Combat Frequency
When adventuring in a location the second-to-last thing the game decides whether you will receive a combat or non-combat encounter (the final thing is which specific combat/noncombat you will receive). Each location has a preset percentage of yielding a combat encounter.
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Choosing Combat or Noncombat
Every zone has some combat percentage, and this number is an integer (usually a multiple of 5). This number can be modified with +/- combat skills. The game rolls a 1D100, and if the rolled number is higher than the modified combat rate, you get a noncombat. If it's the same or lower, you get a combat.
Here's an example: in the haunted ballroom the combat rate is 80%. If you have -20% combats running then the rate is modified to 60%. The game rolls a 1D100 and it's 59. You get a combat. You adventure again and the roll is a 60, so you get a combat. You adventure one more time and the roll is 61, so you get a noncombat.
For how the game chooses which specific combat/noncombat you get, see Combat-Noncombat Selection
Adventure Modifiers / Forcing a Noncombat (Sneaks)
There are several mechanics in the game that allow you to force your next turn to be a noncombat if possible. These adventure modifiers will persist until an eligible noncombat is encountered:
- Using Clara's bell - You are temporarily in the mostly-combatless world of Clara's Bell.
- Consuming a stench jelly or toast with stench jelly - With the jelly all over you, you are probably not going to encounter anything
- Casting Launch spikolodon spikes in combat while wearing a Jurassic Parka with the spikolodon tab pulled - Your spikes are scaring away most monsters.
- Taking a Sneakisol pill - You are avoiding fights until something cool happens.
- Casting Cincho: Fiesta Exit from a Cincho de Mayo - You've engaged exit mode on your cincho and will avoid most combats.
- Playing the Apriling band tuba - Your tuba playing has scared away most monsters.
- Casting McHugeLarge Avalanche in combat while wearing a McHugeLarge left ski - You triggered an avalanche clearing the area of monsters.
Modifiers
- Modifiers stack with each other; the net modification is computed through simple addition.
- If modifiers are used to adjust combat frequency more than 25% in either direction, additional modifiers contribute only +1% for every +5%. Six effects that provide -5% combat, for example, will provide a total of -26%, not -30%. Additionally, combat frequency manipulation is hard capped at 35%. Underwater-only effects, however, are applied after these diminishing returns.
- It is possible to use these modifiers to completely eliminate one type of encounter. For example, The Penultimate Fantasy Airship has an 80% combat rate. If you run +20% combat, you'll have a 100% combat rate, eliminating the Random Lack of an Encounter adventure and any Immateria that you don't have yet.
- A location may have a 100% combat rate, but still have noncombats; to encounter these, you must use frequency modifiers.
- Similarly, there are adventures which can only be encountered while increasing the rate of combat adventures; for example, Getting Clubbed in The Purple Light District and the ninja snowman assassin in the Lair of the Ninja Snowmen. The comedian combats in the all-combat zone The Laugh Floor appear more frequently with +combat.
