Cloak

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Name	Cloak
Size to wear	Any
Armour Class	1
Encumbrance rating	+0
Maximum Enchantment	+2
Grants	nothing
Time to Wear	5

A cloth cloak. "O Bell my wife, why dost thou flyte? Now is now, and then was then: Seek now all the world throughout, Thou kens not clowns from gentlemen: They are clad in black, green, yellow and blue, So far above their own degree. Once in my life I'll take a view; For I'll have a new cloak about me." -Anonymous, "The Old Cloak". 16th Century.

Cloaks are pieces of armour that fill the cloak slot. They take 5 turns to equip or remove, and can be enchanted up to +2.

Egos

Cloaks can normally have the following egos:

• Poison resistance: Grants poison resistance
• Magic resistance: Grants +30 magic resistance
• Invisibility: Evoke to become invisible (increases metabolism while active)

Only found in some vaults (notably Ice Caves):

• Cold resistance: Grants cold resistance

Strategy

Looking for a cloak early on? If you come across (and can kill) Crazy Yiuf, he's guaranteed to come with a cloak. It might even have an ego!

If you still need a decent cloak in the late game, the Realm of Zot can be a good place to search. Many draconians will generate with cloaks which occasionally come with decent enchantment values and egos.

History

• Scarfs were added in 0.20.
• Prior to 0.17, cloaks provided protection against acid.
• Prior to 0.16, the invisibility ego was called the Darkness ego.
• Prior to 0.15, the preservation ego could be found on cloaks. This ego was removed along with item destruction and permanent corrosion effects.
• Prior to 0.14, racial variant cloaks existed. Also, wearing a cloak meant you had to take it off in order to change body armour; among other things, this meant that wearing a cursed cloak prevented you from taking off your body armour.

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