Light

Version 0.34: This article is up to date for the latest stable release of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.

This page is about the equipment ego. For the wand, see wand of light.

It surrounds the wearer with a glowing halo, revealing invisible creatures, increasing accuracy against all within it other than the wearer, and reducing the wearer's stealth.

Light is an ego found on helmets and orbs. It emits a 3-tile halo, which makes enemies easier to hit, reveals all invisible creatures, and decreases the user's stealth. Multiple halo sources do not stack.

Sources

• Light is normally found on helmets.
• Monks start with an orb of light, and orbs of light can very rarely be found in vaults.
• Eos does not have the light ego itself, but also emits a halo.

Strategy

• The orb can be used as a bootleg see invisible. This is most useful if you don't have another shield yet.
• The halo's to-hit boost not only helps you, but your allies (summons, derived undead, etc.) too. As monsters don't have the greatest accuracy, using light can really help your allies' damage output.
• Remember that the halo will also impact your invisibility! Don't rely on it while wielding this orb.

History

• Prior to 0.34, light could not be found on helmets, but was a standard orb ego.
• The light ego, along with orbs themselves, was introduced in 0.28.