Increases Combat Rate (+combat)
Modifier | Type | Source | Rate | Avail. | Duration | Cost | Prereq | Notes |
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Song of Battle | Effect | Song of Battle (AoB skill) | +20% | Path | 20 turns | 10 MP | Being an Avatar of Boris | |
Taunt of Horus | Effect | Talisman of Horus | +20% | Path | 10 turns | 5 Ka coins | Being Ed the Undying | |
Waking the Dead | Effect | Summon Minion with Summon Horde (both ZM skills) | +20% | Path | 10 turns | 100 Meat | Being a Zombie Master | |
Coffeesphere | Effect | Coffeesphere (AoJ skill) | +15% | Path | 20 turns | 10 MP | Being an Avatar of Jarlsberg | |
Lion in Ambush | Effect | lion musk | +15% | HC/SC | 20 turns | Item loss | Tradeable, but only obtainable from access to the LT&T Office | |
Patent Aggression | Effect | patent aggression tonic | +15% | HC/SC | 30 turns | Item loss | Tradeable, but only obtainable from drops/skills in Avatar of West of Loathing | |
Unmuffled | Effect | Rev Engine with Extra-Loud Muffler | +15% | Path | 10 turns | 5 MP | Being an Avatar of Sneaky Pete | |
Blinking Belly | Effect | Firefly Abdomen (Nuclear Autumn skill) | +10% | Path | 10 turns | 30 MP | Being in a Nuclear Autumn | |
carpe | Back Item | Clan Floundry (Clan VIP Lounge) | +10% | HC/SC | Always | No other Clan Floundry item that day | Access to Clan VIP Lounge |
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Driving Obnoxiously | Effect | Asdon Martin | +10% | HC/SC | 30 turns | 37 litres of fuel | Asdon Martin in Your Workshed | |
Everything Must Go! | Effect | Violent pastilles (potion) | +10% | SC | 10 turns | Item loss | ||
latte lovers member's mug | Off-Hand Item | latte lovers club card | +10% | HC/SC | Always | Hot wing ingredient unlocked |
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tunac | Shirt | Clan Floundry (Clan VIP Lounge) | +10% | HC/SC | Always | No other Clan Floundry item that day | Access to Clan VIP Lounge |
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Very Attractive | Effect | Cargo Cultist Shorts pocket | +10% | HC/SC | 20 turns |
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Fresh Breath | Effect | August scepter Aug. 6th: Fresh Breath Day! | +10% | HC/SC | 30 turns |
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Angry | Effect | Anger Glands (GN skill) | +5% | Path | 20 turns | 5 MP | Path-specific: Only usable in a Gelatinous Noob run | |
Ass-Stompers of Violence | Accessory | Shub-Jigguwatt, Elder God of Violence as a Seal Clubber | +5% | SC | Always | 125 Mus | Cannot equip more than one | |
Brogre bucket hat | Hat | Buff Jimmy's Souvenir Shop | +5% | HC/SC | Always | 200 Beach Bucks | 25 Mox | |
Carlweather's Cantata of Confrontation | Effect | Carlweather's Cantata of Confrontation (skill) (AT buff) | +5% | HC/SC | 5-20 turns | 20 MP | Increased to 10% with the fiberglass fedora equipped | |
Celestial Saltiness | Effect | celestial au jus | +5% | HC/SC² | 10 turns | Item loss | Tradeable, but only obtainable from Jarlsberg's pan | |
cod cape | Back Item | Stench vampire | +5% | SC | Always | 200 Mox | +25 Stench Damage | |
Color of the God Lobster | Effect | God Lobster | +5% | HC/SC | 33 turns | Obtained by defeating the God Lobster with the God Lobster's Rod equipped. | ||
Crown of Thrones or Buddy Bjorn, holding Grim Brother | Hat or Back Item | +5% | SC | (Your Grim Brother can only be in one place at a time.) | ||||
Crunching Leaves | Effect | autumn-aton | +5% | HC/SC | 20 turns | Item Loss | ||
Dungeon Fist gauntlet | Off-Hand Item | Ticket Redemption Counter | +5% | SC | Always | 1000 Game Grid tickets | 35 Muscle, having defeated Dungeon Fist! |
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folder (Ex-Files) | Accessory | Grass Elemental | +5% | Path³, SC | Only usable with a Folder Holder | |||
Frown | Effect | Frown Muscles (GN skill) | +5% | Path | 10 turns | 5 MP | Path-specific: Only usable in a Gelatinous Noob run | |
giant turkey leg | Weapon (3H) | Renaissance Giant | +5% | HC/SC¹ | Always | 75 Mus | ||
