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You're right -- no int on Ingwe.  Perhaps add int and something else.  I'm 
leery of adding resists, but perhaps saving throw, mana, or hold life?

Original comment by jmidd...@gmail.com on 27 Feb 2011 at 7:42

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I was not suggesting adding a resist so much as replacing 3 low resists with 1 
high resist.

But I can see why you would want to avoid this; I think it is intentional that 
resists are harder to get in S, and making useless items useful has the overall 
effect of making the game easier, as has been seen in V.

The other 3 possibilities look interesting, and could potentially make Ingwe 
interesting to some characters.

PS - I like what you have done with amulets of Magical Protection; have they 
also been made rarer? I haven't seen one since the change.

Original comment by pla...@googlemail.com on 4 Mar 2011 at 1:33

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The amulets are just too common to put a high resist on them in my opinion.

No change in rarity of magical protection, IMO.

Original comment by jmidd...@gmail.com on 4 Mar 2011 at 3:33