Spriggan's Knife
| A dainty little knife which was made by Spriggans, or for Spriggans, or possibly from Spriggans. Anyway, it's in some way associated with those fey folk.
It is more effective when stabbing unaware enemies, treating them as though they were completely helpless. |
the +7 Spriggan's Knife
+7 dagger
Converts all stabs to sleep-tier stabs.
+4 EV
+50 Stealth
Desirability
The Spriggan's Knife[1] is an incredibly powerful item for stabbers. Monsters who are distracted, confused, or even those who haven't noticed you yet will have the full force of a sleep-tier stab, which is often a one-shot with dedicated builds. Many of these stabs are effective even against monsters with extreme HD or willpower; all monsters can fail to notice you, while allied summons will distract enemies a lot, and only a select few monsters are immune to a throwing net. Unfortunately, it isn't much use to other characters unless you find it very early on, since an unbranded dagger is a poor weapon for general combat.
References
- ↑ art-data.txt:676 (0.28.0)
History
- In 0.29, the Spriggan's Knife will only convert 50% of stabs to sleep-tier stabs.
- Prior to 0.23, the Spriggan's Knife also had Dex+4 and MR+, but did not convert stabs to sleep-tier stabs.
- Prior to 0.15, the Spriggan's Knife had a +4, +10 enchantment.
- Prior to 0.14, the provided MR was only +20.
- This weapon was upgraded from a knife to a dagger with the removal of knives in 0.9.
