Cursed
| It has a curse placed upon it. |
Some equipment that you could come across will be cursed, rendering it impossible to unequip until you find a way to break the curse. These items will look just like any other item until you equip, identify them, or followed Ashenzari. Depending on the nature of the specific item, this can be a minor irritant or a major hazard. Although useful cursed items appear occasionally, most cursed weapons and armour would have negative enchantment penalties, while cursed jewelry is usually designed to harm the wearer. Because of this, it is wise to careful about equipping unidentified items. Curses could be removed with a scroll of remove curse, or the brand enchantments of Kikubaaqudgha, Lugonu, The Shining One.
While curses were removed from all items found in the dungeon, followers of Ashenzari are given the ability to curse their gear for special bonuses. See that page for more details.
History
- Cursed items stopped generating in 0.27.
- Prior to 0.24, weapons of holy wrath could never be cursed under any circumstances.
- Prior to 0.20, miscast effects from the Charms and Hexes schools of magic could sometimes curse your items.
- Prior to 0.19, the Curse card could curse one or more items in your inventory.
- Prior to 0.18, scrolls of enchant armour and enchant weapon would also remove the item's curse.
- Prior to 0.17, regular mummies and Menkaure had death curses that could curse your equipment.
- Prior to 0.14, curse scrolls would randomly generate throughout the dungeon. Also, cursed gloves and cloaks would prevent you from changing your rings and body armour, respectively.
- Prior to 0.12, the player character was unable to butcher corpses with cursed blunt weapons.
- Prior to 0.11, you could read a scroll of detect curse to examine your inventory for cursed items, just like the obsolete spell.
- Prior to 0.6, (and the removal of the Divinations school of magic), the Detect Curse spell allowed you to determine the cursed or uncursed status of all items in your inventory without any personal risk. This update also removed the Remove Curse spell, which uncursed any equipped items.