High Colognic | Effect | musk turtle (potion) | +5% | HC/SC | 15 turns | Item loss | ||
Hippy Stench | Effect | reodorant or a handful of pine needles (both potions) | +5% | HC/SC | 10 turns | Item loss | ||
HOA zombie eyes | Accessory | Zombie Homeowners' Association (Hard Mode) | +5% | SC | Always | 100 Mys |
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Irritabili Tea | Effect | cuppa Irritabili tea | +5% | HC/SC | 30 turns | Item loss | ||
junkyard dog | Food | Hot Dog Stand (Clan VIP Lounge) | +5% | HC/SC | 30 turns | 3 fullness, the ability to eat any other fancy dog that day | Access to Clan VIP Lounge |
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Kremlin's Greatest Briefcase | Accessory | suspicious package | +5% | HC/SC | Always |
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McHugeLarge right ski | Accessory | McHugeLarge duffel bag | +5% | HC/SC | Always |
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monster bait | Accessory | The Crackpot Mystic's Shed | +5% | HC/SC | Always | 20 red pixels, 15 white pixels | Cannot equip more than one | |
Musk of the Moose | Effect | Musk of the Moose (SC skill) | +5% | HC/SC | 10 turns | 10 MP | ||
pantogram pants | Pants | portable pantogram | +5% | HC/SC | Always |
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portable cassette player | Accessory | Summon Confiscated Things | +5% | HC/SC | Always |
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Screaming! SCREAMING! AAAAAAAH! | Effect | Powerful Vocal Chords (GN skill) | +5% | Path | 40 turns | 5 MP | Path-specific: Only usable in a Gelatinous Noob run | |
Simply Irresistible | Effect | Irresistibility potion (potion) | +5% | SC | 20 turns | Item loss | ||
sombrero-mounted sparkler | Hat | Underground Fireworks Shop | +5% | HC/SC | Always | 500 meat |
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Spelunker's khakis | Pants | Spelunker's Guild prize sack | +5% | SC | 35 mox |
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Towering Muscles | Effect | Clan Photo Booth - Get your photo taken - Holding up Fernswarthy's Tower (Clan VIP Lounge) | +5% | HC/SC | Always | Three photos per day | Access to Clan VIP Lounge |
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Jumpsuited Hound Dog | Familiar | The Bounty Hunter Hunter's Shack | +(weight/6)%, to a maximum of 5% | HC/SC | Always | 100 filthy lucre |
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"Remember the Trees" Shirt | Shirt | Tree hugging hippy protestor | +5% | HC/SC | Always | 10 Mus |
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Romantically Roused | Effect | Loathing Idol Microphone | +5% | HC/SC | 30 turns | 1 charge |
¹ The giant turkey leg is easily obtainable in Hardcore, but will typically be unusable during the run due to its high muscle requirement.
On Sunday, August 16th 2020, the giant turkey leg had the muscle requirement decreased from 200 to 75 so it can be equipped in run.
² The celestial au jus is available in Hardcore only if the player is under an Avatar of Jarlsberg challenge path restriction.
³ The Folder Holder is only available in Hardcore during a KOLHS run.
Decreases Combat Rate (-combat)
Modifier | Type | Source | Rate | Avail. | Duration | Cost | Prereq | Notes |
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Disquiet Riot | Effect | Zombie Slayer skill | -20% | Path | 10 turns | 5 "MP" | Path-specific: Skill only available in a Zombie Slayer run (though effect is wishable universally) | |
Shelter of Shed | Effect | Actually Ed the Undying skill | -20% | Path | 10 turns | 15 MP | Path-specific: Skill only available in an Actually Ed the Undying run | |
Song of Solitude | Effect | Avatar of Boris skill | -20% | Path | 20/40 turns | 15 MP | Path-specific: Skill only available in an Avatar of Boris run | |
A Rose by Any Other Material | Effect | squeaky toy rose | -20% | Path/SC | 1 turn | Item Loss | ||
