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--- races:wraiths [2025/06/05 00:38] – [Playing Tips] kbulgrien
+++ races:wraiths [2025/07/01 06:17] (current) – Expanded race description. lithe
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 Use the command **unarmed_skill wraith feed**.  This should assure wraith feed is used by default when a weapon is not equipped.
-Speed and protection are likely the best ways to level wraith feed in the early game.  Find a few **speed +2** rings, and/or throw in some **Str +** boosts to increase base damage.  Ignore **Spell regen penalty** and armor up the character, have a good weapon on hand for use when wraith feed isn't sufficient.
+WC matters (a lot). If you are not hitting with wraith feed, try lowering the stat with  **wc +** equipment.
+Aside from wc, speed and protection may boost wraith feed results in the early game.  Wear **speed +** equipment, and/or throw in some **Str +** boosts to increase base damage.  Ignore **Spell regen penalty** and armor up the character; keep a good weapon available in cases when wraith feed is not sufficient.
 While wraith feeding, hug corners and walls to reduce contact with monsters.  As needed, and if possible, speed-run to the exit and do not try to clear hard rooms.
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 In a crowded room, it may be easier to survive by targeting many different monsters.  According to [[skills:wraith_feed]] when wraith feed hits, it can slow down creatures.  (Is this actually true?)
+Watch damage messages.  If **You feed upon ...** does not appear, wraith feed is not in use.
 You can't steal life from something undead or not alive.  This includes golems, doors, etc.
+Try to avoid getting totally surrounded and bogged down in a crowd of undead creatures.
 Healing potions and spells are helpful as per usual.
 Sell the food you find.  You do not need it.
+===== Race Notes =====
+Several immunities, but these come with the inability to ever cast fire spells and two significant weaknesses against fire and holy word. Enemies that use holy word or banishment are exceedingly rare, but any banishment spell that does hit you is likely to shred you to pieces without holy word protection, an extremely rare type of elemental resistance on equipment. Wraiths do get access to all the standard equipment slots that humanoid races get, giving them a fair bit of freedom in equipment in what is otherwise a very unusual class with several unusual properties specific to being undead.
+Instead of playing wraith, you could consider another race and just worship Devourers, giving you many of the same immunities and properties a wraith has due to becoming undead, but without losing access to fire spells. Devourers does make it impossible to cast banishment though, so if you want to be undead so as not to worry about sustenance, but want to worship another deity, wraith is an interesting option for that. Just don't accidentally hit yourself with banishment!
+A wraith's fire weakness is a problem, but equipment with fire weakness is extremely common and easy to obtain early on compared to equipment that resists electricity or cold, so this isn't quite as big of an issue as one might think. Keep Potions of Fire Resistance on hand if you plan to hunt down things like dragons.