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** Several monster and monster class letters are changed up:
*** Mind flayers are now U (aberrations), not h (humanoids), which is important for those looking to read scrolls of genocide.
** [[Unicorn]] horns no longer restore lost ability points, which doubles as a buff to the potion and spell of restore ability that were formerly made redundant. xNetHack was the first to implement this balance change, which was popular enough to [[Throw It In|make it into other variants and even the in-development version of vanilla!]]
** Dragon-scaled armor replaces dragon scale mail, which among other things means that a wish for dragon scale mail will give a player the corresponding scales instead—it also means that reading a scroll of enchant armor while only wearing those scales now [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|turns you into a dragon]].
** There is no spell of identify - the spell was considered a [[Game Breaker]] in vanilla NetHack, since a player could barricade themselves up with some food and slowly but surely identify every single item on hand with no need for scrolls (outside of [[Easy Amnesia|unfortunate bouts with amnesia]]). However, scrolls of identify are much more reliable in return, and the number of identifications they give depends entirely on their beatitude.
* [[Useless
** Averted with the potion of restore ability, due to unicorn horns being nerfed so that they no longer restore stats (which made the potion semi-redundant). As mentioned above, the already-useful scrolls of identify were made more useful to compensate for not being made redundant by its removed spell counterpart, also averting this.
* [[Useless Useful Spell]]:
** Averted with the spell of restore ability; like the potion, unicorn horns being nerfed so that they no longer restore stats makes both it and the spell far more viable.
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