Throwing Some Shade | Effect | shady shades | -20% | Path/SC | 1 turn | Item Loss | ||
Ashen | Effect | pile of ashes (potion) | -15% | Path | 20 turns | Potion | Path-specific: Quest potion only available in an Avatar of Sneaky Pete run, via the skill Incite Riot | |
Brooding | Effect | Brood (Avatar of Sneaky Pete skill) | -15% | Path | 10 turns | 20 MP | Path-specific: Skill only available in an Avatar of Sneaky Pete run | |
Camouflage Curtain | Special | Reassembly Station | -15% | Path | Always | 30 Scrap | Robot Attachment | Path-specific: Potentially replaces your weapon slot during a You, Robot run |
Chocolatesphere | Effect | Avatar of Jarlsberg skill | -15% | Path | 20 turns | 10 MP | Path-specific: Skill only available in an Avatar of Jarlsberg run | |
Cloak of Shadows | Effect | Blood Cloak (Dark Gyffte skill) | -15% | Path | 20 turns | 10 HP | Path-specific: Skill only available in a Dark Gyffte run | |
Muffled | Effect | Rev Engine (Avatar of Sneaky Pete skill), with an Extra-Quiet Muffler installed | -15% | Path | 10 turns | 5 MP | Path-specific: Skill only available in an Avatar of Sneaky Pete run | |
Patent Invisibility | Effect | patent invisibility tonic | -15% | Path/SC | 30 turns | Item Loss | ||
Team Sloth cap | Hat | The Pokémporium | -15% | Path | Always | 50 1,960 pokédollar bills | Path-specific: Only obtainable in a Pocket Familiars run (and persists through aftercore, but is lost on ascension) | |
Blessing of the Bird and/or Visit your Favorite Bird | Effect | Bird-a-Day calendar | -3, -5%, -7%, -9%, or -11% | HC/SC | 10 turns | 5 MP, cost doubling each cast | Relevant Bird seed | Effect strength is variable:
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Visit your Favorite Bird | Effect | Bird-a-Day calendar | -3, -5%, -7%, -9%, or -11% | HC/SC | 20 turns | 50 MP | Relevant Bird seed, once per day | Effect strength is variable:
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Bandit mask | Special | -10% | Path | Always | Mask slot | Path-specific: Only usable in an Disguises Delimit run | ||
Barely Visible | Effect | Cargo Cultist Shorts pocket | -10% | HC/SC | 20 turns |
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bass clarinet | Weapon (1H) | Clan Floundry (Clan VIP Lounge) | -10% | HC/SC | Always | No other Clan Floundry item that day | Access to Clan VIP Lounge |
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codpiece | Accessory | Clan Floundry (Clan VIP Lounge) | -10% | HC/SC | Always | No other Clan Floundry item that day | Access to Clan VIP Lounge |
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Driving Stealthily | Effect | Asdon Martin | -10% | HC/SC | 30 turns | 37 litres of fuel | Asdon Martin in Your Workshed | |
fish hatchet | Weapon (1H) | Clan Floundry (Clan VIP Lounge) | -10% | HC/SC | Always | No other Clan Floundry item that day | Access to Clan VIP Lounge |
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In The Darkness | Combat Skill | Knife In The Darkness (Jazz Agent skill) | -10% | Path | 10 turns | 50 MP | Jazz Agent |
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Inked Well | Effect | Squid Glands (Nuclear Autumn skill) | -10% | Path | 10 turns | 30 MP | Being in a Nuclear Autumn | |
Invisible Avatar | Effect | Powerful Glove | -10% | HC/SC | 10 turns | 5% Powerful Glove battery charge | ||
latte lovers member's mug | Off-Hand Item | latte lovers club card | -10% | HC/SC | Always | Ink ingredient unlocked |
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li'l eyeball costume | Familiar equipment | Fallout Shelter Medical Supply | -10% | Path | Always | 1000 meat | Must have a Trick-or-Treating Tot in your Terranium |
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Ministrations in the Dark | Effect | EMD holo-record (potion) | -10% | Path | 10 turns | Item Loss | Must have a Wrist-Boy in your inventory |
Path-specific: Only usable in a Nuclear Autumn run |
Predjudicetidigitation | Effect | worst candy | -10% | SC | 10 turns | Potion | ||
