Unlock and Disarm questions

[velvetomatoe]

I was just wondering a few questions about 407 and 408 and kind of best practices with them. How do you usually use them? Few shots of disarm, no pulse and then unlock? Or do you disarm manually then use 408 if you find any traps?

Also, can you SEE traps without having any ranks of disarm? Not sure if both are directly related or if you just need disarm to take care of it. I currently am 15 train wizard, 2x AS, 1x Percep. No disarm ranks. Leery of blowing myself or anyone/thing else up. Any info would be great. Thanks!

velvetomatoe

[Methais]

If I remember right, perception is the main skill for spotting traps, but disarm has some role in it too. You can also spot traps with 416, but it won't tell you the difficulty or anything like that, and isn't completely reliable.

[velvetomatoe]

Awesome! Thanks!

velvetomatoe

[Askip]

My capped wizard has zero disarm and 1x perception.

I will 416 a like-level box at least 4 times, I've found scarabs on the third cast so I play it very safe.

The only trap 416 will set off is a glyph and you need to find your way out, usually not fatal.

408 will not work on mithril or enruned boxes, and if you cast it at a sulphur bladder it's vaporized mage.

The only OTF traps I try to 408 are the blue and green scarabs because I have unpoison and undisease items, and jaws are safe if set off on the ground.

I've been told you need at least 2x Disarm ranks to manually disarm at level, so that is out for mages who can only 1x. If there is a known formula for the benefit that Disarm ranks adds to 408 I have not found it.

For smaller traps I have no clue as to what is the biggest I could disarm, but I do 408 yeti (level 67) boxes with impunity.

:D

[velvetomatoe]

Very informative, thanks so much for the info!

[Gan]

Moonlighter!