Cloak

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Name	Cloak
Size to wear	Any
Armour Class	1
Encumbrance rating	+0
Maximum Enchantment	+2
Grants	nothing
Time to Wear	5

A cloth cloak. "O Bell my wife, why dost thou flyte? Now is now, and then was then: Seek now all the world throughout, Thou kens not clowns from gentlemen: They are clad in black, green, yellow and blue, So far above their own degree. Once in my life I'll take a view; For I'll have a new cloak about me." -Anonymous, "The Old Cloak". 16th Century.

Cloaks are pieces of armour that fill the cloak slot. They take 5 turns to equip or remove, and can be enchanted up to +2. Scarves take the same slot and have useful properties, but provide less physical protection than a cloak; see their article for more details.

Egos

Cloaks can normally have the following egos:

• Poison resistance: Grants poison resistance
• Willpower: Grants +40 willpower
• Stealth: Grants +50 stealth
• Preservation: Grants corrosion resistance

These are only found in Ice Caves and Volcanoes, respectively:

• Cold resistance: Grants cold resistance
• Fire resistance: Grants fire resistance

Strategy

Looking for a cloak early on? If you come across (and can kill) Crazy Yiuf, he's guaranteed to come with a cloak. It might even have an ego! Other uniques, including Maurice and Nikola, are also guaranteed to wear cloaks.

If you still need a good cloak in the late game, the Realm of Zot can be a good place to search. Many draconians will generate with cloaks, increasing your chances of finding one with a decent ego and enchantment. Tiamat will always have the +4 dragonskin cloak, if you can take her down.

History

• In 0.33, the unrand Fungal fisticloak was added to the game.
• Prior to 0.25, cloaks could generate with invisibility, but not with stealth or preservation.
• Scarves were added in 0.20.
• Prior to 0.17, all cloaks provided some protection against acid.
• Prior to 0.16, the invisibility ego was called the Darkness ego.
• Prior to 0.15, the preservation ego could be found on cloaks. This ego was removed along with item destruction and permanent corrosion effects.
• Prior to 0.14, racial variant cloaks existed. Also, wearing a cloak meant you had to take it off in order to change body armour; among other things, this meant that wearing a cursed cloak prevented you from taking off your body armour.

	Image
Mundane
Magical	or
Artifact
	Unrandart Cloaks
Cloak of the Thief
Cloak of Starlight
Dragonskin cloak
Ratskin cloak
Fungal fisticloak	File:Fungal fisticloak.png