Hi, crawlers! Trunk has changed. It will never be the same, unless we perform a truly remarkable and unprecedented series of reverts. Barring that, here’s what you might want to know:
- Sif Muna:
- Channel Energy is gone. Replacing it at 1* is Divine Energy, a toggleable ability that lets the player cast spells without having enough mp. Using this effect causes a -Cast status for several turns, depending on how many MP the player was short by.
- New 3* ability: Channel Magic, a Trog’s Hand-like invocation that trades piety for a brief, but significant, MP regeneration boost.
- Book gifts now appear starting from 5*, not 6*.
- Sif now gives partial piety for kills, in addition to (slightly reduced) piety from skill training.
- Players wielding long blades can now ‘riposte’. After dodging a melee attack, users have a 50% chance to launch a free counterattack. This does not trigger retaliation effects, such as porcupine spines or hydra head growth, but functions as a normal attack otherwise. Long blade base damage has been lowered to compensate.
- The Fencer’s Gloves no longer give bonuses to Sbl & Lbl skill; instead, they let the user riposte with any weapon. This stacks with long blades’ innate riposte.
- Various unrands have had their stats tweaked; the most notable change is to Eos, which trades its sInv -Tele for Brilliance’s halo. (Wyrmbane also trades +Rage for rC+.)
- Removed unrands: Sword of the Doom Knight, Amulet of Cekugob, and Brilliance (except for the bits Eos took).
- Ammo acquirement is no more.
- The last mountain dwarf has finally been removed; please, pour one out for our dear, departed Wiglaf. Donald got his Haste and Might, and Joseph stole his hat.
- Urug and Maud have merged into one very smelly, well-armed unique.
- Nergalle can no longer enter Death’s Door.
- Various monster spellsets have been reworked; notably, wizards’, ogre mages’, ancient champions’, and Kirke’s.
- The Vaults branch monster set has been partially reworked; among other changes, vampire mosquitoes have been buzzed off, fire crabs have clattered away, and entropy weavers are… in.
- “Special rooms” (rare rooms completely packed with monsters) have had their sets adjusted, and can now appear in Pan.
- rPois now gives immunity to green draconians’ mephitic breath. (It was previously resisted by nothing, not even by the undead!)
- Summoned monsters now vanish immediately when their summoner dies.
- Allies no longer mark fireballed plants as priority targets.
- Friendly monsters will no longer open doors. (This was generally either irrelevant or a bad thing for the player.)
- Giving orders to allies no longer makes noise, and can be done while silenced. Hand signals or telepathy? You decide…
- Sickness no longer has a chance of causing attribute damage.
- The interface for eating food from the floor has been made somewhat more consistent with other floor-item use.
- Kiku no longer gives the player extra HP while under Death’s Door.
- Good gods no longer mind the player drinking a little blood, here and there.
- Elyvilon’s no longer even pretends to care about the player letting their allies die.
- Pakellas’s Quick Charge is no longer more powerful at 0 evocations than at 27.
- Stoned creatures no longer stumble.
Happy crawling! Don’t let the death scarabs bite :)
1. Comment by andronicus
13/Jul/2016 at 15:12
Thank the gods they eliminated Wiglaf. It was super confusing and unnecessary to meet an awesome dwarf in a sweet hat every several games.
2. Comment by andronicus
13/Jul/2016 at 15:13
The last time I encountered a sweet dwarf in a cool hat, I said “They really should just eliminate him from the game, because reasons.”
3. Comment by kripto
13/Jul/2016 at 16:25
I think the main reason they took him out is because he’s another unique who moves fast, hits hard, and does nothing else. Not really a particularly exciting opponent to fight, just a beefy bruiser with no distinct features beyond being fairly strong in melee.
I’m not saying I AGREE with the choice, necessarily, just guessing the justification. Wiglaf isn’t nearly as unique of a unique as, say, Maurice or the newly added Bai Suzhen.
4. Comment by pratamawirya
14/Jul/2016 at 08:09
I must say, I like how Joseph the Slinger looks in his new hat, though.
5. Comment by LiquidKrystal
14/Jul/2016 at 22:51
Appreciate the Sif changes and the powers that be standing behind their “more meaningful choices & less tedium” agenda.
6. Comment by WhatTheFire
20/Jul/2016 at 22:45
Pretty damn excited to get Eos now,