u/OkSlice6609

On my first Wizard ascension run back in the day. I died in the Astral plane about 5-10 turns away from my god's altar. The worst part is I was unprepared item wise, totally avoidable YASD. It was a bone shaking loss. I walked around in my bathrobe for a couple of days, totally incoherent, unshaven muttering about wands of teleportation and cursed scrolls of genocide. I looked like Rocky after he fought Appolo Creed.

I am about to go for the book of the dead, full ascension kit except for ring of free action. Haven't found a single one in 70,000+ turns. Orcus's wand of death was destroyed and haven't found one of these either.

For context, I have 5 previous ascensions. Each of them in 66,000 turns or less. Each time I have found multiple rings of free action/wands of death.

If you were in my shoes would you go for the ascension run? Or burn untold turns hoping a ring of free action/wand of death generates?