Shadow Waters | Effect | Like a Loded Stone (Adventure) | -10% | SC/HC | 30 turns | 1 Adventure -or- 1 turn of Shadow Affinity |
Shadow Rift access, Rufus's shadow lodestone in inventory |
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unbreakable umbrella | Off-Hand Item | undamaged Unbreakable Umbrella | -10% | HC/SC | Always | Must be in 'cocoon' configuration |
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Ballroom song ("Sono Un...") | Special (The Haunted Ballroom) | Choosing Sono un Amenten Non Un Combattente in Strung-Up Quartet | -5% | HC/SC | 1 turn | |||
Become Superficially interested | Effect | Daily Affirmation: Be Superficially interested | -5% | SC | 100 turns | Potion | Effect may be toggled (in the effect description) to Become Intensely interested | |
Bent Knees | Effect | Bendable Knees (GN skill) | -5% | Path | 10 turns | 5 MP | Path-specific: Skill only available in a Gelatinous Noob run | |
Bram's choker | Accessory | Bram the Stoker | -5% | HC/SC | 50 Mys |
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camouflage T-shirt | Shirt | Mercenary of Fortune | -5% | SC | 25 Mus |
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Celestial Camouflage | Effect | celestial squid ink | -5% | Path⁴, SC | 10 turns | Potion | ||
Colorfully Concealed | Effect | Mer-kin hidepaint | -5% | The Sea | 10 turns | Potion | Underwater only | |
Crown of Thrones or Buddy Bjorn, holding Grimstone Golem | Hat or Back Item | -5% | SC | (Your Golem can only be in one place at a time.) | ||||
dark horse | Horse | A Horsery | -5% | HC/SC | Rollover | 0 or 500 meat | First horse is free; switching costs 500 meat | |
discarded bowtie | Accessory | Elf Operative | -5% | HC/SC |
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duonoculars | Accessory | biclops | -5% | HC/SC | 17 Mys |
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Extended Toes | Effect | Retractable Toes (GN skill) | -5% | Path | 20 turns | 5 MP | Path-specific: Skill only available in a Gelatinous Noob run | |
Feeling Lonely | Effect | Feel Lonely | -5% | HC/SC | 20 turns | Emotionally Chipped | Usable 3 times a day | |
folder (skull and crossbones) | Accessory | scary pirate | -5% | Path³, SC | Only usable with a Folder Holder | |||
Fresh Scent | Effect | -5% | HC/SC | 10 turns | Potion | |||
Fuzzy Slippers of Hatred | Accessory | Yog-Urt (as a DB) | -5% | SC | 125 Mox |
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Gummed Shoes | Effect | shoe gum | -5% | HC/SC | 50 turns | Item loss | ||
iFlail | Weapon (1H) | The Applecalypse Store | -5% | SC | 35 Mox |
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Ink Cloud | Effect | Ink Gland (GN skill) | -5% | Path | 40 turns | 5 MP | Path-specific: Skill only available in a Gelatinous Noob run | |
Inky Camouflage | Effect | vial of squid ink | -5% | HC/SC¹ | 20 turns | Potion | ||
Jurassic Parka | Shirt | packaged Jurassic Parka | -5% | HC/SC | Always | Must be in 'pterodactyl' mode |
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Kremlin's Greatest Briefcase | Accessory | suspicious package | -5% | HC/SC | Always |
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McHugeLarge left ski | Accessory | McHugeLarge duffel bag | -5% | HC/SC | Always |
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Mer-kin sneakmask | Hat | -5% | The Sea | 85 Mox |
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Obscuri Tea | Effect | cuppa Obscuri tea | -5% | HC/SC | 30 turns | Item loss | ||
pantogram pants | Pants | portable pantogram | -5% | HC/SC | Always |
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porkpie-mounted popper | Hat | Underground Fireworks Shop | -5% | SC/HC | Always | 500 meat |
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protonic accelerator pack | Back Item | -5% | SC/HC |
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Quiets-Your-Steps | Accessory | -5% | SC | 100 Mox |
