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* wizard polearm skill questionSteveYo
+* Re: wizard polearm skill questionMichael Meyer
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Subject: wizard polearm skill question
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 by: SteveYo - Wed, 10 Aug 2022 00:57 UTC

Long-time vanlla nethack player here.
I've been playing an extinctionist wizard. The character is long-since level 30 (4700 HP), but I still have at least one skill slot (attempting to enhance shows three choices offered).

I want to become skilled or a least basic in polearm (currently unskilled). So I'm wielding a halberd, and have scored many more than the requisite 20 hits, but the game is not showing the polearm skill as enhance-able.

I even used drain life to increase the number of open skill slots, but polearm is still not enhance-able.

What am I missing?

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 by: Michael Meyer - Wed, 10 Aug 2022 22:05 UTC

SteveYo <stevenarelles@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to become skilled or a least basic in polearm (currently
> unskilled). So I'm wielding a halberd, and have scored many more than
> the requisite 20 hits, but the game is not showing the polearm skill
> as enhance-able.

Are you using the polearm in the intended way (wielding it, then
'a'pplying it and selecting a spot to hit) or are you just wielding it
and moving into a monster, like you would to attack with most weapons?
The latter doesn't train the skill I think, only if you are actually
applying it and going through the special polearm attack sequence.

By the way, I see five subtly different copies of your post on rgrn,
it's like a spot the differences puzzle. I just picked one to reply to
more or less at random.

- Michael

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 by: Janis Papanagnou - Wed, 10 Aug 2022 22:06 UTC

On 10.08.2022 02:57, SteveYo wrote:
>
> I want to become skilled or a least basic in polearm (currently
> unskilled). So I'm wielding a halberd, and have scored many more than
> the requisite 20 hits, but the game is not showing the polearm skill
> as enhance-able.

Has your polearm proficiency status meanwhile changed?

Janis

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 by: SteveYo - Fri, 12 Aug 2022 18:41 UTC

On Wednesday, August 10, 2022 at 6:05:28 PM UTC-4, Michael Meyer wrote:
> SteveYo <steven...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I want to become skilled or a least basic in polearm (currently
> > unskilled). So I'm wielding a halberd, and have scored many more than
> > the requisite 20 hits, but the game is not showing the polearm skill
> > as enhance-able.
> Are you using the polearm in the intended way (wielding it, then
> 'a'pplying it and selecting a spot to hit) or are you just wielding it
> and moving into a monster, like you would to attack with most weapons?
> The latter doesn't train the skill I think, only if you are actually
> applying it and going through the special polearm attack sequence.
>
> By the way, I see five subtly different copies of your post on rgrn,
> it's like a spot the differences puzzle. I just picked one to reply to
> more or less at random.
>
> - Michael
Yes! That was it, thank you. I knew I was missing something!

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