See also Missile prefixes and suffixes.
Slaying ammunition refers to any missile that is guaranteed to inflict a critical hit on a target if the monster is of a particular type (e.g., a quarrel of humanoid slaying always land a critical hit on humanoid opponents).
Landing critical hits in missile combat is particularly notable as these deal up to five times the damage that would be dealt before PV is taken into account. Critical hits in melee deal but twice the damage dealt before PV is subtracted from it. Slaying ammo can thus be extremely powerful against the right monster; with blessed arrows of demon or undead slaying dealing between three to seven times their usual damage to the appropriate monsters.
Missiles with the suffix 'of <foo> slaying' are regarded as separate items, with their own base damage stats. The suffix 'of slaying', on the other hand, is a generic suffix that can be found on any missiles including boomerangs and scurgari.
Types of slaying ammunition[]
A list of these missiles can also be found on the Missiles page.
Arrows[]
- Arrow of construct slaying
- Arrow of demon slaying
- Arrow of dragon slaying
- Arrow of giant slaying
- Arrow of humanoid slaying
- Arrow of jelly slaying
- Arrow of undead slaying
Quarrels[]
- Quarrel of construct slaying
- Quarrel of demon slaying
- Quarrel of dragon slaying
- Quarrel of giant slaying
- Quarrel of humanoid slaying
- Quarrel of jelly slaying
- Quarrel of undead slaying
Sling bullets[]
- Sling bullet of construct slaying*
- Sling bullet of demon slaying
- Sling bullet of dragon slaying*
- Sling bullet of giant slaying*
- Sling bullet of humanoid slaying*
- Sling bullet of insect slaying*
- Sling bullet of plant slaying*
- Sling bullet of undead slaying*
* = as of ADOM v. 1.2.0