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Rational Thought | Effect | Intergnat | -5% | HC/SC | 11 turns | Obtained by casting Science! Fight with Rational Thought when the Intergnat has the suffix: WITH SCIENCE! | ||
red shoe | Accessory | red box (sometimes) | -5% | HC/SC | Equipped | 40 Mys |
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ring of conflict | Accessory | dead mimic | -5% | HC/SC² | 25 Mys | Cannot equip more than one | ||
rusted-out shootin' iron | Weapon (1H) | Cowskeleton | -5% | SC/HC (during twitch events) | 35 Mus |
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Scaredy Dog | Food (Clan VIP Lounge) | ghost dog | -5% | HC/SC | 30 turns | 3 fullness, the ability to eat any other fancy dog that day |
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Silence of the God Lobster | Effect | God Lobster | -5% | HC/SC | 33 turns | Obtained by defeating the God Lobster with the God Lobster's Ring equipped. | ||
silent beret | Hat | A Silent Mime | -5% | SC |
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Silent Running | Effect | Doing submarine sprints in An Olympic-Sized Swimming Pool (once a day) | -5% | HC/SC | 50 turns | |||
Simply Invisible | Effect | invisibility potion | -5% | SC | 20 turns | Potion | ||
Smooth Movements | Effect | Smooth Movement (DB skill) | -5% | HC/SC | 10 turns | 10 MP | ||
Snow Shoes | Effect | snow cleats | -5% | HC/SC | 30 turns | Item loss | ||
The Sonata of Sneakiness | Effect | The Sonata of Sneakiness (AT buff) | -5% | HC/SC | 5-20 turns | 20 MP | Increased to 10% with the fiberglass fedora equipped | |
Space Trip safety headphones | Accessory | Ticket Redemption Counter | -5% | SC | 1,000 Game Grid tickets | 35 Mys |
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very pointy crown | Hat | Witchess Queen | -5% | SC/HC (with Witchess set) |
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Xiblaxian stealth cowl | Hat | Xiblaxian 5D printer | -5% | SC/HC (with Xi Receiver Unit) | 4 Xiblaxian circuitry 9 Xiblaxian polymer 5 Xiblaxian alloy |
Mysticality +20% | ||
Xiblaxian stealth trousers | Pants | Xiblaxian 5D printer | -5% | SC/HC (with Xi Receiver Unit) | 9 Xiblaxian circuitry 4 Xiblaxian polymer 5 Xiblaxian alloy |
Moxie +20% | ||
Xiblaxian stealth vest | Shirt | Xiblaxian 5D printer | -5% | SC/HC (with Xi Receiver Unit) | 5 Xiblaxian circuitry 4 Xiblaxian polymer 9 Xiblaxian alloy |
Muscle +20% | ||
Peace Turkey | Familiar | Mr. Store | -[wt/5]% | HC/SC | Always | Maximum of -10% @ 50 lbs | ||
Disgeist | Familiar | Tall Grass, Very Tall Grass | -[wt/7.5]% | HC/SC | Always | Maximum of -10% @ 75 lbs |
¹ The vial of squid ink is a quest item only available to Accordion Thieves who pursue their Nemesis.
² The ring of conflict is technically available in a Hardcore run, but the chances of acquiring one are slim.
³ The Folder Holder is only available in Hardcore during a KOLHS run.
⁴ The celestial squid ink is only available in Hardcore to Avatars of Jarlsberg.
Notes
- Jick had said that combat modifiers will not go higher than 25% either way. However, he has since added more modifiers and stated that there are diminishing returns beyond 25%.
- For noncombats and combats, a +30% modifier is reduced to +26%. It should probably be assumed that any 5% modifier over a net 25% is scaled to 1%.[1]
- Determining (spading) your combat frequency modifier can be done several ways:
- The message displayed by the Head down to the galley choice in the Random Lack of an Encounter adventure in the Airship is determined by your noncombat frequency.
- In some PvP seasons, the Information Booth will display your combat frequency modifier directly.
- You can adventure in a zone with known combat frequency and collect enough data to determine your modifier.
- For more information on how encounters are chosen, see Encounters.
- As of 2020/01/09, some Combat Frequency modifying items and effects started gaining adverbs to describe their effectiveness (Monsters will be very very very much less attracted to you, etc).
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